Nigerians lack the resources that can be used against the Boko Haram, not enough trained soldiers, lack of weapons, and technology, whereas the U.S. has plenty of highly trained soldiers, vast weapons, and advanced technology to "crush" terrorists. ... Nigerians have so many natural products such as crude petroleum, crude oil, rubber, cocoa, plants and other products. ... According to the Council on Foreign Relations, the largest proven petroleum and oil reserves in Nigeria have recently come down from 95 percent to 75 percent. Consequently, the dramatic fall in global petroleum and ...

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But with the rise of the oil monarchies in the Middle East, the balance of power shifted, and vast amounts of money has been put into the hands of nations that less than a hundred years ago were still locked in tribal societies. ... Iraq has also persistently pursued the development of weapons of mass destruction, by spending large portions of its oil revenues to import technologies that facilitate the development of these weapons. ... In 1998 Clinton said, " will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. .....

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One way we can attain this is by gaining much needed support from the oil producing countries. ... oil. ... Unbeknownst to most Americans, oil fields dot northern Afghanistan near its border with Turkmenistan. ... Between confirmed and estimated oil reserves, Kazakhstan is destined to become the world's largest oil-producing nation, and will one day dwarf even Saudi Arabia." ... We have sold them American made technology, which includes weapons, intelligence and personnel training to supplement their own war against the Palestinians. ...

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Terrorists use weapons that they purchase, are given by governments that support them, or take from their enemies. ... Thirty-six hours later 4 American oil employees were gunned down in Karachi Pakistan. ... Terrorists know that they will hurt others when they plan an attack using their favorite weapons. ...

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One example is the Yemeni Government issuing a decree in August 1998 implementing severe punishment--including execution--for kidnappers and stepped up enforcement of the law on unlicensed weapons in major cities. ... In Korea, the Middle-East has been a keen interesting region since the oil crisis of 1973. ... The advances and studies of the Middle East, however, have been confined really to the oil-rich countries and the confronted nations with the Israeli struggle. ...

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This was one of the earliest uses of biological agents as a weapon of terrorism. Smallpox has been used on several occasions as a biological weapon. ... According to Dave Williams, components of the World Trade Center bomb included ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, which forms a blasting agent. ...

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As Andrew Fiala states in the book, 'The Just War Myth; The Moral Illusions of War', there is neither a clear, nor direct threat from Iraq to justify going to war with them except exaggerated claims of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and only hints of Iraq's connection to Al-Queda (12). This war is being fought to defend an imperial agenda orchestrated by the Bush administration in what I believe is to control all of the oil in the world. ... In my opinion the criterion of "Right Intention" for this war is has not been met simply because revenge on Afghanistan and Iraq's...

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In the morning of September 21, a massive explosion destroyed a fertiliser plant in Toulouse, killing 29 people and injuring more than 2000. Where the plant had once stood, a 50-meter wide crater had been carved in the ground by the blast. But the blast swept far beyond the factory. Windows were blo...

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The doctrines also include religious education on the use of weapons as part of their training. ... Azumah (2015) observes that since the oil boom of the 70s and 80s, Saudi Arabia gave many scholarships to Wahhabi scholars so as to fund radical mosques in Africa, Asia and the West. ... With plenty of oil resources, the terror groups ultimately find their way into the rest of the world from where they mete out violence on societies with divergent thought. ...

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