A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Nigeria curfew allows relatives search for dead
KADUNA – Relatives used a lull in the curfew in northern Nigeria yesterday to search morgues for their loved ones, after riots triggered by disputed election results killed at least 100 people in the mostly-Muslim region.
Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari said the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) had conspired with the electoral commission to cook up results showing President Goodluck Jonathan won Saturday’s presidential race.
“Those who rigged the elections are responsible for the spontaneous action of the people in some parts of the country,” Mr Buhari said of the violence, talking to journalists in Abuja.
Observers deemed the polls in Africa’s most populous nation the most credible in decades.
–(Reuters)
US seeks death penalty for Saudi
WASHINGTON/MIAMI – US military prosecutors have sought the death penalty for a Saudi man as they reaffirmed charges against the Guantánamo detainee over the attack on the USS Cole warship in 2000, the Pentagon said yesterday.
Abd al-Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian national of Yemeni descent, is charged with planning and preparing the attack on the warship off Yemen that killed 17 sailors and wounded 40. Suicide bombers rammed an explosives-laden boat into the Cole, blowing a massive hole in its side.
Nashiri, who is being held at the US detention facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, was also charged with planning a 2002 attack on a French oil tanker off Yemen and with plotting an attempted attack on another US ship in 2000. –(Reuters)