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.
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We all should care deeply when a horrific thing like this is done. I think our government should provide assistance to rescuing these girls if possible and then blow the Boca Haram terrorists into pieces which can then be fed to pigs. Certainly our government money would be much better spent doing that then arming more federal agencies to oppress us or paying for more abortions.
But Obama was too busy supporting his buddies who were in the process of stealing an NBA team.
I'll repeat what's become my broken-record theme. NOBODY had the instincts to speak out about those girls when they could've been found.
We didn't care at all when the same group burned dozens of school boys alive a few months ago?
Same thing with the Ukraine.
Obama should have been at the Olympics sitting with Putin talking about diplomatic options while state department officials worked on the same in Kiev. Instead Obama was busy in DC throwing a tantrum about gay rights in Russia.
Yup FReepers have been very aware of the problems of Nigeria for a long time.
I'm going to go full-throttle tasteless with my next comment....now that the terrorists have young wives, what do they need these for?
I can't be more disgusted. There had to be at least some people in Nigeria who could've gone after those girls. You'd think the parents would've organized to try to find them, and before that have guards at the school. Civilization's not in such great shape, so it seems.
Call me cold-hearted but I don't either. I'm not even sure why this is news.
Africa is a stone-age cesspool of inhumanity where the worst atrocities one could possibly imagine are visited upon each other daily and there's not a damn thing we can do about it. Should Africans take it upon themselves to make even the slightest effort to join the civilized world, I'll welcome them but until then, I've lost my capacity to give a sh*t over what Africans do to each other.
Could Drones Help Find Nigeria’s Missing Schoolgirls?
Only if oboingo is joysticking them personally. Dude’s a killer.
I hope so!
The liberals greatest successes are when they can dominate the news with a story that favors them.
I think that's what Obama is trying to do with this story. It's got all the elements which promote their agenda...it's about women, it's about Obama "taking charge" in foreign policy, it's about the Samantha Powers doctrine i.e. humanitarian missions. Let's get back to Benghazi.
The last thing you want to do is send President Chip On His Shoulder into Africa searching for children with drones. He has already blown up quite a few in Pakistan.
Maybe, but I would rather they be used to kill any and all members of Boko Harum or whatever the Muzzieturds are calling themselves over there in Nigeria.
Nigeria had a $262 billion GDP last year, the 2nd fastest growing economy in Africa. Why do they need our charity for 200 children to be found?
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