US and UK surveillance discovered
whereabouts of kidnapped schoolgirls
Spotted around 80 of the 276 Nigerian
girls seized by Boko Haram in 2014
Didn't do anything about it as rescue
attempt was considered too 'high risk'
Videos have emerged showing the girls
are being brutally raped regularly.
The US and British governments knew
where at least 80 of the Nigerian girls
kidnapped by Boko Haram were but failed
to launch a rescue mission, it has been
revealed.
Terrorists stormed a secondary boarding
school in the remote town of Chibok in
Borno state, northern Nigeria in April
2014, and seized 276 girls who were
preparing for end-of-year exams.
Although 57 of the girls managed to
escape the rest have remained missing
and have not been heard from or seen
since apart from in May that year, when
130 of them appeared in a Boko Haram
video wearing hijabs and reciting the
Koran.
Dr Andrew Pocock, the former British high
commissioner to Nigeria, has now
revealed that a large group of the missing
girls were spotted by British and
American surveillance officials shortly
after their disappearance, but experts felt
nothing could be done.
He told The Sunday Times that Western
governments felt 'powerless' to help as
any rescue attempt would have been too
high risk - with Boko Haram terrorists
using the girls as human shields.
Dr Pocock said: 'A couple of months after
the kidnapping, fly-bys and an American
eye in the sky spotted a group of up to 80
girls in a particular spot in the Sambisa
forest, around a very large tree, called
locally the Tree of Life, along with
evidence of vehicular movement and a
large encampment.'
He said the girls were there for at least
four weeks but authorities were
'powerless' to intervene - and the
Nigerian government did not ask for help
anyway.
He said: 'A land-based attack would have
been seen coming miles away and the
girls killed, an air-based rescue, such as
flying in helicopters or Hercules, would
have required large numbers and meant a
significant risk to the rescuers and even
more so to the girls.'
He added: 'You might have rescued a few
but many would have been killed. My
personal fear was always about the girls
not in that encampment — 80 were there,
but 250 were taken, so the bulk were not
there. What would have happened to
them? You were damned if you do and
damned if you don't.'
In an investigation by Christina Lamb for
the Sunday Times Magazine, Dr Pocock
said the information was passed to the
Nigerians but they made no request for
help.
The Magazine has also seen brutal rape
videos which show schoolgirls are being
used as sex slaves by the terrorists.
Ms Lamb reports: 'They film schoolgirls
being raped over and over again until
their scream become silent Os.'
Some of the girls who managed to escape
told Ms Lamb they were kept in 'women's
prisons' where they were taught about
Islam. Boko Haram fighters would visit
and pick their wives.
The girls were powerless to resist as even
then the men would be heavily armed.
They were shown videos of people being
raped, tortured and killed as a threat of
what would happen to them if they tried
to run away.
Dr Stephen Davis, a former canon at
Coventy Cathedral who has spent several
years attempting to negotiate with the
terror group said Boko Haram 'make Isis
look like playtime' and said it is 'beyond
belief' that the authorities both in Nigeria
and the West do not know where the
schoolgirls are.
He insists the locations of the camps
where the girls are being kept are well
known and can even be seen on Google
maps. He added: 'How many girls have to
be raped and abducted before the West
will do anything?'
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau
previously claimed that all the girls, some
of whom were Christian, had converted to
Islam and been 'married off'.
The mass abduction brought the brutality
of the Islamist insurgency to worldwide
attention and prompted the viral social
media campaign #BringBackOurGirls.
Boko Haram violence has left at least
17,000 dead and forced more than 2.6
million from their homes since 2009. The
Global Terrorism Index ranks the group as
the word's deadliest terror organisation.
The group, now officially allied to the
Islamic State fighters who control much of
Iraq and Syria, has responded with
suicide bombings and hit and run attacks
against civilians.
In recent months the insurgents have
turned away from direct confrontation
with the military in favour of suicide
attacks, increasingly carried out by
women and girls - raising fears that they
are kidnap victims,
Just last week two female suicide
bombers killed at least 24 worshippers
and wounded 18 in an attack during
dawn prayers Wednesday on a mosque
on the outskirts of the northeast Nigerian
city of Maiduguri, officials said from the
birthplace of Boko Haram.
One bomber blew up inside the mosque
and the second waited outside to
detonate as survivors tried to escape, said
coordinator Abba Aji of the civilian self-
defense Vigilante Group.
The mosque is on the outskirts of
Maiduguri, the city that is the military
command center of the war against Boko
Haram.
Several suicide bombers have exploded
recently at roadblocks leading into the
city, preventing attackers from reaching
crowded areas.
Cullled From the Daily Mail Newspaper, UK,
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Malady

Hmmm...

man inhumanity to man shall be redressed if not now then later if not by man then surely by God cos evil over good can only be tempral -Dele Giwa

wailers again

D chibok girls saga would ve been avoid if d Nigerian government were proactive.
Ex-president Jonathan took it as a joke. His wife made a mockery of it b4 d whole world.
The FG is to be blamed for these girls predicament.
Each successful government in this country ve all been a mistake.
Jonathan is never a HERO.
He really messed things up.

Am just speechless.

Let's blame GEJ and exonerate the principal of said school who abdicated responsibility so the girls can be kidnapped.
Let's not talk about the roles of Bornu state gov or the APC, lets blame GEJ.

TippyTop:
Let's blame GEJ and exonerate the principal of said school who abdicated responsibility so the girls can be kidnapped.
Let's not talk about the roles of Bornu state gov or the APC, lets blame GEJ.

I laugh when you guys talk. blame the principal as if you aren't blaming buhari for our current economic problems and ignoring everything else.

Oche211:
D chibok girls saga would ve been avoid if d Nigerian government were proactive.
Ex-president Jonathan took it as a joke. His wife made a mockery of it b4 d whole world.
The FG is to be blamed for these girls predicament.
Each successful government in this country ve all been a mistake.
Jonathan is never a HERO.
He really messed things up.

Pls where is Shekau. U'v settled him with an award of most influencial pple on earth and have him disappear from media, right ? Or u sent him to Otuoke with Goodluck ? Ur games with Bokoharam will surely come back to hurt u. All involved, from abroad and home will surely suffer for lives wasted by bokoharam

OK, some northern governors are in one way or the other an accomplice in the chibok saga

Thought it is only in Nigeria we have people like Aluko, so what does he want us to do?
Mumu dey everywhere

Oche211:
D chibok girls saga would ve been avoid if d Nigerian government were proactive.
Ex-president Jonathan took it as a joke. His wife made a mockery of it b4 d whole world.
The FG is to be blamed for these girls predicament.
Each successful government in this country ve all been a mistake.
Jonathan is never a HERO.
He really messed things up.

Proactive as your buhari is doing with Agatu and our economy/budget?

America actually attempted to rescue the girls by dropping chemicals to induce deep sleep on boko harem at night. A day to operation Babarossa, fly-ins went on final mission only to discover that all boko harem terrorists were wearing Gas masks with night vision and battle ready. The Yankees got mad and packed their bags and silently left the country unceremoniously same day.

APC really milked that chibok saga to maximum which GEJ paid heavily for. APC and some compromised northern and military chiefs probably leaked the Intel to boko. it would have been an international embarrassment if the Yankees had proceeded to rescue those girls.

The full Intel would be declassified in 20 years time. Justice will catch up with em all.

200 girls were kidnapped in a state with a sitting governor and people are blaming someone who was in Aso Rock, so why do we have state Governors?

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I love blame game


Jonathan's government and how soldiers were busted texting terror suspects is the first reason why us marine left ok?


They announced NA was compromised and then when they tried to make an arrest of a military general , that's when Jonathan announced the will no longer be needing their services,



That's why they blocked purchase of weapons basically, corruption and compromised people



Oh and if it was possible, US Marines would have saved those girls , the collateral damage would be too much



Unlike our African mentality oyinbos actually care. About every living soul



They don't risk people's lives

SleekMallam:
America actually attempted to rescue the girls by dropping chemicals to induce deep sleep on boko harem at night. A day to operation Babarossa, fly-ins went on final mission only to discover that all boko harem terrorists were wearing Gas masks with night vision and battle ready. The Yankees got mad and packed their bags and silently left the country unceremoniously same day.

APC really milked that chibok saga to maximum which GEJ paid heavily for. APC and some compromised northern and military chiefs probably leaked the Intel to boko. it would have been an international embarrassment if the Yankees had proceeded to rescue those girls.

The full Intel would be declassified in 20 years time. Justice will catch up with em all.

The Same UK&US that taunted GEJ for not rescuing the galz using APC Zombies.

The same UK&US that goes to rescue their journalist in the hands of superior terrorist knowing the Journalist can be killed too..

Do Americans allow hostage takers in their country on Field day without forcefully gaining entrance to rescue.

Nwanne, Hapu this useless UK & US, they re the real Boko haram..

Lies. They volunteered to help. The uk and usa send spy planes nd some agents. They discovered it was a scam and went back to thier country.

Okay!!

SleekMallam:
America actually attempted to rescue the girls by dropping chemicals to induce deep sleep on boko harem at night. A day to operation Babarossa, fly-ins went on final mission only to discover that all boko harem terrorists were wearing Gas masks with night vision and battle ready. The Yankees got mad and packed their bags and silently left the country unceremoniously same day.

APC really milked that chibok saga to maximum which GEJ paid heavily for. APC and some compromised northern and military chiefs probably leaked the Intel to boko. it would have been an international embarrassment if the Yankees had proceeded to rescue those girls.

The full Intel would be declassified in 20 years time. Justice will catch up with em all.

Why the dishonesty man? If you watched the video, the Americans said they gave the FG classified information. This wasn't information in the front page of newspapers. How is the FG sharing classified information with the opposition?? Are you saying the FG was that careless?? Then this article states that they got no reaction from the government. If they got at least a reaction to go ahead with the gas, this your post might be considered but no reaction means they didn't care about the kidnapped girls or they're a part of it

mrmetoo1:


Why the dishonesty man? If you watched the video, the Americans said they gave the FG classified information. This wasn't information in the front page of newspapers. How is the FG sharing classified information with the opposition?? Are you saying the FG was that careless?? Then this article states that they got no reaction from the government. If they got at least a reaction to go ahead with the gas, this your post might be considered but no reaction means they didn't care about the kidnapped girls or they're a part of it

don't mind the guy.

Okay...it's now their responsibility to locate the girls?what then is our government doing?

Why close the initial thread and direct to this one that is poorly written?

uwa

Igwe9:


Proactive as your buhari is doing with Agatu and our economy/budget?

i'm nt saying that dis buhari administration is d best or proactive. Remember i had said dat each successive government in dis country has been a mistake.
Personally, i don't see any diff btw PDP and APC. They are all the same set of wicked, self centred and very greedy men nd women whose only interests is our national cake.
The Nigerian masses are never in their agenda.
D only solution is to take our destiny in our hands- Revolution. I believe in dat.