North Africa Qaeda offers to help Nigerian Muslims

Date: 01-02-2010 10:38 pm (14 years ago) | Author: Keji LaBelle Rox
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda group in North Africa has offered to give Nigerian Muslims training and weapons to fight Christians in the West African country, where more than 460 people were killed in sectarian clashes last month.

Vice President Goodluck Jonathan sent in the military to halt the violence after four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim mobs armed with guns, knives and machetes in the area round the city of Jos in central Nigeria.

"We are ready to train your people in weapons, and give you whatever support we can in men, arms and munitions to enable you to defend our people in Nigeria," the statement by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said.

It was signed in the name of Abu Mus'ab Abdel-Wadoud, who was described as the "emir", or leader, of the group, and appeared on Islamic websites that often carry statements from groups using the al Qaeda name around the world.

"You are not alone in this test. The hearts of Mujahideen are in pain over your troubles and desire to help you as much as possible, in the Islamic Maghreb, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya," it said.

Nigeria has roughly equal numbers of Christians and Muslims, though traditional animist beliefs underpin many people's faith.

About 1 million people were killed in Nigeria's 1967-70 civil war, and there have been outbreaks of religious unrest since then. But more than 200 ethnic groups generally live peacefully side by side in the West African oil producer.

Last month's violence erupted after an argument between Muslim and Christian neighbours over the rebuilding of homes destroyed in previous clashes in 2008.

A Nigerian man tried to bomb a U.S.-bound plane on December 25 in an attack claimed by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a Saudi-Yemeni group using the al Qaeda name and based in Yemen.

AQIM kidnapped a Frenchman and three Spaniards in the Sahara late last year and said it would kill the French hostage by the end of January unless Mali freed four al Qaeda prisoners.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Monday the group had extended the deadline.

AQIM has waged a campaign of suicide bombings and ambushes in Algeria but in the past few years has shifted many of its activities south to the Sahara desert.

Last year it killed a British tourist, Edwin Dyer, after kidnapping him on the border between Niger and Mali while he was attending a festival of Tuareg culture.

The group also said it shot dead a U.S. aid worker in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott in June last year and carried out a suicide bombing on the French embassy there in August that injured three people.

Saharan states have been planning a regional conference to map out a joint response to the al Qaeda threat for more than a year, but the gathering has been postponed repeatedly.


Posted: at 1-02-2010 10:38 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
- Sheenor at 1-02-2010 11:51 PM (14 years ago)
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bad newz! i hate diz! hate hate hate hate diz..
braaaaaaaaa!!

logz out!

Posted: at 1-02-2010 11:51 PM (14 years ago) | Hero
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- toneroh at 2-02-2010 08:15 AM (14 years ago)
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That a sign of revolution coming to settle the problems btween christian and muslims. The ppl will be in peace if Govt use adequate machinaries for the youths
Posted: at 2-02-2010 08:15 AM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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- waco at 2-02-2010 11:22 AM (14 years ago)
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U see? they want to assist in fighting us so that
they will have access to our oil abi, see their antics....................Nonsense people.

4get them, nothing dey happen!

Posted: at 2-02-2010 11:22 AM (14 years ago) | Hero
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- Phil2 at 2-02-2010 03:33 PM (14 years ago)
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Posted: at 2-02-2010 03:33 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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- enogieru at 2-02-2010 03:45 PM (14 years ago)
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Let them come, the God of the christians is not sleeping."They shall come in one way and in thousand ways they shall flee". When the God of Abraham shall arise the enemy shall scarter....Jesus is Alive!!!!!
Posted: at 2-02-2010 03:45 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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- Dguy at 2-02-2010 04:16 PM (14 years ago)
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Who else smells conspiracy here?

Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:16 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- diplomatik at 2-02-2010 04:17 PM (14 years ago)
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me..i'm waiting for u Angry Angry Angry Angry

Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:17 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- nice9ija at 2-02-2010 04:23 PM (14 years ago)
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god abeg ooh i no wan make 9ija look like iraq
Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:23 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- delethom at 2-02-2010 04:26 PM (14 years ago)
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Stupid ass Al Qaeda should go kill their Arab and Aboki leaders. If u try to get to Warri then we'll sink u motherphyukers in oil our wells and that is a promise, u raghead bearded A*#Ss.
Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:26 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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- dollar22 at 2-02-2010 04:36 PM (14 years ago)
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can you give me that Islamic websites? so that i can see althis in dd
Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:36 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac
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- dirtykid at 2-02-2010 04:38 PM (14 years ago)
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Quote from: dguy on  2-02-2010 04:16 PM
Who else smells conspiracy here?

I do smell it heavly.. and thats what it is.

Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:38 PM (14 years ago) | Hero
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- dirtykid at 2-02-2010 04:44 PM (14 years ago)
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Quote from: delethom on  2-02-2010 04:26 PM
Stupid ass Al Qaeda should go kill their Arab and Aboki leaders. If u try to get to Warri then we'll sink u motherphyukers in oil our wells and that is a promise, u raghead bearded A*#Ss.

C vex ooo!!  Grin Grin

Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:44 PM (14 years ago) | Hero
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- esoo at 2-02-2010 04:50 PM (14 years ago)
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Thats very Good.....we will teach them alittle  how to use the arms .....Niger Delta militant are ready for them
Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:50 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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- teeco at 2-02-2010 04:58 PM (14 years ago)
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Chei!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: at 2-02-2010 04:58 PM (14 years ago) | Addicted Hero
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- steelnice at 2-02-2010 05:48 PM (14 years ago)
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wen nigeria go better??? have mercy Oooo LORD.
Posted: at 2-02-2010 05:48 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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- spicychap at 2-02-2010 05:56 PM (14 years ago)
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Quote from: waco on  2-02-2010 11:22 AM
U see? they want to assist in fighting us so that
they will have access to our oil abi, see their antics....................Nonsense people.

4get them, nothing dey happen!
That's a clever way of looking at it!

*conspiracy theory*

Posted: at 2-02-2010 05:56 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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- redondo at 2-02-2010 06:20 PM (14 years ago)
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ok..we don hear..no need 2 fight..cos i know wetin una go fit do!...lord lugard,lord lugard..how many times i call u,u no go ever get peace!..ur ashawo say" an area around river niger"...na d ashawo call am N-I-G-E-R-I-A,imagina country wey na ashawo give name,as d country wan take better?...no need 2 divide dis country,unless dem go give me 100 by 100 plot of land after d division......cos if dem share am..nothing go reach my hand!
Posted: at 2-02-2010 06:20 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie
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- martiz at 2-02-2010 06:25 PM (14 years ago)
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let the country divid so the north wl feed on weapons and munitions, since is the only way the  North Africa Qaeda can the help northern Nigeria, then we wil now know who is going to loose, life is not all about fight, but welfare of the citizens.
Posted: at 2-02-2010 06:25 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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- sizzlingsofi at 2-02-2010 06:56 PM (14 years ago)
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They can only use all those useless people wey no get job for north na them dey go use
make Osama  go relax he no dey shame he no get better thing to think of self
all those al-qaeda wey dey live dirty life inside stone and rock and dey they smell LIKE RABBIT inside desert  wey dey no dey shower i know my country i trust Nigerian Government for that one na shoot aside go be the result.
If him know say he na Osama make him come outside na where they go catch am na there him dey carry him self dey go so
Nigeria go sell am out  to America to collect money
Posted: at 2-02-2010 06:56 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming
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