Islamists Bombed Nigerian Churches On Christmas killing Dozens

By STAFF Writer
December 26, 2011

NIGERIA BOMBING - At least five coordinated bombing struck three Churches and a state security building across Nigeria during the Christmas services Sunday killing about two dozen people. A packed Catholic church outside capital Abuja was the worst affected where sixteen people were killed.

Boko Haram, the militant sect in the country, claimed responsibility of the bombings. He wants imposing of Islamic law across Nigeria.

The first explosion took place at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla filled for the Christmas service. It is about 25 miles northwest of capital Abuja.

According to the National Emergency Management Agency the total number of people killed in Sunday’s bombings was 16, but witness say the number could be in dozens.

Second bomb exploded hours after the first near the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church in Jos, which is the border of Muslim north and Christian south.

Two more bombs were reported to have exploded in the city of Damaturu, and one at a church in Gadaka.

About half the population of Nigeria is Muslim and 40 percent is Christian.

In last week's several gun battles more than sixty people were killed and at least 100 were killed in the month of November in wave of such attacks.

Last year on Christmas Eve Boko Haram carried out series bombings.

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15 Coordinated Blasts In Thailand, 3 Killed

By STAFF Writer
October 25, 2011

Bomb exploded in series on Tuesday across southern town of Yala in Thailand killing at least three people and wounding dozens. Thai military said there were about a dozen coordinated bomb explosions in the insurgency-plagued town.

According to Internal Security Operations Command of the Thai military, the bombs were detonated by suspected Muslim insurgents in school, hotels and shops. At three other spots the authorities managed to defuse the bombs.

Today was the anniversary of the 2004 suppression of anti-government protest in Tak Bai in the neighboring Narathiwat province in which 7 protesters were shot and seventy-eight other demonstrators died of asphyxiation while being taken to a detention center piled on top of one another on military trucks.

Since the Islamic insurgency flared in 2004, over 4700 people have been killed in the southernmost Muslim dominated provinces in Thailand.

Late last month suspected insurgents in dozen killed four soldiers attacking a school in Narathiwat. One child was seriously injured in the attack.

Narathiwat province police station

Thai military guards school students

Yala town

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