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Nigeria: Sect members attack police station (AP)

October 24th, 2010

A man walks past rubble of the Islamic sect Boko Haram burnt last year by the police and military at the headquarters of the sect still being guarded by the police in Maiduguri, Borno State in July 2010. Suspected Islamist sect members on Sunday attacked a police station in northern Nigeria, leading to a gun battle with officers, authorities said, in the latest such incident in recent months.(AFP/File/Pius Utomi Ekpei)AP - Suspected members of a Muslim sect accused of orchestrating targeted killings across northern Nigeria have attacked another police station.


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Pakistan sect demands protection after attacks (AP)

May 29th, 2010

People from Ahmadi Community carry a casket of a victim of Friday's attacked by Islamic militants, to bury it in their graveyard in Rabwa, some 150 kilometers (93 miles) northwest from Lahore Pakistan on Saturday, May 29, 2010. Islamist gunmen and a suicide squad lobbed grenades, sprayed bullets from atop a minaret and took hostages Friday in attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - Leaders of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi sect demanded better government protection Saturday as they buried many of the 93 sect members killed by Islamist militants at two of the…

Attackers strike sect mosques in Pakistan; 80 dead (AP)

May 28th, 2010

Pakistani police officers and others take cover near vehicles damaged in a suspected attack, outside Garhi Shahu mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, May 28, 2010. Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques, Garhi Shahu and Model Town, packed with hundreds of people from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, laying siege to one center in a standoff with police, killing scores of people. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)AP - Suspected Islamist militants attacked two mosques packed with hundreds of worshippers from a minority sect in eastern Pakistan on Friday, holding hostages and battling police, officials and witnesses…

Attackers strike sect mosques in Pakistan; 20 dead (AP)

May 28th, 2010

An image made from Geo TV video shows Pakistani police officer takes cover during a crackdown operation against militants in Lahore, Pakistan on Friday, May 28, 2010. Gunmen armed with grenades attacked two mosques belonging to a minority Islamic sect during Friday prayers in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police said. Casualties were expected. Bottom line reads 'Alleged attacker arrested in Model Town'.(AP Photo/Geo TV) ** NO SALES, TV OUT **AP - Gunmen armed with grenades attacked two mosques of a minority sect during Friday prayers in eastern Pakistan, seizing control of one mosque and battling with police, officials and…