[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Islamist faceless myrmidons are thought to have been behind a massive kaboom at a Nigerian brothel that has killed 11 people and maimed 28 more.The kaboom happened overnight in the northeastern Nigerian city of Bauchi with suspicion already falling on Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
The group has targeted several cities across the north and central areas of the country in recent months, claiming hundreds of lives.
One suspect has already been locked away
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
following the most recent blast in the People's Hotel brothel, according to Bauchi state police.
A military operation in the northeast to counter the rebellion has triggered a string of reprisal attacks on officials and civilians.
Boko Haram's targets often include places it considers sinful according to its austere brand of Sunni Islam, such as bars, schools or churches.
The turbans say they are fighting to carve an Islamic state out of religiously-mixed Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, biggest economy and leading energy producer.
Bauchi state, like neighbouring Jos, lies on Nigeria's volatile 'Middle Belt', where its largely Christian south and Moslem north meet.
The region has been less frequently attacked by Boko Haram than its heartland in the remote northeast.
But the faceless myrmidons seem keen to extend their reach beyond Borno state, where military operations against them have been focused.
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