Nigeria leader nixes visit where girls kidnapped

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) - Amid apparent security concerns, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan cancelled a trip today to the traumatized town where Islamic extremists abducted more than 300 schoolgirls a month ago. Angry parents said he showed no respect for their emotions. It would have been the first reported visit by the president to the scene of an attack in the northeastern region that has suffered for five years the increasingly deadly assaults by Boko Haram. Jonathan, a Christian from the south, has been accused of insensitivity to the plight of the mainly Muslim northerners. Thousands have been killed over the years, and more than 1,500 civilians have died this year alone.