Posted on 02/15/2017 9:25:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
How Aisha Bakari Gombi, ‘queen hunter’ in the fight against the world’s deadliest terror group, became a heroine in north Nigeria
As seven abducted women and four children were being taken deeper into Sambisa forest, Aisha Bakari Gombi received a call.
The voice was familiar: an army commander asking her to assemble a group of hunters to track them down.
The 11 had vanished earlier that day after a group of Boko Haram militants attacked their village, Daggu. Three local people were shot dead and cars, houses and food stores set ablaze.
Daggu is a half-hour drive from Chibok where more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted in April 2014. Both villages are in the region of Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria, which has become all too familiar with such attacks by the world’s deadliest terrorist group.
Boko Haram know me and fear me Aisha Bakari Gombi Bakari Gombi grew up near the Sambisa forest, where the extremists still operate despite a military offensive last year that destroyed many of their major camps. She used to hunt antelopes, baboons and guinea fowl with her grandfather. Now she hunts Boko Haram.
There are thousands of hunters in the region who have been enlisted by the military on an ad hoc basis. But Bakari Gombi is one of only a handful of women involved and she has become a heroine for hunters and local people alike. Her gallantry has won her the title “queen hunter”.
The first rescue mission in Daggu failed “because Boko Haram was heavily armed. But we saw where [the girls] are being held,” Bakari Gombi explains the morning after. “We could free them if the military would give us better weapons,” she adds, eyeing the double-barrel shotgun on her lap.
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Maybe she needs a Barrett or a Lapua.
In that part of the world? Get her a RPK and a shitload of 7.62X54R. That would do the trick.
CC
Get some get some. THIS is how you deal with blood thirsty 7th century savages. You KILL THEM. You don’t hold up a stupid sign with “#bringbackourgirls”
God bless this woman!
Look at her right wrist. That is not a bracelet but some kind of scar. I wonder if she had been a captive before?
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“She used to hunt antelopes, baboons and guinea fowl with her grandfather.”
Sounds like those country boys that became heroes in our various wars.
That seems to be a Becker semi auto revolving shotgun she is holding. If it is, that’s a rare gun indeed.
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