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July 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
He said two politicians were ambushed and killed Sunday afternoon on their way
to a mass burial for the victims.
Authorities declined to comment on who they suspect, but similar raids have
been blamed on Muslim herdsmen in the past.
Mark Lipdo, who runs a Christian advocacy group known as the Stefanos
Foundation, gave a list of the 13 villages where he got reports of attacks.
He said they were all Christian.
He blamed Muslim herdsmen of the Fulani ethnic group for the attacks. However,
Nurudeen Abdullahi, Plateau State Chairman of Miyetti Allah Fulani Herdsmen
Association, denied any involvement by the herdsmen.
“This a usual propaganda used on our people but we are not the ones that
attacked the villages in the area,” he said.
Abdullahi accused Christian farmers of attacking Muslim settlements and
stealing their cows.
Jos and surrounding Plateau state have been torn apart in recent years by
violence pitting its different ethnic groups and major religions –
Christianity and Islam – against each other. While divided by religion,
politics and economics often fuel the fighting.
These are just the latest killings to target the Riyom and Barkin Ladi local
government areas, regions of farmlands that supply produces like potatoes,
corn and tomatoes to the rest of the nation.
Nigeria, a multiethnic nation of more than 160 million people, is largely
divided into a mainly Christian south and a predominantly Muslim north. Jos
is located in the “middle belt,” at the meeting point of these two
regions.
Human Rights Watch says at least 1,000 people were killed in communal clashes
around Jos in 2010.
However, the rise of a northern-based Islamist insurgency known as Boko Haram
has added a new dimension to the long-running conflict, fanning religious
tensions in this flashpoint area.
Salisu said authorities discovered a bomb and safely detonated it late Friday
in a populated neighbourhood in the city of Jos.
They declined to say who they suspect but sect members have claimed
responsibility for bomb attacks in Jos in the past.
All previous Jos attacks have targeted churches, a deliberate move to trigger
more religious violence, many have said. They all sparked reprisals.
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