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[knighthawk]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1475352,00.html

Nigeria wants high tech nukes

Lagos - Nigeria is in talks with North Korea's isolated regime about acquiring advanced missile technology for the west African country's armed forces, a senior official said on Wednesday.

Nigeria's Vice President Atiku Abubakar met his North Korean counterpart Yang Hyong Sop on Tuesday in the Nigerian capital Abuja for wide-ranging bilateral talks, Atiku's office announced.

Among items on the agenda was Nigeria's hopes of obtaining missile technology and the know-how to set up a "multi-purpose foundry" for civilian use from North Korea, Atiku's spokesperson Onu Kaba Ojo said.

Following the meeting, Atiku's office released a statement saying: "He assured that government would continue to co-operate with the Korean government in the defence sector, an area in which both Nigeria and North Korea have co-operated over the years."

Ojo said that the defence talks went on behind closed doors, but that according to a note prepared for the Nigerian leader, "The area they discussed was missile technology and a multi-purpose foundry."

News that Nigeria is seeking military ties with Pyongyang may anger North Korea's arch-foe Washington, which sees President Olusegun Obasanjo's administration as a friend in Africa.

The White House is locked in a diplomatic stand-off with Kim Jong-Il's totalitarian regime over its bid to build a nuclear arsenal and its export of missile technology to regimes considered unfriendly by Washington.

[lilylangtree]

Nigeria? Isn't that one of the countries that Quaddafi owns?

[AngrySpud]

So this explains all those Nigerian-based email money scams: Money for Missles

[sheik yerbouty]

Nigeria is fast becoming a jihadist state. They have already started persecuting non Muslims, of whom most are Christians.

[NormsRevenge]

Bump

[gunnedah]

Another Clinton and Democrats in Congress legacy!
With citizens like these and about half of the voting public stupid, America is in for some dark days I am affraid!

[shaggy eel]

Nigeria , with 126 million people, is a political and military heavyweight on the continent and a frequent recipient of U.S. military and law enforcement assistance.

,,, right.