US-supported Nigerian soldiers killed up to 30 civilians on Monday “using assault rifles and heavy machine guns mounted on armored personnel carriers” and set fire to about 50 homes and businesses in the area, according to the Associated Press.
The killings occurred in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the Islamist sect Boko Haram, and where reportedly a response to a bombing earlier Monday that killed a lieutenant.
But an AP reporter who “counted the dead while on a tour of the still-smoldering neighborhood” reports that he “saw no weapons or evidence that the dead belonged to the sect.”…
http://news.antiwar.com/2012/10/08/us-backed-nigerian-military-kills-30-civilians/
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