WITNESS: Fleeing the Islamic sect that lived in our midst

2009/08/04 08:02:51 @Reuters: International News

Ibrahim Mshelizza lives in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, where he has reported for Reuters for more than a decade. His family home is close to the compound of Mohammed Yusuf, leader of the militant Islamic Boko Haram sect. Here he describes how he and his family were forced to flee fighting between sect members who lived in their midst and the security forces during days of unrest in which close to 800 people were div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=E5qGsuzTfyQ:5R-CbgKO6cY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=E5qGsuzTfyQ:5R-CbgKO6cY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=E5qGsuzTfyQ:5R-CbgKO6cY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=E5qGsuzTfyQ:5R-CbgKO6cY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=E5qGsuzTfyQ:5R-CbgKO6cY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/E5qGsuzTfyQ" height="1" width="1"/
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