londoner:


So, do you think Boko Haram won't also view the press conference and change tactics? It would be as simple as changing the plan not to bomb a mall, but somewhere else.

They may have made the final decision just hours before the bomb, and there may well have been members sent out to scout for a 'suitable" place, before the suicide bomber was delivered to his mission.

I believe the quality of intl needs to be much higher, so that at planning stage, these people are caught. There needs to be a specialist terrorist swat teams, to carry out stings based on credible tip offs.

No more successful bombs and kidnappings for BH.........

Agreed.

emk4lif: ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's intelligence agency said it has been warning shopping complexes in Abuja for two weeks that Islamic extremists might attack them in the capital, where a blast at a mall killed 22 people this week.

The increased security may have prevented even more carnage as witnesses said a security guard stopped a car bomber from entering the mall moments before the massive explosion on Wednesday.

Survivor Donald Chikason told ThisDay newspaper that a security guard argued with the driver of a car who wanted to enter Emab Plaza through the exit gate. When the guard refused, the man bent down and moments later the car exploded, Friday's edition of the newspaper quoted him as saying.

"The man started arguing, behaving as if he was drunk," it quoted him as saying.

Chikason, who works at a bank in the mall, was knocked unconscious by the blast and regained consciousness in the hospital.

The explosion was heard miles (kilometers) away. It set 17 vehicles ablaze and shattered windows throughout the four-story complex.

Body parts lay around the exit gate, other witnesses told The Associated Press. Dozens of wounded survivors were recovering in the hospitals Friday, most suffering burn wounds like Chikason, but at least one victim's leg was amputated, doctors said.

Nigerian intelligence received information that Boko Haram extremists were planning such an attack, said spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar of the Department of State Security.

"About two weeks ago we heard information that they were planning an attack at a busy shopping mall or market ... and so we had to go from one shopping complex to another trying to tell people to be more aware," she told The Associated Press.

Emab Plaza is the biggest and busiest in Abuja, the nation's capital in central Nigeria. The explosion occurred around rush hour as many residents were hurrying to view Nigeria's Super Eagles match against Argentina at the World Cup in Brazil. It was unclear if the bomb was timed to coincide with that, although Boko Haram has bombed several football viewing venues this year, prompting two northeastern states to ban public events to watch the football spectacular.

The state security department did not publish the intelligence about the threat to shopping malls, apparently to avoid a panic. Last week the government warned it had information that Boko Haram planned to hijack petrol tankers in the capital and booby trap them with explosives.

Two separate bombs in Abuja in April killed about 120 people and wounded more than 200 at a busy bus station.

President Goodluck Jonathan returned home Thursday night, cutting short his participation at an African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea.
http://news.yahoo.com/nigeria-intelligence-agency-warned-malls-123850933.html;_ylt=AwrBEiEKIa5TbVgA8DGZmolQ

The security forces have always warned of an impending attack and never taken action apart from making grandiose speeches after the damage have been done. Medicine after death.

rhames:


The security forces have always warned of an impending attack and never taken action apart from making grandiose speeches after the damage have been done. Medicine after death.

What action were they to take? The only action would be to close the malls......that is something mall/shop owners could have done also.



Who is going to value your own life more than you?

See people wey dey warn odas! Were they (SSS) not warned of Mutallab or the Chibok Girls kidnapping? Did they do anything? Now they want to push the blame. If you warned the mall nko? No bi ona suppose provide the security? Abi den don see wey FBI warn of terrorist attacks and they expect the people to protect themselves? #mtscheeeeeeew idiots

bigtt76: See people wey dey warn odas! Were they (SSS) not warned of Mutallab or the Chibok Girls kidnapping? Did they do anything? Now they want to push the blame. If you warned the mall nko? No bi ona suppose provide the security? Abi den don see wey FBI warn of terrorist attacks and they expect the people to protect themselves? #mtscheeeeeeew idiots

Please tell me which protection you are peaking of that would have stopped a bomb from detonating?

We don't know if there were not undercover SSS officers there and at other malls accros Abuja. Its easy to just talk, especially with hindsight.

And this is the same Abuja, some idioots were comparing to London some few weeks ago on this board?

Cc: Shymexx

simply_me:

Suggest how u think he should do it.

if u have any body among those forces that are in the operations against boko haram in north. ask him or her about their equipment and payment u will know dat none of them is ready say lets go there because when the inevitable comes dat is the end for u and ur family. no motivation. OK, ask yourself what is the standing benefit for the officer that die through B.H or their family. I can explain more to u, but am not too gud for writing long because I know wat i am talking about

evegran: May God help us living in Abuja, esp those of us in wuse 2.

Amen

omogidi234:

Thanks so much for this.

Marilyn Orgar, Ma next time, please call a press conference and tell us that Boko Haram is planning attacks on Malls. This is not a classified information. It is Life saving information. Thanks in advance.

yes o.