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The BOLDED part PROVES that Gadaffi is NOT a SH/ITTY PERSON as the Media like to protray him here in the U.S.Mad Dog? I dont think so. [flash=400,400] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56OxBMUh9v4[/flash] |
Horus:Quatara is guilty of both war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Buck stops with 'Quatara' Mr Ban Ki Moon. The UN should transport him to the Hague ASAP. |
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Anybody that tells me the 'West' intervened on humanitarian grounds I now just verbally insult and abuse because of their stupidity. [flash=300,300] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RWHiC7K3k[/flash] https://www.davidicke.com/images/stories/April20111/5.jpg |
If any criminal is not in jail, blame Jonathan and his attorney generalI have heard it all over the last few days: Blame GEJ for Abacha looting the country. Blame GEJ for Buhari looting the country. Blame GEJ for CPC being financed with looted funds. Blame GEJ for the Tsunami in Japan. Blame GEJ for the nuclear meltdown in Japan. Blame GEJ for Jega's incompetence. Blame GEJ for the CPC logo (probably also stolen)missing on ballot papers. Blame GEJ for women abandoning their weddings for NNPC test. Blame GEJ for the uprising in the Middle East. Blame GEJ for Aisha Buhari's poor 'Umblella Like' English. |
Is this man in prison right now? If not, then what is he currently doing? [img]http://static.168ora.hu/db/09/65/abacha-mohammed-d0000F96570f926158c33.jpg[/img] CPC - Party of Hypocrites, Coup Plotters and Looters. |
If the West cant get coffee - they will drink tea. (Ivory Coast) If they cant get japanese cars - they'll manage german cars or even Chinese. (Japan) But if they cant get oil - they're finished.(Libya) |
just like Fukushima - We're on the verge of armageddon yet- Information Blackout. Its not part of the agenda? Or is it? |
Perhaps, but it is by no means certain that GEJ will win the elections come Saturday.Of course. The flip side to the coin is if Buhari wins. If Ibori were to levy allegations of corruption against GEJ with Buhari in power, how many hours before Mr and Mrs GEJ end up in prison? Either way it seems 'dark forces' felt its best he beats this. |
Maybe but IMO, not likely. My reason is that the timing is inauspicious for the present administration. It's not as if Ibori was going to be extradited to UK today or in the next 1 week.In all likelyhood GEJ will be President for at least the next 4 years. Therefore even if Ibori was brought to trial in 1 year it would still be during GEJ's tenure. If Ibori does have 'SShit' on GEJ or any other prominent politician which may result in scandal then he may attempt to use it against them. Not just to cause embarassment, but especially if it may reduce his sentence from 20 years to say 10 years. I dont think there is any loyalty between politicians - they are all crooks and animals. |
The 'Supergrass' thing crossed my mind but i simply dismissed as a figment of my imaginationThe guy has previous convictions in the UK. So no matter what he would be looking at a long time in jail. The only way to avoid that would be to become an 'informer' And that could mean alot of people being exposed. It would be in the Federal Governments interest that this did not happen. |
cold:Possibly a strategic move by GEJ and other Nigerian Politicians. Ibori would have turned into a 'Supergrass' in the UK to recieve less harsh treatment. He always had that card to play That may have resulted in a lot of secrets being revealed about Nigerian Politicians and their dealings and further possible prosecutions. We live in a very sinister world - Afterall wasn't the 'Lockerbie Bomber released on health grounds? (Oil deals) James 'Bond' Ibori lives to fight another day.(and drink more champagne) https://www.saharareporters.com/images/stories/ibori_champagne.jpg |
He May Be Rehabilitated https://www.saharareporters.com/images/stories/ibori_champagne.jpg Ibori/Buhari 2015 ![]() |
“Where does [Jega] expect us to get the funds to mobilize our agents for Monday's election?” he asked. “Only the PDP can quickly mobilize such funds. So that date cannot stand, unless Jega is working against the opposition.”Conspiracy Abi? |
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Nigeria cities cancel polls over problems IBADAN, Nigeria — The first election in a month of voting across oil-rich Nigeria stumbled to a start Saturday with several states cancelling polls because of problems and shortages, leading to a breakout of violence in one city. The first of three crucial elections in Nigeria will be held Saturday and as elsewhere in the country, politics often comes down to personality over policy. In the city of Ibadan, once the shining jewel of the postcolonial era in Africa, fighting within the ruling People's Democratic Party has seen deaths and riots over recent weeks. That comes atop efforts by an opposition party to take Ibadan and the rest of Oyo state in Nigeria's southwest. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) The first of three crucial elections in Nigeria will be held Saturday and as elsewhere in the country, politics often comes down to personality over policy. In the city of Ibadan, once the shining jewel of the postcolonial era in Africa, fighting within the ruling People's Democratic Party has seen deaths and riots over recent weeks. That comes atop efforts by an opposition party to take Ibadan and the rest of Oyo state in Nigeria's southwest. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) People walk past a torn Campaign billboard of an opposition Party, right, and the ruling party left, in Ibadan, Nigeria, Friday, April 1, 2011. The first of three crucial elections in Nigeria will be held Saturday and as elsewhere in the country, politics often comes down to personality over policy. In the city of Ibadan, once the shining jewel of the postcolonial era in Africa, fighting within the ruling People's Democratic Party has seen deaths and riots over recent weeks. That comes atop efforts by an opposition party to take Ibadan and the rest of Oyo state in Nigeria's southwest. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba) In the northern state of Gombe, officials indefinitely postponed elections for the Senate after a "mix-up of ballot papers," said election spokesman Mukhtari Gidado. The announcement led to a breakout of violence in the southern part of the state capital where police used tear gas to disperse the crowd and arrested one suspect. Polls in Abuja, the seat of Nigeria's government, were cancelled due to a shortage of ballot papers — a worrying sign for the rest of the country. And in the central Nigerian state of Kwara, a shortage of ballot papers led to an indefinite cancellation. Saturday's election will decide who should occupy seats in the country's National Assembly, positions worth more than $1 million in salaries and perks. That doesn't include the lawmakers' true power — the ability to direct where billions of dollars in oil revenues get spent annually with little or no oversight. Nigeria, which became a democracy in 1999 after years of coups and military rulers, has a history of flawed elections. In Ibadan, where local politicians hungry for power have encouraged running street battles over recent weeks, young election staffers slept overnight on dirty green foam or wood signboards outside of distribution centers. As they prepared to leave for polling places, some found that the serial numbers of their ballots didn't match up, said election worker Tani Ayodele, 26. Many sat down to thumb through and count the ballots by hand. Still, she and others remained upbeat. "It's my country," Ayodele said. "I believe we're doing the right thing for the first time." Security remains a concern across the nation, which shut its land borders Friday. Police stopped all vehicles moving around in cities, though Nigeria's sprawling countryside likely remains lightly guarded. A crowd of youths marched through one poor neighborhood in Ibadan, a city about 90 miles (150 kilometers) inland from Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos. One youth shouted in the local Yoruba language: "If anyone plays around, I will kill them." Further up the road, a group of soldiers had gathered around a mounted machine gun set up in a traffic roundabout. http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/nigeria-cities-cancel-polls-894618.html |
Ebonyi: Three feared dead, 10 injured in Ebonyi Three persons are believed to have been killed in electoral violence in some parts of Ebonyi State between Friday night and Saturday morning. Reports said a former councillor and agent of the Peoples Democratic Party, Nwani Egede, was killed at Ntezi while Iruka Nkwegu was murdered at Amuzu, both in Ezza Local Government Area this morning. Their alleged killer is said to have been arrested by the police and is currently in custody. THE PUNCH learnt that fighting between supporters of the PDP and All Nigeria Peoples Party in Ikwo and some other parts of the state had claimed one life. The police were said to be alarmed at the scale of violence as well as the nature of sophisticated weapons used by the combatants. During a shootout between PDP and ANPP supporters in Amagu in Ikwo Local Government Area, one person was killed while another was critically injured and rushed to the hospital. Clashes also broke out at 11pm on Friday at Inyaba in Ishielu Local Government Area when PDP supporters allegedly tried to kidnap some ANPP members. The violence forced residents to flee, while a detachment of 60 soldiers was swiftly drafted to the area to restore peace. Voters also refused to come to polling stations in the troubled areas for fear of being killed. The spokesman for the state police command, Mr. John Eluu, confirmed the incidents at Inyaba and Ikwo. He also told our correspondent that the police had discovered fake ballot papers in Ishielu https://www.punchontheweb.com/images/April/Saturday/pix201104021217557.gif http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2011040211482368 |
Bayelsa: Violence in Bayelsa Written by Hope Abah Saturday, 02 April 2011 12:32 Violence has broken out in a small town in the creeks of Bayelsa. Gunmen began firing around 9am in Ekeremor town, about 45 minutes by boat from the capital Yenagoa, the Joint Task Force has confirmed. No news on the number of gunmen or casualties is available yet. No election materials have yet arrived in Yenagoa. "If they have not arrived by 1pm I don't believe there will be any election in Bayelsa," the Labour Party's candidate for governor Timi Alaibe told the Daily Trust's Bayelsa correspondent Hope Abah. http://www.dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15823%3Aviolence-in-bayelsa&catid=76%3Aelection-2011&Itemid=163 |
March 28, 2011 Qatar is first Arab nation to recognise Benghazi-based council after rebels announce oil marketing deal with Gulf state. Qatar has recognised Libya's rebel council as the legitimate representatives of the Libyan people, a day after the group announced an oil contract with the Gulf state. The move on Monday makes Qatar only the second country to formally recognise the Libyan rebel council, but has been backed by the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC). A statement from Abdulrahman al-Attiyah, the outgoing GCC secretary general, said Qatar's "recognition of the transitional council as the only legitimate representative of the Libyan people comes in line with the decisions of the GCC". "The Libyan system has lost its legitimacy," said al-Attiyahi. Qatar also has warplanes taking part in UN- and Arab League-backed air raids aimed at imposing a no-fly zone over Libya, and has urged Gaddafi to quit to avoid more bloodshed. France previously recognised the rebel council as the legitimate representative of Libya, the first and so far only Western power to do so. Libyan state television condemned Qatar's recognition of the rebel council, saying the move amounted to "blatant interference" in Libyan affairs. Qatar's recognition of the rebel council comes just a day after a senior rebel official said that Qatar Petroleum had agreed to market crude oil produced from east Libyan oil fields no longer under the control of Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader. "We contacted the oil company of Qatar and thankfully they agreed to take all the oil that we wish to export and market this oil for us," said Ali Tarhouni, a rebel official in charge of economic, financial and oil matters. "Our next shipment will be in less than a week," he said, speaking from the rebel-held city of Benghazi. Qatar's state-owned oil company has not confirmed the deal. Libya produced about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day before the crisis, or almost 2 per cent of world output. Most of the oil is in the east, but sanctions and the lack of a marketing operation have stopped the rebels selling it abroad. Libya relies heavily on oil exports, which pay the state salaries on which most families depend. Tarhouni said output from the Libyan oil fields controlled by rebels is running at about 100,000 to 130,000 barrels per day, which could be increased to 300,000. The Reuters news agency reported officials at eastern oil firm Agoco as saying that the company was pumping most of the oil produced in the east to the terminal in Tobruk in the far east of the country. Output at its fields, including Nafoora, Sarir and Misla in the Sirte Basin, fell in recent weeks as an absence of shipments since early March led to a build-up of stocks at Tobruk. Agoco had said it aimed to begin marketing its oil abroad before ceding the plan to the rebel national council. The plan seemed to have hit a stumbling block when Agoco was named along with 13 other Libyan companies targeted by US sanctions designed to cut off funding to Gaddafi. Tarhouni, a US-based academic and exile opposition figure, was designated last week by the Benghazi-based national council to steer its financial and oil policy. http://uruknet.info/?p=m76301&hd=&size=1&l=e |
http://peoplesworld.org/africom-and-the-libya-war/ U.S. participation in the war in Libya appears to be coordinated out of a former French Foreign Legion base in Djibouti, a tiny country of a half million souls at the very tip of the Horn of Africa. This is the forward base of AFRICOM, the unified command for African action set up in 2007 by former President George W. Bush and his Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who has continued in that post under President Barack Obama. Why the United States has set up such a special Africa operation, and what this portends, bears examination. The original reason given for the creation of AFRICOM, with its main base not in Africa but in Stuttgart, Germany, was to coordinate anti-terrorism efforts in countries such as Somalia, where the collapse of organized government had led to a very unstable and dangerous situation. But although some African countries were happy to take military hardware from the United States, many of them, including especially South Africa, expressed qualms. Other than the anti-terrorism motive, commentators have raised the issue of oil. Oil industry analysts predict that by the year 2015, the United States will be getting 25 percent of its imported oil from African sources. The biggest oil producers in Africa are Libya, with 47 billion barrels in proved reserves (and maybe lots more yet undiscovered), Nigeria (37.5 billion barrels), Angola (13.5 billion barrels), Algeria (13.4 billion barrels) and the Sudan (6.8 billion barrels). Smaller African countries, including Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, have large-scale oil production proportional to their size. Writing in 2008, Antonia Juhasz posits an oil politics motive for the creation of AFRICOM. "The concern is that, as it has in Iraq, a larger US military presence in Africa will strain the overburdened military while increasing internal hostilities, regional instability and anger at the United States," he said, adding, "The ultimate objective of the two efforts is the same: securing big oil's access to the region's oil." Libya, Nigeria, Angola and Algeria are all member states of OPEC, the cartel of oil producing countries, whose joint actions in setting production quotas have a profound effect on the price of oil. Numerous U.S. oil companies are invested in the African oil-producing countries, including Libya. Even though leader Moammar Gadaffi's government nationalized a lot of foreign oil facilities when it took power from King Idris in 1969, some major foreign, including U.S., oil companies have investments in Libya, in joint operations with the Libyan state. These include Marathon, Hess, Conoco, Gulf, Occidental, BP, Repasol (Spain), Eni (Italy) and Total (France) among others. In 2009, Gadaffi started suggesting that he might nationalize the remaining foreign oil assets in Libya (AFRICOM had already been set up by that time), and he has renewed that threat since the NATO intervention began last week. But right now sanctions imposed by the U.S. and the European Union have reduced Libya's oil exports to a trickle, resulting in a worldwide jump in fuel prices. A drastic intervention leading to the removal of Gadaffi and greater freedom of operation for these oil companies might well be part of the motive for the intervention, especially on the part of major European Union countries dependent on Libya for their energy needs. Another reason given by some analysts for the creation of AFRICOM is as a counter to Chinese commercial advances in Africa. AFRICOM is mainly a military entity, but includes civil operations that are supposed to win the hearts and minds of Africans through development projects. Carmel Davis, Chairman of Roger Holdings, Inc., raised this issue in a 2008 paper. To Davis, countering Chinese influence in Africa is good, because Chinese companies tend not to interfere with the existing governments of African countries in which they invest. Davis feels that this is bad; he'd rather use American commerce to bring about political changes in African countries so that they can develop in a democratic capitalist direction. Though Davis' company seems to be involved with restaurants and not petroleum, he may be onto something when he says, "The experience of China may resonate with African leaders" because of the way China has achieved massive growth without loss of power by the ruling Communist Party. Further "What China offers may also resonate: Instead of the conditionalities of aid provided by the Bretton Woods organizations [the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank] and Western governments influenced by NGOs and public opinion, China offers a market-oriented relationship with willing buyers who explicitly eschew conditionality." In plain English, burgeoning trade with China may be seen by Africans as meeting economic needs without political interference under the pretext of "humanitarian intervention" or not. And China buys lots of African oil. https://peoplesworld.org/assets/Uploads/africom.jpg |
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http://uruknet.info/?p=m76342&hd=&size=1&l=e March 29, 2011 The rebels in Libya are in the middle of a life or death civil war and Moammar Gadhafi is still in power and yet somehow the Libyan rebels have had enough time to establish a new Central Bank of Libya and form a new national oil company. Perhaps when this conflict is over those rebels can become time management consultants. They sure do get a lot done. What a skilled bunch of rebels - they can fight a war during the day and draw up a new central bank and a new national oil company at night without any outside help whatsoever. If only the rest of us were so versatile! But isn't forming a central bank something that could be done after the civil war is over? According to Bloomberg, the Transitional National Council has "designated the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and the appointment of a governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi." Apparently someone felt that it was very important to get pesky matters such as control of the banks and control of the money supply out of the way even before a new government is formed. Of course it is probably safe to assume that the new Central Bank of Libya will be 100% owned and 100% controlled by the newly liberated people of Libya, isn't it? Most people don't realize that the previous Central Bank of Libya was 100% state owned. The following is an excerpt from Wikipedia's article on the former Central Bank of Libya, The Central Bank of Libya (CBL) is 100% state owned and represents the monetary authority in The Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and enjoys the status of autonomous corporate body. The law establishing the CBL stipulates that the objectives of the central bank shall be to maintain monetary stability in Libya , and to promote the sustained growth of the economy in accordance with the general economic policy of the state. Since the old Central Bank of Libya was state owned, it was essentially under the control of Moammar Gadhafi. But now that Libya is going to be "free", the new Central Bank of Libya will be run by Libyans and solely for the benefit of Libyans, right? Of course it is probably safe to assume that will be the case with the new national oil company as well, isn't it? Over the past couple of years, Moammar Gadhafi had threatened to nationalize the oil industry in Libya and kick western oil companies out of the country, but now that Libya will be "free" the people of Libya will be able to work hand in hand with "big oil" and this will create a better Libya for everyone. Right? Of course oil had absolutely nothing to do with why the U.S. "inva---" (scratch that) "initiated a kinetic humanitarian liberty action" in Libya. When Barack Obama looked straight into the camera and told the American people that the war in Libya is in the "strategic interest" of the United States, surely he was not referring to oil. After all, war for oil was a "Bush thing", right? The Democrats voted for Obama to end wars like this, right? Surely no prominent Democrats will publicly support this war in Libya, right? Surely Barack Obama will end the bombing of Libya if the international community begins to object, right? Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize. He wouldn't deeply upset the other major powers on the globe and bring us closer to World War III, would he? Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has loudly denounced "coalition strikes on columns of Gaddafi's forces" and he believes that the U.S. has badly violated the terms of the UN Security Council resolution, "We consider that intervention by the coalition in what is essentially an internal civil war is not sanctioned by the U.N. Security Council resolution." So to cool off rising tensions with the rest of the world, Obama is going to call off the air strikes, right? Well, considering the fact that Obama has such vast foreign policy experience we should all be able to rest easy knowing that Obama will understand exactly what to do. Meanwhile, the rebels seem to be getting the hang of international trade already. They have even signed an oil deal with Qatar! Rebel "spokesman" Ali Tarhouni has announced that oil exports to Qatar will begin in "less than a week". Who knew that the rag tag group of rebels in Libya were also masters of banking and international trade? We sure do live in a strange world. Tonight, Barack Obama told the American people the following, "Some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The United States of America is different." So now we are going to police all of the atrocities in all of the other countries around the globe? The last time I checked, the government was gunning down protesters in Syria. Is it time to start warming up the Tomahawks? Or do we reserve "humanitarian interventions" only for those nations that have a lot of oil? In fact, atrocities are currently being committed all over Africa and in about a dozen different nations in the Middle East. Should we institute a draft so that we will have enough young men and women to police the world with? We all have to be ready to serve our country, right? The world is becoming a smaller place every day, and you never know where U.S. "strategic interests" are going to be threatened next. The rest of the world understands that we know best, right? Of course the rest of the world can surely see our good intentions in Libya, can't they? Tensions with Russia, China and the rest of the Arab world are certainly going to subside after they all see how selfless our "humanitarian intervention" has been in Libya, don't you think? In all seriousness, we now live in a world where nothing is stable anymore. Wars and revolutions are breaking out all over the globe, unprecedented natural disasters are happening with alarming frequency and the global economy is on the verge of total collapse. By interfering in Libya, we are just making things worse. Gadhafi is certainly a horrible dictator, but this was a fight for the Libyan people to sort out. We promised the rest of the world that we were only going to be setting up a "no fly zone". By violating the terms of the UN Security Council resolution, we have shown other nations that we cannot be trusted and by our actions we have increased tensions all over the globe |
KnowAll:A necessary blow - 'All Is Fair In Love And War' As for GEJ and Projects - Projects dont materialise over night. He has not even been given a year yet. Remember Yar'Adu Slow? |
Shut up! And add some paragraphs to your rant. |
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Maybe he has changed his ways? https://www.nigeriaplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/pastor-buhari1.jpg |
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