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UPDATE POSTED BY JACK 5/9/2014: The Nigerian military was given up to four hours’ advance notice of the Boko Haram attack on the boarding school in Chibok from where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, according to sources independently verified by Al Jazeera and Amnesty International.
Two politicians from Nigeria’s northeast Borno state told Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege that security forces had been given at least two hours’ warning of an attack on the town, but failed to act.
Makmid Kamara, the Nigeria researcher for Amnesty International, said Amnesty had been told the military had at least four hours’ advance warning. Now they want the USA to clean up their mess. Secretary of State Kerry does not blame this on the Muslim Boko Haram terrorists, he blames it on poverty! lol What a clown!
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Abe Greenwald’s article in Commentary Magazine is another discouraging indication that this administration doesn’t have the skills to be in the positions they hold. From the President to Hillary Clinton to Susan Rice and John Kerry it is truly frightening to think about:
Add another drop of tragedy to the story of America’s reluctant, no-boots-on-the-ground operation in Libya in 2011: Weapons that were never secured after Muammar Gaddafi’s ouster made their way to Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist organization now holding hundreds of Nigerian girls. Last May, Boko Haram staged an attack in the town of Bama, killing 55 innocents and freeing 100 prisoners….
Sadly we discover that under the direction of Hillary Clinton the State Department refused to label this group a terrorist organization. John Kerry finally did in November 2013 but officals in the department say they missed an opportunity reaching back to 2011 to proprly scrutinize the group:
“The delayed designation of Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization cost us two years of increased scrutiny of the group’s activities and leadership,” Rep. Patrick Meehan, R-Pa., said Thursday in a statement to FoxNews.com. “Boko Haram met the statutory requirements for the designation as early as 2011, but the State Department’s delay has left us with fewer resources and less intelligence on an Islamic terrorist group with ties to al-Qaeda that is clearly destabilizing the region.”
Hillary Clinton called the recent kidnapping of over 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, labeling Boko Haram as terror group, “Abominable,” and an “act of terror”…sound familiar? she also said the act requires action to “the fullest response possible.” (Whatever that means)
We now know for sure…the 3:00 A.M. phone call came and neither one of these people were prepared to take the call.
Have you made any effort to find out why the State Department avoided labeling them as an FTO, or did you leap straight to the assumption that she was just sitting on her ass?
Reuters:
U.S. officials say the decision to list individual Boko Haram members, rather than apply the more sweeping “Foreign Terrorist Organization” label to the group as a whole as some U.S. lawmakers have demanded, reflected a desire not to elevate the group’s profile.
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In January, Lisa Monaco, the Justice Department’s top national security official, sent a letter to the State Department arguing the Nigerian group met the criteria for a “foreign terrorist” listing because it either engaged in terrorism that threatens the United States or had a capability or intent to do so.
But a group of academic experts on Africa sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month urging her not to take the step, saying it could backfire by enhancing the group’s reputation among potential recruits and other militants.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/us-usa-militants-bokoharam-idUSBRE85K19K20120621
BBC:
US moves to classify the Islamist group Boko Haram as a foreign terrorist organisation may encourage the militants to justify their new status by seeking international terror links in a region that is home to an al-Qaeda franchise.
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Nnamdi Obasi, a Nigeria analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG) says the move to classify Boko Haram as a foreign terror group will encourage it to aggressively target US interests in Nigeria.
“It could also further radicalise the movement and push it to strengthen international linkages with other Islamist groups,” Mr Obasi told the BBC.
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Such support can be easily turned into recruitment of new fighters that can be deployed beyond Nigeria.
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Most jihadists like to be part of a terror group that is stridently opposed to the US – which the terrorists see as an embodiment of Western values that they oppose.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24959207
Dewey: “Come on it is time to lay Benghazi to rest and focus on economic issues at home. ”
It’s possible to do both. Had the administration been truthful and competent this wouldn’t be necessary. I know its too bad for the side you favor but the opposition has the responsibility to do this.
“‘Last year, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that Republicans’ proposed cuts to her department would be “detrimental to America’s national security’”
But her department had plenty of money for a plethora of security in countries like France. Sorry, if Democrats think that the military can manage operations just find under funding cuts the State Department can too. This is nothing but an excuse; a symptom of a poor manager.
Individuals died Dewey and people have been caught lying to congress. this is not just politics nor is it frivolous as your left wing bloggers and journo-pols suggest. Please refrain from insisting that you neutral. ALL of your sources are extreme left wing!
WOW! The two water boys are really working overtime. “Duuuuuuuuuude, that was TWO years ago,”
If Post Scripts can make these two Soros/Obama whores squeal, they are on ther right track,
Chris I didn’t leap at all! The article indicated “…officials in the department said they “missed an opportunity reaching back to 2011 to proprly scrutinize the group”.
Representative Meehan was relaying what he had been told by someone in the State Department and then explains why its troubling and relevant:
Why have a “statutory requirement” if you aren’t going to honor it.
Duh!
“…because it either engaged in terrorism that threatens the United States or had a capability or intent to do so.”
Since when has that been the sole criterion?
Only since the ego-driven and arrogant Obama administration thought they could charm terrorists into peace agreements…the weenies didn’t think about the consequences of their fluff foreign policy to the US:
June 1, Little Rock, Arkansas: Abdulhakim Muhammed, a Muslim convert from Memphis, Tennessee, is charged with shooting two soldiers outside a military recruiting center.
May 1, New York City: a car bomb is discovered in Times Square, New York City after smoke is seen coming from a vehicle. The bomb was ignited, but failed to detonate and was disarmed before it could cause any harm.
And let us not forget the Fort Hood “workplace violence”
And Benghazi! (Arming the Muslim brotherhood and Boko Haram)
And they aren’t, and haven’t been, very concerned about the safety or need for intelligence information for the rest of the world either.
They can barely utter the words terrorism and certainly cannot ever connect any of it to Muslim extremist groups…not PC, you know. They had to be true to their “overseas contingency operations” meme…they couldn’t even bring themselves to list Fort Hood as a terrorist attack when it WAS…absolutely it WAS!
The excuses are a complete joke.
“Individuals died Dewey and people have been caught lying to congress.”
Who has been caught lying to congress over the Benghazi issue? Who “caught” them?
Let us not forget before we went into Iraq, Clinton and Kerry (and the UN) just to name a few were screeching about Iraq’s WMD’s and programs, that action needed to be taken sooner rather than later.
She has a well established pattern of inaction and indifference followed by indignation over having her negligence pointed out.
This is another truly detestable situation that could have been avoided (Benghazi). Look at that another pattern as described above. We are a month out from the date of the terrorist act. What do we hope to accomplish other than looking foolish? Why is this our problem? Seems to me the UN should be dealing with this. I am sick and tired of helping people who hate our very existence.
You needn’t look any further than Moochells plan of action (her bull$hit #sign) to see this as another media distraction for the cost of 300 non-democrat voting girls lives.
What do they say about kidnappings? The first 24 hours are of paramount importance if you have any wish of seeing the victim/victims alive again. We kind of missed that window of opportunity a skosh.
Re #6 Chris : “Who has been caught lying to congress over the Benghazi issue? Who “caught” them?”
ROTFLMAO
Toby: “Let us not forget before we went into Iraq, Clinton and Kerry (and the UN) just to name a few were screeching about Iraq’s WMD’s and programs, that action needed to be taken sooner rather than later.”
Yes, and Obama vehemently opposed such action.
March 26, 2014 – Huffington Post:
That’s vehement opposition, alright!
(When the shoe is on the other foot things can look a bit different…experience, the great teacher)