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Missing Nigeria Schoolgirls: Where Boko Haram Gets Its Weapons
NBC News ^ | 5/14/2014 | Robert Windrem

Posted on 05/14/2014 7:43:16 AM PDT by detective

Boko Haram is conducting its campaign of terror in the northeast corner of Nigeria and neighboring Cameroon on the cheap, making mayhem with a makeshift collection of small arms, automatic weapons, rifles, rocket- propelled grenades and mortars, experts on the turbulent region say.

Most of the Islamic terror group’s weapons are either stolen from Nigerian military stocks or purchased on the thriving Central African arms black market, say the experts, including current and former U.S. officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bokoharam; jihadiweapons; missingschoolgirls; nigeria
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To: Smokin' Joe

“Around the first of the month we had a “gun show” here in town and they were selling anti tank missles and f-15’s at bargain prices.”

I bought 2 F15’s. Got them home and while working on the armaments package, a rogue wave hit my boat and all the armaments are now at the bottom of the lake.

Don’t you hate when that happens?


21 posted on 05/14/2014 9:23:16 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary"S)
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To: EQAndyBuzz
Yeah. Consider getting outriggers...

It won't stop all the rogue waves, but it might help. (8^D)

22 posted on 05/14/2014 9:28:49 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: detective

I just wrote about where Boko Haram obtained its weapons from and that is in the wake of the Libyan Civil War.


23 posted on 05/14/2014 10:04:57 AM PDT by Trueblackman (As a Conservative, I am proud to be on the Obama's enemy list and on the right side of history..)
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