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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The incident took place on Monday after the militants were caught smuggling heavy weapons into Nigeria, AFP quoted Sagir Musa, a military spokesman in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, as saying on Wednesday.
“The interception was carried out around 21:00 on Monday at the Daban Masara border…Two suspected Boko Haram members escorting the consignment were killed in an exchange of gunfire while the third fled… the weapons were heading to Maiduguri for terrorist attacks,” Musa said.
They were carrying various arms and ammunition including rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov rifles, the military spokesman added.
Musa said that the troops, who killed the militants in the shootout, were parts of a four-country force tasked with cutting off weapons smuggling through the country’s border regions.
Meanwhile, Boko Haram spokesman Abul Qaqa claimed responsibility for a twin bombing in the northwestern city of Sokoto and a separate attack on Nigerian Vice President Namadi Sambo‘s home in the northern town of Zaria. Three people were killed and 30 others were injured in the attacks carried out on Monday.
Following a recent spate of deadly attacks by Boko Haram, in which nearly 150 people died, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan fired his national security adviser and defense minister on June 22.
On May 11, Nigerian security forces arrested Suleiman Mohammed, Boko Haram’s head of operations in Kano, along with his wife and five children, during a raid on his house in the northern city.
The extremist group has claimed responsibility for a number of deadly gun and bomb attacks in various parts of Nigeria since 2009.
Human rights groups report that violent actions by Boko Haram since mid-2009 have claimed more than 1,000 lives, including over 300 this year alone.
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