A warning from Boko Haram in Nigeria

2012-05-02 1

A warning from Boko Haram in Nigeria.

The Islamist group releases video celebrating the bombing of a Nigerian newspaper and warning of more attacks on the media if they publish reports that are viewed as biased to the sect or insulting to Islam.

Suicide car bombers targeted the offices of the This Day newspaper last Thursday, killing at least five people in coordinated strikes on their offices.

This Day angered Muslims a decade ago when one of its columnists suggested the Prophet Mohammad might have wanted to marry a beauty queen.

Boko Haram has been fighting a low-level insurgency for more than two years. It has become the main security threat facing Africa's top oil producer, although most attacks have been in the largely Muslim north, far from southern oil fields.

The sect, which wants to impose an Islamic state on Nigeria's more or less evenly mixed population of Muslim and Christians, has been blamed for hundreds of killings since its uprising against the government in 2009.

Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters.