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Posted on 05/27/2013 11:59:41 AM PDT by csvset
Decent video giving the background of what’s happening in Niger and the various groups involved at the source.
I think the press is trying (once again) to assign more intelligence to the terrorists than they deserve. The press always tries to build up the reputation of these terrorists. "highly sophisticated" is another phrase they like to throw around. When these terrorists blow themselves up by accident (which seems to happen more often then the press likes to admit), they tend to downplay the incompetence of the terrorists.
“Inside help” or Google Earth?
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."
Quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero
Benghazi forces moving south?
some rather infamous “yellowcake” has come from this basically French colonial enterprise in the middle of Niger
From the title I thought this was about that London attack.
President Mahamadou Issoufou told reporters Saturday the death toll now stands at 35, including 24 soldiers, one employee of French nuclear giant Areva, and 10 terrorists.
Issoufou spoke alongside the CEO of Areva, Luc Oursel, who was returning from the town of Arlit where he had gone to comfort victims of the attack on the Areva-run mine. Both that attack and the one in Agadez that began at dawn Thursday claimed by the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, and by Algerian terrorist Moktar Belmoktar.
Issoufou say she has contacted the G8 to say action needs to be taken to avoid the "Somalization of Libya."
In other Niger news, from the WaPo:
Drone base in Niger gives U.S. a strategic foothold in West Africa
The same Libya that our Dear Leader loves?
Yes, that Libya.
Qadaffi may have been bad - but in truth, he didn’t bother other religions or ethnic groups and many people lived fairly peacefully under him. He was a dictator and a bit nutty and full of braggadocio in his supposed foreign policy but we had him under control to a great extent. He was cruelest to the Islamists, because he knew that they were his biggest rivals. So of course we empowered them.
And this has been the pattern ever since.
Dear God.
You mean the policy of “the smartest woman in the world” and “El Presidente” is failing? Can’t be.
Le frogs are le pissed........
Unpossible, Obama says the war on terror is over.
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