MEND Issues Threat to Bomb Mosques, Kill Clerics

MEND Issues Threat to Bomb Mosques, Kill Clerics _ Beginning May 31, 2013

Nigeria’s Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta said
it will start a bombing campaign against mosques and Islamic institutions,
a week after the rebel group said it killed 15 security personnel
in the southern oil-producing Bayelsa state.
“The bombings of mosques, haj camps, Islamic institutions, large congregations
in Islamic events and assassinations of clerics that propagate doctrines of hate
will form the core mission of this crusade,” MEND spokesman Jomo Gbomo said
in an e-mailed statement today.

The campaign, codenamed “Barbarossa,” will start May 31, it said.

MEND may consider a cease-fire if the Christian Association of Nigeria, the Catholic Church and the group’s suspected leader Henry Okah intervene, according to the statement. ......

The threat comes as the government of President Goodluck Jonathan battles Islamist militants in the mainly Muslim north and the capital, Abuja, in which hundreds of people have died since 2009.
MEND, the main rebel group in the the area, destroyed a Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) oil well in Nembe in southern Bayelsa state yesterday as part of an operation it calls “Hurricane Exodus,” Gbomo said.

Precious Okolobo, a Lagos-based spokesman for Shell’s Nigerian unit, said he couldn’t confirm the attack when contacted by phone today.

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