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Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 8:35am On Dec 06, 2013
agaugust: this ya 'icons' list get problem o !

south african cocaine addiction and HIV (post mortem report detection) killed branda fassie

south african violent gangs AK-47 killed lucky dube

.....na so una dey treat una 'icons' shocked

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Lucky Dube was never really as big an icon in South Africa as he was in the rest of Africa. South Africa had lots to choose from. Lucky was one of many.

And he was killed by a Mozambican.

You are ancient and out of touch.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 6:17am On Dec 06, 2013
rka1: My goodness, can't you read? What about "We have flown 27 missions, and 684 troops have been brought back in those missions, including their equipment, field kitchen, medicals and others." Olodo.

Anyway, RIP Mandela.
Where does it say ALL the equipment in Mali was returned?

That's what you are trying to argue.

So, put your amazing reading skills to work and show me where it says that. Failing that, the point remains:

1. Naai-geria left their military hardware behind in Mali, as stated above.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 6:04am On Dec 06, 2013
chris365: You can't deny that we still have more victories in our record than SANDF can dream of.
Yeah, yeah - victories that you aren't capable of having again while Boko Haram keeps you occupied (which will be the case for years). The "Present and Future" applies not to Naai-geria. Dead is this military. Dead to the world.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 5:56am On Dec 06, 2013
agaugust: ...one of africa's greatest sons. the greatest son of africa can be argued.

zik of africa, nkrumah, nyerere, samora machele, hannibal of carthage , and ethiopia's haile selassie the lion of africa....long list

https://www.sttlss.com/images/haileselassie.jpg
Well, too bad.

Mandela's picture remains bigger and in the dead centre. For obvious reasons, I say.

No amount of jealousy will change that.

Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB:
agaugust: [size=16pt]south african military 'super' security forces defeated by one single man riding a bicycle

as a few ANC boys broke through south african military defences

and attacked the heavily guarded koeberg nuclear reactor in 1982

[/size]


News
How we blew up Koeberg (... and escaped on a bicycle)
15 DEC 1995 00:00 STAFF REPORTER


David Beresford tells the extraordinary story of how a young white South African couple, one a national sportsman, bombed the nuclear

The inside story of how the African National Congress made a mockery of atomic security to pull off one of the most dramatic coups of the apartheid struggle—- blowing up the Koeberg nuclear power station near Cape Town in 1982 -—has been told by the young couple who carried out the attack.

The man who planted the bombs was the former South African national sword-fighting champion, Rodney Wilkinson. He was backed by his girlfriend, Heather Gray, a speech therapist -—whom he married soon after the bombing.

Wilkinson penetrated the plant’s security to plant four limpet mines on the two reactor heads at the power station as well as at strategic points under the control rooms.

The attack on the French-built nuclear installation—- which, it was suspected at the time, would be used to produce plutonium for the construction of atomic bombs—- was planned by the ANC Special Operations department to avoid loss of life and risk of radioactive fall-out. The bombs were detonated just days before the plant went on stream and nobody was hurt in the explosion and ensuing fire.

Despite later denials by the South African authorities, the ANC established that the enriched uranium fuel had been moved to the plant, but had not loaded it into the reactors. It was in dormant storage. The attack delayed the commissioning of the plant by about 18 months and cost the apartheid government an estimated half a billion rand.

South African security suspected the operation was the work of a group of highly trained saboteurs. But in fact it had been carried out by a former corporal in the South African Defence Force who made his escape from South Africa on a bicycle.
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http://www.mg.co.za/article/1995-12-15-how-we-blew-up-koeberg-and-escaped-on-a-bicycle


.https://www.tmia.com/old-website/TMIsabter.jpg
An apt admission - if I'd ever seen one - that the Naai-gerian loser-itary of today is a joke.


"Oh, the SADF of yesteryear got attacked".

"Oh, oh , oh"

Bloody irrelevant. Not that the article even mentions the SADF.

Well, the naai-gerian loser-itary of today proved itself a joke 5 days or so ago.

Rankings of militaries of today:

....Number 50: Naai-geria.
Foreign AffairsRe: Nelson Mandela's Life In Pictures by CraigB: 5:24am On Dec 06, 2013
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB:
agaugust: the very first person that called for that thread to be closed was actually a south african black man @zdtee, before nairaland administrator swooped in .

you fool, there are 40 million black people in your south africa, you are indirectly calling them apes/monkeys too ....fool grin

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Rubbish - Zetdee said abandon the thread, after Naai-gerians insulted our Khoisan and Zulu People.

My people hit back and the Naai-gerians got saved by the bell - seeing as you have the nerve to insult other blacks. Don't try your pseudo-reconciliation with them now.

Apes! I insist.

Don't come and play the victim here. We hit harder and the race card doesn't shake us. We're South Africans. We've seen it all and come out the other side. Watch the world recognise us today.

You're a mundane "people" with morality midgets running around your land.

Monkeyville.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 11:47pm On Dec 05, 2013
agaugust: racist, you called all black people ape/monkeys on the other thread that was closed down by nairaland administrator...

.....mandela is a black man too, you dont like him, you prefer p.w. botha and f. de klerk.....dont try to fool us here !

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I insist that Naai-gerians are apes.

Bloody monkeys - the whole lot.

Deal with it.

And the thread was closed because South African insults are smart, fact-based and hard-hitting. Should teach you to try and insult us. We hit harder.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 11:38pm On Dec 05, 2013
agaugust: [size=16pt]south african military 'super' security forces defeated by one single man riding a bicycle

as a few ANC boys broke through south african military defences

and attacked the heavily guarded koeberg nuclear reactor in 1982

[/size]


News
How we blew up Koeberg (... and escaped on a bicycle)
15 DEC 1995 00:00 STAFF REPORTER


David Beresford tells the extraordinary story of how a young white South African couple, one a national sportsman, bombed the nuclear

The inside story of how the African National Congress made a mockery of atomic security to pull off one of the most dramatic coups of the apartheid struggle—- blowing up the Koeberg nuclear power station near Cape Town in 1982 -—has been told by the young couple who carried out the attack.

The man who planted the bombs was the former South African national sword-fighting champion, Rodney Wilkinson. He was backed by his girlfriend, Heather Gray, a speech therapist -—whom he married soon after the bombing.

Wilkinson penetrated the plant’s security to plant four limpet mines on the two reactor heads at the power station as well as at strategic points under the control rooms.

The attack on the French-built nuclear installation—- which, it was suspected at the time, would be used to produce plutonium for the construction of atomic bombs—- was planned by the ANC Special Operations department to avoid loss of life and risk of radioactive fall-out. The bombs were detonated just days before the plant went on stream and nobody was hurt in the explosion and ensuing fire.

Despite later denials by the South African authorities, the ANC established that the enriched uranium fuel had been moved to the plant, but had not loaded it into the reactors. It was in dormant storage. The attack delayed the commissioning of the plant by about 18 months and cost the apartheid government an estimated half a billion rand.

South African security suspected the operation was the work of a group of highly trained saboteurs. But in fact it had been carried out by a former corporal in the South African Defence Force who made his escape from South Africa on a bicycle.
"


http://www.mg.co.za/article/1995-12-15-how-we-blew-up-koeberg-and-escaped-on-a-bicycle


.https://www.tmia.com/old-website/TMIsabter.jpg
In the face of Mandela's death, this is mundane. I will play with you another day. I'm off to be with my countrymen.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB:
chris365: You see why I call him a parrot. The boy never gets tired of repeating the same lines over again. The guy na real coconut head grin
Just like you repeat the same tired denials:

"Oh we are winning against Boko haram."

"Oh we have he best equipment."

"Oh this and that."

Rubbish.

And when they fail (i.e. When I succeed, as I always do - you attack me).

To use your logic. If I weren't hitting you where it hurts, you wouldn't attack me. kiss

The stories coming out of Naai-geria can't be denied and this remains my sole mission on this thread:


1. Naai-gerian intelligence - useless. An insider assisted Boko haram - as per your stories.

2. Naai-gerian tactics - useless. Your important air base. Attacked in your own home country, in the middle of your most important mission in years.

3. Naai-gerian organisational abilities - useless. Equipment stolen by the enemy and used to attack your base.

4. Naai-gerian organisational abilities - useless. Equipment left behind when you withdrew from your failed mission in mAli.

As long as this holds true, you won't be allowed to forget it. I embrace my calling.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 11:09pm On Dec 05, 2013
agaugust: show us photo evidence....fake lawyer grin

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You could always lead the way by profiling photo evidence for your many claims. Try something else. Facts are eating you up. That's why you've reverted to fake lawyer stories.

No photos for you. The story stands.

And I invited you to expose me. You ran away because you yourself was going to be exposed.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:55pm On Dec 05, 2013
agaugust: show us the photos of the above APC's with proof that they belong to nigerian military NOT police grin

i am not banned, i dey kampe.

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Based on this ridiculous demand, you have lots of pictures to post.

Fail.

Tired of claiming that journalists assume hiluxes are APCs?
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:49pm On Dec 05, 2013
chris365: Have you ever thought maybe it's you who has comprehension problem? That's why you don't seem to understand anyone's comment but yours. It's evident, so don't dabble on this one.

Who am I kidding. You were probably born that way.

Oya confuse yourself as usual grin
Don't give me stories and 101 questions. A satisfies debater rests easy. A shaky, exposed debater has a million questions to ask.

Don't get mad. Get smarter.

You blessed us with your amazing logic. Don't cry now that you sit with your petticoat showing.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:33pm On Dec 05, 2013
Ah shame - agaugust got banned while trying to shift attention to Seleka?

Well, Seleka won't change the facts about:

1. APCs being stolen from your Naai-gerian military;

2 The selfsame APCs being used against the military; and

3. Hardware being left behind in Mali.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:30pm On Dec 05, 2013
chris365: Your logic. Not mine.

Perhaps if you had tried harder to understand that post."seeing as slow as you are", you might crawl out from the hole of sh1t you've dumped yourself. Enjoy cool
No - you should've tried harder on the back end of the thought process before posting.

That's why your prostrations are accompanied by no explanation. There's no explanation for your "moment of brilliance".

Don't cry. Embrace what you are and be happy.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:18pm On Dec 05, 2013
chris365: Is this another one of your diversionary tactics when beaten, or just your stup1dity at play as usual? You got the right response to your childish comment so stop whining.

Look for someone else to play your games with. Coconut head.
You've done no beating, other than on the backside of your own head.

Your logic was that I wasn't born 31 years ago, so I couldn't talk.

Well, by this amazing logic, no one here should mention the world wars - unless we are playing with dinosaurs.

Smart Naai-gerian logic here.

Once you are done dazzling us with your amazing intelligence, the military of Naai-geria still remains useless based on the aforementioned reasons.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 10:15pm On Dec 05, 2013
rka1: Yes, making things up. This is the same reporter once he had been given the facts.

684 soldiers have returned from Mali –NAF

November 19, 2013 by Fidelis Soriwei



Nigerian Troops deployed


The Federal Government has brought back 684 personnel of the Nigerian Army who were deployed as part of the soldiers in the United Nations Multi-Dimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali.

The 684 were part of the 1,200 Nigerian soldiers deployed in the sub-continent’s efforts to dislodge Islamic militants from the northern part of Mali in January.

Director, Air Force Information, Air Commodore Yusuf Anas, said in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Monday that apart from the 684 personnel of the Army, the Nigerian Air Force had also flown back 93 tonnes of equipment that were sent to Mali alongside the military personnel.

Anas was reacting to insinuations that issues bordering on funding had made the Nigerian military to leave behind some of the support equipment deployed for the Mali operation in the Francophone country in spite of the decision by Nigeria to pull out in July, 2013

The Air Force Director of Information said that issues relating to the release of funds for capital projects had no effect on the operational effectiveness of the service, stressing that it was not correct to say that the country had only one operational C-130 military cargo air craft.

It was learnt that the British Air Force had assisted Nigeria to fly the support equipment for the Mali operations to the francophone country as the country had only one operational C-130 cargo aircraft.

He said, “We have flown so many of their equipment back from mission areas. Capital project is not about operational readiness; it is not directly affecting operational readiness, we have two C-130 in operation. We have flown 27 missions, and 684 troops have been brought back in those missions, including their equipment, field kitchen, medicals and others.

“In these missions, we have also brought back 93 tonnes, 14 vehicles and we need only one more mission to complete the process of getting them back to the country.”

He said that the total number of the C-130 military cargo aircraft would increase to three by the first quarter of 2014 as one of the aircraft undergoing depot maintenance in the United Kingdom would be ready for operations then.

http://www.punchng.com/news/684-soldiers-have-returned-from-mali-naf/
Nowhere does this long story say ALL the hardware was returned.

You'll need something else. This is "tame" and "blunt" on the biting and cutting sides.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 9:52pm On Dec 05, 2013
chris365: You probably weren't born by then. So you won't know that that same military of 31 years ago is 100 times better than your modern day military including the rest of Africa. Teach yourself and stop ranting like a senseless parrot.
By your logic, no one should mention the world wars on this thread.

What a smart little quip!

Small wonder - when arguments get stuck, turn to the man. To hell with thinking.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 9:46pm On Dec 05, 2013
rka1: Why don't you say something new for a change? Don't tell me, the Nigerian Army are useless, abi?
You don't have to read my posts. All your arguments - abandoned.

Rightly so. You can't deny the undeniable.

This is a "ranking of militaries" thread. Pointing out the uselessness of the Naai-gerian military is apt.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 9:41pm On Dec 05, 2013
Making things up, am I?

The height of uselessness and disorganisation below:


Funding: Military hardware left behind in Mali

NOVEMBER 16, 2013 BY FIDELIS SORIWEI


Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim
Chief of Defence Staff, Vice Admiral Ola Ibrahim
The Nigerian military has left behind some of its military hardware and support equipment in Mali after the decision to pull out of the United Nations Multi-Dimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali.

Investigations revealed that the Military had not been able to evacuate the military hardware since pulling out the troops in July because of issues relating to funding.

The hardware consist trucks, tanks, armoured vehicles and other equipment used by the military at the war front.

It was learnt that the authorities of the Nigerian military discretely pulled out of the Mali operation because of the decision of ECOWAS to appoint a non-Nigerian General to command the regional force in spite of the huge contribution of the country in terms of troops.

Nigeria contributed 1, 200 troops to the operation which was designed to wrest the Northern part of Mali from the grips of Islamic fundamentalists with ties to the Al Qaeda in the Maghreb. The fundamentalists sought to establish an Islamic Republic in the area.

There were reports that Nigeria pulled out of the Mali mission in protest over the appointment of Maj.Gen Jean Bosco Kazura from Rwanda as the Commander of MINUSMA.

But the President of Cote d’Ivoire, Mr. Alhassan Ouattarra, who is the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, told journalists at the 43rd Ordinary session of the organisation that the Nigerian troops were withdrawn because they were needed at home.

His position corroborated the position that the soldiers were needed for internal security operation as shown by the deployment on arrival to operational theatres in North-East Nigeria.

However, almost five months after the decision to pull out of the Mali mission, the military hardware and some equipment of the Nigerian Armed forces that were flown to Mali have not been brought back to the country.

The items said to have been left in Mali were flown to the troubled country in January in the wake of the hurried decision of ECOWAS to deploy troops to complement the effort of the French troops in the campaign against the militants in the North of the Francophone country.

Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 9:39pm On Dec 05, 2013
You know that a nation its useless when its "supposedly" modern military compares itself to a military of 31 years ago.
Foreign AffairsRe: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by CraigB: 3:37pm On Dec 05, 2013
rka1: This has already been posted a few pages back. Journalists and civilians see hilux vans and call them APCs, see APC's and call them tanks.

It was an inside job, it happens, it won't change the outcome of the campaign. They are being hunted down, whether you accept it or not..
Oh, I'm sure some journalists drive Hiluxes. So, they believe that they are driving APCs? Pull the other one!

Fact is, apart from the obvious question of why the military equipment got taken by the enemy in the first place (the answer being uselessness), now it's become clear that the naai-gerian military is too disorganised to look after its equipment. That boko haram used your own equipment to attack you is ironic. Lesser military nations would die of embarrassment.


Hardware was also left behind in Mali - and this was not even a quick exit.

Disorganised - this lot. Useless in most areas.

In which area is the naai-gerian military competent again? Zero areas.
Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:23am On Dec 05, 2013
Now, assuming there was a correlation, for argument's sake - Naai-geria and say, the DRC could be graphed like so (below) - causation has been disproved because the hypothesis has failed in other analyses.

There needs to be other variables added. Mental simpletons are happy with their unbalanced linear story. The movement of people has always been influenced by trade and economics. Man conqured the elements ages ago. Leaving this variable out is idîotic. And linear thinking is lazy and stûpid.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:15am On Dec 05, 2013
Colombia.

Fail.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Colombian

White Colombians are the Colombian descendants of European and Middle Eastern people. According to the 2005 census, 37% of the population is white. They constitute the second largest ethnic group in the country with a share of 25%[2]-37%[3][4] of Colombia's population.
Per these figures, whites constitute the second largest racial group in the country, after mestizo. [5][4]

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:13am On Dec 05, 2013
Fail.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:11am On Dec 05, 2013
No "caption" necessary. Fail.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:10am On Dec 05, 2013
Real failure in South Africa. On the climate map, South Africa may not be equatorial, but it is no Europe. Yet, per capita, the size of the white population is sizeable.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 7:06am On Dec 05, 2013
Hypothesis fails in Tibet.

On climate map, Tibet is closer to Europe. Yet this similarity has failed to CAUSE a high number of "white settler" communities in this region.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB:
Hypothesis fails immediately in Brazil.

On the climate map - Brazil shares more similarities with Africa than it does with Europe, yet, the number of self-identified whites...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Brazilian

White Brazilians (Portuguese: brasileiros brancos [bɾɐziˈlejɾuz ˈbɾɐ̃kus]) are people in Brazil that have phenotypic characteristics that corresponds with the white race. According to the 2010 Census, they totaled 91,051,646 people, and made up 47.73% of the Brazilian population.[1]

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 6:55am On Dec 05, 2013
Control - chart.

Slight movement, but on track.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 6:50am On Dec 05, 2013
Control chart - hypothesis on track.

Foreign AffairsRe: Where Would South Africa Be Without White People? by CraigB: 6:46am On Dec 05, 2013
Control chart: Hypothesis on track.

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