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NigeriaSun.com Tuesday 9th February 2010 Issue 2119
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"It is unfair you enjoy a safe life while our brothers in Gaza suffer greatly. Our attacks will continue as long as you support Israel. "
Osama bin Laden
The al-Qaeda leader was addressing U.S. President Barack Obama in a recently-released videotape.

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We are not ending our relationship: Jolie, Pitt
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Gerard Butler auctioning date with himself for charity

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Major publishers to hike prices of electronic books
In Hollywood, hackers are mostly 'good guys'
China closes 'biggest hacker site', arrests three
Zardari's "shut up" video mysteriously disappears from internet

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London, Feb 7: Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said that UK, not Nigeria, should be on the United States' watch-list of countries deemed to be incubators of Islamist terrorism.

Soyinka was responding to a question about what he thought about Nigeria being placed on the US terrorism watch-list.

The listing - which puts Nigeria into a club whose members include Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen - followed the failed attack by the Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the young man who boarded a plane with a bomb in his underpants.

"I believe it was irrational to point the finger of suspicion at Nigeria because this young man - the so-called Christmas Day bomber - was not radicalised in Nigeria. Everything we know about Abdulmutallab suggests that it happened in London, where he went to university," The Times quoted Soyinka, as saying.

"The same is true of the shoe bomber, Richard Reid. And of the extremists who bombed the London Underground and the buses in July 2005. The terrorists who primed a car found outside a London nightclub in 2007 with petrol containers, gas canisters and nails were based in Britain. If Nigeria qualifies for a place on the US list of terrorist countries then, admit it, Britain is overqualified," he added.

He further believes that Britain has created a breeding ground for religious terrorists.

"I have a number of Muslim friends in Nigeria who have expressed fears that their sons, who are studying at British universities, might be caught up in Islamic fundamentalism. They are worried about the company they are keeping and by changes in their attitudes.heir children are becoming intolerant of other religions, developing a kind of holier-than-thou stance even towards their fellow Muslims," Soyinka said.

"Holier, or purer, than thou - that sums up the mental conditioning. It is the beginning of a religious psychopathy that ends in bombs in underpants. One friend with a son at university in the northeast of England has not - yet - pulled his son out, but he is certainly keeping a watchful eye on him. He has reason to be worried," he added.


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