Posted on 12/26/2025 3:00:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
LAGOS, Dec 26 (Reuters) - By publicly cooperating with the United States on a Christmas Day airstrike, Nigeria's government may have averted humiliating unilateral military action threatened a month ago by President Donald Trump.
But security experts say it is unclear whether such strikes can do much to hinder Islamist militants who have long menaced communities in the area.
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Trump announced on Truth Social on Thursday that U.S. forces had launched a strike against Islamic State militants in northwest Nigeria at the request of Nigeria's government. He said the group had been targeting Christians in the region.
Local media reported loud explosions in the village of Jabo on the evening of Christmas Day. Reuters has not been able to confirm whether there were casualties.
Trump said on Friday that a U.S. military strike targeting Islamic state militants in Nigeria was originally supposed to take place on Wednesday, but he ordered it delayed by a day.
"They were going to do it earlier," Trump told Politico in an interview. "And I said, ‘nope, let’s give a Christmas present.’ … They didn’t think that was coming, but we hit them hard. Every camp got decimated."
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A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the strike was carried out by about a dozen Tomahawk missiles launched from a U.S. Navy warship in the Gulf of Guinea.
Abuja confirmed it had approved the operation. Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said on Friday that Nigeria had...
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Just send them satellite views of their houses.
Nuke those s holes.
selections from the 692 'Boko Haram' keyword topics:
Who else believes that Muslims in the Nigerian government are giving their jihadist friends a heads-up on all the U.S. plans they can glean from so-called U.S. Nigerian cooperation/arrangement.
Islam is a terrorist organization. Until we treat it as such, we remain fools.
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Did you have to include that line? I for one don’t believe it.
Obvious copy-and-paste error, Karen.
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