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West Africa leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram
Yahoo/Reuters ^ | 5-17-14 | John Irish and Elizabeth Pineau

Posted on 05/17/2014 2:55:31 PM PDT by kingattax

PARIS (Reuters) - West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage "total war" on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group had become a regional al Qaeda that threatened all of them.

Nigeria's neighbors Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin, and Western officials, met in Paris to flesh out a plan enabling them for the first time to share intelligence, coordinate action and monitor borders.

Although Boko Haram has been fighting for five years, carrying out bombings and attacks on civilians and the security forces, the kidnapping last month of more than 200 girls from a school in the northeast has focused world attention on them.

"Boko Haram is no longer a local terrorist group, it is operating clearly as an al Qaeda operation, it is an al Qaeda of West Africa," Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan told a news conference in Paris following the meeting.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: benin; bokoharam; cameroon; chad; iran; niger; nigeria
once again, at the bottom of murder and mayhem in the world are radical muzzies.

we have been told by the PC gang that there are 'good muslims and there are bad muslims'.

yet, when have so-called 'good muslims' ever denounced al-qaeda or this boko haram trash ?

1 posted on 05/17/2014 2:55:31 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax

But.....but........our press is proclaiming that BH is not Islamic.


2 posted on 05/17/2014 2:57:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kingattax
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Barack Hussein Obama

3 posted on 05/17/2014 2:57:18 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: dfwgator
But.....but........our press is proclaiming that BH is not Islamic.

Boko Haram Obama.

4 posted on 05/17/2014 3:00:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: Steely Tom

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan may have a funny name. But he gets it far better than our worthless POTUS.


5 posted on 05/17/2014 3:05:19 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: kingattax

Obama is not going to like this


6 posted on 05/17/2014 3:06:05 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: kingattax

The African leaders have probably decided that this is giving their countries a bad name. Obama will be last in line to do anything to help.


7 posted on 05/17/2014 3:11:01 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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West Africa leaders vow to wage 'total war' on Boko Haram,

The one good thing about Obama being equivocal about going after Muslim terrorist is it forces the nations who are affected by their terror to act...

8 posted on 05/17/2014 3:14:25 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Cicero

Bill Clinton was the one outsider who might have been able to stop the Rwanda genocide before it started, but he couldn’t be bothered to do anything. He did express some general regrets later. The press gave him a pass on it.


9 posted on 05/17/2014 3:18:37 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Thanks kingattax.
10 posted on 05/17/2014 3:20:26 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Verginius Rufus
but he couldn’t be bothered to do anything.

The victims were all black. Like most Democrats, Clinton decided that those blacks who could not vote in lockstep for him and his party were expendable. Besides, these were ones that Planned Parenthood could not get to before they were born, so better late than never.

11 posted on 05/17/2014 3:27:33 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: kingattax

The biggest criminals are those saying this.


12 posted on 05/17/2014 3:33:37 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: kingattax

I hope these governments don’t just rely on their own armies to mop up BH, but also contract with some professionals to insure that BH is basically annihilated.

There are lots of governments that would be more than willing to indirectly contribute to such an effort. Possibly now even the Chinese.


13 posted on 05/17/2014 3:52:14 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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"Boko Haram is no longer a local terrorist group, it is operating clearly as an al Qaeda operation,"

WTF... and AQ is NOT a TERRORIST operation???

14 posted on 05/17/2014 3:58:10 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Steely Tom

dumBO’s only problem with Boko Haram is they don’t have as good a name as The New Black Panther Party.


15 posted on 05/17/2014 4:53:59 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan may have a funny name

Better than Sorrypricksissyboyfairy Obama.

16 posted on 05/17/2014 5:03:13 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: kingattax

Muslims doing the job Satan just won’t do.


17 posted on 05/17/2014 5:09:23 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: kingattax

>once again, at the bottom of murder and mayhem in the world are radical muzzies.<

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What a foolish notion.

Radical muzzies can operate only with the support of “peaceful” muzzies.

Radical muzzies are the players while the peaceful muzzies stand on the sideline, applauding.

Wake up, stupid world.


18 posted on 05/17/2014 6:48:46 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Steely Tom

BokObama.


19 posted on 05/17/2014 6:50:32 PM PDT by 353FMG
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