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I used to think our strategists would wake up to simple truths and realize how deeply flawed our COIN doctrine really is. This is relevant because we have largely chosen to use a COIN approach to...

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/09/29/college-provost-says-suspected-islamic-extremists-kill-about-50-students-in/



KingJaja, this type of attack should be a redline for any nation. I have...

Not to divert the topic away from Nigeria which is critically important at Africa's largest nation, but the article points the collapse of Libya leading to the surge of higher end weapons being made...

Frankly I'm surprised that they haven't been systematically targeting economic infrastructure for sometime now. It seems many of the Islamist movements globally prefer to focus on symbolic targets,...

Posted by Dayuhan,



So true

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/jul/15/1

Posted by Kingjaja

First you write this:



Then you write this:

http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1382336.html

US Congressional Panel Examines Boko Haram Violence in Nigeria



New Jersey is producing some credible politicians, good to see Congress...

Posted by KingJaja



There are plenty of links between Boko Haram and Al Qaeda related groups in Africa, and those in the know actually making decisions understand that. However, that doesn't...

Posted by King Jaja


I agree with the first part of your post, but disagree that oil is what drives this behavior. I think the West has a collective sense of guilt from its colonial past where...

http://www.eurasiareview.com/27012012-faltering-al-qaeda-turns-to-boko-haram/

Posted by Stan


I have a 101 questions about the explosive devises that weren't answered by the article, but the alleged number of explosive devices were. There are at least two types of...

http://homeland.house.gov/press-release/homeland-security-committee-report-details-emerging-homeland-threat-posed-africa-based



The 29 page report is worth the read, it is quick read and gives...

KingJaja,

The point of the above posts are meant to disspell the myth the U.S. doesn't care about Africans, but by law for the group to be designated by the U.S. then it must be a threat to the...

http://http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/us-house-wants-boko-haram-designated-terrorist-group/104034/




http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48752

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/09/146554.htm

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/01/201212402548882842.html



Speaking of Aljazeera, a very detailed article on recent attacks in Kano. More sosphisticated than I thought, which there...

Posted by KingJaja,





These are true comments, but isn't this good news in the long run? If one of the purposes of terrorism is to generate media coverage and that is denied to them, isn't...

Some insightful articles:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-01/nigeria-to-remove-subsidy-on-gasoline-pricing-agency-says-1-.html




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KingJaja and Stan,

If and it is a big if, but if Nigeria degenerates into Civil War what will the impact be on ECOWAS/ECOMIL and how will that impact the region? I can't imagine this problem being...

KingJaja,

It has almost been 10 years since I have been in Nigeria, but I recall frequent mass murders and revenge killings, it wasn't unusual for 200 to be killed on any particular day on the...

Posted by Dayuhan,



Every situation is different, and I suspect economic factors (to include poverty) is a factor in the total calculus of reasons people participate in violent acts, but rarely...

Explain how poverty is at the heart of this? They state these are revenge killings, not killings over poverty, which has existed in Nigeria since its creation. If you think the root of it is...

He is intentionally trying to mitigate tensions, or provoke further violence with these words? He calls for peace on hand, and yet points out the enemy with the other.

KingJaja, I think this series of articles is very relevant and of interest. Can you please post the link to the article?

In a foot locker I have a lot of historical resources on Africa, but a quick search of the web indicates that Nigerian support from the MPLA was mostly political. If the West didn't constrain their...