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Nigeria arrests 11 Boko Haram suspects, seizes guns and bombs
« on: September 13, 2012, 08:57:32 AM »
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Sept 12  - Nigerian authorities arrested 11 suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Ads by Google

Haram overnight and seized automatic weapons, ammunition and several homemade bombs, the military said on Wednesday.

Boko Haram is waging a low-level insurgency in the largely Muslim north of Nigeria, aiming to revive an ancient Islamic state caliphate in the modern nation of 160 million people, split roughly evenly between Muslims and Christians.

The militants have claimed responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of people since launching an uprising in 2009.

The men were arrested in the Waka-Biu region of Borno state, spokesman for Borno's military and police Joint Task Force (JTF), Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, said.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-rt-nigeria-bokoharaml5e8kcjo2-20120912,0,671498.story

 

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