The War Nerd Dispatches by Gary Brecher

Author:Gary Brecher [Brecher, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pando
Published: 2014-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

March 26, 2013

Nigeria's Inevitable Mess

A few days ago, a suicide bomber got on a luxury commuter bus in Northern Nigeria and blew himself up, along with 60 people who were heading home from work.

It didn’t get much publicity. African casualties rarely do, especially when there’s a depressing religious angle. The suicide bomber came from the Northern Nigerian Islamist group "Boko Haram." The name is interesting: "Boko" comes from the English word "book," as pronounced by the Hausa, the biggest northern ethnic group. "Haram" ("forbidden") is an Arabic word, the Wahhabis’ favorite word of all.

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