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Onlookers stand on the tail wing of a crashed passenger plane in a neighborhood just north of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
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People gather around a car used by a suicide bomber following an explosion in a church compound in Bauchi, Nigeria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Shehu Saulawa)
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A sign marks the site of the former prison known as Tekunle on Ita Oko Island near Lagos, Nigeria. The island prison allowed Nigeria's military governments to make opponents disappear into the swamps of the Lekki Lagoon at a camp accessible only by boat and helicopter. (Associated Press)
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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)
