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Military evacuating girls, women rescued from Boko Haram
Stars and Stripes ^ | April 29, 2015 | MICHELLE FAUL

Posted on 04/29/2015 8:06:06 AM PDT by Freeport

LAGOS, Nigeria — After carrying out a mass rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from the forest stronghold of an Islamic insurgent group, Nigeria's military is evacuating them and plans to check their physical and mental health, the army spokesman said Wednesday.

The military is flying in medical and intelligence teams to examine the females, many of whom are traumatized, said Col. Sani Usman.

He earlier said that none of the so-called Chibok girls appeared to be among those rescued but later said it remains to be seen if any were among the 219 who are still missing more than a year after being snatched from a boarding school in Chibok. The April 14, 2014 mass kidnapping from the town in northeast Nigeria outraged much of the world.

The evacuation from the Sambisa Forest in northeast Nigeria began on Tuesday but Usman would not say where the rescued females are being taken. He told The Associated Press that they needed to be questioned to determine their identities.

"The processing is continuing, it involves a lot of things because most of them are traumatized and you have got to put them in a psychological frame of mind to extract information from them," Usman said.

While the Chibok kidnapping made the extremist group Boko Haram known to much of the world, the group has been steadily kidnapping females.

Amnesty International said this month that at least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014 and many have been forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight.

(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bokoharam; bringbackourgirls; chibok; isis; nigeria
200 girls! 93 woman rescued and not a word in the MSN.

Sad.

1 posted on 04/29/2015 8:06:06 AM PDT by Freeport
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To: Freeport

Praise the Lord!.......


2 posted on 04/29/2015 8:08:15 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Freeport

CNN is currently too busy talking about how peaceful the bloods and crips are in baltimore.


3 posted on 04/29/2015 8:08:27 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Freeport

WOW! Thanks so much for the news!!

Praise God indeed!


4 posted on 04/29/2015 8:10:10 AM PDT by Persevero (Telling the truth is now "Hate Speech")
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To: Freeport
. . . not a word in the MSN.

Patience! It takes time to figure out how to give ObaMao credit for it.

5 posted on 04/29/2015 8:15:26 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Freeport
So, the hashtag campaign worked!

Or was it the Nigerian military?

6 posted on 04/29/2015 8:15:29 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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"Boko Haram changes name to Islamic State's West African Province"

Im sure now that they're No Longer ISLAMIC...that their behavior will become far more peaceful
7 posted on 04/29/2015 8:16:10 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: driftdiver

its a trick


8 posted on 04/29/2015 8:16:20 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Vigilanteman

SPIN...SPIN...SPIN


9 posted on 04/29/2015 8:18:59 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Freeport

Actions ... not hashtags.


10 posted on 04/29/2015 8:19:50 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: Freeport

Probably not much available in that third world hellhole in the way of counseling to help the rescued girls and women deal with the abuse they undoubtedly suffered.


11 posted on 04/29/2015 8:19:53 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & Ifwater the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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"Boko Haram changes name to Islamic State's West African Province"

ISWAP?

12 posted on 04/29/2015 8:20:39 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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Patience! It takes time to figure out how to give ObaMao credit for it.

Manhand's strategy worked!*

And just in case anyone really didn't get it: </snark>

13 posted on 04/29/2015 8:31:02 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: al_c

hahaha yep ISWAP...is in full effect!


14 posted on 04/29/2015 8:55:25 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Freeport

Finally some good news!


15 posted on 04/29/2015 8:56:23 AM PDT by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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sadly the 300 school girls were not amoung those rescued- their lives have been a living hell for over a year now- I can’t even begin to imagine how horrible they have had it- it just breaks your heart to think that evil has gotten away with this crime/human rights violation for a year now


16 posted on 04/29/2015 8:57:02 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Freeport

#moochestweetmusthaveworked


17 posted on 04/29/2015 8:59:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Freeport
But the Rosary is working!

Keep praying the Rosary!

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18 posted on 04/29/2015 9:04:01 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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