[Quote]By Garba Mohammed
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A
suspected suicide bomber
disguised in military uniform
was killed on Tuesday when his
car bomb exploded under fire
from soldiers outside a military
base in the northern Nigerian
city of Kaduna, the army said.
It was the latest in a series of
attacks on military and other
targets to have hit northern
regions of Africa's most
populous nation in the past
months.
"The soldiers repelled the attack
and were able to stop what will
have been a suicide bombing.
However, after firing (at) the
suicide bomber who tried to
force his way, the bomb
exploded and shattered the
glasses that adorn the frontage
of the headquarters. The suicide
bomber was the only casualty,"
the statement signed by Raphael
Isa, director of Nigerian army
public relations, said.
Radical Islamist sect Boko Haram
has killed hundreds this year in
bomb and gun attacks in
northern Nigeria. Kano, around
200 km (120 miles) north of
Kaduna, was the scene of the
deadliest attack by the sect, in
which 186 people were killed
last month.
The military said it killed eight
Boko Haram members in a raid
on one of the sect's Kano camps
in the early hours of Tuesday. A
gun battle raged for over four
hours, they said.
"We also recovered 10 AK-47s
(rifles), 106 live ammunitions,
26 gun magazines and seven
bags of fertilizer in the hide
out," Kano police commissioner
Ibrahim Idris told Reuters.
Boko Haram is waging a low
level insurgency against the
government and says it wants
to impose sharia law across the
country of 160 million people
split evenly between Muslims
and Christians.
The sect has become President
Goodluck Jonathan's biggest
security headache and a major
distraction from plans to reform
Africa's second biggest
economy, as he has come under
increasing fire for failing to
quell the insurgency in the
north.
The past three months have
seen a surge in violence by the
sect, a movement loosely
modeled on Afghanistan's
Taliban whose name means
"Western education is sinful."
Nigerian secret service sources
said they arrested the purported
spokesman for Islamist militant
sect Boko Haram Abu Qaqa last
week, although a man claiming
to be him telephoned journalists
from the sect's heartland of
Maiduguri to deny it.
In an interview with Reuters on
January 26, Jonathan challenged
Boko Haram militants to come
out of the shadows and identify
themselves as a basis for talks,
an offer they have yet to take
up.
(Reporting by Garba Mohammed
in Kaduna and Mike Oboh in
Kano; Additional reporting by
Camillus Eboh in Abuja; Writing
by Joe Brock; Editing by Giles
Elgood) www.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE8161N220120207?irpc=932[/quote]

Hi Bulldog,
unfortunately the topic belongs in the crime/politics section. Thanks.

^^^^ how do you like them apples, JeSoul?

Oh. The squad from The Big Apple. I forgot. I didnt mention their names first.

They are call NY Giants.

When it comes to The Patriots, the New York Giants become Paul Revere and then they become "The Raiders".

I hope you left the locker room, already?

@jesoul. Thanks for the observation. But it has a lot to do with religion but if the moderators find it out of place, they can move it to politics and crime