Posted on 03/11/2013 5:02:32 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists in northern Nigeria have killed seven foreign construction workers who were kidnapped in February, a significant escalation of extremist violence in Nigeria’s continuing jihadist insurgency.
The killings were announced Saturday by an obscure splinter group, Ansaru, and confirmed by European foreign ministries on Sunday. The seven — an Italian, a Greek, an Englishman and four from the Middle East, including Lebanon — were seized on Feb. 16 from the compound of Setraco, a Lebanese construction company operating in Nigeria’s Bauchi State, in a well-planned nighttime assault. A grainy photo released by the group showed a gunman standing by a number of corpses.
The deaths signal a shift in tactics by the radical Islamists who have been battling the Nigerian government for nearly four years in the country’s impoverished north. The Islamist group Boko Haram has previously attacked, for the most part, officials and institutions associated with the federal and local authorities, though plenty of civilians have been killed along the way.
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“Boko Haram” means “Book Forbidden”.
I’m not certain if it applies only to the Bible (Mahometans call Christians “People of the Book”), or if it applies to book learning in general.
In any event, the only solution to this infection is a stringent antiseptic.
Ah, the peaceful kind tolerant religion of peace.
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