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Dear Frederic did you read on nettime that....
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anna


Chief Bola Ige.  On December 23, 2001, Chief Bola Ige, the Minister
   of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria, was assassinated in the
   bedroom of his home in Ibadan by unknown gunmen. Ige was a leader of
   the Yorubas, a largely Christian ethnic group that has championed the
   cause of southern Nigerian Christian tribes like the Igbo, Ogoni, and
   Yoruba that maintain grievances against exploitative Western oil
   companies that have spoiled their lands with pollution and pocketed
   most of the oil revenues for themselves and corrupt Nigerian
   politicians. Ige was the presidential candidate of the pan-Yoruba
   Alliance for Democracy but lost to the current President Olusegum
   Obasanjo, a former general who is thought by many Nigerians to be in
   the hip pocket of western oil companies, including Chevron and
   ExxonMobil. A lucrative CIA and Pentagon front operation, the private
   military contractor MPRI, has been training special units of the
   Nigerian armed forces. These forces have been active in putting down
   anti-oil industry protests by Igbo, Ogoni, and Yoruba tribal peoples
   along the Nigerian coast. Michael J. Boskin, the Chairman of the
   Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush I is a member of the
   Exxon Mobil board, while current National Security Adviser
   Condolleezza Rice served on the board of Chevron. Currently serving on
   Chevron's Board is Bush I trade representative Carla Hills and former
   Louisiana Senator Johnston, who also serves on the board of Freeport
   McMoran.
   In all likelihood all of these assassinations were likely known to the
   CIA and allowed to take place unhindered. The killings all directly
   benefitted the interests of the US military-industrial complex that
   President Eisenhower so poignantly warned us about some 40 years ago.
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