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June 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Five men ran up to the church and hurled home-made bombs through its open
door, witnesses said. They were chased down and reportedly beaten to death.
Police could not confirm this.
Across Zaria, a suicide bomber in a blue Honda saloon car targeted the Christ
The King Catholic Cathedral, driving his vehicle at its entrance and
detonating explosives, killing three people including himself.
Those attacks took place within minutes of each other.
Less than an hour later, another blast took place at a church in Kaduna, the
state’s capital city, killing at least 10 people and wounding 29, according
to Andronicus Adeyemo, an official with the Nigerian Red Cross.
Then there were two more explosions at churches in the south of the state.
“There were two simultaneous bomb attacks on churches in Nassarawa and
Barnawa in the south of Kaduna this morning. We are yet to get information
on casualties,” Aliyu Mohammed, spokesman for Nigeria’s emergency
management agency said.
The strikes, assuming they were coordinated by Boko Haram, suggested a new
level of targeted attacks by the group and could provoke severe retaliations
against Muslims in Nigeria, one diplomat said.
“Every weekend now there is a new attack, and it seems that what they are
trying to do is make the Christians so angry that they go on the rampage
against Muslim interests,” the diplomat, who wished to remain
anonymous, said.
“We have seen that today with these attacks on Muslims on the road out of
Kaduna. If those riots spread, then we fear that there will be
counter-reprisals by Muslim youth. It could spiral very quickly.” Boko
Haram, whose name translates as “Western education is sin”, has
stated that it wants northern Nigeria ruled according to a strict
interpretation of Islamic law, and that Christians should leave for the
country’s south.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, is evenly split between Muslims, who
live mostly in the north, and Christians in the south.
Until recently, there were sporadic eruptions of violence between the two
communities, but the increasing reach of Boko Haram threatens to deepen
divisions and prompt further revenge attacks.
Christian preachers and bishops in northern Nigeria have urged their
congregations not to retaliate against the church attacks.
Before yesterday’s bombings, at least 96 people had been killed in 12 separate
attacks on churches or places of Christian worship in northern Nigeria so
far this year. Boko Haram has explicitly claimed that it planned at least 10
of them.
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