
Sitting
amid the smoking ruins of his palace, the shehu, or king, of Bama,
Kyari Ibn Elkanemi, charged that the government "is not serious" about
halting the Islamic uprising in a region covering one-sixth of the
country, far from oil fields that make Nigeria Africa's biggest
petroleum producer.
Wednesday night's attack
on Bama town, an agricultural and commercial center, came the day the
leader of the Boko Haram terrorist network warned leading Nigerian
Muslim politicians and religious and traditional leaders that his
fighters will target them for pursuing democracy and Western-style
education.
In the video message, punctuated by the crackle of automatic gunfire, Abubakar Shekau said: "The reason I will kill you is that you are infidels, you follow democracy. ... Whoever follows democracy is an infidel and my enemy."
(Click link below to read more) In the video message, punctuated by the crackle of automatic gunfire, Abubakar Shekau said: "The reason I will kill you is that you are infidels, you follow democracy. ... Whoever follows democracy is an infidel and my enemy."
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