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| Africa Subsaharan |
| America sends PREDATOR drone to find Nigerian schoolgirls |
| 2014-05-24 |
| [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] The corpse count of the Nigeria's Islamist insurgency has risen to more than 200 in a single week after 48 people were killed in Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... raids in the country's north-east. Militants stormed three villages near the town of Chibok, Borno State, where Boko Haram snatched nearly 300 girls from their boarding school dorm last month. Hours after a double boom-mobileing killed at least 130 in a central Nigerian city, villagers were forced to bolt into the bush as their homes and possessions were burned and looted. The attacks came as 80 U.S. Air Force personnel arrived in Chad, which shares a part of its border with Borno state, on a mission to help track down the girls being held captive by Boko Haram. They are helping with intelligence by operating a Predator drone in missions over and around northern Nigeria, the U.S. said. About 40 of the personnel make up the launch and recovering teams for the drone and the other 40 are troops acting as the security force for the team, said Lieutenant Colonel Myles Caggins. Predators are the main type of unmanned aircraft used for drone strikes in Afghanistan and the Pak tribal areas, where they are armed with 100lb Hellfire missiles. Although the the U.S. has said that it is being used for reconnaissance, the deployment of such a fearsome weapon seems to mark an escalation in the campaign against Boko Haram. The deployment will be in addition to unarmed Global Hawks already being used in the search, said a senior U.S. official who preferred to remain anonymous. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 And while your about it, look into this Judge Crater deal. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-24 15:46 |
| #4 Ima just wonderin if the deployment wasn't already scheduled and they just threw a 'new' mission at them. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-05-24 08:29 |
| #3 In other news, Nigerian schoolgirls killed in blast of unknown origin, Obama goes back to playing golf. When you only have a hammer, all problems look like a nail. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2014-05-24 07:28 |
| #2 #WeCare |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-05-24 04:23 |
| #1 A single Predator drone? For how many square miles? I sure hope that satellite intel is helping to narrow the field. |
| Posted by: Squinty 2014-05-24 00:38 |