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Onlookers examine a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through the Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital, killing 25. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** People gather in front of the bombed offices of ThisDay, an influential daily newspaper, in Abuja, Nigeria, on Thursday, April. 26, 2012. (AP Photos/Gbemiga Olamikan)
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A man stands in front of a damaged house after a bomb exploded on a road in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Sunday. Kaduna has seen hundreds killed in religious and ethnic violence in recent years. Diplomats had warned of possible terrorist attacks over the Easter holiday, police said. (Associated Press)
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Onlookers gather at the site of a bomb explosion on a road in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Sunday, April 8, 2012. Diplomats had warned of possible terrorist attacks over the Easter holiday, police said. (AP Photos/Emma Kayode)
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** FILE ** Nigerians gather around a car used by a suicide bomber at a Catholic church in Jos, Nigeria, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo, File)
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Igbo people demonstrate on Feb. 29 following the death of their leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, in Nnewi, Nigeria. Assaults by the Boko Haram have sent many Igbo, one of the three dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria, fleeing. Based in the eastern states, most Igbo became Catholic after being colonized by the British. Many became successful traders. (Associated Press)
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Igbo people demonstrate on Feb. 29 following the death of their leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, in Nnewi, Nigeria. Assaults by the Boko Haram have sent many Igbo, one of the three dominant ethnic groups in Nigeria, fleeing. Based in the eastern states, most Igbo became Catholic after being colonized by the British. Many became successful traders. (Associated Press)
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Nigerian-born Charles Wiwa, 44, shown in Chicago on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, fled Nigeria in 1996 following a crackdown on protests against Shell’s oil operations in the Niger Delta. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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** FILE ** Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the police headquarters hit by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Children gather around a scorched police truck after an attack at a police station in Kano, Nigeria, last week. Youths overran the police station in the Sheka neighborhood that morning. (Associated Press)
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An anti bomb police officer collect undetonated soft drink can bombs recovery from Islamic militants in Kano, Nigeria, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012. Police said Tuesday that members of the radical Islamist group Boko Haram dressed in uniforms resembling those of soldiers and police officers when they launched their attack Friday in Kano. At least 185 people died in the attacks. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Men in Kano, Nigeria, look around a house where a man and his pregnant wife were killed Tuesday in an attack witnesses said was carried out by security forces seeking members of Boko Haram. The sect has been blamed for an attack four days earlier that killed at least 185 people, but relatives said Tuesday's victims were not involved with it. Below, police officers collect undetonated soft-drink-can bombs recovered from the militants. (Associated Press)
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Muslim men at a mosque in Kano, Nigeria, pray on Monday, Jan. 23, 2012, for peace and for people who lost their lives during attacks over the weekend. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visits the site of the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Civilians examine the police headquarters bombed by a suicide bomber in Kano, Nigeria, on Sunday. More than 150 people were killed in a series of attacks.
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Red Cross officials collect bodies from a street in Kano, Nigeria, on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, after a bomb blast and gun attacks Friday night. (AP Photo/Salisu Rabiu)
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Angry youths protest and shout slogans Jan. 16, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria. For the first time since protests erupted over spiraling fuel prices, soldiers barricaded key roads in Nigeria's two biggest cities as the president offered a concession to stem demonstrations he said were being stoked by provocateurs seeking anarchy. (Associated Press)
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Men grind pepper at a market in Obalende Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. Nigeria's government will meet with labor unions in a last bid to halt a paralyzing national strike that now threatens oil production in Africa's most populous nation. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Angry youths protest Jan. 12, 2012, in Lagos, Nigeria, on the fourth day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government. A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers threatened to shut down all production. (Associated Press)
