I can see the scorpion and the Vickers

Feel like slapping the camera man and the reporter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFghjVgLgsM

Fynline:
I can see the scorpion and the Vickers

Feel like slapping the camera man and the reporter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFghjVgLgsM

Beautiful video.......fynline.

The COAS is really doing a good job

bidexiii:



Beautiful video.......fynline.

The COAS is really doing a good job

good job? Hope d interior is digitized if not i c no good job here

giles14:
good job? Hope d interior is digitized if not i c no good job here

It's not at all digitalized : what makes you a leader is using limited resources to achieve results......... the realty of life is that u can never have it all. The COAS is doing a great job rejuvenating the army.

#BATTLE- FIELD PICTURES.....


#VICTORY...

TROOPS AVERT ANOTHER CATASTROPHE
**********(WARNING DISTURBING IMAGES)***********


Troops of 7 Division Garrison Forward Operation Base (FOB), today averted yet another suicide bombing catastrophe on Ummarari community by suspected Boko Haram terrorist at about 7.00am this morning.

The suicide bomber was intercepted by the vigilant troops and the Civilian JTF while making attempt to enter the village to detonate his dangerous cargo on innocent persons in the Ummarari.

The suicide bomber detonated the strapped Improvised Explosive Device (IED) vest on his body, thus killing himself instantly when he was forced to halt based on suspicion that he was carrying suicide bombing material.

Thankfully, there was no any other casualty other than the suspected suicide bomber. Troops along with the Civilian JTF at the village are now combing the surrounding area to forestall further attacks and clear the environment of likely remnants of Boko Haram terrorists hibernating.

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman
Acting Director Army Public Relations

WARNING DISTURBING IMAGES

with love to Boko haram......

bidexiii:
with love to Boko haram......

now that's some message mate

realnas:
now that's some message mate

Yeap.........

bidexiii:
with love to Boko haram......

Pray they recieve it with good health. Many more of its kind to come.

bidexiii:
with love to Boko haram......

Aww!!!!! So sweet!!!!

Xbee007:
Pray they recieve it with good health. Many more of its kind to come.

Ah ha aha aha aha

bidexiii:

what makes you a leader is using limited resources to achieve results

When I read what you wrote earlier about the COAS doing a good job, I was typing a reply with some examples that came to my mind. The reply got too long and I thought it would be a boring post so I abandoned it. The one sentence you made above nicely summarized all I was typing. What makes you a great leader is using limited resources to achieve results. So simple, yet so true.

X2X:


When I read what you wrote earlier about the COAS doing a good job, I was typing a reply with some examples that came to my mind. The reply got too long and I thought it would be a boring post so I abandoned it. The one sentence you made above nicely summarized all I was typing. What makes you a great leader is using limited resources to achieve results. So simple, yet so true.

tnks..

#CTCION

#AFSF/SF

Failure to Share Data/intel Hampers War on Boko Haram in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal — The military campaign by Nigeria and neighboring nations to combat the West African militant group Boko Haram has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence — sometimes even within their own security services, American and other Western officials say.

Western partners have balked as well. The Pentagon and American intelligence services have struggled at times to provide information quickly about Boko Haram militants to the African countries — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria — without violating restrictions on what can be shared from spy satellite imagery or electronic eavesdropping within rules for not disclosing sources and methods.

Until recently, Western officials and analysts said, Britain and the United States provided only sanitized intelligence reports to the Nigerian military. The countries feared that more detailed information might be misused by an army that human rights groups say has committed abuses against civilians as it battled Boko Haram, which has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State.

And a new intelligence “fusion center,” created in Chad as part of a multinational task force, has only recently overcome budget and staffing shortfalls, as well as lingering mistrust among the participating countries, to help coordinate operations.

“The big unanswered question right now is how much are all those five countries that are participating going to collaborate and work effectively,” Col. Robert Wilson, who commands American Special Forces in North and West Africa, said in a recent interview here, noting that Boko Haram moves easily across borders. Benin recently became the fifth country to join the coalition.

Even within the West African countries, interior ministries often do not share information about terrorist threats with their military counterparts.

In Cameroon, an elite special operations unit, the Rapid Intervention Brigade originally trained and equipped by Israel, now gets training and equipment from United States Navy SEALs and intelligence not handed over to other branches and units of its security services, Western analysts said. “It’s a confused mess,” said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington.

Continue reading the main story
American military and counterterrorism officials say intelligence sharing is a difficult issue, particularly outside established alliances. The United States confronted its own shortcomings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, when it became clear that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. each had information about the hijackers not shared with the other. In the wake of the Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels in the past year, the authorities in France and Belgium, as well as throughout Europe, are seeking to fill glaring gaps in intelligence sharing.

American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said it was a challenge to share sensitive intelligence with the West African allies fighting Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. The United States has different rules for what intelligence it shares with each country, and what one country can or cannot share with its neighbor — even though all are trying to fight a common regional enemy, Boko Haram.

“Because U.S. policy in Africa is for Africans to take the lead, a lot of the challenge is building trust among the partners themselves and not generating a dependence on what information we do have,” said Alice Hunt Friend, the Pentagon’s former principal director for African affairs.

American officials said progress was being made. Initially, it took up to two weeks to release information such as an aerial surveillance photo. Now, depending on the intelligence and the country, that is down to as little as an hour, American officials said. To help speed the release of information, American analysts are being encouraged to “write to release” — mostly meaning stripping information of sources and methods to ensure broader and faster distribution to partners without dumbing down the content. Drone photos provided by the United States recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush.

Brig. Gen. Donald C. Bolduc, the top United States Special Operations commander for Africa, said that since Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, instituted military reforms in recent months, “my guys are now coffee-breath close to our partners in the Lake Chad basin.”

“As a result,” General Bolduc said in an interview last week, “we have developed relationships of trust.”

Since taking office last year, Mr. Buhari has begun a major push to rid the country of Boko Haram, which has assaulted northeastern Nigeria for years. In past months, the group has spread across borders to terrorize the country’s neighbors, too.

The nations in the Lake Chad region that have become Boko Haram’s new stamping grounds — Niger, Chad and Cameroon — have long been distrustful of one another. Mr. Buhari met with their leaders one by one, shoring up support for a campaign to join forces to fight the group.

But Mr. Buhari’s strategy of forging individual relationships did little to build trust among the nations themselves, Western diplomats say. All are working together now, but with a skeptical eye on one another. And while the Nigerian-led effort has retaken a significant number of villages that were under Boko Haram control, the authorities have been less successful sustaining security, allowing fighters to continue to raid the very villages recaptured by government forces.

Military efforts have freed thousands of hostages of Boko Haram, most of them women and children. Yet the effort to press them for information about fighters appears inconsistent. In some instances the hostages, some of whom have been raped, are taken to camps where humanitarian groups spend time interviewing each about psychological problems that he or she may suffer. But it appears that no one is asking about the tactics and locations of fighters, alongside whom many have lived for months.

In contrast, in Borno State in Nigeria, the military has been detaining and screening nearly everyone held hostage by Boko Haram in an effort to collect information and determine whether the individual formed an allegiance with the militants. The detentions sometimes last months, and include even children. At the Minawao refugee camp outside Maroua, Cameroon, near a part of the country where Boko Haram has launched numerous attacks, residents said no one had inquired about the fighters.

There are examples of success. A young woman trained as a bomber near the border between Cameroon and Nigeria dropped her explosives and instead ran to the authorities in the village she had been sent to blow up. Her information led to a major operation that captured and killed numerous militants, officials said.

Col. Didier Badjeck, a spokesman for the Cameroon Defense Ministry, praised the emerging cooperation among the nations. One recent operation involved 500 soldiers from Cameroon and Nigeria, and guidance from the multinational task force in Chad.

In particular, he said, intelligence from Americans has been pivotal to carrying out operations. “They’ve given us very good information, and we can verify it,” he said. “And they also have given us information that we don’t have.” Colonel Badjeck added, “It’s the first time Americans have been this involved in West Africa.”

Americans and their TALL tales...

bidexiii:
Failure to Share Data/intel Hampers War on Boko Haram in Africa

DAKAR, Senegal — The military campaign by Nigeria and neighboring nations to combat the West African militant group Boko Haram has been hampered by a failure among those countries to share crucial intelligence — sometimes even within their own security services, American and other Western officials say.

Western partners have balked as well. The Pentagon and American intelligence services have struggled at times to provide information quickly about Boko Haram militants to the African countries — Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria — without violating restrictions on what can be shared from spy satellite imagery or electronic eavesdropping within rules for not disclosing sources and methods.

Until recently, Western officials and analysts said, Britain and the United States provided only sanitized intelligence reports to the Nigerian military. The countries feared that more detailed information might be misused by an army that human rights groups say has committed abuses against civilians as it battled Boko Haram, which has pledged loyalty to the Islamic State.

And a new intelligence “fusion center,” created in Chad as part of a multinational task force, has only recently overcome budget and staffing shortfalls, as well as lingering mistrust among the participating countries, to help coordinate operations.

“The big unanswered question right now is how much are all those five countries that are participating going to collaborate and work effectively,” Col. Robert Wilson, who commands American Special Forces in North and West Africa, said in a recent interview here, noting that Boko Haram moves easily across borders. Benin recently became the fifth country to join the coalition.

Even within the West African countries, interior ministries often do not share information about terrorist threats with their military counterparts.

In Cameroon, an elite special operations unit, the Rapid Intervention Brigade originally trained and equipped by Israel, now gets training and equipment from United States Navy SEALs and intelligence not handed over to other branches and units of its security services, Western analysts said. “It’s a confused mess,” said J. Peter Pham, the director of the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in Washington.

Continue reading the main story
American military and counterterrorism officials say intelligence sharing is a difficult issue, particularly outside established alliances. The United States confronted its own shortcomings after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, when it became clear that the F.B.I. and C.I.A. each had information about the hijackers not shared with the other. In the wake of the Islamic State attacks in Paris and Brussels in the past year, the authorities in France and Belgium, as well as throughout Europe, are seeking to fill glaring gaps in intelligence sharing.

American intelligence and counterterrorism officials said it was a challenge to share sensitive intelligence with the West African allies fighting Boko Haram and other terrorist groups. The United States has different rules for what intelligence it shares with each country, and what one country can or cannot share with its neighbor — even though all are trying to fight a common regional enemy, Boko Haram.

“Because U.S. policy in Africa is for Africans to take the lead, a lot of the challenge is building trust among the partners themselves and not generating a dependence on what information we do have,” said Alice Hunt Friend, the Pentagon’s former principal director for African affairs.

American officials said progress was being made. Initially, it took up to two weeks to release information such as an aerial surveillance photo. Now, depending on the intelligence and the country, that is down to as little as an hour, American officials said. To help speed the release of information, American analysts are being encouraged to “write to release” — mostly meaning stripping information of sources and methods to ensure broader and faster distribution to partners without dumbing down the content. Drone photos provided by the United States recently helped the Nigerian Army avoid a major Boko Haram ambush.

Brig. Gen. Donald C. Bolduc, the top United States Special Operations commander for Africa, said that since Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, instituted military reforms in recent months, “my guys are now coffee-breath close to our partners in the Lake Chad basin.”

“As a result,” General Bolduc said in an interview last week, “we have developed relationships of trust.”

Since taking office last year, Mr. Buhari has begun a major push to rid the country of Boko Haram, which has assaulted northeastern Nigeria for years. In past months, the group has spread across borders to terrorize the country’s neighbors, too.

The nations in the Lake Chad region that have become Boko Haram’s new stamping grounds — Niger, Chad and Cameroon — have long been distrustful of one another. Mr. Buhari met with their leaders one by one, shoring up support for a campaign to join forces to fight the group.

But Mr. Buhari’s strategy of forging individual relationships did little to build trust among the nations themselves, Western diplomats say. All are working together now, but with a skeptical eye on one another. And while the Nigerian-led effort has retaken a significant number of villages that were under Boko Haram control, the authorities have been less successful sustaining security, allowing fighters to continue to raid the very villages recaptured by government forces.

Military efforts have freed thousands of hostages of Boko Haram, most of them women and children. Yet the effort to press them for information about fighters appears inconsistent. In some instances the hostages, some of whom have been raped, are taken to camps where humanitarian groups spend time interviewing each about psychological problems that he or she may suffer. But it appears that no one is asking about the tactics and locations of fighters, alongside whom many have lived for months.

In contrast, in Borno State in Nigeria, the military has been detaining and screening nearly everyone held hostage by Boko Haram in an effort to collect information and determine whether the individual formed an allegiance with the militants. The detentions sometimes last months, and include even children. At the Minawao refugee camp outside Maroua, Cameroon, near a part of the country where Boko Haram has launched numerous attacks, residents said no one had inquired about the fighters.

There are examples of success. A young woman trained as a bomber near the border between Cameroon and Nigeria dropped her explosives and instead ran to the authorities in the village she had been sent to blow up. Her information led to a major operation that captured and killed numerous militants, officials said.

Col. Didier Badjeck, a spokesman for the Cameroon Defense Ministry, praised the emerging cooperation among the nations. One recent operation involved 500 soldiers from Cameroon and Nigeria, and guidance from the multinational task force in Chad.

In particular, he said, intelligence from Americans has been pivotal to carrying out operations. “They’ve given us very good information, and we can verify it,” he said. “And they also have given us information that we don’t have.” Colonel Badjeck added, “It’s the first time Americans have been this involved in West Africa.”

SAS 'fighting secret war' against Islamic extremists in Somalia


The elite special forces troops have been training local soldiers how to fight Islamic extremists Al Shabaab.

The Who Dares Wins unit is based in a remote camp north of the capital Mogadishu.

It has been in regular skirmishes with the extremists, who are linked to al-Qaida.

The mission of the ten-strong team – which officially does not exist – is to disrupt and stop Al Shabaab’s operations.

It has been working with US Delta Force directing air strikes against the insurgents by American jets based in Djibouti.

A second much larger force of UK and European soldiers is training Somali troops ready for a major offensive later this year.

The British soldiers are drawn from infantry regiments across the Army and are also based near Mogadishu.

More troops from the UK, Holland and the US are in nearby Uganda training soldiers who will serve with the African Union Force in Somalia later this year.

PM David Cameron pledged military support for the United Nations-backed mission last September with a 70-strong training team.

Two months ago 26 soldiers from the 4th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment were sent to Uganda to mentor troops.

Major David Prew of the Yorkshire Regiment said: “Every individual that deployed had a vital role to play.

“Their actions had a direct result on the Uganda People’s Defence Force’s progression and their effectiveness for deployment to Somalia.”

#CAMEROONIAN B.I.R CTCION PICTURES.

NIGERIA ARMED FORCE'S SF IN RUSSIA...WAY BACK

Fynline:
I can see the scorpion and the Vickers

Feel like slapping the camera man and the reporter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFghjVgLgsM

@fynline why do you feel like slapping the camera man
.....

bidexiii:



@fynline why do you feel like slapping the camera man
.....

Oga mi NTA no dey try at all.

Fynline:



Oga mi NTA no dey try at all.

Haha haha..........

#CTCION PICTURES

TROOPS AMBUSH ESCAPING BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS


*********WARNING DISTURBING IMAGES***********


At the early hours of today, Sunday 24th April 2016, troops of 81 Battalion and some elements of 251 Task Force Battalion, 25 Brigade, ambushed suspected Boko Haram terrorists escaping from Sambisa forest to Fulawani village. The ambushed terrorists were trying to link up with other terrorists or members of their families to relocate to other places. It will be recalled that the troops intercepted a group of women and children yesterday who claimed to have escaped from the terrorists enclave in Sambisa forest. However, during screening and interrogation, it was confirmed that they were the terrorists’ advance party relocating to a new safe haven following intense tactical operations by troops.

The troops sprang a surprise ambush on the group of escaping terrorists from Sambisa forest crossing towards Alagarno mounted on motorcycles and bicycles, killing 5 of them and recovering a number items. These include 5 motorcycles, 9 bicycles, 80 new pairs of bathroom slippers, assorted laundry items, polythene bags and mats. From all indication, the terrorists intended to link up with their wives and children earlier mentioned, who were obviously despatched to wait for them close to Fulawani for onward movement to other locations.

It is also assessed that the recovered items were for sale in other locations where remnants of the terrorists were hiding but in dire need of logistics. Further investigation also revealed that the terrorists were fleeing Sambisa forest to other areas for safety as they could no longer withstand the continued bombardment by both Nigerian Air Force and the ground troops.

The islamic state of west africa yesterday released some pictures from video shots ; displaying captured weapons and boasting of soldiers they killed.
The army has not yet said anything on the released materials, when,how and how recent it his......?
But from the pictures I think its from the kareto ambush.

From all boko haram propaganda to wage the morale of fighting troops down and to amper the trust of nigerians for our armed forces will be in vain.

Below are picture of the equipment/gears captured from the troops;

Our troops are fighting on and we support our frontline troops 100%


#victory
#support the nigeria armed forces.

Somali troops kill six al-Shabaab militants


Security operatives in Southwest Somalia said on Sunday they have killed at least six Al-Shabaab militants.

They said they also captured three others at a village about 25km from Bur-hakabo town in Bay region of southwest Somalia during an operation on Sunday.

Security commander of Southwest State Administration in Somalia, Mohamed Isak Ibrahim said the nine militants were preparing explosive devices when they the were caught.

Mohamed said there was a fight when the terrorist tried to resist arrest.

UNCOMFIRMED; HAS THE N.A.F ORDERED ADDITIONAL 24JF-17 FIGHTER JETS WITH AN OPTION ON 16 MORE.....?


https://mobile.twitter.com/Chopsyturvey/status/724238091997732864

#AFSF...

bidexiii:
UNCOMFIRMED; HAS THE N.A.F ORDERED ADDITIONAL 24JF-17 FIGHTER JETS WITH AN OPTION ON 16 MORE.....?


https://mobile.twitter.com/Chopsyturvey/status/724238091997732864

I wish is true o

bidexiii:
UNCOMFIRMED; HAS THE N.A.F ORDERED ADDITIONAL 24JF-17 FIGHTER JETS WITH AN OPTION ON 16 MORE.....?


https://mobile.twitter.com/Chopsyturvey/status/724238091997732864

if this turns out to true , oga beegeagle will gladly return to his blog . Besides make this peeps purchase su25s na the best ground attack available

bidexiii:
UNCOMFIRMED; HAS THE N.A.F ORDERED ADDITIONAL 24JF-17 FIGHTER JETS WITH AN OPTION ON 16 MORE.....?


https://mobile.twitter.com/Chopsyturvey/status/724238091997732864

if this turns out to true , oga beegeagle will gladly return to his blog . Besides make this peeps purchase su25s na the best ground attack plane available