re: OT O&G folks . . . anybody done a stint in Nigeria?

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Boko Haram gonna love you tenderly.


They prefer teenage girls.

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They sell the girls. They just kill the boys. Around the same time a number of girls were seized as sex slaves a dormitory full of boys was burned to the ground - killing all of the boys inside.

A probable primary motive for taking the girls wasn't just to have some more sex slaves - although I'm sure that didn't bother anyone in the organization. The primary motivation was probably to attract western media attention and outrage - and most importantly money. Some percentage of whatever money that flowed into the country could be successfully hijacked by the warlords and used for their own purposes.

FWIW, the phrase boko haram means forbidden education - it is about preventing westernization and spreading islamic teaching by whatever means are most effective.