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muriel_volestrangler

(101,158 posts)
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 05:41 PM Oct 2015

Suicide attacks claim 36 in Nigeria

Source: IOL/Reuters

Maiduguri, Nigeria - At least 36 people have been killed in multiple suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state at a mosque and a residential building, police and medical sources said on Friday.

Borno state is the birthplace of the Boko Haram insurgency and has been the focus of attacks by suspected members of the militant Islamist group that have killed around 1 000 people since President Muhammadu Buhari took office in May.

A twin suicide bombing at a mosque on the outskirts of the state capital Maiduguri killed around 29 people late on Thursday, a medical source said. A police spokesman put the toll at 14.

Around six people were killed by another suicide attack on Friday morning near the earlier bombings, but not at a mosque, a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency said.

Read more: http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/suicide-attacks-claim-36-in-nigeria-1.1931472#.ViFuxH6rTIU

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Suicide attacks claim 36 in Nigeria (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Oct 2015 OP
If America's 300 troops can degrade Boko Haram's capacity maxsolomon Oct 2015 #1
How does an Islamist group justify blowing up a mosque with people praying? oberliner Oct 2015 #2

maxsolomon

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1. If America's 300 troops can degrade Boko Haram's capacity
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 07:13 PM
Oct 2015

to execute this terror, then good. They've got to be based somewhere in that flat terrain. They're not ghosts.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
2. How does an Islamist group justify blowing up a mosque with people praying?
Fri Oct 16, 2015, 07:49 PM
Oct 2015

What's the logic behind that from their perspective?

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