ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Contestants for the Miss World Crown have fled Nigeria, leaving behind four days of bloodletting over the pageant. More than 100 people have died in violence triggered by rage over a newspaper article suggesting that Islam's founding prophet would have approved of the beauty contest. Lagos bureau chief Jeff Koinange is following the upheaval in Nigeria.</s>JEFF KOINANGE, CNN LAGOS BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): The original date for this pageant was November 30. That would have fallen right at the end of the month of Ramadan. But the organizers met, along with the president and with the Muslim community, and they decided to push it a week forward. That's why it went to December 7. So they had agreed in principle. Yes, there was the
Four Days of Violence in Nigeria Force Miss World Pageant to Move