Nigeria's Boko Haram chief 'killed'

[ButterflyBlood]

Source: Al Jazeera

Nigerian police have claimed the killing of Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of an Islamic group Boko Haram while in detention.

A police officer said Yusuf, blamed for violence that killed hundreds of people in northern Nigeria, was shot dead following his capture on Thursday.

"He has been killed. You can come and see his body at the state police command headquarters," Isa Azare, spokesman for the police command in the northern city of Maiduguri, said.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009730174233896352.html

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I'm certainly not going to deny that Nigeria is better off without this guy, but killing him AFTER capture and him in custody...ugh.

[Alamuti Lotus]

1. That sort of thing sorta kinda maybe just might demonstrate....

precisely why somebody might want to take up arms against the government.

[ohio2007]

2. Didn't this guys "group" stack dead up like cords of wood outside police stations earlier this week?

the guy wanted to overthrow the country and rule under sharia law.
What useful idiots at human right watch that were outraged by his death. If sharia law was world wide, HRW people would be stacked up like chords of wood for protesting the cruel and unusual punishments being doled out .