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"The sudden focus on a practice that has been going on for a long time suggests that the real purpose of this article is to lay the propaganda foundation for an eventual invasion of Nigeria to control their natural resources and allow their sale only for the US dollar."
Someone pretty much saw what I did -- as it leads my World section this morning:
"Group’s leader threatens to sell abducted girls; Militants’ video inflames tensions across Nigeria" by Adam Nossiter | New York Times May 06, 2014
DAKAR, Senegal — In a video message apparently made by the leader of Nigeria’s Islamist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolgirls nearly three weeks ago, called the girls slaves, and threatened to “sell them in the market, by Allah.”
They merit a mention with a well-timed video cited by my agenda-pushing propaganda pre$$?
“Western education should end,” Shekau said in the 57-minute video, speaking in Hausa and Arabic. “Girls, you should go and get married.”
I wonder which CIA station was used as a studio.
The Islamist leader also warned that he would “give their hands in marriage because they are our slaves. We would marry them out at the age of 9. We would marry them out at the age of 12,” he said.
Then we simply must go rescue the Nigerian girls even if we have to kill a lot of them in the process. Not only that, but sad to say, this whole narrative reeks of covert western intelligence.
The message was received by news agencies in Nigeria on Monday and is similar to previous videos purportedly from Boko Haram.
It is the first time the group has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, which have gripped Nigeria, ignited a rare antigovernment protest movement, and embarrassed the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, who has so far been unable to rescue any of the teenage girls.
The girls were abducted from their school in a remote corner of northeastern Nigeria on April 14. By some counts 276 remain missing.
The incident is the latest assault by Boko Haram, which has committed dozens of massacres of civilians in its five-year insurgency in Nigeria’s north with the aim to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the Nigerian government.
Earlier this year, for instance, more than 50 teenage boys were slaughtered — some burned alive — at a government school in the north. That attack, like many others, was largely forgotten in Nigeria and was barely noticed outside of it.
I'm sure I noticed it somewhere.
But the kidnappings of the girls have attracted rare international attention, with foreign governments, including the United States, expressing concern.
The government’s helplessness so far — the army first claimed to have rescued the girls, then retracted the claim — has shaken Jonathan’s administration, and the president has spoken of reaching out to other governments for help in rescuing the girls — a rare admission of incapacity for a Nigerian leader.
In a vivid demonstration of how sensitive the issue has become for the government, two women protesting its response to the kidnappings were arrested Monday after a meeting in Abuja, the capital, with the wife of the president, according to leaders of the protest movement.
The country is preparing this week to host a major economic summit, the World Economic Forum, making the unresolved kidnappings all the more embarrassing for officials there.
Wow, what coincidental timing!
Last week, protesters marched on the country’s National Assembly in Abuja; the leaders of those marches apparently angered Patience Jonathan, the wife of the president.
Patience Jonathan had invited mothers of the abducted girls to come to Abuja from Chibok, the remote northeastern town where the girls were seized, according to Hadiza Bala Usman, the organizer of the protests. But the “timeline was too short,” Usman said — there are no flights, and Chibok is several days’ journey by road.
The mothers from Chibok “delegated the responsibility” of meeting with Jonathan to neighbors who were already in Abuja. But when the president’s wife discovered that the women with whom she met were not mothers of the missing girls, she became enraged, said Usman and Dr. Pogu Bitrus, a Chibok official who knows both women.
Usman said that Patience Jonathan told the women, “You lied to us by saying you are a mother,” according to Usman. “Because of that we are detaining you.”
Bitrus said that Patience Jonathan “ordered that they be arrested for impersonation.”
A spokesman for the president, Reuben Abati, could not be reached Monday. A spokesman for Patience Jonathan was quoted in media reports as denying that anybody had been arrested.
In Washington, the White House said the United States is doing what it can to help find and free the girls.
Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters that the US assistance includes counterterrorism support and logistics to Nigerian investigators. Carney called the mass abduction ‘‘an outrage and a tragedy.’’
The fact that the U.S. is flogging this makes it suspicious.
The message from the Boko Haram leader once again highlighted the extent to which secular, Western-style schools are a principal target of the group, whose name roughly translates as “Western education is forbidden,” in an amalgam of pidgin English, Hausa, one of the most commonly spoken languages in Africa, and Arabic.
Shekau emphasized that the girls were taken because they were attending such a school.
“Western education is sin, it is forbidden, women must go and marry,” he said in the video message. Shekau also tried to justify the abduction of the girls by noting that Boko Haram members remain imprisoned in Nigeria.
So what happen to the spokesman? That piece of shit get sacked?
It was unclear whether the video of Shekau was made before or after reports emerged last week that some of the girls have been forced to marry their abductors — who paid a nominal bride price of $12 — and that others have been carried into neighboring Cameroon and Chad. Those reports could not be verified.
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NEXT DAY UPDATE:
"New kidnapping reported in Nigeria as US offers help" by Adam Nossiter and Rick Gladstone | New York Times May 07, 2014
ABUJA, Nigeria — Armed extremists in northern Nigeria have carried out another brazen kidnapping of young girls, the UN Children’s Fund and a local official said Tuesday, adding to the international uproar over the abduction of more than 200 girls seized from a school in the same part of the country last month.
It leads the World section again today, and the ulterior motives of the agenda-pushing are oozing from it.
Details of the additional kidnapping came as the Obama administration announced that it had offered to help Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, find and prosecute those responsible for the April mass abduction, which has traumatized Nigeria and garnered attention worldwide.
Jay Carney, a White House spokesman, told reporters in Washington that the assistance, including US military personnel and specialists in hostage negotiations, was offered to Jonathan in a telephone call with Secretary of State John Kerry.
They are TRYING LIKE HELL to get into NIGERIA now, and one really has to wonder about the origins and operatives of Boko Harem.
In addition, the State Department issued an updated warning to US citizens, admonishing them to avoid nonessential travel to parts of northern Nigeria “due to the risk of kidnappings, robberies and other armed attacks.”
President Obama said the Nigerian government has accepted technical assistance from US military and law enforcement officials.
I wish them luck being a puppet.
‘‘We’re going to do everything we can to provide assistance to them,’’ the president said in an interview on the Today show.
Obama said the April 15 abduction, which has ignited international outrage and mounting demands for Nigeria to do more to find and free the girls before they are harmed, is a ‘‘terrible situation.’’
???????
Why the arbitrariness?
‘‘Boko Haram, this terrorist organization that’s been operating in Nigeria, has been killing people and innocent civilians for a very long time,’’ Obama said, adding that the group long has been identified as one of the worst local or regional terrorist organizations in the world. ‘‘I can only imagine what the parents are going through,’’ added Obama, a father of two daughters ages 15 and 12.
Says the #1 terrorist in the world, he who signs off on drone strikes that do the same.
The technical specialists, including a team to be put together by the US Embassy in Abuja, will include US military and law enforcement personnel skilled in intelligence, investigations, hostage negotiating, information sharing, and victim assistance, Carney said.
Meaning you will have CIA on the ground!
That is what US embassies have become: CIA stations.
The United States was not considering sending armed forces, Carney noted.
Not yet, anyway.
Kerry said the United States has been in touch with Nigeria ‘‘from day one’’ of the crisis. But repeated offers of assistance were ignored until Kerry and Jonathan spoke Tuesday amid growing international concern over the fate of the girls in the weeks since their abduction from their school in the country’s remote northeast.
Oh, wow! This is all about putting pressure on Jonathan, if it is even real. Could all be one big hoax, folks. It's not like the newspaper has never done that before; in fact, it seems to be more the standard rather than the exception.
Kerry said Nigeria apparently had its own strategy for how to proceed, but realizes that more needs to be done.
UNICEF said the second kidnapping involved at least eight girls who were seized in their homes in Borno state to prevent them from attending school. It called the latest abduction “an outrage and a worsening nightmare for the girls themselves, and for the families of the more than 200 girls who have been stolen from their communities in the last several weeks.”
I'm thinking of all those U.S. troops, contractors, and trainees kicking in doors in Iraq and Afghanistan all these years, as well as Palestinians under Israeli boot. Then I'm thinking my Jewi$h War Media sucks.
Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s regional director for west and central Africa, said that the information was obtained from the agency’s contacts for the area, which has been riven for years by attacks on villages and schools by Boko Haram. The leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed responsibility for the mass abduction last month in a newly released video in which he vowed to sell the girls like slaves.
“The situation in northeast Nigeria has been difficult for a long time,” Fontaine said. The mass anger and global outcry caused by the abductions is important, he said, because it shows that “at some point people say enough is enough.”
You get such things here every frikkin day!
Hamba Tada, a local official in Gwoza, another town in the area, offered additional details of the latest kidnapping, although his account differed in some respects.
Tada said 11 girls, 12 to 15 years old, had been abducted from two villages, Warabe and Wala, on Sunday night by members of Boko Haram.
He said the kidnappers had not shot anyone but seized grain and livestock while the abducted girls were hurled into a bus.
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