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= __**Escaped Nigeria Sect Member Rearrested For Bombing**__ = = =

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 * **The article was posted on Febuary 10, 2012.**
 * ** The source of the article was [|www.boston.com]. **
 * **Kabiru Sokoto**
 * **Secret police**
 * **Military**

**Where-**
 * **Northern, Eastern, Hemispere**
 * **Africa**
 * **Nigeria**
 * **Madalla**

**When-**
 * **December 25, 2011**

**What Happened-** Authorities identified Karibu Sokoto, an alleged member of the radical sect known as Boko Haram, as the prime suspect for the December 25th bombed attack on a church. St Theresa's Catholic Church in Madalla, a city just outside Nigeria's capital, Abuja, was bombed. The attack killed at least 44 people, church officals say, as a car bomb detonated just as worshppers left an early morning Christmas mass.The alleged mastermind of a radical lslamist sect's Christmas Day bombing fled across Nigeria after escaping police custody and hid for a month before finally being apprehended Friday. They arrested Sokoto after his escaped in January by the millatary and secret police and they found him hiding behind a rack of drying laundry. This year Boko Haram is blamed for killing at least 271 people.

**Why It Happened-** It happend because Sokoto is a radical islamist. This means he wants to terrorize and intimidate other people who are not islamist. A radical islamist is someonewho wants everyone to convert to islam or die.


 * How Did It Happen- ** A day after his arrest, a local police comissioner ordered Sokoto to be transferred to another police station in Abaji a town outside the capital.Offcers guarding Sokoto was attacked by suspect sect members and that he escaped.

** My Personal Opinion **- I don't think that it was right that he killed people by bombing the church just because he is a different religion. I think he should respect other people's religion.

Map of Nigeria - Bombing in Madalla, Nigeria

**Bombing** **in Madalla and Sokoto arrested in Madall**