Posted on 05/08/2014 4:28:53 AM PDT by don-o
The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing the al Qaeda-linked militant group Boko Haram on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations for two years. And now, lawmakers and former U.S. officials are saying that the decision may have hampered the American government's ability to confront the Nigerian group that shocked the world by abducting hundreds of innocent girls.
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What Clinton didnt mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the UN headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.
The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didnt use. And nobody can say she wasnt urged to do it. Its gross hypocrisy, said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate. The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
“The dirty little secret that the West refuses to admit is that Islam is just fine with this!”
I did see a CNN reporter mention that the Islamic Boko Haram forcing these kidnapped Christian girls to marry at the age of nine was consistent with the Koran’s depiction of the Muslim Prophet’s marriage to a nine year old girl.
Then my alarm went off and I had to wake up and start the day.
Please provide a link so we can share this.
It’s interesting to me about how many Boko Harams are in the USA. Their charming leader looks like every crack addict I saw on 2nd Avenue in the 1980s.
Hillary, in her cheapo faux-Chanel suit, was mightily inarticulate on this subject when interviewed yesterday. She must be the biggest emptiest Chanel suit in the universe.
Bad as Boko Haram is, we shouldn’t spend American lives cleaning up Nigeria’s mess.
We do have an interest in not seeing an Islamic terrorist group become the rulers of northern Nigeria, but our getting involved in local wars doesn’t have a high success rate in that area.
If the Nigerian government asked, we should provide military advice (not boots on the ground embedded advisors) and drone surveillance (not drone bombs.)
The guy in the video, showboating about kidnapping little girls and selling them for $12, no doubt has designs on the US, knowing he’ll get lotsa help and money from Obama.
You would think this would be a big deal but apparently it isn’t. Our government is as corrupt as any third-world dictatorship.
When I see & listen to them on tv, I can hear the whole world laughing.
Yeah, right——faux Chanel-—— bought off the rack at Macy’s. She’s gonna move hell and high water to downplay her participation in this.
Congress needs to find out how much foreign aid the Obama admin sent to Nigeria-—and how it might have facilitated Boko Haram’s activities. And how many times Hillary went to Nigeria during her incessant globe-trotting days at the State Dept.
Bought off the rack at Kohl’s. Will she ever learn anything about personal hygiene, fashion or that squat little women shouldn’t wear thick necklaces around their invisible necks?? As Noel Coward once said about Claudette Colbert: I’d strangle her if I could find her neck!
LOL——good post.
Liz, that bitch drives me wild. We’ve been stuck with her for what? 30 years? Will she ever go away?
Web site-— Details on US aid to Nigeria-—the agencies involved. Totals some $600,000,000.
http://us-foreign-aid.findthebest.com/l/127/Nigeria
This is what you get when you allow the Muslim Brotherhood’s agent Mrs. Weiner into the highest levels of the State Department. Why and how she got there is a question that should be asked repeatedly.
The Clinton’s terrifying grasp for power......they will do and say anything for power.
Bump
Friends don’t call friends terrorists
They’re like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Happily, I think that Chelsea is too bland and boring to continue the dynasty - try though she might. Of course, I’m usually wrong about these things.
Giving terrorists free access to the United States is the actual purpose of “Immigration Reform”. It is not to benefit Mexican farm workers. Muslims who were born in Venezuela, raised as muslims or converted to islam are currently being funneled into the United States at the Southern border. The problem is that they cannot by this means alone, get the volume of terrorists they desire in using the smuggling method.
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