Posted on 03/19/2010 7:54:51 AM PDT by myknowledge
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2010/s10030097.htm
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Second Wave of Attacks Near Jos, Nigeria Leaves 13 Christians Dead
Muslim Fulani herdsmen strike two more villages, slaughtering women and children
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
LAGOS, NIGERIA (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that less than two weeks after a massive attack in Nigeria that killed 500 Christians, Muslim Fulani herdsmen today (Wednesday, March 17, 2010) unleashed more horrific violence on two Christian villages in Plateau state, killing 13 persons, including a pregnant woman and children.
A survivor among the many children slain in the recent attack on Christians in villages near Jos
(Photo: Compass Direct News)
Their story says that in attacks presumably over disputed property but with a level of violence characteristic of jihadist method and motive, men in military camouflage and others in customary clothing also burned 20 houses in Byei and Baten villages, in the Riyom Local Government Area of the state, about 45 kilometers (29 miles) from the state capital, Jos.
“The ethnic Berom Christians, who live as farmers, have long faced off with Fulani nomads who graze their cattle on the Beroms’ land,” said CDN. “State Gov. Jonah Jang condemned the killings, alleging that some unnamed persons were fueling misunderstanding among communities in conflict. Because the style of killing is typical of jihadist fundamentalists, Christian leaders suspect Islamic extremists are encouraging the attacks, throwing religious gas on low-burning land and ethnic conflicts.”
Dalyop Nyango Mandung, a survivor of the attack whose 90-year-old mother, Ngo Hwo Dongo, was killed in her room, told newsmen that the villagers were awakened by gunshots from the Muslim herdsmen who were barricading their houses. Mandung, however, distinguished the assailants in military fatigues from the Fulani herders.
“We saw them in military uniforms, about two of them were in military uniform and the Fulani were in their normal clothes,” Mandun reportedly said. “My mother was the only one killed in the family.”
For more information, go to: www.compassdirect.org
Dan Wooding, 69, is an award winning British journalist now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for 46 years. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS). He was, for ten years, a commentator, on the UPI Radio Network in Washington, DC., and now hosts the weekly “Front Page Radio” show on KWVE in Southern California and which is also carried on the Calvary Radio Network throughout the United States. The program is also aired in Great Britain on Calvary Chapel Radio UK. Wooding also a regular contributor to The Weekend Stand on the Crawford Broadcasting Network, and a host for His Channel Live, which is carried via the Internet to some 192 countries. He is the author of some 43 books. Two of the latest include his autobiography, “From Tabloid to Truth”, which is published by Theatron Books. To order a copy, press this link. Wooding, who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, also recently released “God’s Ambassadors in Japan” which is available at amazon.com.
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ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Lagos, Nigeria - "SECOND WAVE OF ATTACKS NEAR JOS, NIGERIA LEAVES 13 CHRISTIANS DEAD Muslim Fulani herdsmen strike two more villages, slaughtering women and children" by Dan Wooding (March 17, 2010)
TIMES ONLINE.co.uk: "NIGERIAN SECURITY FORCES ON ALERT AFTER NEW BURST OF SECTARIAN VIOLENCE" (SNIPPET: "Nigeria's security forces have been put on high alert after a new burst of sectarian violence left over 500 people dead, most of them women and children hacked to death by machete wielding gangs. The attack happened before dawn on Sunday morning when gangs of men descended on several mainly Christian villages near the central city of Jos, firing guns as they approached. Witnesses of the attack, which centred on the village of Dogo-Nahawa, described how victims were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers.") (March 8, 2010)
Surely, that'll provoke the entire Muslim world in the destruction of the West.
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