Despite last year’s handover of the Bakassi Peninsular to Cameroun by The Hague following a long drawn-out legal battle, the last10 months have witnessed an endless cat and mouse chase in the peninsular between the militants and gendarmes. The media is rife with stories of nightfall and pre-dawn attacks by both parties on hapless civilian border communities; with both sides trading blame. However Nigeria and Cameroun have for decades been at daggers drawn; almost as far back as when Ijaw fishermen began their sojourn in search of the Golden Fleece in Malabo. The bulk this time however undoubtedly stops on the Nigerian side; its porous waterway security has not only been breached by oil pirates and buccaneers but ominously now by international terrorists reared on home turf, http://connectafrica./2009/02/18/nigerias-international-terrorists/