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White mercenaries have Boko Haram on run
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/white-mercenaries-have-boko-haram-on-run/ ^ | 5-13-2015
Posted on 5/15/2015, 6:58:05 PM by UMCRevMom@aol.com

They’re Nigeria’s unlikely saviors – most being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans of the former South African apartheid regime.

But, tainted resumes notwithstanding, they’ve been getting the job done in northern Nigeria, hitting the Islamist terror group Boko Haram hard enough to send the jihadists into retreat, liberating dozens of villages and freeing hundreds of women and girls held as slaves and “bush wives” during a six-year-long reign of terror, reported London Telegraph.

Boko Haram recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. In recent years, Boko Haram has slaughtered entire villages, burned countless churches and targeted Christians and moderate Muslims for death. It received global attention last year for abducting nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls.

The squad of mostly-white bush-warfare experts is employed by Specialized Tasks, Training, Equipment and Protection, a private army run by Colonel Eeben Barlow, a former commander in the South African Defense Force, where he defended the regime against insurrection and fought border wars 30 years ago in neighboring Angola and Namibia.

Barlow’s firm was hired by Nigeria outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan in January, as the failure of his administration to stop Boko Haram or free kidnapped schoolgirls became major campaign issues ahead of the March election.

As WND has reported, despite first lady Michelle Obama’s much-publicized Twitter campaign to #BringBackOurGirls, President Obama withheld weapons and intelligence support from Nigeria in its fight against the Islamists because Jonathan’s administration stood by the nation’s laws criminalizing homosexual acts and strictly forbidding same-sex marriage.

Jonathan was defeated in the March election by retired Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who ruled as dictator there from 1983 until 1985, when he was removed through a coup. Buhari’s campaign was run by the political firm founded by key Obama strategist David Axelrod.

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17 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:07 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

That’s an ancient story. There’s no indication that any of that is continuing. There’s no ongoing flow of released captives emerging from the bush. I’m thinking the current government has pretty much quashed that activity, as it is friendly to Islam.


24 posted on 06/04/2021 7:51:20 PM PDT by HKMk23 (INADEQUACY: If this keeps up, we may not be able to let you help us anymore.)
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To: piasa

I don’t understand how any American can defend Twitter.

Twitter and Facebook need to be banned in the US and utterly destroyed.

The left needs to be totally eliminated. Period.


32 posted on 06/04/2021 9:20:49 PM PDT by CrimsonTidegirl
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