Who else has oil but no defenses? Ah, the tribes of Nigeria

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Nigeria: The Next Quagmire?

By G. Pascal Zachary, AlterNet. Posted March 14, 2006.


Smoke and flames billow from a burning oil pipeline in Nigeria after a suspected dynamite attack. Credit: Austin Ekiende/Reuters Africa's humanitarian needs -- today the pillage in Darfur, yesterday the famine in Niger -- dominate the headlines. Human suffering, from hunger to rape, also dominates the limited attention that Americans have for hearing about problems in the most troubled part of the world. Now that may be changing as an armed insurgency in oil-rich Nigeria threatens oil exports to the U.S. and raises the possibility that U.S. troops will dig into African soil in order to protect a resource deemed vital to American interests.

In short, Nigeria might be the next Iraq.
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