Nigeria Islamist Militants

Goodluck Jonathan, Nigerian Vice President, Empowered By Lawmakers

AP | BASHIR ADIGUN and JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria's parliament empowered Vice President Goodluck Jonathan to run Africa's most populous nation Tuesday in place of an ill...

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Nigeria Footage Shows Armed Soldiers Kill Unarmed Men (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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(AP) MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- An international news channel is showing chilling footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly we...

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Nigeria Religious Riots 'Kill Scores' In Jos

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOS, Nigeria — Charred bodies with scorched hands reaching skyward lay in the streets and a mosque with blackened minarets smoldered Wednesday a...

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Aviation Security: Lucky Again

Malcolm Nance | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most airports and airlines are still struggling to educate security staff about the 2001 shoe bomb and box cutters. They are not looking for the next generation bomb.

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Nigerian Militants To Resume Attacks On Oil Installations

allafrica.com | Emma Amaize, Daniel Idonor and Austin Ogwuda | Posted 05.25.2011

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MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) said yesterday that militants would resume fresh attacks on oil installations in the country a...

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Nigeria Claims Victory After Mohammed Yusuf, Islamist Leader, Killed

AP | NJADVARA MUSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Five days of fighting between government forces and a radical Islamist sect left dirt roads soaked with blood, buildings sc...

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Nigeria Storms Mosque, Killing More Than 100 In Raging Gunbattle

AP | NJADVARA MUSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot and killed while in poli...

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Nigeria: troops battle Islamic militants in north

AP | NJADVARA MUSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Soldiers in tanks and armored cars besieged the shelled compound of a radical Islamist sect and sporadic gunfire exploded a...

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Nigerian Islamist Militants Kill 150 In 2 Days

BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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Islamist militants have staged three co-ordinated attacks in northern Nigeria leaving dozens dead, meaning about 150 have been killed in two days....

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