"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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Posted on 08/27/2011 10:37:09 AM PDT by americanophile
The death toll in a bomb attack targeting the United Nations' offices in the Nigerian capital Abuja rose overnight to 25, medics said Saturday.
Dozens were injured and remained hospitalized, some in critical condition. Police were still declining to give an official number of those killed and injured when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden car into the compound, DPA reported.
Unconfirmed reports in the Nigerian media said the number of fatalities could be even higher, as victims were taken to several hospitals and information was being pulled together slowly.
Among the dead were Nigerian workmen, who were involved in a construction project at the UN and several staff members of the organization, including one Norwegian woman.
"Investigations are going on now. I want to assure you that we are going to pursue these people and their group and bring them to book," Police Commissioner Mike Zuokwunor said, according to the Guardian newspaper.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan also pledged to find those responsible for the attack, following condemnation of the attack by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
The BBC said it received a phone call from a spokesman for Boko Haram, a domestic Islamist group, who claimed responsibility for the attack.
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"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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No derogatory remarks about the ROP or you may hear a knock on your door from the UN.
Are the Amish “protected”, too?
[it’s *always* the Amish causing trouble!]
Outrageous.
Thanks americanophile.
Any loss of human life?
Ahahaha!
And yet the UN supports TROP over Israel even after all these types of attacks
Nothing like ending the “holy” month of ramadan with a bang!
Just think, the koranimals still have 4 whole days left to spread the joy of islam.
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