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UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by Bintus2much(m): 5:46pm On Sep 01, 2011
UN Says Not Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing

ABUJA — The UN has not been officially informed of arrests over last week's attack on its headquarters in Nigeria, an official said Thursday, after the country's authorities claimed two suspects were held.
"Let me tell you that the UN has not been informed officially of any arrest of any form," UN resident coordinator Daouda Toure told journalists. "We demand that there is no impunity."
Nigeria's secret police said Wednesday that an Al-Qaeda-linked suspect who recently returned from Somalia masterminded last week's attack in Abuja that killed at least 23 people.
It also said he worked in concert with two other suspects, identified as key figures of the Boko Haram extremist sect, who were arrested on August 21, days before the UN bombing.
Nigerian authorities said they were being held at a military facility, while the Al-Qaeda-linked suspect, Mamman Nur, was being sought.
Friday's attack was one of the bloodiest targeting the UN and saw the suicide bomber make his way past two gates before slamming his car into the entrance of the building.

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Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by russellino: 5:55pm On Sep 01, 2011
God don catch ringim. He can't get away with sloppiness this time.its an international incident so it can't be business as usual
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by Rhino5dm: 5:57pm On Sep 01, 2011
Do nigerian sss think the UN's are bunch of moorons? I will see how " Dokpesi na we do am" will sell to the CIA. There is actually a limit to childish pranks. They have bit more than they can chew. lmao.
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by lafuria1(m): 10:05am On Sep 02, 2011
i tot d UN were also makin dia own investigation. Well d SSS hv 2 make a proper presentation b4 meetin d UN.
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by wills(m): 10:14am On Sep 02, 2011
Read and weep for this country,if you treat terror cases with kid gloves and sectional politics, what you get is continued bombing and yet another Governor from the North is ordering release of suspected sect members

Nigeria 'freed UN bomb suspect'

Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 - including a man said to have helped organise last week's deadly car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the nation's capital.
The men arrested four years ago had allegedly been caught with explosives. Their rapid release from detention was apparently aimed at placating Muslim groups, but it has now come back to haunt security officials who fear a growing wave of al Qaida-linked terror attacks in Nigeria, a main supplier of oil to the United States.

Some of those arrested in October 2007 were even plotting to carry out attacks in the United States and to attack American targets in Africa's most populous country, said a high-ranking official who claimed direct knowledge of the arrests.
Nigeria remains very sensitive to any suggestion it is a haven for terrorists and the information released at the time of the arrests was fairly vague. It was not immediately clear if Nigeria shared information about the purported anti-US plots with US officials.
The US embassy had no immediate comment but in a report on global terror threats, the State Department said diplomats issued a warning to US citizens in 2007 about possible attacks on US and Western interests in Nigeria.
It also noted that Nigerian authorities said they arrested at least 10 suspected terrorists in northern Nigeria late that year with alleged ties to al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

A former US ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, who left the country several months before the 2007 arrests, said Pakistanis would have stood out in northern Nigeria. Mr Campbell, now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said he had no information about arrests of any Pakistanis.
Top security officials in the administration of then-President Umaru Yar'Adua, a Muslim, released the rounded-up men shortly after their arrests, with some facing a few hasty sham trials, the Nigerian official said.
One of those men was Babagana Ismail Kwaljima, also known as Abu Summaya, who was arrested again days before the August 26 bombing at the United Nations compound in Abuja that killed at least 23 people, the official said.
Kwaljima is accused of helping mastermind the UN bombing. A second man was also arrested and police are looking for a third with "al Qaida links" who recently travelled in Somalia, where al Qaida-linked group al-Shabab is battling the beleaguered UN-backed government.

Sources

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/nigeria-freed-un-bomb-suspect-16044407.html

http://united-nations-jobs.org/un-news/nigeria-freed-un-bomb-suspect/

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Nigeria-govt-freed-bomb-suspect-20110902

Funny enough its on foreign news papers online and not a single local news paper has carried this story yet ,so much deceit in this country even to our selves its hard to bring truth in the open.
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by goggs(m): 10:47am On Sep 02, 2011
wills:

Read and weep for this country,if you treat terror cases with kid gloves and sectional politics, what you get is continued bombing and yet another Governor from the North is ordering release of suspected sect members

Nigeria 'freed UN bomb suspect'

Nigeria detained and released several radical Muslims suspected of being terrorists in 2007 - including a man said to have helped organise last week's deadly car bombing at the United Nations headquarters in the nation's capital.
The men arrested four years ago had allegedly been caught with explosives. Their rapid release from detention was apparently aimed at placating Muslim groups, but it has now come back to haunt security officials who fear a growing wave of al Qaida-linked terror attacks in Nigeria, a main supplier of oil to the United States.

Some of those arrested in October 2007 were even plotting to carry out attacks in the United States and to attack American targets in Africa's most populous country, said a high-ranking official who claimed direct knowledge of the arrests.
Nigeria remains very sensitive to any suggestion it is a haven for terrorists and the information released at the time of the arrests was fairly vague. It was not immediately clear if Nigeria shared information about the purported anti-US plots with US officials.
The US embassy had no immediate comment but in a report on global terror threats, the State Department said diplomats issued a warning to US citizens in 2007 about possible attacks on US and Western interests in Nigeria.
It also noted that Nigerian authorities said they arrested at least 10 suspected terrorists in northern Nigeria late that year with alleged ties to al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.

A former US ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, who left the country several months before the 2007 arrests, said Pakistanis would have stood out in northern Nigeria. Mr Campbell, now a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said he had no information about arrests of any Pakistanis.
Top security officials in the administration of then-President Umaru Yar'Adua, a Muslim, released the rounded-up men shortly after their arrests, with some facing a few hasty sham trials, the Nigerian official said.
One of those men was Babagana Ismail Kwaljima, also known as Abu Summaya, who was arrested again days before the August 26 bombing at the United Nations compound in Abuja that killed at least 23 people, the official said.
Kwaljima is accused of helping mastermind the UN bombing. A second man was also arrested and police are looking for a third with "al Qaida links" who recently travelled in Somalia, where al Qaida-linked group al-Shabab is battling the beleaguered UN-backed government.

Sources

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/nigeria-freed-un-bomb-suspect-16044407.html

http://united-nations-jobs.org/un-news/nigeria-freed-un-bomb-suspect/

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Nigeria-govt-freed-bomb-suspect-20110902

Funny enough its on foreign news papers online and not a single local news paper has carried this story yet ,so much deceit in this country even to our selves its hard to bring truth in the open.

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2011090265110
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/revealed-wanted-suspect-arrested-released-in-2007/97620/
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by strangest(m): 10:54am On Sep 02, 2011
Why should they keep them informed? How do you know who to trust in such a case? Did the US keep Pakistan informed before they invaded them for  Osama, Nigeria is a sovereign state and they have the right to do their own investigation.
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by bamosagie(m): 11:44am On Sep 02, 2011
I read somewhere that foreign agents investigating the UN bombing snubs local security agents, in such situation can we really expect free flow of information?
Re: UN Has Not Been Informed Of Arrests In Nigerian Bombing by Ikroberts: 1:30pm On Sep 02, 2011
Its obvious they are not sure then, If not, they would have broadcast it far and wide.
God Save Nigeria.

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