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   From: og@barackobama.com   
      
   DAMATURU, Nigeria — Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram   
   stormed a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight and   
   killed 29 pupils, many of whom died in flames as the school was   
   burned to the ground, police and the military said on Tuesday.   
      
   "Some of the students bodies were burned to ashes," Police   
   Commissioner Sanusi Rufai said of the attack on the Federal   
   Government college of Buni Yadi, a secondary school in Yobe   
   state, near the state's capital city of Damaturu.   
      
   All those killed were boys. No girls were touched, Rufai said.   
      
   The Islamists, whose struggle for an Islamic state in northern   
   Nigeria has killed thousands and made them the biggest threat to   
   security in Africa's top oil producer, increasingly are preying   
   on the civilian population.   
      
   Boko Haram, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in   
   the northern Hausa language, have frequently attacked schools in   
   the past. A similar attack in June in the village of Mamudo left   
   22 students dead.   
      
   More than 200 people were killed in two attacks last week, one   
   in which militants razed a whole village and shot panicked   
   residents as they tried to flee.   
      
   The failure of the military to protect civilians is fuelling   
   anger in the northeast, the region worst affected by the four-   
   and-a-half-year-old insurgency. An offensive ordered by   
   President Goodluck Jonathan in May has failed to crush the   
   rebels and triggered reprisals against civilians.   
      
   A military spokesman for Yobe state, Captain Lazarus Eli,   
   confirmed the attack and said "Our men are down there in pursuit   
   of the killers."   
      
   Addressing a news conference on Monday, Jonathan defended the   
   military's record, saying it had had some successes against Boko   
   Haram. He also said Nigeria was working with the Cameroon   
   authorities to try to prevent the militants from mounting   
   attacks in Nigeria and then fleeing over the border.   
      
   The military shut the northern part of the border with Cameroon   
   on the weekend. The insurgents mostly occupy the remote, hilly   
   Gwoza area bordering Cameroon, from where they attack civilians   
   they accuse of being pro-government. They have also started   
   abducting scores of girls, a new tactic reminiscent of Uganda's   
   cult-like Lord's Resistance Army in decades past.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/02/25/world/africa/25reuters-   
   nigeria-violence.html   
      
   The boys' throats were cut as they tried to crawl out windows to   
   escape the flames.   
      
       
      
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