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February 27, 2012

CS Monitor: In Nigeria, Somalia, and Afghanistan: what is a foreign fighter?

by Scott Baldauf
The Christian Science Monitor

As yet another suicide blast strikes yet another church in northern Nigeria, immigration officials have announced that they are cracking down on the flow of foreigners into northern Nigeria who may be adding to the growing numbers of the shadowy Islamist militia Boko Haram.

Nigerian immigration officials say they have expelled nearly 11,000 foreigners in the past six months alone, the vast majority of them from Chad and Niger.

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