to nigeria of the day considering the threats that exist is a nigerian high risk the bordering the mehdi militia some sand. and espionage and boats intruding in the maritime exclusion zone. as in this case all night. are you armed here on board since it doesn't i'm not on. if i don't there are no weapons on board even you don't have one no making your room they should have some guys climb up the chain and they have weapons machine guns for example what do you do but i don't see the other measures that would be taking place measures that have been designed for that situation. there are no guns on board and the situation is under control i repeat the situation is under control. i mean ari is a small fishing village situated on the island of bonny right at the mouth of the niger delta. and it's here that the gas sent from the f.p.s. so platform arrives by an undersea pipeline. if it weren't for the plant ameri ari would be a typical little village. with hearts and shacks with palm leaf roofs streets of san music coming from portable radios open air stores kids running everywhere and a socce

that's what that's all why he's being victimized this is the quiet north london community center where mehdi hashi worked back in two thousand and nine it was then that he and four of his muslim colleagues say that they were approached and harassed separately by security agents it's came that m i five threatened to label them islamic extremists if they refused to become informants for british intelligence campaign is raising awareness for maddie's plight and said that the constants threats made by british intelligence made life so unbearable that he left the u.k. they were trying to offer him a job saying that you know effectively you're an extremist we know you're the only way out of this is for you to come and work for us to come and help us these will become tactics that were being used because it's all somali origin this is a purely racist profiling policy of the british government and particular security agencies marty had been living in somalia for the past two years taking care of his grandmother and raising a son of his own but several months ago he disappeared leaving his family in

civil war in lebanon we had hezbollah it created a proxy in iraq when there was an instability and mehdi and i think if there would be some sort of instability decentralized garman in syria iran definitely would make a proxy with the alloy to inside this area and i think that's their war scenario that we can see but again back to your question today about what would happen if it goes i think first we have we know that these regime has lost its legitimacy and its credibility so there is no other everybody in the serious keep that in mind gentlemen not everybody in syria feels that way go ahead. all i can argue the majority of the people they want a more democratic system of governance i mean either they're afraid of saying their only we're going to there's a civil war it's pretty hard to figure out what public opinion is mark you said you want to jump in and mention something about israel go right ahead. well i think mostly to point that israel has been rather quiet on this is quite revealing because after all the regime hasn't been a big problem for the israelis not since one thousand ni

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