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Posted on 05/10/2014 10:33:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The search for nearly 300 missing Nigerian schoolgirls has taken on an international dimension with the arrival of American and British experts on the ground to help track down the teens.
There are military personnel, development experts, law-enforcement and intelligence agents. And then there’s the possibility of calling in the drones.
Reuters reported Thursday that the U.S. was considering a request by Nigeria to provide surveillance aircraft and intelligence. "We are considering it," Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. assistant-secretary of State for African Affairs, said in an interview.
While surveillance drones have been used for humanitarian purposes from the Fukushima radiation disaster to earthquake hit Haiti, experts are divided over how effective they would be in searching for the schoolgirls whose plight has captivated the world.
“From a technical perspective it makes sense,” said military aviation expert Caitlin Lee. “You can see places you probably couldn’t get to on foot.”
Drones — also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs — also can be stationed longer than manned aircraft, using cameras and infrared sensors that can detect movement and heat to transmit live feeds to analysts on the ground.
Feeds from around-the-clock surveillance would help analysts on the ground establish patterns of life - movement of people, numbers of people and suspicious activity - that could ostensibly shed light on the girls' whereabouts.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Those girls are spread halfway around the planet now.
The time to save those girls was when Boko Harum was burning boys to death in their schools. At this point, we’re reduced to hashtag diplomacy and PR moves.
If people really honestly accept that the world powers don’t know what happened and where that Malaysia Airbus is, they are dumber than I thought.
IMHO all the DRONES are ensconced in the State Department behind desks plotting against the USA. If they were any good at it we'd have been taken down long before this.
Yes. Of course. Democratic Party drones support the kidnappers they should have contacts over there but will they betray their Boko Haram friends?
Why doesn't Hitlery open up a #Whatdifferncedoesitmake site and save the world?/sarc
Yep they’ve long since been sold and shipped out.
Benghazi could have been prevented with a little forethought.
The Ukraine thing could have been headed off with a little forethought and diplomacy.
The Nigeria kidnappings could have been headed off with a little forethought.
This nigerian story is intended to get Benghazi out of the news.
“It’s Hillary’s fault”
Repeat often!
Especially at night.
I would not be surprised if their location is now known IF they were kept together.
Unfortunately they are likely dead or sold already.
And in a week, when some other crisis blows up, the Nigerian schoolgirl story will be old news, too, with about as much reporting as Benghazi is getting in the mainstream press now.
How quickly these things become “cold cases”.
Even “cold case” crimes remain crimes, whether there is a statute of limitations or not.
As someone posted in a related thread, sadly, those girls probably have already been sold off to the sex trade and/or slave trade. Those who aren’t providing sex services are laboring in homes of the wealthy.
It is rather disconcerting that none of the womens’ groups seem to be expressing outrage. The exception being Michelle O and the little hash-tag #bringourgirlsback sign.
Many of us do not realize that the sex and slave trades are rampant in some parts of the world.
UN: {crickets chirping}
How about you use them to light up some jihadi dirtbags?
RE: How about you use them to light up some jihadi dirtbags?
Sure, as long as you can make sure the school girls don’t get light up with them...
Who says they aren’t already there flying ISR mission. . .
The people are OUTRAGED over the kidnapping of the young women and have cast out every single member of the terrorist organization, strangling their supplies, and standing up to them when they come crawling into the towns looking for food and recruits...
Oh, right, they haven’t, so why should I give a rip either? They want to do this to themselves? Have fun. When they’re ready to put an end to this and the other horrors of Islam, give me a call.
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Could the looming Benghazi exposures have something to do with the sudden interest in the Boko Haram by the MSM employees and Obama Administration?
Will the MSM employees report that the kidnapped girls signed a petition that the Benghazi hearing be delayed until they are rescued?
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