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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| Nigeria is a possible al-Qaeda haven |
| 2005-05-04 |
| A United States intelligence expert and former ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Princeton Lyman, has said that after the dreaded Middle East terrorist group, Al-Qaeda was chased out of Afghanistan, it has shifted base to Nigeria in which its influence is growing by the day. Lyman in a report on the American television news station, CBN News, quoted a United Nations investigation which he said uncovered al-Qaeda's surreptitous training and building bases in Nigeria in support of his conclusion that the country is a natural target for terrorists seeking to expand their operations. Lyman, said, "You have 60 million or more Muslims in Nigeria. It is the most populous state, and it is a country in which there has been a long history of religious tension, sometimes well-managed, sometimes not well-managed. If you wanted to target a state in West Africa, that's the one you target." |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Very informative! The second look at Tim McVeigh's accomplices said they were Iraqi Republican Guard that came in as refugees relocated after Desert Storm and AlQaeda is also said to have approached the Salvadoran gang MS13for coming in across the southern border. We have a lot of African immigrants coming in and they generally outside our mental profiling as extremist Muslims. We have the ''Mother Mosque'', or the first mosque in the US here, and they often send Muslims erroneously thinking the Bosnians and Nigerians have something in common and will get along well in Iowa. We also had an Arab master forger arrested here after 9/11 and he had lived in the same apartment in Chicago as on of the hijackers, but he cooperated with the FBI, claiming he was a starving student. I think the insane ICE has to be blamed if we don't get control of our borders and know who exactly is in our country. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2005-05-04 15:10 |