Nigeria vows to hunt those behind 'heinous' mosque attacks

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan vowed to hunt down those behind "heinous" attacks that killed at least 120 at the mosque of an Islamic leader who issued a call to arms against Boko Haram.
      
At least 270 others were also wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers on Friday at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north of the country, according to a toll given to AFP late Friday by a senior rescue official.
     
 Jonathan  "directed the security agencies to launch a full-scale investigation and to leave no stone unturned until all agents of terror... are tracked down and brought to justice," said a statement from his office on Saturday.
      
The mosque is attached to the palace of Kano's emir, Muhammad Sanusi II, Nigeria's second most senior Muslim cleric, who last week made a call at the same mosque urging civilians to take up arms against Islamist extremists Boko Haram.        

Sanusi on Saturday returned from abroad to inspect the mosque.  
    
"From all indications, they (the attackers) have been planning this for at least two months," Sanusi told reporters at the airport without elaborating.
      
"I have directed that the mosque be washed and cleaned and prayers should continue here," the emir said.        

"We will never be intimidated into abandoning our religion, which is the intention of the attackers."        The attack, though, was widely seen inside Nigeria as revenge for the emir's call against Boko Haram.
      
"It was death and blood all over. People lay dead and others shrieked in horror and pain," one survivor, Muhammad Inuwa Balarabe, told AFP from his hospital bed on Saturday.