The USA is sending troops and the President of Nigeria is cheerleading from Paris. Now, President Obama can be blamed for the deaths of 270 girls while Johnathan won't negotiate with terrorists. The prisoners Boko Haram wants freed were people rounded up. They are not criminals. I don't think they have even had a trial.
West African presidents meet at the invitation of President Francois Hollande of France.
May 21, 2014
Eighty American (click here) service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
May 21, 2014
Eighty American (click here) service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.
The White House formally
notified Congress that the troops are in the neighboring African nation
of Chad. The mission includes 40 people to operate and maintain the
Predator drone and 40 more to protect the force.
“These personnel will
support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,”
President Barack Obama said in a letter. “The force will remain in Chad
until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer
required."...
It isn't going to look very presidential when the hostages are dead and the prisoners are found to be lacking a trial and innocent of any charges. How do elected officials become dictators? This is witness to that.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Patience arrive for a
dinner with the French President and other dignitaries in Paris in
December. The president's wife said this week she didn't believe the
girls were abducted and that it was a plot to give her husband's
government a bad name. (Reuters)
...President Jonathan, (click here) who earlier this year thumbed his nose at the West
by promulgating one of the harshest anti-gay laws in the world, has now
apparently broken down and asked the U.S., Britain, France and China for
help, according to the latest reports....
Do something for the USA always means 'send troops quick.' It never means examine intelligence to find out the best way to do something.
JOS, Nigeria occurred because the president backed out of his negotiations. Now, Boko Haram has declared war or jihad or whatever they do. Welcome to Iraq. The Americans are there and I'll guarantee the militants in Libya and Somalia and Mali and Yemen are already on their way. It will be another Mogadishu.
By AHMED SAKA and MICHELLE FAUL
The Associated Press
JOS, Nigeria -- Boko Haram (click here) assaulted three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 48 people, residents said Wednesday, hours after twin bombings claimed at least 118 lives in this central city in an attack the government blamed on the Islamic extremists.
One of the villages attacked between Tuesday night and early Wednesday is near the town of Chibok, where more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped last month by Boko Haram, according to residents and a state intelligence agent who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.
Apagu Maidaga of Alagarno said residents of that village hid in the bush and watched while the extremists set ablaze their homes of thatch-roofed mud huts....
This is wetting the whistle of John McCain and the Neocons that will demand more and more and more involvement, especially when USA troops are slaughtered. This ain't about girls no more it is about the burgeoning demand of the USA right wing for increased military spending. Girls were the excuse, now war is the answer.
Go ahead, Barak, be a bipartisan hero!
Retreating to higher ground in the face of unknown odds is a good call by a Commander and Chief, by the way. Reassess, sir. The USA was handed another bad hand by an absent Nigerian President.
It isn't going to look very presidential when the hostages are dead and the prisoners are found to be lacking a trial and innocent of any charges. How do elected officials become dictators? This is witness to that.
Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Patience arrive for a
dinner with the French President and other dignitaries in Paris in
December. The president's wife said this week she didn't believe the
girls were abducted and that it was a plot to give her husband's
government a bad name. (Reuters)
CBC News
Posted: May 08, 2014 10:03 AM ET
Last Updated: May 08, 2014 10:52 PM ET
Do something for the USA always means 'send troops quick.' It never means examine intelligence to find out the best way to do something.
JOS, Nigeria occurred because the president backed out of his negotiations. Now, Boko Haram has declared war or jihad or whatever they do. Welcome to Iraq. The Americans are there and I'll guarantee the militants in Libya and Somalia and Mali and Yemen are already on their way. It will be another Mogadishu.
By AHMED SAKA and MICHELLE FAUL
The Associated Press
JOS, Nigeria -- Boko Haram (click here) assaulted three villages in northern Nigeria, killing 48 people, residents said Wednesday, hours after twin bombings claimed at least 118 lives in this central city in an attack the government blamed on the Islamic extremists.
One of the villages attacked between Tuesday night and early Wednesday is near the town of Chibok, where more than 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped last month by Boko Haram, according to residents and a state intelligence agent who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters.
Apagu Maidaga of Alagarno said residents of that village hid in the bush and watched while the extremists set ablaze their homes of thatch-roofed mud huts....
This is wetting the whistle of John McCain and the Neocons that will demand more and more and more involvement, especially when USA troops are slaughtered. This ain't about girls no more it is about the burgeoning demand of the USA right wing for increased military spending. Girls were the excuse, now war is the answer.
Go ahead, Barak, be a bipartisan hero!
Retreating to higher ground in the face of unknown odds is a good call by a Commander and Chief, by the way. Reassess, sir. The USA was handed another bad hand by an absent Nigerian President.
