Soldiers are humans,the have girlfriends,mothers,wives to go back to. Retreating is essential in combat and must be done correctly by following Army protocol ie destroy all classified info,gears etc. As the say He who runs 2day lives to fight another. Even do No retreat No surrender

Illusion NE is not hollywood Bh doesn't have such capability.

Nigerian Armforces have been suffering from neglect from IBB time, as military heads feared coup but 2000. In present time corruption by both politicians and military brass is the problem. All tru the liberian engagement troops had no body armor but it didn't stop them from going in to fight now morale is low as politician are destroying the military. Nig Navy is the only modern force in our military with its personnels having 21 century assault rifles and gears. It commands sizeable amt of military ship but also suffers from corruption. The Naf is shadow of its self. It is a junk yield with dead planes currently 7% ops capacity. Its QRF unit is well trained and equip and have been working along side Navy SBS units in NE for special tactical ops

Suggestion is tacticaly not feasible to exclude personnel base on there ethnic background. If the military must win he war. We must use blackops to identify and neutralise source of weaponry for BH(libya,congo other black market. Politicians should provide facilitates to improve standard of living and encourtage sense of patriotism among populace the military must use AIRpower and surgical ops to terminate and destroy enemy position. Faciliti

Asari is Nothing but a THUG. Who is free to say trash. All of us then should leave Nigeria both the descendants jew,the people of ododowa. Hausa should go to Baghdad were bayajida came. America is made of folks from around who made it great. Its indigenous people are still noting that's life

Those 500 were on active military ops reason for there redeployment back to field. Those could have arrive theater few days before the attack. Rotation is on going. I can tell You that rotation in military is vital and is on going either as individual posting,unit or battalion drafting in HOT ZONE. NA is doing well. NAF is vital component if we must win and terminate enemy LZ and armory

LOL. That incident was ugly. But I have faith in our boys but zero failed in our leaders in Abuja. Our soldiers are gallant officers who have cont to make huge sacrifice for our Nation. The are not the best neither are the perfect. It is our RESPONSIBILITY to give them all the weaponry the need. What's happening in Maiduguri is not Hollywood it is real Combat were life and death is decided with nanoseconds

Nigera since the present Admns has NO foreign policy objectives. We NO longer big brother. Countries like Benin Who use to look up to us for protection are now thinking Twice

KnowAll: [size=18pt]HOW COME NO ONE CAN SHOW US TODAY'S PICTURE OF GWOZA, Gamborou-Ngala, Ashigashiya Towns, are these Towns still under Boko Haram Control. [/size]

Oga sir You no get Camera phone make u go RECOIN for us.

KnowAll: [size=18pt]HOW COME NO ONE CAN SHOW US TODAY'S PICTURE OF GWOZA, Gamborou-Ngala, Ashigashiya Towns, are these Towns still under Boko Haram Control. [/size]

Oga sir You no get Camera phone make u go RECOIN for us

Libya use to be a Nation. Today it is a failed one

Libyans are surely definately missing Ghaddafi

The situation in Libya means. More weapon flow into sub saharan Africa. DMI should begin to find possible arms sales men and there Networks in Nigeria for liquidation. We must act Now or else BH will be having More weapons

Inter-militia fighting is wreaking havoc in Libya, which is witnessing the worst violence since the 2011 overthrow and killing of longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.

Fierce fighting is raging between powerful Islamist and nationalist militias in the capital, Tripoli, and in the eastern city of Benghazi. Without a functioning national army, the government has been unable to rein in the militias and contain the surging violence.

With a parallel political struggle for power between Libya's former and newly elected parliament, many fear the country could slide into all-out civil war.

The Main Players

In Tripoli, the two main players in the violence are Islamist-affiliated forces from Misurata and the Zintan militia brigades. The two groups, both from western Libya, have turned Tripoli into a battlefield, forcing the United Nations and embassies to evacuate their staff.

Misurata fighters claimed a decisive victory on August 23 when they wrested control of Tripoli's international airport from the Zintan militia, which had held it for the past three years. Misurata fighters have taken loose control of Tripoli, with Zintan forces fleeing to the outskirts of the city.

In the east, in the city of Benghazi, there is a different collection of armed groups. One is Ansar al-Sharia, an extremist Islamist militia group that was blamed for the September 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, along with three other embassy staff.

Fighting has been raging between Ansar al-Sharia and two nationalist militias -- the Al-Saiqa militias made up of remnants of Libya's special forces, and a movement led by renegade General Khalifa Haftar, who in May launched an operation targeting Islamist militias in Benghazi. Haftar and the Zintan militias are in a loose alliance.

Libya's vast, oil-rich south is controlled by the leader of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), Ibrahim Jadhran. The PFG was tasked by the government with protecting the country's crucial oil installations. But Jadhran has accused the government of corruption and until recently had blocked Libya's oil-export terminals.

Meanwhile, war planes have targeted Misurata positions in Tripoli and Islamist-held territory in Benghazi. Misurata forces have blamed the air strikes on Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP on August 25 that U.A.E. jets launched two attacks in seven days on Misurata fighters using bases in Egypt. The U.A.E. has not commented, while Cairo denied any involvement.

Government Unable To Rein In Militias

The weak central government lacks a functioning national army and relies on various militias for public security. But the government is not able to control the militias, which receive salaries from the government but act according to the wishes of their own commanders.

The Zintan militias, for example, were tasked by the government with guarding Tripoli's international airport since taking control of it in 2011. But they refused to leave. The Misurata fighters are also on the Defense Ministry's payroll. To complicate matters further, both groups have come under attack from the Libya Revolutionary Operations Room, another group on the state's payroll that until October 2013 was tasked by the government with protecting the capital.

In the campaign to overthrow Qaddafi, many militias currently fighting each other were comrades-in-arms. But many have since become enemies on the battlefield.

"Over time, the different groups have associated themselves with different political currents, primarily nationalists and Islamists, and that automatically pits one against the other," says George Joffe, a Libya expert and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, who estimates that around 350 different militias are currently operating in Libya.

"Each of them has represented an autonomous power center and has been very unwilling to share power with other groups. On top of all that, there is the question of the regional and tribal identities of the groups involved."

Two Competing Governments

As fighting rages across Libya, there has been a parallel struggle between two competing parliaments. Libya's new parliament, elected on June 25, is based in the eastern city of Tobruk. The former parliament, which has refused to cede power, is based in Tripoli.

The new parliament is nationalist in complexion compared to the Islamist-dominated former parliament. Both parliaments have refused to recognize the legitimacy of the other.

Libya's former parliament reconvened on August 25 and voted unanimously to disband the country's current interim government and appoint a new "national salvation government" headed by Omar al-Hassi, an Islamist.

Meanwhile, lawmakers from the newly elected parliament have branded the Islamists in control of Tripoli "terrorist organizations" and have fired the army's chief of staff over his alleged links to Islamists and appointed a successor who has declared a war against "terrorists."

Libya's interim government, headed by Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, has been unable to return to Tripoli.

Path Toward Civil War

In such a situation, many analysts are predicting a full-blown civil war. Joffe says that "it's becoming very close to a situation where civil war is becoming inevitable," and sees a civil war being fought on two fronts.

"One [will be] a struggle between nationalists and Islamists, and the Islamists were worsted in the [June] elections but are determined to maintain power," Joffe says. "The other will be between east and west -- whether the country remains as a single unit and whether it is controlled from Tripoli or whether the east in Cyrenaica breaks away and is controlled from Benghazi."
Source: http://www.rferl.org/content/libya-verge-of-civil-war/26550920.html

cirmuell: please tell him that for one terrorist there's a thousand ready to repel him.

Some percents of the Israeli army are 'lone' soldiers.

I believe Tel aviv and tehran should stop there madness. Tel aviv has Nuclear capabilities Tehran has the ryt if IT WANTS to develop Nukes. The WORLD will be a better place without Nuclear weapons and aggressors

cirmuell: and that is why people of other faith always say "all Muslim are terrorist"(though i don't subscribe to that)

In the end, what matters is world peace.
Tehran should refrain from always threatening the existence of Jews(these guys are not planning to experience what they went through in the hands of Hitler again, and at that will use ANY means no prevent it). Tehran(among others) is a threat to world peace and the existence of human race as a whole. Don't make the mistake of narrowing your view to the beef between Israel/Tehran or Muslim world alone...rather the effect on the human race.

Those Guys are use as a FallOUT measure just like the US Nuclear subs ready to deploy if America is attack.

cirmuell: thank you IBN, When I said Tehran would be off the map, I didn't mean from Israel missile ...the reason for the last part of my post, the same reason Tehran hasn't attacked Israel till date. Hope you catch the drift

The atmosphere around the world is so tense right now that any silly move can lead to something the world will never forget.

Thank you. Do you know that there are 1000's sucide operatives around the world ready for deployed if Tehran is attack. (IRGC,Hizbollah etc)

cirmuell: I'm really laughing my butt off here...
okay, first of, why would Israel attack Iran un-provoked?
two, Iran can try...but i promise you the max is 1hr before Tehran is off the face of earth. And then we would have the third and probably the last world war on earth.

WaW. I don't support any attack. But IRAN has a strong missile system along side defence and attack capabilities. The 2 will NoT go 2 war. B/c if the do it will be Bloody. Last week the short down an isreal drone

Litmus: One of the things Nigeria must do to defeat Bokoharam is remove Paul Biya of Cameroon from office. It can be done.

sure its possible tru supporting Opposition. But removing Paul biya is just a fragment of the solution. Agree we must begining to think towards Who rules our backyard

Repteam:

Dumb comment. Those who liked ur comment dumb as well! Evil minded people.

Most of the both sides breach the ceasefire. Either the Isreal arrest palestinians or the target Hamas. For UN peace keepers should be Use in Gaza until a final TWO state solution is reached

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Tank ke. Carry your modern slavery link go.

Libyans Enjoy Your New Nation. You Choose it. You wanted IT

Dialogue is the only answer to peace between states. #Gaza#Isreal should protect and ensure peace continuous by respecting the Rights of each State. An Eye 4 an Eye will turn the world Blind Mahatma Gandhi

EasternLeopard:

Biu is relatively calm

Am I correct to say it is so because the people are fully against BH due to their faith

Haba. Biu is a Mix Community

SirShymex:

Defo at the bold. Crazy fire power with anti-craft guns blazing at people.

The sound of those heavy weapons alone is scary. But the fact that couldn't hit those guys is a mystery. Perhaps, they don't have snipers in their rank.

I doff my hat to those poor guys in the naij army - that's real patriotism right there. Risking their lives for ingrates and corrupt souls.

Nigerian heroes right there.

Those Guys are tough AAA up ur asss. Its not easy I salute. If we could compliment there bravery with motivation,weapons and Gears

ameroonian military authorities are quizzing the
soldiers and have not decided what action to take. An
officer at the Defense Headquarters in Abuja told
SaharaReporters that Cameroon had not officially
briefed Nigerian security officials about the runaway
Nigerian soldiers in the custody of Cameroonian
gendarmes. Asked if Nigeria would demand a return
of the soldiers, the source said he expected
Cameroon to do so, even if the Nigerian military
authorities did not make a formal request.
A security source had disclosed to SaharaReporters
that a Nigerian Air Force jet deployed to Gamboru to
help combat the invading insurgents only dropped
one bomb before departing from the area. The jet
never came back to the besieged area as Boko Haram
militants began house-to-house raids in the area.

Cameroonian officials have confirmed that at least
480 Nigerian soldiers are now in the protective
custody of the neighboring country’s gendarmes
after they crossed into Cameroon earlier today to
escape from Boko Haram insurgents who have
launched a massive offensive.
Cameroonian gendarmes had disarmed the Nigerian
soldiers, officials from the West African nation told a
correspondent of the Hausa Service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) today.
The fleeing soldiers are being held in an undisclosed
school inside Cameroon, according to senior
Cameroonian officials who spoke to the BBC.

Missy89:

lol.

From what i saw in the Video, AK 47 held together with duct tape might not be enough to save the nation.

Its sad. With all the billions of $ spent by the Govt. Troops mov with just 3mag. No secondary weapon. No aircover. No reinforcement

ZeusAyo: seconded. But instead of the g63 why not the ak74 with red dot sight and Gls then tavor rifle for all special ops soldiers in the entire millitary. Seriously its time the NA starts to go hunting for these blood suckers and if they know they don have enough air support, for christs sake we hav palmarias and if I am right, either bofors or archer arty pieces. That way, the arty team can be 35km away and when the pinned down team calls in Λ fire mission, the can respond within seconds but it call comes down to com&control then someone telling the presido to have his ballz re-attatched

SIR. NA needs to be on the offensive. Heavy bombardments along side serious heavy Gunfire but them in chaos and chase the baggas down

Soldiers of the NA have been doing there best,with courage and gallantry. But there is a psychological factor making them fail. (Lack of political will by Abuja to end the crisis) & welfare. We had serious combat and death of personnels in Freetown&mogadisho yet troops were ready to on orders without fear. The never ran away without fighting back. With little gears some folks without helmet the made the ulti£ate sacrifice for there African Brother b/c Govt then give them all it had. UN was there For there Welfare on an of battle field. Infact. During obj. Any major offensive against N/D militant included Air cover,amphibious and land unit. With Navy Guns active. Same is not the situation. In a time of better advance techs available in global market. Let's sell our crude and acquire Arms for both short and long-term defence of our SOVERIEGNTY. GOD BLESS our brothers and sisters in the Field. For the Humble ones who have fallen. Your dream of a safe and prosperous Nigeria shall come to be