news.bbc.co.uk - 7/31/2009
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A Nigerian police officer points at a corpse in the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday
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A Nigerian government minister has expressed relief at
the death of an Islamic sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf....
Yusuf's body was shown to journalists on Thursday just hours after police said they had captured him. Human rights campaigners alleged he had ...
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Islamist death 'good for Nigeria'
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The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for
days of violence in northern Nigeria has been shot...
and killed while in police custody, officials said Thursday. The police commander of Borno state announced on state radio that Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of ...
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Islamist Sect Leader in Nigeria Killed in Custody
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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... A Nigerian police officer points at a corpse in the northern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday
Militants led by Mr Yusuf have been blamed for days of deadly violence
“Mohammed Yusuf was killed by security forces in a shootout while trying to escape,” the regional police assistant inspector-general, Moses Anegbode, told Nigerian television.
A spokesman for the state governor was also quoted as saying that Mr Yusuf had been trying to escape.
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