US sending a team to Nigeria to help find abducted girls
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[quote]The White House announced Tuesday that it is going to send a team to Nigeria to help assist its government in finding nearly 300 girls who were abducted from their school by Islamic extremists last month.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the United States is not sending troops to Nigeria, but will provide military personnel, intelligence and hostage negotiators to help the government. Carney said that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan welcomed the U.S. offer. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with President Jonathan Tuesday morning, Carney said.
Carney said there is a "utility to having U.S. military personnel and experts on intelligence" on the ground in Nigeria, "and hostage negotiators to assist and advise the Nigerian government as they deal with this challenge."
Nearly 300 girls were abducted from a rural school in the country's northeast by Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group that does not believe girls should be sent to school. Its name means "Western Education is Sinful." The group admitted responsibility this week and has threatened to sell the girls. According to reports, eight more girls between the ages of 12 and 15 were abducted this week.[/quote]
Can't be too hard to find these fucks. Anyone notice how the leader has to read from a script to say 3 short sentences in Boko Haram's threat video?
Was it really necessary to write out, "We have your girls. We will sell them because Allah told us to. Oh, yes, we will sell them on the black market."
And when your group's name translates to "Western Education Is A Sin" or w.e the translation is, you really aren't the brightest crayon in the box of terrorist crayons.
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And when your group's name translates to "Western Education Is A Sin" or w.e the translation is, you really aren't the brightest crayon in the box of terrorist crayons.[/QUOTE]
that's racist you chalky fucker
I'm probably being [i]that guy[/i], but I hope as few of Boko Haram survive an entanglement with the US military as possible. Nothing good can really come from their continued consumption of oxygen.
To clarify, I'm not talking about boots on ground. I know that's everyone's worst nightmare right now. I'm talking about the fact that any US intelligence personnel are going to be many times quicker and more likely to locate and guide the Nigerians onto these guys. It seems like the Nigerian authorities have no hope of finding them with the resources they have.
there isn't going to be a US military entanglement~
I'm so glad this is happening, normally I'm against world policing but it's a shame how often atrocities like this go on without response
How easy can it be to hide 300 girls?
...assuming they are all still alive.
[QUOTE=Elspin;44740478]I'm so glad this is happening, normally I'm against world policing but it's a shame how often atrocities like this go on without response[/QUOTE]
I feel like we should form a big collaboration of all countries to handle things like this. Some sort of union of nations.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44740505]How easy can it be to hide 300 girls?
...assuming they are all still alive.[/QUOTE]
Probably not that hard. Even easier if they spread them around a whole region or so.
Thank goodness... My local news station said something like 20 senators wrote a letter to Obama asking him to "issue international sanctions against the militant group".
I think I lost a few brain cells from the overwhelming amount of stupid in that sentence. Why would a militant terrorist group give a fuck about sanctions? Last time I checked, the Boko Haram were not an eligible party in the United Nations' pissing match world championship.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;44740505]How easy can it be to hide 300 girls?
...assuming they are all still alive.[/QUOTE]
It's unlikely many (if any) are dead, but once sold into slavery it's unlikely that they'll be found and recovered
I was just about to say this. It's anything, they'll only find a few, but if could months years before they're found. Reminds me when the 3 girls in Cleveland was were found 10 years after they where abducted, only to be found in their own backward.
I just wrote a whole paper on George Washington and his struggle with slavery this past weekend, and one of the questions I was meant to answer included slavery's existence in the 21st century. It really made me think about how shocking it is that we think we can just think of slavery as a thing of the past when it is still a problem today. I really hope something good comes out of this. Would be nice to see some uplifting foreign news.
Sweet, let's whack some Boko Haram motherfuckers.
[QUOTE=AlbertWesker;44740537]Thank goodness... My local news station said something like 20 senators wrote a letter to Obama asking him to "issue international sanctions against the militant group".
I think I lost a few brain cells from the overwhelming amount of stupid in that sentence. Why would a militant terrorist group give a fuck about sanctions? Last time I checked, the Boko Haram were not an eligible party in the United Nations' pissing match world championship.[/QUOTE]
"In latest news, President Obama has imposed an embargo on Boko Haram restricting trade on abducted Nigerian girls"
And here I thought the U.S. was only interested in oil and the blood of Arabs :v:
It's like we give a shit or something.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;44741762]And here I thought the U.S. was only interested in oil and the blood of Arabs :v:
It's like we give a shit or something.[/QUOTE]
As an american would you pass the chance to freedom some motherfuckers?
Nothing like swooping in on that building raid screaming stars and stripes then gassing them with red white and blue gas grenades.
I just had a thought. Why doesn't the government buy the girls back and return them to their families? It's incredibly stupid, but maybe that would work. They are going to sell them, anyways.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;44742679]I just had a thought. Why doesn't the government buy the girls back and return them to their families? It's incredibly stupid, but maybe that would work. They are going to sell them, anyways.[/QUOTE]
it will encourage other groups to do the same.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;44742679]I just had a thought. Why doesn't the government buy the girls back and return them to their families? It's incredibly stupid, but maybe that would work. They are going to sell them, anyways.[/QUOTE]
Ya, be soft on human traffickers, that'll solve the issue, even if they were stupid enough to agree, they would probably be ambushed and killed anyway. They won't live, or at least not many of them.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;44742679]I just had a thought. Why doesn't the government buy the girls back and return them to their families? It's incredibly stupid, but maybe that would work. They are going to sell them, anyways.[/QUOTE]
It really wouldn't because now they have customers.
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You literally just endorsed the slave trade.
Damn, I wanted to buy one
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;44740515]I feel like we should form a big collaboration of all countries to handle things like this. Some sort of union of nations.[/QUOTE]
Lets call it the Justice League.
*sigh* Will the US ever STOP wanting to shoot brown people? This wouldn't happen in my communo-anarchist social utopia fucking world police
[QUOTE=evilweazel;44743409]*sigh* Will the US ever STOP wanting to shoot brown people? This wouldn't happen in my communo-anarchist social utopia fucking[B] world police[/B][/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=WhyNott;44743394]Damn, I wanted to buy one[/QUOTE]
Don't even joke about it what's happening right now to them is most likely a hell on earth.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;44742679]I just had a thought. Why doesn't the government buy the girls back and return them to their families? It's incredibly stupid, but maybe that would work. They are going to sell them, anyways.[/QUOTE]
If once you have paid him the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane. As we taught the brits back in the day.
[QUOTE=Jon27;44740458]I'm probably being [i]that guy[/i], but I hope as few of Boko Haram survive an entanglement with the US military as possible. Nothing good can really come from their continued consumption of oxygen.
To clarify, I'm not talking about boots on ground. I know that's everyone's worst nightmare right now. I'm talking about the fact that any US intelligence personnel are going to be many times quicker and more likely to locate and guide the Nigerians onto these guys. It seems like the Nigerian authorities have no hope of finding them with the resources they have.[/QUOTE]
To be fair, I'd be perfectly fine with all of these terrorist fucks getting killed. It'd make the world a better place objectively.
The UK is [url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/06/uk-ready-sas-nigeria-kidnapped-girls]reportedly[/url] ready to send the SAS to Nigeria if requested along with spy planes to search for them
Imagine how scared these guys are now.
To at one moment be thinking they've completely owned Nigeria only to find out the next day that the British and the Americans are coming for them RIGHT NOW.
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