By Associated Press,

KANO, Nigeria — A young man in traditional robes sobbed Tuesday as he stood in a pool of blood, surrounded by bullet-scarred walls left behind after a security raid in this northern Nigeria city recently assaulted by a radical Islamist sect.

Residents of this dusty neighborhood in the city of Kano pressed shoulder-to-shoulder inside the home, saying soldiers and others killed the man who lived here and his pregnant wife for no reason.

sitting in a pool of blood in a house at the center of a gun battle early Tuesday morning in the city of Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Witnesses at the house said security forces surrounded it and forced their way inside shooting, killing a man and a pregnant woman while searching for members of a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram. Police declined to immediately comment about the shooting.
The local police commissioner acknowledged the attack and said it was part of the government’s effort to root out the sect known as Boko Haram, responsible for killing at least 185 people in a Friday attack on the country’s second-largest city.

Tuesday’s killings highlight the dangers posed by possible reprisal killings and arbitrary arrests carried out by Nigerian security services who are trying to stop Boko Haram’s increasingly sophisticated attacks. And while the sect remains amorphous and secretive, such assaults may only alienate the same population the government wants to save.

“He didn’t belong to any religious group. Is it because of his beard?” asked relative Musa Ibrahim Fatega. “That means you cannot dress the way you are. Is it good? Is this how government is going to treat us?”

Friday’s attack in Kano saw Boko Haram members spread through the city, attacking police stations, immigration offices and the local headquarters of the secret police. The attacks came after authorities refused to release suspected sect members earlier arrested, Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris said.

Much of the bloodshed during Friday’s attack occurred when Boko Haram gunmen threw improvised bombs made of aluminum cans and a white powder explosive, likely fertilizer. Foreign journalists saw the cans Tuesday, which had been stuffed with cotton at the top, each holding a simple detonator. Idris said gunmen threw the explosives, then fired randomly on those they saw fleeing the blast.

Police say they found 10 car bombs and about 300 of those unexploded cans after the attack — potentially signaling Boko Haram planned further violence in the city of more than 9 million people.

Some Boko Haram gunmen also wore uniforms resembling those of the Mobile Police, the paramilitary arm of the nation’s federal police, to take control of the streets during Friday’s attack, Idris said. Others had camouflage uniforms like those worn by soldiers in the country, the commissioner said.

“Some of our police officers who saw them on the street thought they were their colleagues,” Idris said. “They just shot them in cold blood.”

The coordinated attack was Boko Haram’s deadliest since they began a campaign of terror last year. Boko Haram has now killed at least 262 people in 2012, more than half of the at least 510 people the sect killed in all of 2011, according to an Associated Press count. Medical workers and emergency officials say they expect the toll may be even higher.

Boko Haram wants to implement strict Shariah law and avenge the deaths of Muslims in communal violence across Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people split largely into a Christian south and Muslim north.

Source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/security-forces-attack-home-in-north-nigeria-city-hit-by-radical-islamist-sect-kill-2/2012/01/24/gIQA7jt5MQ_story.html

i will ask this boko haram sympathizers and apologist to shut their mouth and allow the military to carry out their operation.this is one of the thing that make me sick and tired of the northerners they are always fast to claim that armies are killing innocent people in other words they hide the evil doers in their mix.look your bloods are not more precious than the one of odi people OBJ wasted just because they are fighting to have control over their resources which a just cause, please do us good and shut ur mouth while the army do their job

One of the reasons the army is not winning

First, police arrested and failed to release their members and so boko attacked and killed them

Second, police and army raided and killed who they believe is a boko member and his pregnant wife.

Third, boko will use this incident as a flammable sentiment to carry out further attack in Kano.

. . . where does it end?

If they had to force their way in, it meant they were refused entry, and a gun-battle is usually between two or more people.
In other words, the man was armed and dangerous. End of story.

My sympathy to the unborn child!

Negro_Ntns:

First, police arrested and failed to release their members and so boko attacked and killed them

Second, police and army raided and killed who they believe is a boko member and his pregnant wife.

Third, boko will use this incident as a flammable sentiment to carry out further attack in Kano.

. . . where does it end?

exactly, the military can win support by actually showing photo evidence of their batlle or evidence they had real gun battles

all the so called explosives they claim to find are never shown to the public, all the so bombs factories they find are on pages of newspapers
very soon they will claim to know their sponsors without prosecuting anyone

justice needs to be seen to be done for them to get more support all these newspaper offensive is not re-assuring anyone
people dont feel safer with their pure water take downs