Fighting the world’s oldest terrorists
If you believe that terrorists come dressed in ankle length trousers, bulbous shirts and long beards or that they hate the Roman alphabet and adore the Arabic calligraphy, you may pass them on the way without knowing; well except for their siren usually silent at day but loud at night. The world’s oldest terrorists come […]
If you believe that terrorists come dressed in ankle length trousers, bulbous shirts and long beards or that they hate the Roman alphabet and adore the Arabic calligraphy, you may pass them on the way without knowing; well except for their siren usually silent at day but loud at night. The world’s oldest terrorists come in different shapes and form, call them the flying devil. If you ever get into bed with one, your sleep is ruined.
Without any help, they defeated the army of Britain before it lost Great from its name and tore apart soldiers of other European nations stopping them dead on their tracks. Wherever you see an apartheid cemetery in Africa reserved for ‘whites only’, more often than not, those bones are the victims of these terrorists. The flag independence that Africa enjoys today is as a result of the impact of these terrorists, they and not the so-called nationalists forced the Europeans to retreat.
Americans are known to have flown bomb dropping drones across the mountains of Tora Bora missing their targets and causing occasional human collateral damage. These relentless drones hardly miss their target. and do not cost much to maintain, no fuels are needed for their tanks. They simply fly in, locate their targets, deposit their lethal dose and take off, very often without much casualties.
They have beautiful round heads equipped with two pincers, for a neck they have thorax connected to an abdomen you wouldn’t identify as lethal weapons. Their fuel is the human blood; they kill approximately 3,000 African children every day. Yes, they are called the mosquito. These cannibals fly around the continent, attacking every humans and leaving behind tales of sorrow, tears and blood. Like the African politician you hear their sirens, you try to dodge them but they are faster and cunning to cause lethal damage.
Like the corrupt politician, when they land on you, your nerves send a quick messages to the brain impulsively forcing your hands to make aimless sways. The mosquito has developed its own natural immunity against every effort by man to prevent it depositing its lethal injection. From the pit of hell, the mosquito has armed itself against any arsenal of man against its victims. Its casualties mostly children, now known to target their mothers and to despatch the aged to their untimely graves.
The impact of the mosquito on Africa is worse than the combined efforts of Boko Haram, al-Shabab and al-Qaeda in the Maghreb put together. It is perhaps the reason the man fleeing Damaturu announced he had three wives and ten children to evacuate. If he did not litter, how was he sure that he would have a survivor?
Politicians know that casualty figures tend to scare us so they save us the panic by refusing to tell us how much of the chunk of money escaping their bottomless pockets land on mosquito related diseases. No Crusade or Jihad has ever succeeded against the mosquito. Only those whose jeeps or new houses are from proceeds of mosquito related contracts are happy with the status quo, but even they and their relatives are not guaranteed immunity. They may spend a substantial chunk of their ill-gotten gains on mosquito induced funerals.
After years of ravaging the black continent, the mosquito has finally landed in America. Unlike in Africa where it brings the malaria, in America it injects its victims with the West Nile virus. This is why I say these terrorists may have bitten more than they can chew, because it has also shown up in Canada. For all you care, Angela Merkels’ plane may have carried a few and it did, it is only time before it spreads its wings across Europe. There may soon be forces allied against the winged terrorist.
The West Nile virus brings symptoms similar to malaria – fever and general body weakness, but it does more, in the elderly, it causes West Nile encephalitis. That is a big word for brain damage often resulting in coma and subsequently death. The West Nile Virus got its name because it was discovered in 1937 in Uganda, that may sound familiar like the HIV virus originating in African monkeys. It is said to incubate in birds. Mosquitoes bite the birds and ingest the virus which they then transmit to man.
Its invasion of America happened because of the worst drought to hit them in decades. That may sound familiar to Africans south of the Sahara. Like Boko Haram, al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab, the mosquito is hitting American headlines like Osama bin Ladin saying, catch me if you can. America has thrown environmental caution to the winds and is spraying its known abodes with insecticides. If it succeeds, maybe it would have some left to loan to Africa as a benevolent nation and help dead with the world’s oldest known terrorist.