Posted on 07/26/2019 12:32:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
A 14-year-old girl in a black veil walked onto the road, raised her hands and made a plea to the soldiers nearby. She had been strapped to a suicide bomb and didn’t want to die.
It was explosives specialist Randy Iljeseni’s turn to defuse the girl, one in an army of child bombers deployed across northeast Nigeria by jihadist group Boko Haram. He grabbed a pair of fabric scissors, mouthed a brief prayer and slowed his breathing. He began to slice into her bomb-strapped belt. Some of his closest friends had died this way.
...In a gruesome turn, they are often strapped to children—mostly girls—by jihadist terrorist groups.
The bomb squads receive some of their training from a traveling boot camp of U.S. ordnance experts schooled on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. They aren’t imparting a skill as much as a state of mind: a mix of courage and composure that can be sparked in a classroom but only truly learned in the live-or-die moments before the puzzle of a live bomb.
Last year, 57 children died in northern Nigeria after being strapped with explosives by Boko Haram,
Mr. Iljeseni has defused dozens of human-borne explosives. He compares his work to crossing a river.
“Or, or. It is these two simple words,” he says. “Or you come out alive, or you come out dead.”
...a detachment of American trainers began rotating through Nigeria, passing on the hard lessons its soldiers had taken from Iraq. “With IEDs, there’s a million different ways they can be made, so we teach them the thinking,” said Katie van Dwy, a U.S. Army ordnance trainer who has made four trips to Lake Chad. “We learn a lot from [trainees]….They will come up with scenarios we would not have thought of.”
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“In a gruesome turn, they are often strapped to children—mostly girls—by jihadist terrorist groups.”
I missed the new item where Omar said that evil white men must be doing this. What channel was that on?
Ghastly. My doctor is a black man from Nigeria, good Christian, father of three, and the best doctor I’ve ever had. He always has time to talk to me, gives great advice after actually listening. Told me last week I’d live to be 100 cuz, “You’re very strong.”
Thank God he got out of that hellhole.
Why these Muslim scum are not eradicated is beyond me. Send some Merc “cleaners” down there with bounties on the rag heads.
I missed the new item where Omar said that evil white men must be doing this. What channel was that on?
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FNC last night and she didn’t say exactly that. She said white men commit most killings and we all need to be profiled. No mention of the south and west sides of Chicago or similar places like St. Louis and Baltimore. Also no mention of any white neighborhood with the carnage of Chicago and similar places where almost all the killing is black on black. I’ve lived in a gun saturated, almost entirely white exurban neighborhood about 22 miles west of downtown Knoxville, TN for over 31 years and not a single murder. She’s an evil, lying racist POS.
Not only are cultures NOT equal - some are not only inferior - they're also evil. Boko Haram is evil.
Diversity is our strength!! :)
If they can be identified, this Boko Haram filth should be hunted down and killed to the last man and woman.
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A true hero. God bless this man.
There is a black man from Nigeria, whose office is on the same floor of our office building.
He is very sweet. He has had some real challenges here, as his son, who was a rising college basketball star, was mixed up in some petty crime and ended up dead. Sad for him and his wife, who seems lovely.
And the faces of good, brave men willing to put their lives on the line for complete strangers.
CNN, MSNBC, See?BS!, NBC, ABC.
The Nigerian government does not cooperate. They fear armed Christian villagers more than Armed Muslims.
Does anyone know if the girl lived?
I don’t have a subscription to WSJ.
What a Horrible situation!
I have Never heard of this
Kind of Terrorism.
Nigeria,
Nuff said.
It is the face of evil and it is time to stop pretending Islam will help America...it won’t and we need to kill them or they’ll kill us...
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