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Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by enyojo(f): 8:57pm On Jun 26, 2011
'He had left N4 million in his will for his five children – two girls and three boys – before embarking on the fateful journey to the nation’s capital'

Reported By Ahmad SalkidaMaiduguri
The man who bombed the Nigeria Police Force headquarters in Abuja on June 16 was a fairly well-to-do businessman who was actually on a suicide mission on behalf of the Islamic sect the Boko Haram, Blueprint can authoritatively report.Mohammed Manga was a 35-year-old married man with five children who drove overnight from Maiduguri to Abuja in order to carry out the morning attack which left about five people dead, including a police officer, and many cars incinerated in the blast.He had left N4 million in his will for his five children – two girls and three boys – before embarking on the fateful journey to the nation’s capital.There was proof also that Manga was accompanied on the deadly mission by at least a collaborator in the plot, who took his last photograph alive as he drove through the streets of Abuja. The collaborator(s) might have disembarked from the car before Manga reached the Louis Edet House headquarters of the Nigerian Police.Blueprint can also authoritatively report that, contrary to a claim by the police authorities that the bomber had used a Mercedez Benz ‘V Boot’ car in his terror mission, he actually used a Honda 86 model.These shocking details and others were made exclusively available to this newspaper by the leadership of the Islamist sect, Jama’atu Ahl-Sunnati Lil Da’awati wal Jihad, popularly called the Boko Haram, in a telephone interview in the Hausa language, fielded by the group’s spokesman who goes by the name Abu Zaid.The group also e-mailed to our Borno State correspondent startling photographs of a grinning Manga as he undertook the revenge mission. It was the first time it was giving a glimpse into its operations.One of the most startling information given by Abu Zaid was that the attacker was one Mohammed Manga, who was better known and addressed by his friends and business associates as Alhaji Manga.“He is originally from Adamawa State but he was born and brought up in Maiduguri, where he embraced the teachings of the late Mohammed Yusuf,” the spokesman said.Mohammed Yusuf was the leader of the group and was killed by the police in 2009 following the bloodiest clash involving the Boko Haram in which thousands of the sect’s members and other people died.Blueprint was also told by the sect that Manga was Fulani by tribe and that he started both as a commercial and private driver at different times in his adult life. A few years before the July 2009 Boko Haram uprising, Manga began to travel to Cotonou in Benin Republic and later Dubai frequently in order to buy all kinds of goods.He was a major contributor to the Boko Haram’s arms build-up.Abu Zaid also confided in this newspaper that Manga left a will of over N4 million to his two daughters and three sons and urged fellow believers to sacrifice their lives for the sake of Allah. This, the group said, is evident in the last-minute pictures of Manga, believed to have been taken at a camp somewhere in Borno State.The man’s last will and the photographs are proof that Manga was on a suicide mission and that his death at the Louis Edet House headquarters of the police was not an accident.“He was calm and never hesitated or showed fear,” Abu Zaid recalled, adding that everyone at the scene that night on the eve of the attack was envious, wishing it was their chance to act and gain entry into paradise. According to him, the planning of the attack targeting the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, was not in any way different from the way and manner they plan other attacks around the country, insisting that the only difference was that this mission was abruptly brought closer in response to the remarks made by Ringim that he would eradicate the Boko Haram within weeks.The IGP had on June 15 boasted, while receiving10 armoured personnel carriersdonated to the police by the Borno State government, that the Boko Haram’s days were numbered.“Now that the (general) elections are over, our attention would be concentrated and I want to assure you that the days of the Boko Haram are numbered,” Ringim had told a gathering at the Government House in Maiduguri, with the state governor Kashim Shettima present.Abu Zaid also claimed that the bomb his group used in the attack was a ready-made one, which the sect acquired from abroad. “And we are going to use several of them in future attacks,” he warned.The group dismissed media reports and commentaries that suggest it might not have planned a suicide attack but that the bomb blast was merely an accident in which the attacker was trapped, insisting that it was really pre-planned.“Everyone had waited patiently for the outcome of that operation,” said Abu Zaid.According to him, the car that was used was not a Mercedes Benz ‘V-Boot’, but an ash-colour Honda 86 model.“I was surprised when the police said the car was a Mercedes ‘V-Boot’,” he said. “It was never a Mercedes. The car used for the attack was an ash-colour Honda 86. We are surprised over the way the police are confused anytime we strike.”Meanwhile, the group has discredited the conditions for dialogue ostensibly given by the Boko Haram by one Usman Al-Zawahiri and others, challenging them to give a single proof that they are with the authentic group.“We don’t know Al-Zawahiri; he is not with us,” Abu Zaid said. “In fact, our investigation revealed that he is an SSS (State Security Service operative) and was brought in to discredit what we are doing and give an impression that we are divided. There is no faction in our group.”Giving a reason why the Boko Haram chose Blueprint correspondent for breaking the news, Abu Zaid remarked: “You were the first journalist who repeatedly wrote about us when we were not known to the world; you were the first journalist who reported when our brothers were shot at on their way to a funeral procession by members of a security outfit setup by the Borno State government, known as ‘Operation Flush.’ We see you as an objective writer who is never afraid to say the truth; that is why our leader approved the idea to give you the final evidence that we were solely behind the suicide attack at the police headquarters.”The Boko Haram is believed to be headed by one Malam Abubakar Shekau, the deputy of the late Mohammed Yusuf.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by enyojo(f): 8:59pm On Jun 26, 2011
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by ektbear: 9:01pm On Jun 26, 2011
interesting
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by enyojo(f): 9:09pm On Jun 26, 2011
Zaid also claimed that the bomb his group used in the attack was a ready-made one, which the sect acquired from abroad. “And we are going to use several of them in future attacks,” he warned.The group dismissed media reports and commentaries that suggest it might not have planned a suicide attack but that the bomb blast was merely an accident in which the attacker was trapped, insisting that it was really pre-planned.“Everyone had waited patiently for the outcome of that operation,” said Abu Zaid. According to him, the car that was used was not a Mercedes Benz ‘V-Boot’, but an ash-colour Honda 86 model.“I was surprised when the police said the car was a Mercedes ‘V-Boot’,” he said. “It was never a Mercedes. The car used for the attack was an ash-colour Honda 86. We are surprised over the way the police are confused anytime we strike

Strong indictment of Ringim's Regime.
The man should resign accepting defeat or his head should be examined undecided
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by kenny1st(m): 9:33pm On Jun 26, 2011
Somebody kills himself and innocent others and believes he wolud be going to paradise ? What kind of religious belief is this! These sect have been brain washed, why are they so wicked and myopic ? Can any of this enlightening religion (muslim) leaders preach to these guys that this wicked act can never get them to paradise but will only land them with the devil in hell fire ? Stll finding it very hard for me to comprehend.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by HighChief4(m): 9:35pm On Jun 26, 2011
enyojo:

Strong indictment of Ringim's Regime.
The man should resign accepting defeat or his head should be examined undecided

Am telling you, that was a sheer display of ineptitude
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Nobody: 9:38pm On Jun 26, 2011
Who will take care of his family if the 4 million finishes ? undecided
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by MaiSuya(m): 9:49pm On Jun 26, 2011
hmmmm
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Odunnu: 9:54pm On Jun 26, 2011
enyojo:

Strong indictment of Ringim's Regime.
The man should resign accepting defeat or his head should be examined undecided
for once, I get to agree with you on this.
As an aside, whats ths 'blueprint' paper about?Never heard of them. Do they sell hardcopies too?
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Musiwa42: 9:56pm On Jun 26, 2011
this is the issue. Edo,delta and yorubaland becoming United nation Trust Territory is the solution to the problem.

Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Odunnu: 10:02pm On Jun 26, 2011
Choi
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by violent(m): 10:06pm On Jun 26, 2011
The Nigerian Police not intelligent or better equipped enough to stop this people.  More abysmal is the fact that the federal government has chosen to send in a thousand military men to Maidigury to stop a few handy rascals who they don't even have enough information about.  The joke only becomes clearer as the group itself express surprise on how the Police kept getting things wrong each time they strike.

I can see more attacks in the near future, and as time passes on, this group will only get bigger and bolder, and sadly enough, we wouldn't be able to do anything to stop them.

We'd soon be having a Pakistan in Nigeria, by then, it will be a minute too late.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by violent(m): 10:09pm On Jun 26, 2011
Oh please Musiwa, we know you have "intelligent" answers to every issue, and the solutions you proffer, supported by your quality graphs and maps, is all we require in the direst of times, but this time, could you please open a new thread and list the maps in there. . . .and NOT here?


Pls?
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by snowdrops(m): 10:14pm On Jun 26, 2011
Boko Haram are cowards. Setting off bombs and crawling back into their holes. Its a pity innocent people are being killed. But surely, one by one they would all be smoked out and wiped off the earth.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Nobody: 10:47pm On Jun 26, 2011
Incompetent Police report if true.  lipsrsealed

One would expect heads to roll for this gross error,but never Nigeria
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by na2day(m): 2:18am On Jun 27, 2011


Thought d police said he was a foreign looking heavily bearded man
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Obiagu1(m): 2:34am On Jun 27, 2011
The first suicide bomber in Nigeristan and more to follow.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by EzeUche1(m): 2:38am On Jun 27, 2011
shocked shocked shocked

Why did they introduce this to Nigeria?
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by vladimiros: 3:37am On Jun 27, 2011
I have never supported invasion of any country

but i would happily support Navy seal , US special forces or even British SAS to drop in boko haram zone and carefully kill everyone of them
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by jamest3(m): 4:05am On Jun 27, 2011
enyojo:

“He was calm and never hesitated or showed fear,” Abu Zaid recalled, adding that everyone at the scene that night on the eve of the attack was envious, wishing it was their chance to act and gain entry into paradise. 

See trouble, see wahala. I don kiss naija bye-bye be that. sad
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by EzeUche1(m): 4:13am On Jun 27, 2011
It is time for these to start operating.

Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by 190: 5:26am On Jun 27, 2011
I Bet that the man is IBO tongue tongue
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by EzeUche1(m): 5:48am On Jun 27, 2011
190:

I Bet that the man is IBO tongue tongue

Does he look Igbo FOOL?

When was the last time you seen a Igbo man kissed by the sun?
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Nobody: 5:51am On Jun 27, 2011
EzeUche!:

It is time for these to start operating.


Am in support

@190, oya go back to romance section
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by 190: 5:56am On Jun 27, 2011
EzeUche!:

Does he look Igbo FOOL?

When was the last time you seen a Igbo man kissed by the sun?

[size=18pt]He looks like you sef tongue tongue[/size]
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by EzeUche1(m): 6:03am On Jun 27, 2011
190:

[size=18pt]He looks like you sef tongue tongue[/size]

[size=18pt]SEE ME. . . SEE TROUBLE O![/size] angry
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by mkpologwu(m): 6:08am On Jun 27, 2011
If no one is ready to play Jack Bauer, GEJ shld consider sending me, with Ileke-Idi as Chloe!
Meanwhile we must be lodged together in a room so I can protect her.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by EzeUche1(m): 6:10am On Jun 27, 2011
mkpologwu:

If no one is ready to play Jack Bauer, GEJ shld consider sending me, with Ileke-Idi as Chloe!
Meanwhile we must be lodged together in a room so I can protect her.

angry angry angry

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Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by Nobody: 6:12am On Jun 27, 2011
dang! abokis
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by member479760: 6:31am On Jun 27, 2011
and gone for nothing.
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by slap1(m): 6:50am On Jun 27, 2011
enyojo:

Strong indictment of Ringim's Regime.
The man should resign accepting defeat or his head should be examined undecided
enyojo:

Strong indictment of Ringim's Regime.
The man should resign accepting defeat or his head should be examined undecided
Common sense should have told him aboki likes Honda
Re: Boko Haram Opens Up, Names Their Suicide Bomber by samoks(m): 7:15am On Jun 27, 2011
190:

I Bet that the man is IBO tongue tongue

Please get a life, what do you mean? You've just lost one of your fan(s) with that silly comment

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