British Flaunt Intention to Cut Off Africa From Four Powers

The British empire has unleashed a series of operations against Africa's biggest oil producer, Nigeria, to make it clear to the Four Powers that any collaboration with African nations, involving exchange of raw materials for development, is not going to be allowed. Two London Financial Times articles on Nigeria today confirm the point.

Nigeria, Sudan (an oil producer, and already a collaborator with China) and Guinea (which has enormous bauxite and iron ore reserves, and which has been offered a $7 billion deal by China), are all being targetted for conflict, chaos, and government collapse. Nigeria is the fifth-largest exporter of oil to the United States, with at least 35 billion barrels of oil reserves, and 100 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

Nigeria is now being hit with three destabilizing operations in quick succession, which could throw Africa's most populous nation, as threatened by today's London Times, into its worst political crisis since the end of military rule in 1998: 1) violence targetting its oil infrastructure; 2) demonstrations by thousands, manipulated by British fabian networks, because of the absence from the country of President Umaru Yar'Adua, who has been in Saudi Arabia for seven weeks for treatment of a heart condition; 3) the oil deals between Nigeria and the United States are under threat following the ongoing diplomatic tussle between the two countries over U.S. listing of Nigeria as a terror nation because of the underwear bomber, according to the Daily Independent of Lagos, today.

Re: 1. An attack on a Chevron pipeline Jan. 8 forced a cut in production. The attack could threaten an amnesty deal for militants that bound the government and Nigerian militants in a shaky four-month cease-fire in October, after which Western oil companies, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil Corp., and Royal Dutch Shell, were able to increase Nigeria's oil production to almost 2 million barrels a day from about 1.6 million barrels. Because of violence in the oilfields on the mainland, Royal Dutch Shell announced recently that it is seeking buyers for 10 of its Nigerian onshore oil producing assets. China National Petroleum Corp. has been reported as a possible buyer.

Re: 2. A high-court judge ruled today in Nigeria that the Vice President can make executive decisions, which is what an FT editorial was calling for today. Since the VP is from the South, and the country's politics tend to be dominated by the North (a relic of British colonialism), the move would be a further destabilizing factor. President Yar'Adua chose today, prior to the ruling, to break his 50-day silence by calling BBC, and not Nigeria, to tell them that he was recovering.

Re: 3. The Nigeria National Assembly has threatened a break of diplomatic ties with the USA, if it did not, within one week, remove its name from the terror list, according to a Nigerian paper. Oil deals between the two countries are under threat, which would introduce further chaos.

China and India have been courting oil and infrastructure deals with Nigeria. British-orchestrated chaos would sabotage these deals.