Militants Attack Jtf Logistics Base, Captured Weapons

thank God, we are seeing the benefit of Aziza moving his command post to Port-Harcourt

Congratulation to all they Freedom Fighters on their victory against dirty stinking Nigeria rag tag Zombi thugs called soldiers

To be honest, Texazzpete is correct. Nigeria can run the militants into the ground in 3 months if required - but other people may take their place. Also Nigerias oil installations are not to the the required Health and Safety standard and a war could produce results of catastrophic proportions. I once went to a place called Oloibiri in Ahoada, Rivers State. Really, that place is a health hazard. An Italian Engineer told me that if you put a match to that place, the blast will be heard all over the South-South and consume almost the whole of Ahoada. He said that even in PH, all the windows will break and the place will shake. Therefore, I don't think it is advisable for any war to be started in Niger Delta.

This is the way to go forward:

Sorry, did I say Oloibiri? I meant to say Obiobi near Obrikom.

are you sure?

you must really have a low opinion of your army if you think all that's in the armouries are Ak47s and general Purpose machine Guns. naturally, the odd RPG may be thrown in.

There are crack divisions in the Nigerian army that are far better equipped and trained than the drunken soldiers you see lurching all over the place.

Were i to be given command of a 10,000 strong amphibious brigade trained in Night ops and with support from helicopter gunships, it would not be an extremely difficult task to destroy every single Major millitant camp in the Delta. Naturally, one may not completely destroy this menace since recruitment from disaffected youths in the region would ensure that resistance continues. But at least a decisive offensive will kill or capture 90% of the experienced millitants in the region.

 

I know Aziza will still call them children.

From all indications, Tex, crude oil is being covertly sold by the ship-load in exchange for cash AND WEAPONRY,  by militants and criminal oil smuggling gangs operating in the Niger Delta.    Those weapons are of course augmented by the recently publicized plunder of ALL police armories in the delta, such that anyone determined to put up a fight against the Nigerian army down there in the swamps would hardly need any external funding of the type that flowed from Russia and China to sustain the Viet Cong war effort against America's military giant.

Defoliation of forest trees was tried with very limited success during the Viet Nam war, when US aerial tankers sprayed Agent Orange over vast areas of the forest canopy which concealed the Ho Chi Minh Trail, that network of bush paths which served as the main conduit of military hardware from north to south Vietnam.   Decades after the end of that war, Agent Orange was determined to be a major causative factor in myriad degenerative illnesses that beset war veterans who worked with or were exposed to the defoliant.   In short, conventional or even smart GPS or laser-guided bombs have always been dropped for the purpose of blowing people up, but have a never been practical or cost-effective options for use in the defoliation of forests due to the sheer tonnage of ordnance it would take to clear even a square mile of rain-forest, talk less of that whole vast theater of war.

All told, those who know every swamp, creek and island of the Niger Delta posses a MAJOR tactical advantage over any invading force, even before the oil-for-guns trade and the sheer determination of the militants are factored in.  I do not forsee any easy military victories being won by either side in what is already a widening war of attrition, and as usual, civilians bear the brunt of cross-fire.

LOL, quite amusing i have to say. A sense of insecurity that was well and truly exploited by militancy and so called "freedom fighting" has given every joe 'i want to make money' the courage to take to arms and hold a state and region ransom with all the violence, kidnappings, oil bunkering, profiteering, assasinations etc, forcing business to leave the region while the indegenes as a result suffer job losses and a further decline in what was already a laughable economy in that region to begin with, while the country continues to lose money and things aren't drastic enough yet? LOL.

What is even more amusing is when you actually consider this: if the problem is people not wanting oil taken from land around them then how come the Ogoni people were able to achieve such in peace and without all this havoc and suceeded in kicking shell out of their land? Are they from mars? If the problem is derivation then won't it be wiser to actually fight for ammendments in the constitution which has SO MANY things that need to be reviewed and rectified one of which being the law that states that anything below 6 feet belongs to the federal government? Such a law is actually one of the reasons that the federal government can claim ownership to oil and is among quite a few laws that need to be rectified along with the secret act law which is actually the antithesis to the proposed 'freedom of information'.

If the problem is development then who should be fought, the state government or the federal government? I find it laughable when groups like MEND say seeing pictures of abuja and lagos developments in contrast with the Niger Delta situation is one of the reasons the so called "freedom fighting" is supported. So does that mean that if there was no development in other parts of the country that MEND and co would have been more accepting in resignation at the bad situatiion of underdevelopment, environmental degredation, etc which does exist in the Niger Delta? Take for instance now, who is developing lagos, is it the federal or the state government? Who was developing Abuja, was it not El Rufai who although was involved in questionable dealings fought to get Abuja refocused on development?Juxstapose such with Rivers State. A ring road project in a particular area has been on the table for well over a decade now. Money has been thrown around and nothing has happened. Just read a few days ago that china has gotten a $1 billion dollar contract to start and complete the project and i desperately hope it is done, but what if it isn't now, would it also be the federal government's fault?

So if it is agreed that a more fundamental approach to the main issue should be tackled and we are agreed that such lies in the constitution and rectifying its many flaws and ammending it, then what is blowing up of pipelines actually achieveing? This agression could be channeled much more effectively whereby results actually yield and yet the option that so far seems to be working apparently (according to some) is oil bunkering for profiteering and buying and introduction of more weapons in an already volatile region? I quit being frustrated at this absurdity and just resigned myself to amusment from it because it is quite funny, are we so starved of actual credible groups and avenues that we are so quick to label anybody who blows up a pipeline a "freedom fighter"? I so know what to expect in response to this post and i actually anticipate it, i don't mind being amused  . Some people will read this with one eye closed and asume that i am saying the Niger Delta has no problems, followed by being called an "imposter" (as if that has anything to do with the arguement)  infact let the blind arguements begin. LOL.

@ bolded: do you know if thats the exact reason the army is holding back now?

If there were to be another turning point, do you know the extent to which people will be massacred?

look at the larger picture.

There are millions of messages.

Biko tell em.

Em what are u talking about? U lost me.

Sky Blue,

Okay now I got your point and I do agree with you that the Ogoni struggle was a peaceful one but Nigeria responded with violence and mass slaughter against them and have continued the same trend with other groups such as MASSOB. I watched the video about the genocide in Ogoni land back in Nigeria as a kid. It was sickening. Nothing was left untouched. Even goats, chickens, etc were slaughtered to further punish and starve the surviving population. What a sick government.