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January 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
John Hutchinson
Last updated at 10:48 PM on 6th January 2012
Suspected gunmen from a radical Muslim sect attacked a town hall Friday in rural northeast Nigeria, killing at least 20 people who had gathered for a meeting of a Christian ethnic group, police said.
The attack at noon targeted a town hall where Christian Igbo people were holding a meeting, with gunmen chanting ‘God is great’ as they fired Kalashnikov rifles.
The killings come after a spokesman for the sect known as Boko Haram threatened to begin specifically targeting Christians living in the country’s Muslim north in its increasingly bloody sectarian fight with Nigeria’s weak central government.
Unrest: Tensions will be heightened after the killing of 20 people in a town hall
That could further inflame religious tensions in an uneasy nation already gripped by civil unrest.
The attack occurred in Mubi in Adamawa state as Igbo traders held a meeting before opening up their shops for business, local police commissioner Ade T. Shinaba said.
‘We started hearing many gunshots through the windows,’ said Okey Raymond, 48, who attended the meeting. ‘Everyone scampered for safety, but the gunmen chanted: ‘God is great God is great’ while shooting at us.’
Raymond said he hid under a table and escaped out a back door.
The gunmen also carried knives and machetes, the police commissioner said.
No arrests have been made in the attack, which left at least another 15 people wounded.
Friday’s attack comes after gunmen attacked a church in the northeast Nigeria city of Gombe during a prayer service Thursday night, spraying the congregation with gunfire and killing at least eight people including the pastor’s wife, local medical officials said.
Troubled: Civil unrest is threatening to tear Nigeria apart, with yet more casualties today
No one has claimed responsibility for that attack, though Boko Haram has targeted churches in the past in its campaign to implement strict Shariah law across Nigeria.
Boko Haram, whose name means ‘Western education is sacrilege’ in the local Hausa language, is responsible for at least 510 killings last year alone, according to an Associated Press count.
Map locating recent attacks on churches and violence in Nigeria
The group claimed responsibility for an attack that killed at least 42 people in a Christmas Day bombing of a Catholic church near Abuja, as well as a suicide car bombing targeting the U.N. headquarters in the capital that killed 25 people and wounded more than 100.
Nigeria’s central government has been slow to respond to the sect.
On December 31, President Goodluck
Jonathan declared regions of Borno, Niger, Plateau and Yobe states to be
under a state of emergency – meaning authorities can make arrests
without proof and conduct searches without warrants. He also ordered
international borders near Borno and Yobe state to be closed.
However, the areas where the recent church and town hall attacks happened are not in the areas marked by the president.
The
attack also comes after a spokesman for Boko Haram told The Daily Trust
newspaper, northern Nigeria’s paper of record, that the group would
begin targeting Christians living in Nigeria’s Muslim north.
Igbo
traders, who belong to one of the country’s three dominant ethnic
groups, do business and live across Nigeria’s north though the Igbo
traditionally have lived in the country’s southeast.
The
group has been targeted in the north before. In the months before the
country’s 1960s civil war, Igbos fled the north after violence against
them saw as many as 10,000 people die.
War-zone: No-one has claimed responsibility for the attacks in Nigeria that is sure to further threaten the stability of the government
Revolution? Tensions are growing in Nigeria with disorder threatening those in the seat of power
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So this is what religion is all about, I read stories from all over the world where one group of religious people are killing another. I am so pleased and proud to be an atheist.
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Coming to an place near you in the very near future, unless certain individuals in power grow a pair.
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Some country is going to have to start doing something about this religion people are trying to force on the rest of us soon. It is begining to look like the Christian crusades in reverse. , with the same brutality and force. Or more when you consider explosives are being used nowadays.
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Dont leave it before its too late. Some people might understand what i really mean. hint…. it will spread
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