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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria placed on alert for Al-Qaeda attacks |
| 2008-05-11 |
| Nigeria's security services were on high alert on Saturday after a warning from the police chief that Al-Qaeda could be planning a bombing campaign in Africa's most populous country. "The Al-Qaeda network has planned to send time bombs to Nigeria," Inspector General Mike Okiro told senior officers on Friday at a meeting in the south of the west African nation, according to several newspapers. Okiro gave no more details of the threat or of possible targets but ordered security checks to be upgraded across the west African country, particularly at seaports, airports and land border points. Nigeria has never suffered an Al-Qaeda attack but since a large proportion of its population is Muslim, and since it is home to various armed groups, US officials see it as being at risk of such activity. In February 2003, Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on Muslims to rise up in a number of states including Nigeria. In December 2007, he suggested that true Muslim believers should overthrow their governments, and made a reference to support for Nigerian "brothers". Nigeria, the world's eighth-largest oil producer, has struggled in recent years to quell rebel attacks by a number of groups in the Niger Delta, the main oil producing region in the south of the country. Nigeria's territorial waters have overtaken those of Indonesia to become the number-one hotspot in the world for piracy, the International Maritime Bureau said last month. With an overall population estimated at 140 million, Nigeria is home to at least 50 million Muslims and 12 of its 36 states -- all in the north -- have followed Islamic sharia law since 2000. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Cookies, not candy. We're the cookie pushers. Strictly legit. We don't do candy. That's the CIA's gig. And that's why we stay on their side. |
| Posted by: SD FSO 2008-05-11 13:59 |
| #4 World battle is right, but the state department plans to fight it by handing out lollipops. The dems are in favor of a series of ice cream socials where our enemies are asked how many American citizens should die so long as the dhimmi donks are left in charge afterward. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-05-11 12:54 |
| #3 I hope someone's noticing that most of the areas of serious unrest involving muslims also involve oil-producing areas or where oil has recently been discovered - Sudan/Chad, Nigeria, the muddled east, Indonesia, western Africa, Malaysia/Thailand etc. We also have Hoogo Chavez trying to stir up trouble in oil-producing areas of Latin America, and the Chinese fingers in ALL the pies in some form. We are facing a major world battle, and few people are aware of it. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-05-11 12:43 |
| #2 Looking for softer targets. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-11 10:33 |
| #1 Nearly 100% of Nigerian oil is located in areas occupied by either Christians or African Spiritualists. The Biafran War was initiated after Muslims coerced a quarter million "conversions," on Christian territory. That war was a jihad, with the US in moral support of the Biafrans, and the UK and Russia supporting the national government. The Biafran movement led the Muslims to pullback their takeover plans. A revival of the pre war encroachments would force general conflict. The Organization of the Islamic Conference recognizes "territorial integrity" when Muslims are the majority, in a plural state, and "self determination" where Muslims are the minority group. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-05-11 07:48 |