Nigeria Says It Has Put Down Islamic Sect

[dawgman]

Nigeria Says It Has Put Down Islamic Sect


Saturday January 3, 2004 8:16 PM

By DULUE MBACHU

Associated Press Writer

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria declared Saturday it had put down an armed uprising by an Islamic movement seeking to create a Muslim state in Africa's most populous nation, after running battles that killed at least eight people.

Two police officers and at least six of the militants died in five days of clashes in three towns in predominantly Islamic Yobe state, including the capital, Damaturu, said Ibrahim Jirigi, a state government spokesman. Details of the fighting in the remote northeastern region had been difficult to obtain.

The uprising, by a largely university-based Nigerian student group preaching Islamic revolution, stood as one of the most concerted offensives in three years of Christian-Muslim violence since Yobe and 11 other northern states began instituting Islamic law, or Shariah.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3582506,00.html

Well this movement is based on the Taliban. What do you want to bet that it hasn't been entirely "put down?"

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1. Here is the same story but with a distinctly different approach...

Nigerian 'Taliban' strike again
03/01/2004 21:35 - (SA)
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Kano, Nigeria - A radical Islamist group inspired by Afghanistan's Taliban movement has raided a northern Nigerian town and killed a police officer, Yobe State Governor Bukar Abba Ibrahim said on Saturday.

About 200 members of the Muhajirun sect stormed into Yobe State's capital, Damaturu, early on Thursday, firing into the air, and sacked three police stations, local journalists reported.

The attack follows two incidents late last month when Islamic radicals clashed with security forces in Nigeria's mainly Muslim north, leaving one policeman and three alleged extremists dead.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1465338,00.html