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Nigerian Troops Attack Mosque, kill More Than 100 Worshippers
31 July 2009
Nigerian cowardly security forces shelled then stormed the mosque and compound of a civilian population in its fraudulent pretense to root out anti-corruption Islamist para-militants accused by failing Nigerian government of being behind days of violence across northern Nigeria, reported to have killed more than 100 Muslim regular mosque goers in a raging gunbattle. The bodies of barefoot young men littered the streets of Maiduguri on Thursday morning as the army conducted a house-to-house manhunt on the outskirts of the city for sect members. Police said most of the dead were extremist fighters. Sect leader Mohammed Yusuf escaped along with about 300 followers but his deputy was killed in Wednesday night's bombardment, according to Army commander Maj. Gen. Saleh Maina. An AP reporter watched soldiers, under fire, shoot their way into the mosque in Maiduguri on Wednesday and then rake those holed up inside with gunfire. The reporter later counted about 50 bodies inside the building and another 50 in the courtyard outside. The militants, armed with homemade hunting rifles, bows and arrows and scimitars, were no match for the government forces. Another five corpses were just inside a large house near the mosque. Maina pointed to the body of a plump, bearded man and said it was the Boko Haram sect's vice chairman, Bukar Shekau. “The mission has been accomplished,” said Maina, the army commander. Militants seeking to impose shariah law throughout this multi-religious country attacked police stations, churches, prisons and government buildings in a wave of violence that began on Sunday in Borno state and quickly spread to three other states in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria. It is not known how many scores of people have been killed, wounded and arrested. Relief official Apollus Jediel said on Wednesday that at least 4,000 people have been displaced by the fighting. The epicenter of the violence has been the Boko Haram sect's headquarters in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, which was bombarded on Wednesday. Maina said his troops would fire mortar shells later on Thursday to destroy what is left of the sprawling compound, which stretches over 2.5 miles (4 kilometers). The radical sect is known by several different names, including Al-Sunna wal Jamma, or “Followers of Mohammed's Teachings” and “Boko Haram,” which means “Western education is sin.” Some Nigerian officials have referred to the militants as Taliban, although the group has no known affiliation with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Earlier this week, President Umaru Yar'Adua said the sect were preparing to unleash “the holy war.” Security agents have been watching the sect for months and were ordered to attack when the movement began gathering fighters from nearby states at its Maiduguri headquarters, he said.
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