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From: Glenn Petersen	7/8/2013 7:45:43 PM
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Sometimes Terrorists Win Walter Russell Mead The American Enterprise July 8, 2013 On Saturday, Islamist militants killed at least 29 students and one teacher in a state in northeast Nigeria. The terrorists set fire to a dormitory, burning many students alive, and shot survivors who attempted to escape. Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is forbidden,” has been blamed for the horrific attack. Presumably the goal in murdering dozens of young students in cold blood at a boarding school was to scare parents and students away from modern forms of education and to convince the government to close schools that Boko Haram considers to be oriented toward Western culture. In that, Boko Haram succeeded. Governor Ibrahim Gaidan visited the burned school and injured survivors yesterday. He called the attackers ”callous and devoid of any shred of humanity” and ordered all secondary schools across his state (estimated population 2.5 million) to close until September. All told, Boko Haram fighters killed 48 students and seven teachers in northeast Nigeria last month. Boko Haram has continued to launch attacks against institutions and emblems of Western culture, as well as against symbols of southern Nigerian dominance of the north, in defiance of President Goodluck Jonathan’s dispatching of thousands of troops and his declaration of a state of emergency in May. Nigeria’s weak government and the questionable actions of the police and army (it is also accused of murdering civilians) show how difficult it is to defeat organizations like Boko Haram, which recruits young men from the impoverished, undeveloped, and predominately Muslim north who are disaffected by the oppressiveness of the mostly Christian, wealthier south. All that was needed to convince the government to close schools across an entire state was a few gallons of gasoline and automatic weapons. The army’s response to this attack is likely to be heavy-handed—and probably unsuccessful. For people in northeast Nigeria trying to stay out of the crossfire of this war, there is no end in sight. blogs.the-american-interest.com

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