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December 25th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Gavin Allen
Last updated at 12:03 PM on 25th December 2011
An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria’s capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people.
A second explosion later went off near another church in the city of Jos, raising fears that a radical Muslim sect was continuing its campaign of sectarian violence.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, but the explosions come amid a wave of attacks in Nigeria by Boko Haram, which has been blamed for at least 465 killings this year alone.
Sectarian violence: No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks but a similar explosion in Abuja took place last year on Christmas Eve
Ongoing campaign: Waves of attacks by the radical Muslim group Boko Haram have claimed at least 465 lives in 2011
Last year a series of Christmas Eve bombings in Jos that were claimed by the militants left at least 32 dead and 74 wounded.
The first explosion on Sunday struck
St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, a town in Niger state close to
the capital, Abuja, authorities said.
Rescue workers recovered at least 25
bodies from the church and officials continued to tally those wounded in
various hospitals, said Slaku Luguard, a coordinator with Nigeria’s
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).
His agency already has acknowledged
it didn’t have enough ambulances immediately on hand to help the
wounded. Luguard also said an angry crowd gathered at the blast site
hampered rescue efforts as they refused to allow workers inside.
‘We’re trying to calm the situation,’ said Luguard.
‘There are some angry people around trying to cause problems.’
The explosion happened in a suburb of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city
Violence expected: The U.S. Embassy in Abuja issued a public warning on Friday to be ‘particularly vigilant’ around churches, large crowds and areas where foreigners congregate
In Jos, a second explosion struck near a Mountain of Fire and Miracles Church, government spokesman Pam Ayuba said.
Ayuba said gunmen later opened fire on police guarding the area, wounding one police officer.
Two other locally made explosives were found in a nearby building and disarmed, he said.
‘The military are here on ground and have taken control over the entire place,’ said Ayuba.
The city of Jos is located on the
dividing line between Nigeria’s predominantly Christian south and Muslim
north. Thousands have died in communal clashes there over the last
decade.
The U.S. Embassy in Nigeria’s capital
of Abuja had issued a warning Friday to citizens to be ‘particularly
vigilant’ around churches, large crowds and areas where foreigners
congregate.
Several days of fighting in the
northeast between the sect and security forces already had killed at
least 61 people, authorities said.
In the last year, Boko Haram has
carried out increasingly bloody attacks in its campaign to implement
strict Shariah law across Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million
people.
Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a November 4 attack on Damaturu, Yobe state’s capital, that killed more than 100 people.
The group also claimed the August 24
suicide car bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Nigeria’s capital that
killed 24 people and wounded 116 others.
While initially targeting enemies via
hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes, violence by
Boko Haram now has a new sophistication and apparent planning that
includes high-profile attacks with greater casualties.
Boko Haram has splintered into three
factions, with one wing increasingly willing to kill as it maintains
contact with terror groups in North Africa and Somalia, diplomats and
security sources say.
Boko Haram – which in the Hausa
language spoken in northern Nigeria means ‘Western education is sinful’ –
is loosely modelled on the Taliban movement in Afghanistan.
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The hate filled savages behind this atrocity are engaged in a campaign to slaughter and ethnically cleanse non Muslims from Muslim majority areas of northern Nigeria. In contrast, the mosques in Christian majority areas of Nigeria are left alone; there is no reciprocity in behaviour as is often the case. Deliberately targeting Midnight Mass at Christmas just goes to show the depth of contempt and hatred that these Islamist terrorists are possessed by. My condolences to the families of the victims and my sympathies to the beleaguered Christian communities in northern Nigeria.
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It’s easy to hate and be angry and shows weakness. To be full of resentment and bitterness takes no effort at all. To be good, honest and love someone who you don’t agree with takes strength. To say to someone “I forgive you” after they commit a heinous crime against you or humanity, takes a strength the perpetrator won’t ever know. I forgive them in the knowledge that one day they will be judged. Merry Christmas everyone
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…..Merry Christmas ……..?
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It is always very sad when people want to kill and maim people. But at this time of the year when peace and good will should be in our hearts, there are some that seem to be heartless. I do not know how their minds work wanting to kill. So many lives ruined as families have to bear the news of their loved ones.
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And all the Pope can do is condemn ‘superficial glitter’.
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Lord have mercy on Nigeria. Praying that God gives the chicken livered president some guts to deal with the terrorists.
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