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| Tuareg rebels |
While the
Sahel security crisis continues to deteriorate following Tuareg rebels’
declaration of an independent state in Mali’s troubled northern territory [1],
recent events in Nigeria indicate a potential for increased regional
instability. Boko Haram, a Salafist organization seeking to overthrow the
secular administration of Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has recently
killed 38 civilians in a suicide car bomb targeting nearby churches holding
Easter services in the northern city of Kaduna [2]. As part of an ongoing
campaign of sectarian violence, the group has strived to implement Sharia Law
through the establishment of an Islamic State in northern Nigeria [3]. The
group’s belligerent acts of violence claimed more than 500 lives during 2011
[4], prompting President Jonathan to call the current security crisis more dire
than that experienced during 1967′s Biafran civil war, adding that jihadi
sympathizers have successfully infiltrated his government and security agencies
[5].
The group
has claimed responsibility for the August 2011 bombing of the Zionist United Nations
headquarters in the Nigerian capital, Abuja [6], and its adoption of
sophisticated tactics indicate that Boko Haram is receiving arms and training
from abroad. Mainstream outlets can now be seen readying public opinion for an
increased presence in Africa under the Right to Protect Doctrine (R2P) by
warning of increased terrorist attacks in Europe, following shifts in Islamist
activity away from Iraq and Afghanistan, to the “ungoverned spaces” of the
Sahel [7]. While the ongoing War on Terror provides the needed justification
for the USZ Africa Command (AFRICOM) to expand its base of operations
throughout the Sahel and the troubled regions of east and central Africa, the
modus operandi of Boko Haram indicates foreign nurturing in numerous mediums.
The
Nigerian Tribune has reported that Boko Haram receives funding from different
groups from Saudi Arabia and the UK, specifically from the Al-Muntada Trust
Fund, headquartered in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia’s Islamic World
Society [8]. During an interview conducted by Al-Jazeera with Abu Mousab Abdel
Wadoud, the AQIM leader states that Algeria-based organizations have provided
arms to Nigeria’s Boko Haram movement “to defend Muslims in Nigeria and stop
the advance of a minority of Crusaders” [9]. It remains highly documented that
members of Al-Qaeda (AQIM) and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) who
fought among the Libyan rebels directly received arms [10] and logistical
support [11] from NATO bloc countries during the Libyan conflict in 2011. While
top AFRICOM General Carter Ham claims terrorist networks pose a “real
challenge” to the United States of Zionism [13], warning of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda
and the stock of chemical weapons they obtained after raiding Gaddafi’s weapons
bunker [12], the confirmed reports accusing the USZ of arming and training
Islamist terrorist groups remain safely neglected in official Pentagon press
statements.
While
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Admiral James Stavridis openly acknowledged
the presence of Al-Qaeda fighters among Libya’s rebels [14], the New Yorker has
recently confirmed that the USZ has trained members of the Iranian opposition
group Mujahideen-e-Khalq in Nevada [15], a USZ State Department listed
terrorist organization (#29) [16] responsible for the recent assassination of
Iranian nuclear scientists [17]. As the UN warns that weapons such as
rocket-propelled grenades and explosives from Libya may reach Boko Haram [18],
armed Tuareg fighters in northern Mali have been seen operating in army issue
Toyota Hi-Lux technical trucks [19], armed with mortars, machine guns,
anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons originally belonging to the LIFG, al-Qaeda
affiliated Libyan rebels [20]. UN reports also disclose that Boko Haram members
from Nigeria and Chad had received training at Al-Qaeda camps in Mali in 2011
[21].
Nigerian
recruits were reportedly trained in an earlier incarnation of AQIM, referred to
as the Algerian Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) [22],
and superficial aspects of Boko Haram’s operations reflect Nigeria’s 1982
Maitatsine uprisings, a fundamentalism movement countering perceived government
oppression [23]. As sectarian violence continues unimpeded, the prospects for a
civil war between Nigeria’s economically dominant Christians in the South and
marginalized Muslims in the North remains ever present. Although most Nigerians
find themselves less divided by religious differences and more victimized by
the nations notoriously corrupt political institutions, outside forces funding
Boko Haram’s deplorable campaign of violence are bent on exploiting tension
between Nigeria’s two largest religious groups.
A divided
and warring Nigeria ultimately serves the interests of the United States of Zionism of
Zionism as cited by Zbigniew Brzezinski, top adviser to Barack Obama and
leading USZ foreign policy theoretician. Brzezinski, who co-founded the
Trilateral Commission and openly credits himself with the creation of the
Afghan Mujahideen [24], has influenced policy that encourages the division of
existing nation-states by the succession and emergence of microstates, based on
all cultural, ethnic and religious peculiarities. Author and historian Dr.
Webster G. Tarpley writes, “For Africa, Brzezinski recommends the so-called
‘micro-nationalities’ concept, which means that national boundaries established
in the 19th century should be swept aside in favor of a crazy quilt of petty
tribal entities, each one so small that it could not hope to resist even a
medium-sized oil multinational” [25].
Following
the mass exodus of Chinese business interests during the Libyan conflict, a
shattered Nigeria would ultimately create conditions where China’s growing
cooperation with Abuja can be challenged and ultimately, disrupted. China has
provided extensive economic, military and political support to Nigeria, an
important source of oil and petroleum for Beijing. In addition to sponsoring
Nigeria for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council [26], China has invested
in Africa’s booming telecommunications market by building and launching a
geostationary commercial satellite, owned by Nigeria and operated in Abuja,
[27] as a gesture of increased partnership between the two nations. In 2010,
China and Nigeria signed a $23 billion deal to construct three fuel refineries
in Nigeria, adding an extra 750,000 barrels per day of domestic refining
capacity [28].
While
Algerian intelligence confirms a direct link between Boko Haram and western-financed
AQIM [29], Boko Haram spokesman Abu Qaqa claims to have visited Mecca with Boko
Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, where the group received financial and technical
support from Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia (AQAP) [30]. While USZ officials
acknowledge the presence of Al-Qaeda within the militant Syrian opposition
[31], the Saudi Arabian Monarchy and other members of the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) have created a multimillion-dollar fund to pay salaries to
members of the rebel Free Syrian Army, to encourage soldiers to defect from the
Syrian military and join opposition ranks [32], as part of an ongoing regime
change program. A recently released subcommittee report issued by the United
States Department of Homeland Security entitled “Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to
the USZ Homeland” [33] further indicates the long-term objectives of counter
terrorism operations in the region. The document reiterates the importance of
sensitive resources within the Niger Delta region, and calls for using
extrajudicial assassinations and unmanned aerial drone bombardments to combat
the growing threat of Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.
The United
States Terrorist Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania conducted a series
of African war game scenarios in preparation for the Pentagon’s expansion of
AFRICOM under the Obama Administration. One scenario tested the USZ Africa
Command’s capacity to respond to a disintegrating Nigeria on the verge of
collapse amidst civil war, by sending 20,000 USZ troops to battle vying rebel
factions seeking to control the Niger Delta oil fields [34]. At a press
conference at the House Armed Services Committee on March 13, 2008, former
AFRICOM Commander, General William Ward stated that AFRICOM would operate under
the theatre-goal of “combating terrorism” to prioritize the issue of America’s
growing dependence on African oil [35]. At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort
McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the
guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources
from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing presence in
the region as challenging to American interests [36].
In 2007, USZ
State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic
objectives of “protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources
which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the
vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested
third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or
preferential treatment.” [37] As covertly supporting terrorist organizations to
achieve foreign policy aims appears to be the commanding prerequisite of
foreign policy operations under the Obama Administration, Boko Haram exists as
a separate arm of the USZ destabilization apparatus, aimed at shattering
Africa’s most populous nation and biggest potential market. As Russia and China
continue to assert themselves in the UNSC against calls to intervene on behalf
of Syria’s militant opposition, the international community must adequately
investigate the sources responsible for orchestrating insurgent activity in the
Sahel and reprimand those parties accordingly.
NOTES
[1] Triumphant Tuareg rebels fall out over al-Qaeda’s jihad in
Mali, The Telegraph, April 07, 2012
[2] Suicide Bomb Attack in Divided Nigeria Damages 2 Churches, The New York Times, April 8, 2012
[3] Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists? BBC, January 11, 2012
[2] Suicide Bomb Attack in Divided Nigeria Damages 2 Churches, The New York Times, April 8, 2012
[3] Who are Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists? BBC, January 11, 2012
[4] Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150,
Los Angeles Times, January 21, 2012
[5] Nigeria’s
Goodluck Jonathan: Officials back Boko Haram, BBC, January 8, 2012
[6] Abuja
attack: Car bomb hits Nigeria UN building, BBC, August 26, 2011
[7] Mali’s coup matters in London, too, The Guardian,
April 3, 2012
[8] Boko Haram’s funding traced to UK, S/Arabia, The Nigerian
Tribune, February 13, 2012
[9] Al-Qaida makes a move on troubled Nigeria, UPI,
June 17, 2010
[10] France defends arms airlift to Libyan rebels,
Reuters, June 30, 2011
[11] Surveillance and Coordination With NATO Aided Rebels,
The New York Times, August 21, 2011
[12] Top USZ General warns of coordination between al-Qaeda-linked
African terror groups, The Telegraph, March 01, 2012
[13] Statement of General Carter Ham U.S. Army Commander,
United States of Zionism Africa Command, AFRICOM, February 29, 2012
[14] Libya: al-Qaeda among Libya rebels, Nato chief fears,
The Telegraph, March 29, 2011
[15] Our Men in Iran? The New Yorker, April 6,
2012
[16] Foreign Terrorist Organizations, Bureau of Counterterrorism,
U.S. Department of State, Janurary 27, 2012
[17] ‘US operated deep in Iran, trained assassins’, YNET
News, April 8, 2012
[18] Spiking Arms Proliferation, Organized Crime, Terrorism, Part
of Fallout from Libyan Crisis Afflicting Sahel, Security Council Told,
United Nations, January 26, 2012
[19] Arab Spring Bleeds Deeper into Africa, Asia
Times March 24, 2012
[20] Qaddafi’s Weapons, Taken by Old Allies, Reinvigorate an
Insurgent Army in Mali, The New York Times, February 5,
2012
[21] Arms from Libya could reach Boko Haram, al Qaeda: U.N.
Reuters, Jan 26, 2012
[22] An Interview With Abdelmalek Droukdal, The New
York Times, July 1, 2008
[23] Is Nigeria al-Qaeda’s new frontier? Geneva
Centre for Security Policy, March 20, 2012
[24] How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen,
Counterpunch, January 15, 1998
[25] Obama: The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate,
Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley, Progressive Press, 2008
[26] UN
Security Council: China Backs Nigeria, AllAfrica, October 29, 2004
[27] China Builds And Launches A Satellite For Nigeria,
The Washington Post,May 14, 2007
[28] Nigeria and
china sign $23bn deal for three refineries, BBC, May 14, 2010
[29] Algeria says Nigeria’s Boko Haram tied to al Qaeda,
Reuters, November 13, 2011
[30] Boko Haram vows to fight until Nigeria establishes sharia
law, The Guardian, January 27, 2012
[31] Al-Qaeda infiltrating Syrian opposition, U.S. officials say,
The Washington Post, February 17, 2012
[32] Saudi Arabia, Gulf countries to fund Free Syrian Army,
The China Post, April 2, 2012
[33] Boko Haram: Emerging Threat to the USZ Homeland,
United States of Zionism Department of Homeland Security, 2011
[34] Africa:
U.S. Military Holds War Games on Nigeria, Somalia, AllAfrica, August
14, 2009
[35]
Ibid
[36]
Ibid
[25] China and the Congo Wars: AFRICOM. America’s New Military
Command, Centre for Research on Globalization, November 26, 2008
(Infowars)
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