White mercenaries have Boko Haram on run

http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/white-mercenaries-have-boko-haram-on-run/ ^ | 5-13-2015

[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.

[dp0622]

Wont read about this in lamestream media

[2ndDivisionVet]

So the 1970’s are officially back?

[piytar]

A small number of ragtag RED (retired, extremely dangerous) guys are chasinfg ISIS off. Gee, that’s a shocker. NOT.

[MaxMax]

You're welcome.

Sincerely,
White Cracker.

[fhayek]

Something tells me that they are not entirely mercenary.

[BenLurkin]

in their 50s and 60s

Woo-hoo whippersnappers. Us old guys can still bring it!

[piytar]

chasing*

[DoughtyOne]

More evidence of Whites screwing up the African Continent.

/Sarcasim

[ScottinVA]

A rare bit of good news in the fight against Satan’s forces.

[RightGeek]

[Noumenon]

Sounds like the sort of work the many of us will be called to here in America. I may be in my 60s, but I can still take heads.

[Will88]

It’s always been a puzzle why the Nigerian government could not, or would not put enough forces against Boko Haram to put them out of business.

[piytar]

Yup. Us “old guys” have stared death in the face more than a few times. And we know our s#!7...

[BobL]

HOLY CRAP!

If a bunch of mercenaries, regardless of background or color, can STOP THESE ANIMALS, I am one happy person.

No country deserves to have their people deal with this...if the mercenaries are a bunch of whities from SA, they are HEROES in my book!

[Fungi]

“Buhari’s campaign was run by the political firm founded by key Obama strategist David Axelrod.” Everything about this regime is pure evil. Axelrod is a true commie, like his parents, and the dinosaur media never points this out. What the hell is he doing coordinating this on the other side of the globe? I thought he retired, and where does he get the money to do this?

[mrsmith]

Hiring people on their skills and not their race...
Africa is so backwards!

[Tired of Taxes]

In their 50’s and 60’s, according to the article.

(I can still remember when I thought those ages sounded “old,” but not anymore.)

Godspeed to them.

[The_Reader_David]

Actually most modern mercenaries aren't entirely mercenary. Back during the Cold War, there were lots of mercs who'd fight for any anti-Communist regime that paid them enough, but only for anti-Communist regimes. I suspect more or less the same lot will now fight counter-jihad, and only counter-jihad, again for enough pay.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Along the lines of what I was thinking - would make for a heck of a movie, one day.