No genius I did not blame Bush for inspiring Boko Haram. But at least you did not deny that from all appearances they have been heartily welcomed in Muslim areas as has ISIS. That is more than can be said for your hero.
Boko Haram declares 'Islamic state' in northern Nigeria
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No genius I did not blame Bush for inspiring Boko Haram. But at least you did not deny that from all appearances they have been heartily welcomed in Muslim areas as has ISIS. That is more than can be said for your hero.
Never said you did. Your reading comp skills suck for somebody who's been to law school. I said you jammed your Bush hatred into threads where it is utterly irrelevant.
Yep, ISIS and Boko Haram are universally loved. You're as nuts as darkbeaver.
You sounds like Marcia Clark did in the court room during the OJ case - full of emotion & equally full of sh1t.
Worse than who's, The Brits have Sherlock on a dash of heroin and he becomes the smartest fuker of the decade so the first thing they do is make the stuff illegal except for the ones inbreeding and that barely keeps them saner than a ruly mob. I don't want to play with them anymore.
Your hero remains untouchable in your twisted mind but I don't see him walking the streets of Baghdad unlike Clinton who walked the streets of Rwanda without protective escort.
Clinton in Rwanda and not one Secret Service agent in sight:
Why... because there are only black people in the picture? There are no black Secret Service Agents assigned to the president?
Sounds kind of racist. Sounds kind of stupid as well because all Presidents and former Presidents have a Secret Service detail. Everyone knows that... even most libtards know that.
Let's see Clinton do that in Baghdad!
FAIL!
At any rate... here you go.
Why... because there are only black people in the picture? There are no black Secret Service Agents assigned to the president?
Sounds kind of racist. Sounds kind of stupid as well because all Presidents and former Presidents have a Secret Service detail. Everyone knows that... even most libtards know that.
Let's see Clinton do that in Baghdad!
FAIL!
At any rate... here you go.
So How's That Hope And Hashtag Thingy Been Working For Ya?
#BringBackOurGuns
#BringBackOurGuns
Boko Haram as been quick to exploit the army's low morale. After forcing government troops out of several towns and holding these areas for weeks at a time, militant leader Abubakar Shekau released a video proclaiming the establishment of a new caliphate in Nigeria's northeast.
Sahara Reporters has translated parts of the video. Shekau praises his forces for their military victories and refutes the authority of the Nigerian state. "We are in an Islamic caliphate," he boasts. "We have nothing to do with Nigeria. We don't believe in this name."
Shekau's video includes footage of fleeing Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram fighters sporting heavy weapons and armored personnel carriers.
So How's That Hope And Hashtag Thingy Been Working For Ya? - Small Dead Animals
Sahara Reporters has translated parts of the video. Shekau praises his forces for their military victories and refutes the authority of the Nigerian state. "We are in an Islamic caliphate," he boasts. "We have nothing to do with Nigeria. We don't believe in this name."
Shekau's video includes footage of fleeing Nigerian soldiers and Boko Haram fighters sporting heavy weapons and armored personnel carriers.
So How's That Hope And Hashtag Thingy Been Working For Ya? - Small Dead Animals
Nigeria sends in warplanes against Boko Haram in northeast
Nigeria sends in warplanes against Boko Haram in northeast | Reuters
Nigerian warplanes are carrying out air strikes against Boko Haram militant bases in northeast Borno state, a senior official said on Friday, in a government counter-attack against the group's apparent drive to create an Islamist enclave.
The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters Nigeria's military was battling Boko Haram fighters at Bama, 70 km (45 miles) southeast of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.
Air strikes have been carried out "on all the Boko Haram bases", the official said, adding this reflected President Goodluck Jonathan's order for a "fully-fledged war" against the group which has waged a bloody insurgency since 2009.
Military spokesmen have denied reports Bama was overrun by heavily armed militants earlier this week after they attacked it with captured military vehicles and pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns, all part of a growing Boko Haram arsenal.
"Bama today is the center of the military battle with the terrorists ... Boko Haram is being repelled by the Nigerian troops as we are talking now," the government official said, without giving details of the operations or casualties.
Nigeria's air force and defense headquarters did not respond to requests for comment and it was not immediately possible to obtain independent confirmation of the fighting.
The battle over Bama, and Boko Haram's storming of towns and villages to the north, east and south of Maiduguri in recent weeks, has raised fears of an attack on the Borno state capital, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee.
"Even today, we can see so many people leaving ... the buses are going out plenty now," Musa Sumail, a human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence in the northeast, told Reuters. He said he had seen at least one or two Nigerian government fighter jets in the skies above Maiduguri.
Boko Haram, whose leader Abubakar Shekau last month declared a "Muslim territory" in the northeast after capturing the town of Gwoza on the Cameroon border, is believed to be trying to mimic the example of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq which announced the creation of a separate caliphate there.
Jonathan's government, which faces an election in February, has come under sharpening public criticism for its apparent inability to check Boko Haram's five-year insurgency, which has ravaged the poor northeast corner of Africa's biggest economy.
The group has also claimed shootings and bombings across the north and, more sporadically, in the federal capital Abuja and even in the southern commercial hub Lagos. The attacks have not reached the southern oilfields of Africa's No. 1 crude producer.
"REALITY CHECK"
The United States is among several western allies helping Nigeria's military with training and intelligence support. This was stepped up following international outrage over Boko Haram's brazen abduction in mid-April of more than 200 teenage schoolgirls in the northeast. The girls are still missing.
In a speech to a security meeting in Abuja on Thursday, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said Bama's "apparent capture" by Boko Haram and the threat of an assault on Maiduguri was a "sober reality check" for Nigeria and its allies.
"We are past time for denial and pride," Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, adding that Shekau's announcement of an IS-style "caliphate" showed how much the Nigerian security situation had worsened.
U.S. officials say more extensive security cooperation has been hampered by persistent allegations of human rights abuses leveled against Nigeria's army, which it denies, and Nigeria's sensitivity about outside meddling in its affairs.
"The reputation of Nigeria's military is at stake," Thomas-Greenfield said, pledging U.S support for a border security initiative involving Nigeria's neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger which will try to prevent Boko Haram from extending its control over these remote frontier zones of the lower Sahel.
The Sunni jihadist movement, whose name means "western education is forbidden", has killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009. Counter-terrorism experts say links exist between it and other Islamist groups, such as al Qaeda's North African franchise and Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, but there has been little evidence so far of extensive cooperation.
In Nigeria's February polls, southerner Jonathan is expected to seek re-election. Many believe political tensions stemming from the historic rivalry between Nigeria's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south is also stoking the violence.
Nigeria fights back - as I've been saying on other threads, there is no need for USA military intervention. All it takes is for these governments to stand up and do their own fighting just like Egypt did.
Nigeria sends in warplanes against Boko Haram in northeast | Reuters
Nigerian warplanes are carrying out air strikes against Boko Haram militant bases in northeast Borno state, a senior official said on Friday, in a government counter-attack against the group's apparent drive to create an Islamist enclave.
The official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters Nigeria's military was battling Boko Haram fighters at Bama, 70 km (45 miles) southeast of the Borno state capital Maiduguri.
Air strikes have been carried out "on all the Boko Haram bases", the official said, adding this reflected President Goodluck Jonathan's order for a "fully-fledged war" against the group which has waged a bloody insurgency since 2009.
Military spokesmen have denied reports Bama was overrun by heavily armed militants earlier this week after they attacked it with captured military vehicles and pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns, all part of a growing Boko Haram arsenal.
"Bama today is the center of the military battle with the terrorists ... Boko Haram is being repelled by the Nigerian troops as we are talking now," the government official said, without giving details of the operations or casualties.
Nigeria's air force and defense headquarters did not respond to requests for comment and it was not immediately possible to obtain independent confirmation of the fighting.
The battle over Bama, and Boko Haram's storming of towns and villages to the north, east and south of Maiduguri in recent weeks, has raised fears of an attack on the Borno state capital, prompting hundreds of civilians to flee.
"Even today, we can see so many people leaving ... the buses are going out plenty now," Musa Sumail, a human rights activist in Maiduguri who reports on the violence in the northeast, told Reuters. He said he had seen at least one or two Nigerian government fighter jets in the skies above Maiduguri.
Boko Haram, whose leader Abubakar Shekau last month declared a "Muslim territory" in the northeast after capturing the town of Gwoza on the Cameroon border, is believed to be trying to mimic the example of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq which announced the creation of a separate caliphate there.
Jonathan's government, which faces an election in February, has come under sharpening public criticism for its apparent inability to check Boko Haram's five-year insurgency, which has ravaged the poor northeast corner of Africa's biggest economy.
The group has also claimed shootings and bombings across the north and, more sporadically, in the federal capital Abuja and even in the southern commercial hub Lagos. The attacks have not reached the southern oilfields of Africa's No. 1 crude producer.
"REALITY CHECK"
The United States is among several western allies helping Nigeria's military with training and intelligence support. This was stepped up following international outrage over Boko Haram's brazen abduction in mid-April of more than 200 teenage schoolgirls in the northeast. The girls are still missing.
In a speech to a security meeting in Abuja on Thursday, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said Bama's "apparent capture" by Boko Haram and the threat of an assault on Maiduguri was a "sober reality check" for Nigeria and its allies.
"We are past time for denial and pride," Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield said, adding that Shekau's announcement of an IS-style "caliphate" showed how much the Nigerian security situation had worsened.
U.S. officials say more extensive security cooperation has been hampered by persistent allegations of human rights abuses leveled against Nigeria's army, which it denies, and Nigeria's sensitivity about outside meddling in its affairs.
"The reputation of Nigeria's military is at stake," Thomas-Greenfield said, pledging U.S support for a border security initiative involving Nigeria's neighbors Cameroon, Chad and Niger which will try to prevent Boko Haram from extending its control over these remote frontier zones of the lower Sahel.
The Sunni jihadist movement, whose name means "western education is forbidden", has killed thousands since launching an uprising in 2009. Counter-terrorism experts say links exist between it and other Islamist groups, such as al Qaeda's North African franchise and Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab, but there has been little evidence so far of extensive cooperation.
In Nigeria's February polls, southerner Jonathan is expected to seek re-election. Many believe political tensions stemming from the historic rivalry between Nigeria's mostly Muslim north and largely Christian south is also stoking the violence.
Nigeria fights back - as I've been saying on other threads, there is no need for USA military intervention. All it takes is for these governments to stand up and do their own fighting just like Egypt did.
