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America disclosed on Tuesday that Al-Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist network, was the financier, the planner, and the executor of the bomb blasts that killed and maimed in Abuja on New Year’s eve.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) probing the explosions said in its preliminary report that local affiliated terrorist cells provided support on the ground. Shocked Shocked Shocked
FBI agents made the connection after they “conclusively found that the signature of the bomb matched other blasts by the terror network.”
According to counter-terrorism experts, every bomb – like art – has the signature of its maker or group-based on funding, sophistication, and objective.
“Some bombs are made to serve as warning with little damage while others are made to achieve as much collateral damage and deaths as possible, which is the hallmark of Al-Qaeda,” an official stated.
Homeland Security Department officials and Pentagon sources added that based on the FBI findings, President Barack Obama has approved a request by Nigeria for a permanent FBI counter-terrorism unit in the country.
“These agents normally do investigations after a blast but their job in Abuja may now include preventing these blasts through better security coordination and surveillance.”
They will also train Nigerians on how to detect and deal with local terror groups.
Based on the FBI recommendations, Abuja has awarded a contract for the installation of close circuit security cameras at sensitive locations countrywide, including airports, bridges, roads, hotels and other places determined by officials.
The cameras are emerging as an important tool in detection and prosecution of terror suspects.
The government has agreed to also keep an eye on Islamic scholars visiting Nigeria from the Middle East whose teachings are deemed inflammatory. “Groups like Boko Haram are being influenced and financed by extremist foreign religious leaders and groups with the intention of overthrowing the Nigerian Government.
“It is the responsibility of the government to cut such ties and funding in the interest of national security,” Homeland Department officials warned.
The prodding of the Americans also led to the directive given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) that all banks should tell their customers to update their data.
“It was discovered that thousands of fictitious accounts are being used by suspected terror groups to move vast amounts of money to finance their training and operation. Hopefully the policy will close that window and cut off the funds.”
Besides, the FBI recommended the setting up of a new terror unit, independent of existing security agencies, because of fears dozens of officials may have been compromised by bribes.
Back in Lagos, daily activities were disrupted in Alausa on Thursday as a result of another bomb scare through an anonymous note dropped in the toilet of a company.
It claimed that a bomb would detonate in about six hours’ time.
The note, signed by a group called Concerned Nigerians, urged the evacuation of workers and visitors to the premises.
News of the impending explosion, which started mid-day, spread like wide fire and soon attracted the police Anti-bomb Squad.
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