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Monday, May 19, 2014

Flashback: Obama Administration Threatened Sanctions Against Nigeria For Fighting Boko Haram

In 2013, the Obama administration threatened to sanction Nigeria for fighting the Boko Haram terrorist group.
Canada Free Press reported:

Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only Obama administration official who went to bat for Boko Haram over the past few years.

Soon after John Kerry took over as Secretary of State, the U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, Terence P. McCulley, accused the Nigerian government of butchery during a confrontation with Boko Haram terrorists in Baga, a Nigerian town on the shores of Lake Chad, and in May 2013 threatened to withdraw U.S. military aid from the West African nation.

Boko Haram militants attacked a Nigerian military outpost in April 2013 outside Baga, killing one soldier. Following the three-day battle human rights activists, including the George Soros-funded and liberal aligned Human Rights Watch, which is not exactly known for its impartiality when it comes to reporting on Islamic issues, claimed the Nigerian military wantonly slaughtered 183 civilians and burned down over 2,000 homes and businesses.

The Nigerian government denied the claims saying the death toll and destruction had been vastly overstated by its enemies, and in fact 30 Boko Haram terrorists, 6 civilians and one soldier, had died in the fighting. Reports from the Baga clinic, which treated 193 people following the battle, but only 10 with serious injuries, seemed to back up the Nigerian government claim that no large-scale massacre had occurred.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting isn't it. Why isn't Chuck Cook commenting and defending MO and BO on this one.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Interesting isn't it. Why isn't Chuck Cook commenting and defending MO and BO on this one.

May 19, 2014 at 4:19 PM

Why isn't anyone commenting? Lazy Americans don't care.