Eric Holder Offers FBI Help For Kidnapped Nigerian Girls

[Hissyspit]

Source: Huffington Post

Eric Holder Offers FBI Help For Kidnapped Nigerian Girls

Laura Bassett
05/05/14 03:12 PM ET

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is offering to send FBI agents to help rescue more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a senior Justice Department source told The Huffington Post on Monday.

Holder has also ordered an intelligence assessment of Boko Haram, which the United States designated as a terrorist organization in November 2013. The group, whose name means "Western education is sin," receives training from al Qaeda and its affiliates.

"Let me be clear," Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday during a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. "The kidnapping of hundreds of children by Boko Haram is an unconscionable crime, and we will do everything possible to support the Nigerian government to return these young women to their homes."

On April 14, members of Boko Haram invaded a boarding school in Nigeria, pulled 276 girls from their beds and packed them into trucks. At least 53 girls have escaped, while the rest are allegedly being sold as brides to local militants for $12, according to the girls' relatives.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/eric-holder-offers-to-sen_n_5268566.html

[nyabingi]

1. I hope the FBI

goes into Nigeria, hunts down all these Boko Haram terrorists, and executes them on the spot!!

(I'm just saying this to make everyone around here happy since this is apparently what we should all be saying - hey, I'm just trying to fit in)

[CTyankee]

9. funnily enough, I think you are onto something...I feel like doing that myself...

[EX500rider]

10. I suppose you'd prefer they get coffee and cupcakes?

I prefer they eat lead.

[nyabingi]

22. I figured you'd like this post...

[EX500rider]

25. You figured i like us to help find little girls captured in mass for sex slaves...?

You figured right.

[nyabingi]

27. No, I figured some of you would like

the idea of the FBI executing the kidnappers.

[EX500rider]

28. naw, they can surrender if they want..

.....if not, to bad, so sad, child slaving MoFo's can eat lead and the world will be a better place.

[gcomeau]

2. Ugh...

...this is one of those situatios where nobody is served by leaking this data publicly in advance. "Hey kidnappers! The FBI might be coming to get those girls you took, so make sure not to move them or guard them more heavily or anything... 'kay?"

Sheesh. Publish this stuff *after* it won't do damage.

[azurnoir]

3. It will be interesting to see Nigeria's response to this offer

I'm thinking they will likely turn it down

[mackerel]

4. Goodluck Johnson - names says it all really.

[maddezmom]

5. Looks like Jonathan asked for support

Jonathan also said that he had asked for military support from US President Barack Obama to help find the missing girls and was seeking closer cooperation with France, Britain and China on internal security matters.


http://www.france24.com/en/20140505-boko-haram-claims-responsibility-kidnapping-nigeria-schoolgirls/


Still doesn't mean he will accept what they offer, tho.

[azurnoir]

6. That's weird because according to the HuffPo

It is unclear whether Nigeria will accept help from the FBI. CNN reported that Nigeria has not yet asked for help from the United States in finding the girls, possibly because they do not want "visible American forces in their country."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/05/eric-holder-offers-to-sen_n_5268566.html

[maddezmom]

7. BBC has it as well. Not sure what to think

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27280187

[azurnoir]

8. BBC says Jonathon has asked the US and several other countries for help with security issues

that may be due to Boko Harum threatening to attack the Southern oil producing regions as opposed to this mass abduction which happened in the Northern Muslim majority region

s reports filtered in Wednesday that gunmen in Bama were once again shooting people and setting homes on fire, Boko Haram released a video statement saying it plans to widen its reach, to attack oil refineries in the south and continue its assault on Muslim clerics that don’t agree with its harsh interpretation of Islamic law.

http://www.voanews.com/content/nigerias-boko-haram-threatens-oil-refineries-muslim-clerics/1855574.html

[eShirl]

20. attack oil refineries??!!! shit just got real

[azurnoir]

21. No they haven't done that yet

and realistically it would be difficult because right now Boko Harum is operating in the Muslim majority North but the oil producing region is in the Christian majority South, so thankfully logistics aren't on their side-they're 'good' at hit and runs against children's schools, but to attack the refineries it would as you said "get real" for them, they would actually have to defend themselves against other armed adults, not as easy as taking unarmed little girls prisoner

[EX500rider]

11. FBI, phhhhttt, send SEAL TEAM 6

[maddezmom]

12. Problem is the girls probably not in one location but many

This is so sad. Too much time has last, IMO and it is going to be a nightmare trying to get them back to their families.

[Helen Borg]

13. I thought the FBI was only for domestic investigations...

[vdogg]

14. The FBI

Is a world renown investigative agency on par with Scotland Yard. Their services are often requested by other nations and is routinely offered as a gesture of goodwill. It is also hoped that these measures of goodwill will be reciprocated in the future in the form of cooperation in investigations that are important to us.

[Lasher]

15. US 'outrage' as calls grow to help rescue Nigeria schoolgirls

The US says it considers the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamist militants "an outrage" and is offering help to try to rescue them.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said President Barack Obama was being briefed as his national security team was monitoring developments.

Earlier, a video emerged of the leader of the Boko Haram group saying the militants intended to sell the girls.

They were taken from a school in the northern state of Borno on 14 April.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-27289128

'Outrage' is putting it mildly.

[Cha]

16. Mahalo AG Holder~

Mahalo DV

[Cha]

17. KICK!

[Laelth]

18. Excellent.

This is the right thing to do.



-Laelth

[kelliekat44]

19. I, for one, am happy to see that our government if finally using its resources to help

eliminate this atrocity.

[laserhaas]

23. It's about time that USAG Holder did something I can agree with.

May these girls/women come back home - where they belong

ASAP!

[laurent]

24. +1. nt

[Drunken Irishman]

26. Good to see the U.S. using its power for good.