Posted on 05/15/2015 3:58:05 PM PDT by 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.
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There is a Rambo/Chuck Norris/Rooster Cogburn old tough guy movie in here somewhere.
Aye.
TIA
I know exactly where my Marine Corps boots are (afraid the britches won’t fit)
South African and Former Soviet mercenaries to launch darkest war on Boko Haram
These guys are like some other group I saw in a documentary. I think they were called Executive something or other.
And just why would their resumes be tainted?
Looking forward to this story as a movie next. I hope it has a happy ending.
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Clearly a case of white microaggression.
I’ve heard it said you should never pick a fight with an old guy. If he’s tired, he’ll just kill you.
I think that’s a Hemingway quote, or close to it.
Roland the headless Thompson gunner?
RED POWGs
Pissed Off White Guys (”pogs”)
Interview with th leader of STTREP:http://sofrep.com/40865/eeben-barlow-speaks-pt-6-south-african-contractors-withdrawal-nigeria/
“With their three-month contract expiring, STTEP made a controlled withdrawal from Nigeria and had all of their employees returned home by late March.”
LOL - the picture is from the movie
When I first read the headline I thought it said “White missionaries have Boko Harum on the run.”
Think I’m gonna watch this tonight, they have it on Netflix.
"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."
Coming soon to a town near you...
Hope I don’t get too old for when we need old farts like me
TT
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