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On August 19, 2016, the group reportedly blew up two pipelines belonging to NPDC in the Delta State. [71] On August 30, 2016, the group blew up the Ogor-Oteri oil pipeline. [72] On 4 September, the group claimed it had rigged all marked oil and gas facilities with explosives and warned residents living near them to evacuate [73]
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False-color image of the larger Mississippi River Delta 2001 Image of the active delta front before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed much of the delta in 2005. The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States.
On January 13, 1913, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated was founded by twenty-two women at Howard University.Some of the founders were former members of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority who wanted to change the sorority's name, color, symbols and direction.
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit is a 2002 memoir written by Eric L. Haney about his experiences as a founding special forces operator in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment–Delta (also known as Delta Force) the U.S. Army's counterterrorist unit.
The water hyacinth has become one of the most destructive plants to the Delta water way. Within one year it will spread and cover as much as 6,500 square feet (600 m 2) of water space in one growing season. It has become a challenge to the agricultural community to eliminate.
The June 1969 killing of suspected double agent Thai Khac Chuyen, and the attempt to cover it up, led to the arrest in July of seven officers and one non-commissioned officer of the 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) including the new commander, Colonel Robert B. Rheault in what became known as the "Green Beret Affair". [14]
Aerial view of the Mekong River Delta. The Mekong Delta extends south and west from the city of Saigon and covers over 15,000 square miles (40,000 square kilometers). During the Vietnam War the strategic importance of the Delta was undeniable as it housed almost 8 million civilians and land movement was extremely restricted a majority of the year during the wet season.