http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/09/us-nigeria-hostages-idUSBRE9280BO20130309
Nigeria-based Ansar al-Muslimeen in the Land of Black Africans said on Saturday it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Nigeria, SITE Monitoring Service said.

The group issued a statement in Arabic and English accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said.

In its statement, the group said it had decided to kill the hostages because of attempts by Britain and Nigeria to rescue them.

(Reporting by Angus McDowall; Editing by Louise Ireland)

ndu_chucks: This is not Boko Haram who need to be given amnesty and reabsorbed into society. If this group is indeed based in Nigeria, then the President has failed woefully by siting idly and allowing the group to flourish.

Its time for GEJ to go, we can't afford to wait until his incompetence and outright cluelessness destroys our country.

ndu_chucks: This is not Boko Haram who need to be given amnesty and reabsorbed into society. If this group is indeed based in Nigeria, then the President has failed woefully by siting idly and allowing the group to flourish.

Its time for GEJ to go, we can't afford to wait until his incompetence and outright cluelessness destroys our country.

ndu_chucks: This is not Boko Haram who need to be given amnesty and reabsorbed into society. If this group is indeed based in Nigeria, then the President has failed woefully by siting idly and allowing the group to flourish.

Its time for GEJ to go, we can't afford to wait until his incompetence and outright cluelessness destroys our country.

Nigerian Islamists Ansaru kills 7 foreign hostages Kidnapped in Bauchi

A Nigerian Islamist group has claimed it has killed seven kidnapped foreign construction workers, including one Briton, after it feared an attack from British and Nigerian forces.

Ansaru kidnapped seven employees of the Lebanese construction company Setraco a week ago. Three of the workers were Lebanese, while the other four were from Britain, Greece, Italy and the Philippines.

A message was posted on an Islamist website on Saturday that claimed Ansaru members killed the hostages after journalists saw British warplanes in Bauchi, northern Nigeria.

"As a result of this operation, the seven hostages were killed," the group said in the statement. It said a video of the killings would be posted online. An online image accompanying the posting appeared to show a gunman standing over dead bodies.

The Foreign Office could not comment immediately.

Ansaru previously issued a short statement in which it said its fighters kidnapped the foreigners on 16 February from a construction company's camp at Jama'are, a town about 125 miles north of Bauchi, the capital of Bauchi state.

During the operation gunmen attacked a local prison and burned police trucks, authorities said. They then blew up a back fence at the construction firm's compound and took over, killing a guard in the process, witnesses and police said.

The gunmen appeared to be organised and knew who they wanted to target, abducting the foreigners quickly while leaving the Nigerian household staff members unharmed, a witness said.

In January 2013, Ansaru declared itself a splinter group independent from Boko Haram, the north's main terrorist group, analysts have said. Boko Haram, which means "western education is sacrilege", has launched a guerrilla campaign of bombings and shootings across Nigeria's

predominantly Muslim north. It has been blamed for at least 792 killings last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.

Britain previously linked Ansaru to the May 2011 kidnapping of Christopher McManus, who was abducted with Italian Franco Lamolinara from a home in Kebbi state. The men were held for months before their captors killed them in March 2012 during a failed Nigerian military raid backed up by British special forces in Sokoto, the main city in north-west Nigeria.

Sincere 9gerian:
Your post can only be summarized in one word- SENSELESS

You want GEJ to go because according to you the president's "incompetence and outright cluelessness" will destroy this country. Incredible! If I may ask, whose "incompetence and outright cluelessness" is responsible for the activities of Islamic militiants in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Algeria, Yemen, etc?

Are their no governors in those northern states? What do the governors do with their security vote? Are the governors, as the number one citizens of those states, not supposed to mobilize the citizens to rally round the security agencies and flush out the militants?

If I may ask again, what really do you expect GEJ to do that he has not done? Should he take AK-47 to the battle front? Destroy all living creatures in the north? Invite the same US that fled from insurgency in Iraq to help the JTF? Convert to islam for the islamist to sheath their sword? Magically transform the Nigerian solders to American solders?

In conclusion, I see your attempt to score cheap political points with the DEATH of the foreign hostages as callous, opportunistic and an act of desperation for political power.