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Topic: Speedboat gunmen attack U.S. oil workers in Nigeria

UKAOBASI
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Advocate # 201

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The Niger delta blaze rages on:

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Speedboat gunmen attack U.S. oil workers in Nigeria
USATODAY

...Militants from rival ethnic groups regularly attack oil facilities in the Niger Delta, trying to force companies to pay extortion money. While foreigners are rarely killed, hundreds of Nigerian civilians and combatants have died in the violence between Ijaw and Itsekiri militants.

Ijaws and Itsekiris threatened to escalate hostilities this week following the slaying of 10 market vendors and children who were traveling by boat to their village. Ahmed, the military spokesman, said Itsekiri gunmen were believed responsible for that attack.

Earlier this month, five Ijaw assailants carrying shotguns were killed by the navy while trying to storm an oil facility owned by Agip, a division of Italy's ENI SpA.

Now one may expect "combined" Odi/Zaki Biam-like "special forces" to swoop down and bomb/anihilate the area.....Oops sorry, I mean restore order to the "restive" Niger-Delta.

You kinda wonder if the govt did'nt organize those killings as a way to secure world silence as Aremu/Anenih prepares to complete what Abacha/anenih started.

May the souls of those US workers rest in peace, and may the souls of those Niger deltans who have died to date, and those who are about to be anihilated in sacrifice to appease and ingratiate the US, come to rest in peace when they are murdered.

All for oil/blood money???!!! [Eek!]

[ April 24, 2004, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: UKAOBASI ]

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Dr. B
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Ukaobasi:

Those who do not know that a war is already going on in BiafraNigeria should read this piece by the Biafra Institute for Strategic Studies (BISS) entitled "Nigeria: The Rise of the Warlord State." The Americans have joined the Al-Qaeda of the North and they are fighting on the wrong side.

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VII. The Ijaw-Nigeria War

A state of war exists in the Niger Delta. What began as a number of limited military engagements (under Rivers States Internal Security Task Force led by the brutal yet highly decorated Lt. Colonel Paul Okuntimo) following the Ogoni uprising in the early 1990s, has transmuted into a vast operation called Operation Restore Hope. Commanded by a Brigadier-General Elias Zamani, it is one of the largest, if not the largest military deployments since the Nigeria-Biafra War. At last count, from Warri to the southern reaches of the Delta, over 10,000 troops are deployed. Some estimates have the number as high as 13,000. The troops include SSS, Mobile Police Units, Nigerian Navy and Directorate of Military Intelligence officers . With at least one of the Nigerian Airforce’s 14 Mi-34 and Mi-35 gunships stationed within striking distance of most Delta locations, and 2 Naval Augist helicopters and patrol boats (including vessels supplied unwisely by the United States Government), the strategy has veered between stop-and-search, towards search-and-destroy missions. On occasion, faced with direct frontal and/or running raids by Ijaw troops, the Navy and Army have pulled back their positions.

Who are the combatants? Broadly speaking, troops of the Federated Ijaw nations are facing off against Nigerian troops. Allied with the Nigerians forces, in reality or via perception, are the Itshekiris. Other groups have being caught up in the war or have willfully chosen sides. Both sides conduct raids on towns in and around Warri, as well as isolated villages deep in the mangrove forests of the Delta. The Ijaw forces over the last 3 years have built up an arsenal of weaponry including Rocket Propelled Grenades, machine Guns, automatic weapons and the ubiquitous Ak-47 assault rifle. The Ijaw forces, flying the Adaka Boro flag, have hurt the Nigerians as well as periodically disrupting oil flows at one point in early 2003, slicing 40% of daily production.

Maybe it is not the loud-talking Igbos, but the Ijaws, that will liberate Biafra after all.

[ April 24, 2004, 05:32 PM: Message edited by: Dr. B ]

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Is anybody still in doubt that the fraud called Nigeria is gasing for air, and this time there is no para medics around to help. If you still doubt that Obasanjo may have ruin the last hope of British patchwork think again. This is just the beginning.

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