Islamist video warns of more Nigeria attacks

KANO: Islamist group Boko Haram released a video late Tuesday celebrating its bombing of a Nigerian newspaper and warning of more attacks on local and foreign media if they published reports that were biased to the group or insulting to Islam.

Suicide car bombers targeted the offices of This Day in the capital, Abuja, and northern city of Kaduna last Thursday, killing at least five people in apparently coordinated strikes.

Boko Haram has been fighting a low-level insurgency for more than two years and has become the main security threat facing Africa’s top oil producer, although most attacks have been in the largely Muslim north, far from southern oil fields.

The group, which wants to impose an Islamic state on Nigeria’s more or less evenly mixed population of Muslims and Christians, has been blamed for hundreds of killings since its uprising against the government in 2009.

It had not previously targeted the press in its bombing campaign, although last October it killed a reporter for state TV who the group said was an informant to President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.

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