Numbers are part of the problem: most Taliban are members of Afghanistan's majority tribe, the Pashtuns.
Rather, it is that such statements are cast as those of the majority "tribe" confronting a hostile other in a sort of war, the language too readily deployed in France.
"Either bodies are going to pile up or we are going to see an oil shock, or both," says an oil-industry security official.The PDP candidate for president, Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern state governor, says that by picking as his running-mate Goodluck Jonathan, from the Delta's majority tribe, the Ijaw, he will be able to tackle the region's problems.
Mr Alamieyeseigha may (or may not) be crooked, but he is also popular with the majority tribe in the Niger Delta, the Ijaw, for his strident calls for an increased share of oil revenues from the central government to the delta states, including his own of Bayelsa.
Households in the village majority tribe were 2.11 times more likely to receive PZQ than households in minority tribes (P =.02).
The vast majority of tribes have not become rich.
"The vast majority of tribes have little to no economic opportunity," said Blake Trueblood, business development director at the national center for American Indian enterprise development.
While many of the Northern Alliance factions, made up ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks and Turkmen, are wary of the majority Pashtun tribes in the south, some of the northern opposition forces, especially in the West, have close ties to southern tribal leaders.
Once a majority of Tribes had voted the same way, voting ended.
They are scorned by the majority Pashtun tribes as enemies and traitors.
