Okay it was unintentional but looks like today is going to be a Boko Haram Day….all day…….
You there are times when “it is best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt”………cannot recall who made that statement but it proves true time after time……
After the kidnapping of the Nigerian girls the world kinda looked the other way until they could fake it no more……Boko Haram has been a Nigerian problem….in other words a local problem….to the point that they did not threaten any American interest we pretty much left the situation to the locals……but all that may have changed dramatically………..
Boko Haram may be planning an attack on US interests in Nigeria, US intelligence officials tell NBC News. The evidence of this is “fragmentary” and lacks specifics, the sources admit, but counterterror officials are sufficiently worried to the point that they’re stepping up efforts to locate the group’s military assets and trying to determine who sits at the top with frontman Abubakar Shekau—who already has a $7 million bounty on his head. “Boko Haram has a long standing interest in this,” one senior official said. But officials think that interest has intensified as the US steps up its role in hunting for the kidnapped school girls.
Of course, there are precious few US targets in Nigeria’s northeast, where Boko Haram is strongest, but there are some in the capital of Abuja. Boko Haram has been blamed for two bombings in Abuja in the past five weeks, according to CNN, amidst a wave of violence that has grew especially intense this week with the massive Jos bombing. The UN yesterday officially blacklisted Boko Haram—a step Nigeria’s government had refrained from requesting until now—which will make the group’s members subject to asset freezes, travel bans, and arms embargoes, al-Jazeera reports.
People call stupidity like this as “cutting your nose off in spite of your face’…..my grandfather called it…..”pissing in your chili”………This d/bag just painted a bull’s eye on his organization’s back……..the US may be slow on the uptick but this is a direct threat……we will not allow this to go unanswered……the eye in the sky will be watching……..this dude just invited the US to the dance.
What’s the old saying…..”can’t fix stupid”!
” ‘it is best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt’………cannot recall who made that statement”
I’m pretty sure it was Mark Twain
Sounds like him……thanx…..
You might strike the bullseye and destroy Boko but you’ll still be left with an inefectual, indifferent and corrupt government in Nigeria. They created the social vacume into which Boko and the like can rush in. They have presided over one of the richest countries in Africa yet they have failed to share any of that wealth with the population – it’s always going to lead to trouble running a country like that.
Sad to say but you are most likely right….but if you cut the head off the snake it is possible that second thoughts would be had before anything like this kidnapping took place gain……..
agreed (to a rational mind)
Thanx….i try to keep it that way…but it gets hard at times….