the next 911 is brewing in Nigeria... but don't tell the American People... they don't want to hear that!

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Profile: Nigeria's oil militant: "In November 1998, the IYC issued the 'Kiama Declaration', demanding control of the oil resources from the Niger Delta by the people of the Niger Delta.

There was an immediate crackdown on the body by the military junta that then ruled Nigeria.

Asari became President of the IYC in 2001 and immediately changed the slogan of the body to 'Resource Control and Self Determination By Every Means Necessary', signalling his readiness to do battle with the Nigerian state.

He condemned the 2003 elections, won by President Olusegun Obasanjo, as a fraud in full-page newspaper adverts, and promptly fell out with the governor of Rivers State.

Soft-spoken

Early this year, Asari took to the mangrove swamps of the Niger Delta and built up his now infamous Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force.

He launched a damaging military and propaganda war against the state and federal governments and those he described as their agents, prompting the government to initiate full-scale military operations against him.

Oilfields in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Asari says his people have not gained from the region's oil wealth
Even as he continued to fight against the government, Asari called for the convocation of a Sovereign National Conference to discuss the place of the Ijaw people in the country.

His recent threat to blow up oil facilities in the Niger Delta forced the government to open up negotiations with him"