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OBAMA'S DRONE WAR
This ominous, discomfiting, illegal, and immoral use of weaponized
drones against defenseless strangers is done for our sakes. But more and
more we are seeing a gap between the intention behind the President’s
clandestine brand of justice and the real-world effect of those
killings. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words against the Vietnam War in
1967 remain resonant today: “What do they think as we test our latest
weapons on them?” We do know what they think: many of them have the
normal human reaction to grief and injustice, and some of them take that
reaction to a vengeful and murderous extreme. In the Arabian peninsula,
East Africa, and Pakistan, thanks to the policies of Obama and Biden,
we are acquiring more of the angriest young enemies money can buy. As a
New York Times report put it last year, “Drones have replaced Guantánamo as the recruiting
tool of choice for militants.” A Reader’s War... Posted by Teju Cole
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| THE IJAWS OF THE NIGER DELTA |
IJAW NATION |
IJAW MOST WANTED |
We The Ijaws, the predominant indigenous people in the Niger
Delta, moved to the Delta over 7,000 years. We have a distinctive
language.
The Niger River Delta, one of the largest and beautiful deltas
in the world, is the largest delta in Africa, and it covers approximately 14,000
square miles (36,260 square kilometers). Its origination is in the highlands of
the Fouta Djallon Plateau in western Guinea 150 miles (240 kilometers) from the
Atlantic Ocean.
At Lokoja in central Nigeria, the Niger is joined by its
chief tributary, the Benue. The Niger then travels south 250 miles or 400
kilometers, becoming a great fan shaped delta before emptying into the Izon
Gulf...
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Gen. Olusegun Aremu Obasanjo
Former President / Butcher of Odi
Gen. Theophillus Danjuma
Former Minister of Defense
Gen. Victor Malu
Former Chief of Army Staff
Gen. John Agim
Nigerian Army Infantry
Brig. Gen. Agbabiaka
Led the Odi Invasion
We will never forget, and we will never let you Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo,
the butcher of Odi massacre forget... .Titoe Miriki
| "The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to
do so for them".... Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002 |
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"You go in and you get some intelligence ... and [Special Ops forces] kill 27, 30, 40 people, whatever, and they capture seven or eight," U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (Ret.), who served as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff (2002-05), told Scahill. "Then you find out that the intelligence was bad and you killed a bunch of innocent people and you have a bunch of innocent people on your hands, so you stuff 'em in Guantanamo. No one ever knows anything |
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