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U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 8:44am On May 06, 2016 |
The U.S. administration is seeking to approve a sale of as many as 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria to aid its battle against the extremist group Boko Haram, U.S. officials say, in a vote of confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari's drive to reform the country's corruption-tainted military. Washington also is dedicating more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to the campaign against the Islamist militants in the region and plans to provide additional training to Nigerian infantry forces, the officials told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the administration's plans. The possible sale -- which the officials said was favored within the U.S. administration but is subject to review by Congress -- underscores the deepening U.S. involvement in helping governments in north and west Africa fight extremist groups. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Michael Franken, a deputy commander of the Pentagon's Africa Command, told a Washington forum last week that there now are 6,200 U.S. troops - most of them Special Operations Forces - operating from 26 locations on the continent. The widening U.S. military cooperation is a political victory for Buhari, who took office last year pledging to crack down on the rampant corruption that has undermined the armed forces in Africa's most populous country. "The Buhari administration I think has really reenergized the bilateral relationship in a fundamental way," one U.S. official said. The previous Nigerian government of Goodluck Jonathan had scorned the United States for blocking arms sales partly because of human rights concerns. It also criticized Washington for failing to speed the sharing of intelligence. The souring relations hit a low at the end of 2014 when U.S. military training of Nigerian forces was abruptly halted. That is changing under Buhari, whose crackdown on corruption has led to a raft of charges against top national security officials in the previous government. "Buhari made clear from the get-go that his number one priority was reforming the military to defeat Boko Haram ... And he sees us as part of that solution," a second U.S. official said. Related Coverage › Fact box: The A-29 Super Tucano aircraft at a glance Still, serious human rights abuses committed by security forces, which include police, increased in 2015, according to the U.S. State Department's annual human rights report. Many of the funds alleged to have been misused and siphoned off by corrupt Nigerian officials under Jonathan's government were earmarked for the fight against Boko Haram, which has killed thousands in northeast Nigeria and neighboring countries in the last seven years. Last year, the group pledged loyalty to Islamic State. "No wonder they weren't doing well with respect to Boko Haram. (They) didn’t have the ammunition," the first official said. The accused officials include Nigeria's former chief of defense staff, who last month pleaded not guilty to using money allocated for Nigeria's air force to buy a mansion and a commercial plot of land and build a shopping mall. ARMED AIRCRAFT Congress has not yet been formally notified of the possible U.S. approval of the sale of Embraer's A29 Super Tucano turboprop aircraft to Nigeria. The Tucanos can be used for training, surveillance or attack. They can be armed with two wing-mounted machine guns and can carry up to 1,550 Kg (3,417 pounds) of weapons. (See Factbox One production line for the Super Tucano is in Florida, where it is built with U.S. firm Sierra Nevada Corp. The aircraft that would be sold to Nigeria come with a "very basic armed configuration," one of the U.S. officials said. The sale could offer Nigeria a more maneuverable aircraft that can stay aloft for extended periods to target Boko Haram formations. Officials did not disclose the cost of the planes to be sold to Nigeria. However, a contract for 20 similar aircraft sold to Afghanistan was valued at about $428 million at the time it was announced in 2013. J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council think tank, said any sale of Super Tucano aircraft would demonstrate improving ties, but cautioned that their ability to counter Boko Haram could be limited. "When you're fighting a group that's no longer holding towns and villages, that's no longer massing forces in a conventional way, the aircraft – attack aircraft – have a much more limited role in that kind of fight," Pham said. African armies routed the militant group from much of its self-proclaimed caliphate in northeastern Nigeria last year. Its fighters have since regrouped and intensified their attacks in the Lake Chad Basin, threatening regional security, despite the creation of a 9,000-strong African multinational force to counter it. The U.S. military expects to train a second Nigerian infantry battalion once the current group completes its training later this year, the first official said. The officials did not specify what type of additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets would be provided to bolster the regional fight against Boko Haram. They acknowledge that they have a tough task combating the group, which is sending women and children strapped with explosives to blow up civilian targets such as marketplaces. "Boko Haram has morphed back in to what it had earlier been, not a holder of large amounts of territory, but rather a generator of asymmetric attacks," the second official said. (Additional reporting by Jonathan Landay. Editing by John Walcott and Stuart Grudgings) http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nigeria-arms-idUSKCN0XX09M 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 8:46am On May 06, 2016 |
GOD BLESS BUHARI 15 Likes
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Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 9:59am On May 06, 2016 |
nonsense ! why now even when the former vice President publicly declared out intentions to acquire this platform . I hate this double standards from the Americans. 6 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by CSTR2: 10:49am On May 06, 2016 |
After slandering the USA and her citizens on social media, you still run to us for a mere turbo aircraft.. Why not go to your favorite China if they are so good ? Deluded lots. 7 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Super1Star: 10:52am On May 06, 2016 |
Our profile keeps soaring on the international scene. God bless PMB for us, for enabling him to gradually repair our damaged international status and restoring our national pride. Sons of haters can keep spreading their hate, while the chief hater keeps languishing in a watery-beans eating cell. Nigeria is waxing stronger and their fraud of a dream keeps becoming a lost cause on a daily basis. 51 Likes 1 Share |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by mars123(m): 11:09am On May 06, 2016 |
CSTR2:who be dis one gerrarahere mehn. 43 Likes 3 Shares |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by CSTR2: 11:31am On May 06, 2016 |
mars123:no I won't. According to simpletons like you, the US =IMF =WORLD BANK.=EMEMY. what do you want our weapons for? 3 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by EazyMoh(m): 11:39am On May 06, 2016 |
Wailers go and die! 7 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by youngeagle(m): 11:42am On May 06, 2016 |
Don't be surprise those attack helicopter is for Naija Delta militants 6 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by mars123(m): 11:55am On May 06, 2016 |
CSTR2:even enemies do business together. when Americans didn't sell weapons to us we didn't die. we still dey forge ahead bros. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 12:02pm On May 06, 2016 |
Nigerdeltaboi: We are getting the most basic version, if eventually this deal goes through. A stripped down, Monkey model. The Americans are back with their hypocritical double standards. 1 Like |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by CSTR2: 12:06pm On May 06, 2016 |
mars123:.no, it means you have zero pride. Just a loud mouth. Enemies don't buy weapons from each other. You don't expect the US to entrust her military personnel to a Chinese jet. |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Bondesniger(m): 12:06pm On May 06, 2016 |
frankly speaking i dont see any reason for that now that the BOKO HARAM has change the mode of their reparation from sambisa and it clusters to SS, SW,SE changed there manes to fulani headsmen we cant get the effect of that aircraft 1 Like |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 12:37pm On May 06, 2016 |
Henry240:I swear hypocrisy at its peak. |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by antispexish(m): 1:03pm On May 06, 2016 |
Henry240: hoW come! Jonathan is not the commander in chief again na, the above can/had/will only happen if/when he was in charge.! 4 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 1:25pm On May 06, 2016 |
"........in a vote of confidence in President Muhammadu Buhari's drive to reform the country's corruption-tainted military." Amazing transaction to be signed off by US & Nigeria Government We need similar device to fight militants in creeks and cattle rustlers 14 Likes 1 Share |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by DaBullIT(m): 1:34pm On May 06, 2016 |
I am sure the first place they'll carry out the test if it's performing well will be The creeks God punish Devil SEE BAD BELLE PEOPLE NOTHING BUHARI ACHIEVES IS GOOD FOR THEM Bondesniger: Nigerdeltaboi: Henry240: ********************** CSTR2:When did your thinking faculty leak it's contents ? Jonathan's administration ended relations with US ARMY/US Marine , that is still fresh in our memory !! Whole of Nigerians never said US was an enemy and never hated the US , a few wailers loyal to Jonathan were (5% people) Nigeria Trading and wanting Yuan for international trade as opposed to US Dollar doesn't make US an enemy , I thought you used to be reasonable 12 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Apelex(m): 2:19pm On May 06, 2016 |
This is good |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Juxtified(m): 5:51pm On May 06, 2016 |
America is part of the reason why the menace of Boko Haram has managed to get to this monumental extent. When they were just beginning and Good luck Jonathan asked for US help in dealing with them before they got out of hand, US refused to help, claiming it was just a domestic issue and refused to recognise the Boko idiots as terrorists. Now that we are winning the war on our own, they want to share in the credit by selling us some archaic aircrafts they know no other country would buy. 5 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by EasternLeopard: 5:56pm On May 06, 2016 |
youngeagle: Most likely. This time, Buhari will lose |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Nobody: 7:41pm On May 06, 2016 |
Apelex: |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Category1: 8:02am On May 07, 2016 |
[size=15pt]haven't we heard enough of this US and boko haram already .. We all know that anything that deals with the US and boko hsram is just impossible. We ll keep hearing "they will, we will" till boko multiplies in thousands again.[/size] |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by fredHOOTEE(m): 8:03am On May 07, 2016 |
RIP boko boys 1 Like |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by DropShot: 8:04am On May 07, 2016 |
Wailing mourners be like 2 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Emeskhalifa(m): 8:04am On May 07, 2016 |
Okkk but make dem no come use am dey kill both innocent ppl oooo. |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by philtex(m): 8:06am On May 07, 2016 |
APC-SCAM |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by AyodejiGREAT: 8:06am On May 07, 2016 |
Ok.... That will be reasonable 1 Like |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by GROOOVE(m): 8:07am On May 07, 2016 |
lets just hope it doesnt end up in the wrong hands |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Fweshspice(m): 8:07am On May 07, 2016 |
Good If Itz Real..! |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by Bgorgeous: 8:10am On May 07, 2016 |
CSTR2:who ever u are you are saying we as an American, dem no you? And u have forgotten America will not do business if they are not benefiting 2 Likes |
Re: U.S. To Approve Attack Aircraft For Nigeria In Boko Haram Fight by tollytexy(m): 8:10am On May 07, 2016 |
WE DON'T NEED YOUR JETS ANYMORE.. THEY R DEFEATED TECHNICALLY ALREADY LMAO 1 Like |
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