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When Syrian troops displayed weapons confiscated from rebels, in Daraa province, Syria. The Syrian government said that a number of Western-made arms were among the recovered cache, including TOW missile launchers and weapons designed to take out tanks and aircraft.

The non-response of U.S and French forces in going after Boko Haram sanctuaries in Niger and Chad is a deliberate decision. It wasnt an oversight, neither are they aloof to the reason Nigeria was forced to shut its border. There is an illegal covert weapons program being run.

Make no mistake. The United States is the greatest military power the world has ever seen. The intelligence community know what's going on. Remember the machinations by the Obama administration to arm and support terrorists in Syria in their effort to take out Assad.


A lot of that was being organized out of Libya. There was no U.S or French drone base when the Nigerian army did what people in the intelligence community thought was impossible, take back all captured territory and take Camp Zairo in the Sambisa.
Those bases sprung up weeks after the capture of Sambisa. There were predictions we will see the rise of radical islam in the region with this development. We all thought it silly. We've taken Camp Zero. Months later we had ISIS West Africa or whatever misnomer they call it.

Was watching Fareed Zakaria, this guy says corruption is major threat in Nigeria and the U.S is only there to help. No Fareed. Corruption does not slit the throats of civilians. The enemy is radical Islamic terrorism. They are vicious, they are barbaric and they are on the match.

I'm not downplaying Nigeria's fault. What i am saying is that the Boko Haram of 2009 have long ceased to exist. It has been hijacked and we are dealing with an international ring of covert Ops designed to weaken the Nigerian state.

Now you all don't have to believe me. Look it up. Do your own research. What gets me the most is complete absence of outrage towards the barbarity of Boko Haram. They are hardly ever mentioned in a negative light even if they slaughter a whole village. The narrative always falls on the same old card, Nigeria is corrupt, incompetent yadayada. The Nigerian military is among the continents most effective force when it comes to counter-insurgency. Over 67 countries were involved in the war in Syria to help stop ISIS. The Nigerian military
has never had that level of support. Instead the military has been slammed with one arms embargo or the other, even targeting the Nigerian economy. The sudden decision by the Obama admin to stop buying Nigerian crude sent us into our worst economic recession in 35 years.

We have persevered in all of this to the astonishment of the belligerents. We've developed our own counter intelligence architecture. Invested in the best ISR/ISTAR assets the continent has ever seen. Retrain a military doctrine to fight conventional wars into a mobile fighting force and has done what was the work of science fiction years ago. Now that its clear Boko Haram stand no chance against the Nigerian state they have resorted to the tactic of slaughtering innocent civilians in the hope of making Nigerians lose faith in our armed forces.

We must learn from Syria. The same year, the U.S. formed a coalition to battle ISIS in Syria, ISIS took over Mosul in Iraq. ISIS rapid takeover was assisted by U.S. weapons looted from ''moderate'' rebel fighters that the U.S just spent $500 million in cash to train and equip.

Im not absorbing the Nigerian government from blame, but we must never lose sight of the international dimension to Boko Haram operations in Nigeria. They dont hold an inch of Nigerian territory, where do they disappear to after cowardly attacks on civilians?

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