holly-pagan:
nigeria army likes to go to war,they going there to loot this is their nature i could remember when my uncle went to Liberia he came back and gave me one pair of shoe i asked him, uncle where is this shoe from he said he entered one room and saw alot of shoes he pick one for me

God purnish u and ur generation. Wonder why the criminal act never still commot for ur lineage, see una life now, idiots

I am scared of two things: 1- these insurgent may be too strong for our men because of what Almighty America saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2- they may turn around to attack a us back at home if our soldiers succeeds in dealing with them.

bigrovar:
If you decide to sure your ignorance online for the whole world to see that is your problem. I knew when I posted this that the cynicism casue it's cool brigade would show their head to find something sinister to say.

Addressing your points. when deploying in a conflict zone. come out fully armed and ready. Bamako as it stands now is not safe. We are getting reports of rebels infiltration has been reported in the city and rebels columns have been sighted less than 400km from bamako.. What is the rebels decide to give the Nigerian a special welcome? what happens then? When entering conflict zone one has to be ready for anything as the situation is very fluid and anything can happen. In one of the pictures you can see an unsmiling mean looking Soldier standing guard why is comrade disembark. That is how it's done. Make no mistake this is not a picnic.. This is war. not african nations cup.. anything can happen and one can not be too careful

Doctokwus or whatever he calls himself obviously unaware of the fate that befell our troops in sierra Leone in the nineties. Precaution is the watch word thereafter.

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

ko ni da fun e, iwo omo ale yii

Desert Storm it is. I just love the military mehn. May God be with them.

obadiah777: IST PICTURE. SECOND GUY FROM THE LEFT, LMAO @ HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION. THE GUY IS SHITTING HIS PANTS. HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION SAYS 'WETIN MAKE ME JOIN THIS YEYE ARMY SEF. WETIN I DEY DO FOR HERE ? I HOPE SAY THESE MALI BOKO HARAM PEOPLE NO KILL ME FOR FOREIGN LAND OOOO'

What will kill u is not far from u, just a pitty it will be on front page so soon, that we lost a nlder

obadiah777: IST PICTURE. SECOND GUY FROM THE LEFT, LMAO @ HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION. THE GUY IS SHITTING HIS PANTS. HIS FACIAL EXPRESSION SAYS 'WETIN MAKE ME JOIN THIS YEYE ARMY SEF. WETIN I DEY DO FOR HERE ? I HOPE SAY THESE MALI BOKO HARAM PEOPLE NO KILL ME FOR FOREIGN LAND OOOO'

Nah....I guess that's his natural posture..more like "EBENEZER OBEY",he's fully on guard for the exiting infantry.

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

why you dey zuzu like this.. do u think they just decided to do that? there are international rules of engagement and one of them states that once troops are deployed they must always be ready for conflict.. by the way read up and learn that nigerian troops are one of the best worldwide.. thats y they were deployed there in the first place

victorD3: Well I still feel we have outgrown such toy looking AK 47 rifles.

Btw imagine crested numbers on the gun, I bet handlers name and family history is written there. If you lose your gun! God punish satan and Boko Haram.

Now this is how this $hit is done!

[size=30pt]OPERATOR![/size]

May the Almighty God guide our troops in this project. My prayers are with you boys and i know every one of you will return safely.

de-moore:
READY FOR STEALING LOOTING AND RAPING.GOD HAVE MERCY ON MALIANS..

Hey decorum & watch ur tongue.

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

iam tired of these armchair NL critics. Anyway, keep criticizin.for me, iam busy touchin lifes positively an makin my millions!

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

You are not as foolish as the 7 idiot who even like ur post, this is the reason seun need to introduce dislike on this site, u see how u hv succeeded in selling ur stupidity to the public at a give away price, i just dey shame for u

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

haven't you hear of scenario where the rebels have laid ambush on troops coming to fight them at the airport and killed them all. to be combatant ready as they are disembarking is the best message and pass nice signal to the rebels that these guys coming are for real.
wish you guys nice outing

Wsdm: I am scared of two things: 1- these insurgent may be too strong for our men because of what Almighty America saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2- they may turn around to attack a us back at home if our soldiers succeeds in dealing with them.

Afganistan was meant to be a permanent base outpost for the U.S. to both check Russia, Pakistan and Iran and had nothing to do with curtailing that rag-tag outfit called the Taliban.

Think for a second; it took the U.S. less than a week to uproot the TALIBAN regime. The U.S. has at her disposal the most effective and efficient killing machine ever known to mankind complete with Air, Sea and Land command as well as the Intel capacity and the money to get shiit done.

Obama never understood the BIG picture.

Pic related: modern warfare arsenal not that cloned chinco AK-47s this boko units are carrying

jaybabs_1:

u are on point. let me add, In Military assault, they are moving into a warzone, rebels are already armed and in combat mode, they should also be combat ready. what if they were ambushed by splinter groups Guerrilla fighters, how do u expect them to respond when not combat ready? in war, no place is safe! you need to always be on guard anywhere and everywhere...ur rifle is your only best friend...so stick to it. Up Nigerian Army.

You do well bro. Up NA!!

crusufixo:

If we can have this sort of rapid military responce to matters outside the shores of nigeria, then what in God's name is stopping them from doing same with boko haram thats threatening the peace of nigeria. If only this kind of responce was implimented on boko haram, these terrorist would have being a thing of the past.!!!!!!

Boko Haram has become the thing of the past, never to be heard again.

Afam4eva:
I think you have aa point. While i think the whole commando ish was not necessary at the airport, but Nigerians always have a wway of criticizing anything Nigerian and a foreign country had done the same thing, they'll say it's strategy.

It was very necessary. That maneuver was for 2 things;

1. To prepare for any surprise welcome by the enemy forces and

2. To strike fear into their hearts and weaken the resolve of the infantry. That's why an American soldeir is always dressed in such a way that makes you feel they're superhuman.


My only grouse with the whole picture are those AKs..c'maaaaaaaaaaan. NA shouldn't even have these in the armoury again na.

Bullpup weapons

femmyb:
You obviously do not know anything about Guns.
Comparing a bushmaster probably the most unreliable semi auto rifle in the world to an AK47 is pure ignorance.
You must have been watching too much coverage of the sandy hook school massacre in the US.

dont tell me i am ignorant bro. i know what you mean, i am only using the bushmaster as an example of guns to use. The AK47 will kill more people quickly than a AR15 will. the AR15 is more accurate over long distance, that is why i think it is better
The AR15 will be more accurate over longer distances. the second picture that i wanted to upload was too large.

HANDS OFF MALI YOU EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DEMONS ALONG WITH YOUR WEST AFRICAN LACKEYS AND SLAVES WHO ARE RUSHING TO HELP THE WHITE MAN STEAL THE NATURAL RESOURCES OF A FELLOW AFRICAN NATION

SHAME ON ANY AFRICAN WHO SUPPORTS THIS DAYLIGHT ROBBERY AND WESTERN ANNEXATION OF A SOVEREIGN AFRICAN STATE!!!!

stup.id slaves of western imperialism - go and secure mali's gold, uranium and other valuable minerals for US and French corporations - africans due to poor education and lack of exposure will forever remain slaves of the europeans.

what business does nigeria have fighting a war against their fellow africans on behalf of france and the united states ? this is another chapter in the long saga of US/EU invasion and occupation of the african continent under the pretext of fighting a fictitious war on terror - a war that was created right out of central casting studios in hollywood.

nigerians stop beign cowards and pawns of the europeans - who created al qaeda? if you can answer that question you have already gone halfway to resolve the problem of boko haram in nigeria.

[b]Hands off Mali!
15 January 2013
The World Socialist Web Site denounces France’s war in Mali as an act of imperialist piracy. After mass bombings of cities in northern Mali that killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, French tank columns crossed into Mali yesterday from the Ivory Coast.
Mali is the fourth country attacked by France in two years, after Libya, the Ivory Coast and Syria. Of these countries, all but Libya were former French colonies. Explanations for this war given by President François Hollande and other French officials—that France aims to defend Mali’s “democracy” from Al Qaeda, and not what Hollande called France’s “fundamental interests”—are cynical lies.
French imperialism is setting out to reestablish a dominant position in West Africa, using military force to assert its interests.
The war in Mali emerges directly out of the 2011 war in Libya. The rebel forces in northern Mali that France is fighting include fighters allied to the Al Qaeda-affiliated forces who helped NATO overthrow and murder Libyan Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as well as ethnic Tuareg soldiers who served in the Libyan army and fled to Mali after the NATO victory. They also include Malian army deserters who joined the revolt against the unpopular coup regime in the capital Bamako.
French imperialism is pressing the advantages opened up to it by Gaddafi’s defeat. With the Gaddafi regime destroyed and hundreds of billions of dollars of Libyan oil money seized by Western banks, African regional organizations funded by Gaddafi have collapsed and the US and France are rapidly setting up military bases throughout Africa. France’s NATO allies are promising to assist in Mali, hoping to get their share of the spoils.
Paris is also exploiting the rottenness of the West African national bourgeois regimes, which are lining up to provide cannon fodder for its wars. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, installed by means of the 2011 French war in the Ivory Coast, is backing Paris in Mali. Senegalese President Macky Sall, who came to power last year after US- and French-backed protests against President Abdoulaye Wade, will also send troops to Mali, along with Nigeria, Niger and Ghana.
In this submission to neo-colonial rule by the West African bourgeoisies, the Algerian regime plays a key role. Fearing Al Qaeda-linked forces against whom it fought the 1990s Algerian civil war, or an upsurge of the working class like those that toppled the Tunisian and Egyptian presidents in 2011, it is seeking to reach an accommodation with its former colonial master. Last month, Algiers signed multi-billion-euro contracts with France during Hollande’s state visit. Now it has thrown open its airspace to French warplanes bombing Mali.
Sitting on its $200 billion cash hoard of proceeds from energy sales, the Algerian ruling elite is offering Paris a deal. If French imperialism safeguards its privileges, Paris will receive new markets in Algeria to replace French consumer markets, which are collapsing as Hollande intensifies his anti-worker austerity policies.
The reactionary role of the African bourgeois regimes once again demonstrates the impossibility of liberating the African countries from imperialism outside of the struggle for socialist revolution across the continent and internationally.
Hollande’s Socialist Party has collapsed in the polls due to its austerity policies and its decision to continue the wars of the preceding president, the widely despised Nicolas Sarkozy. Now it has launched its own bloody imperialist war.
The petty-bourgeois parties that called for an unconditional vote for Hollande in last year’s elections, the Left Front and the New Anti-capitalist Party (NPA), bear political responsibility for the war in Mali. The brief, perfunctory criticism of the war posted by the NPA on its web site does not alter its continuing support for Hollande. In the course of several decades, these forces and the Third World bourgeois nationalists have shifted so far to the right that they now support imperialist war.
It is increasingly clear that the period of decolonization was merely a historical interlude, bound up with the political aftershocks of the Russian Revolution, which produced a powerful wave of anti-imperialist struggles. The post-Soviet period has seen a wave of imperialist wars—from Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan and the Balkans in the 1990s and 2000s to the explosion of wars following the working class overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in 2011 in the so-called “Arab Spring.”
As the International Committee of the Fourth International foresaw in 1991, against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR, “The ongoing and de facto partition of Iraq signals the start of a new division of the world by the imperialists. The colonies of yesterday are again to be subjugated. The conquests and annexations which, according to the opportunist apologists of imperialism belonged to a bygone era, are once again on the order of the day.”
Now, in the approach to the 100th anniversary of World War I, the world is witnessing a new eruption of French and world imperialism. However, Paris’ ultimate ambition—a return to its heyday in the early twentieth century, when it reigned over 100 million colonial slaves, stretching from West Africa to the Middle East and East Asia—is a reactionary illusion.
Paris’ support for the unpopular Malian regime, whose army is dissolving in the field against the Islamists, and its broader offensive to restore French influence throughout North and West Africa will only sink it deeper into the quagmire.
French imperialism cannot re-impose colonial shackles on the workers and oppressed masses of Africa, nor can it tie the working class in Europe to a policy of endless austerity to pay for war. By launching its aggression against Mali, it has set the course for a rendezvous with disaster. The watchword of politically conscious workers will be: French troops out of Africa!
Alex Lantier
[/b]

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/15/pers-j15.html

Shut up and stop castigating the guy. He could be right or wrong depending on the situation out there. And who told you Bamako is under siege? The rebels they are fighting is up north and not down south. All the same i dont care what they do at the airport as long as they crush those bastard Islamist up north and return the country to the government.

okpara ugo:

Why pretend to know what you dont know. Who says the rebels cant be anywhere close to the airport Find out when you are already dead.

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cap28: [b]

what business does nigeria have fighting a war against their fellow africans on behalf of france and the united states ? this is another chapter in the long saga of US/EU invasion and occupation of the african continent under the pretext of fighting a fictitious war on terror - a war that was created right out of central casting studios in hollywood.

nigerians stop beign cowards and pawns of the europeans - who created al qaeda? if you can answer that question you have already gone halfway to resolve the problem of boko haram in nigeria.



http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/15/pers-j15.html

are u daft?

Cunt_Destroyer:

are u daft?

no but you surely are.

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

ok. General Shehu yardua teach them how to disembark.

Perfect,I couldnt believe they are Nigeria army.

brownlord:

What will kill u is not far from u, just a pitty it will be on front page so soon, that we lost a nlder

GOD IS ON MY SIDE. THE QUESTION IS WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GET HIM ON YOUR SIDE ? IF NOT THAT CURSE WILL COME BACK ON YOU. YOU CANT CURSE A MAN OF THE LORD. REMEMBER THAT

GENESIS 12 VS 3 I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." <<< YOU JUST CURSED YOURSELF

back in the days when men were boys ,i, missed something men

Respect!

doctokwus: Our things always dfferent& always we appear not to know what to do.Why disembark frm d transport aircraft wt guns @combat positions;d rebels were dfinitely not @ d airport.More organised settings disembark wt guns far off sight& begin to prepare demselves @ d camp

i have advised seun so many times,we need a kiddies section on nairaland for ppl like this , and also the introduction of dislike button and if possible a mental evaluation team to assess post and see whether the poster has the mental capacity and capability to engage in an intellectual dialogue . just imagine what this duumb ass wrote , if we have a kiddies section all these first to post cant go there and post all the first to comment shit there . this poster post is really embarrassing and insulting to say the very least . but that is what cheap blackberry phone and plan has caused . so we may jjust have to live with it . but this guy is daaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmm STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPIIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.he is certainly the best fooooool of nairaland.

cap28:

no but you surely are.