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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Nigeria forced to deal with revival of Islamist group Boko Haram
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Nigeria
Police are on high alert in Maiduguri in the state of Borno after suspected Boko Haram members sent text messages threatening an attack. Authorities are watching the movement of suspicious people in the Nigerian states bordering Chad, Niger, and Cameroon.
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Nigeria
A spokesman for the radical Islamist group Boko Haram threatened to attack the US and the West. “Islam doesn’t recognize international boundaries, we will carry out our operations anywhere in the world if we can have the chance,” Musa Tanko told AFP. He also said the US “is the number one target.”
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Nigeria
A video released at Ansar al Mujahideen forum website encouraged Nigerians to wage jihad against Christians. “The solution is jihad in the cause of Allah,” the speaker said. “Negotiations, dialogues and protests will not stop the advancement of the enemies and their massacres. Nothing will stop them but the sword and the spear.”
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Al Qaeda
Detained herdsmen tell of roles in Nigeria killings
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Nigeria
Nigerian massacre victims buried in mass grave
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Nigeria
Continued violence outside the city of Jos escalated over the weekend, leaving upwards of 500 people dead and 95 arrested as Muslim men armed with machetes attacked the largely Christian community. The police are attempting to tame the violence that is described as “reprisal” attacks for violence in the city in January.
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Nigeria
World recoils as 500 slaughtered in Nigeria attack
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Nigeria
Nigerian authorities have arrested 17 members of the Nigerian police for their extrajudicial killing of suspected Boko Haram members. The investigation into the murders was prompted by Al Jazeera’s release of footage showing police executing people suspected of being involved in the 2009 Islamist sect uprising.
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Al Qaeda
Law official: Airline bomb suspect flips on cleric
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Al Qaeda
Tale of two Nigerians: Suspect, father travel diverging paths
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Al Qaeda
Airliner bombing suspect is providing FBI with intelligence, source says
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Al Qaeda
Cleric in Yemen admits meeting airliner plot suspect, journalist says
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Nigeria
Nigeria text messages ‘fuelled Jos riots’
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Nigeria
Hillary Clinton blames Nigeria leaders for extremism
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China
Increased security checks at US airports slammed as racial profiling
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Iran
The war against the infidels: Terrorism is only one of the weapons
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Nigeria
What’s behind Christian-Muslim fighting in Nigeria?
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Nigeria
Violence between Christians and Muslims has erupted in the northern Nigerian city of Jos. The death toll has reached 149 over two days as Nigeria™s vice-president, in the absence of President Yar™Adua, has ordered troops to the city to halt the violence. The cause of the fighting is unclear; Jos has been gripped by sectarian hostilities for years.
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Al Qaeda
Review of jet bomb plot shows more missed clues
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Somalia
Pirates take new territory: West African Gulf of Guinea
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Nigeria
The Borno State Police arrested 18 suspected Boko Haram members in the city of Maiduguri. Through intelligence sources, the police caught wind of the suspected Boko Haram members entering the state. The suspects were taken before a judge who remanded their cases after they plead not guilty.
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Al Qaeda
Key turning point in jihadi’s journey
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Al Qaeda
Suspect in Northwest Airlines bomb attack had round-trip ticket
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Al Qaeda
MI5 knew of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab™s UK extremist links
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Al Qaeda
Al-Qaeda ‘groomed Abdulmutallab in London™
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Nigeria
Thirty-five people were killed in Bauchi, northern Nigeria, when an Islamist sect, dubbed the Kata Kalo, had their violent internal bickering spill into the streets after members accused one another of causing the illness of their leader. The group was armed with spears and arrows and targeted a local military unit, causing the death of one soldier. Authorities report that hostilities have ceased.
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Al Qaeda
In online posts apparently by Detroit suspect, religious ideals collide
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Nigeria
Religious clashes in bomb suspect’s state have killed thousands
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Al Qaeda
Uninvestigated terrorism warning about Detroit suspect called not unusual
