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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I don’t know, but my own instinct is telling me that our government does not regard the jihadists as much of an enemy as they regard the dissenters of the “Brave New World” to be their enemies.
I don’t know about Nigeria, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Nigeria and other nations had a dictator who was extremely brutal to his own people, and our government wouldn’t bat an eye.
I think they are the same folks by a different name. Same commanding officer: Eeben Barlow. Their original organization was Executive Outcomes— they kept this kind of stuff in check until they were forced to disband.
...most being white, in their 50s and 60s and combat veterans ... 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... 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... despite first lady Michelle Obama's much-publicized Twitter campaign to #BringBackOurGirls, [her idiot jihadist husband] 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.
Obama is essentially a fascist. He has exported horrid suffering form the USA by using the Obama Campaign and a parallel subrosa policy through the US State Department. Hillery got out while the going was good. Kerry will be a
whipping p[ost for history but the true villains are Obama and Hitlery.
Good Read on Obama Fascism:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Sounds like you married a good man. :-) I hope you and your husband receive good news from his doctors.
Amen.
You know, the shame of that movie was the lead character was an open commie who more than likely thought the commies were doing Africa some good at the time.
I agree - not the best movie for a variety of reasons. The interesting part is that “The novel was based upon rumours and speculation following the 1968 landing of a mysterious aeroplane in Rhodesia, which was said to have been loaded with mercenaries and “an African President” believed to have been a dying Moise Tshombe.” The president in the movie was considerably different than Tshombe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Geese
Every single FReeper needs to preparing for this scenario, if only emotionally.
Folks are gonna freak out the first time they see a dead body.
Here is follow up on the status of the many rescued girls/women.
A few questions: 1) Are we sending any aid for these victims? 2) Should we offer them the service of abortion for these rape babies if they want it? 3) Since the stupid Boko Haram don’t realize that Religion is not heredity, have they perhaps implanted the seed of terrible retribution when these rape children are old enough to act? Hopefully the mothers will be able to forgive their babies and give them the love they need to grow normally, or at least to love their mothers a lot more than Islam.
It is the same guys behind both groups.
That’s what I was thinking too. Not that many that have the skills needed to deal with such scum. Been a while since I fired a shot in anger, but I’m ready.
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