FBI Set To Join Hunt For Nigeria Schoolgirls

[The Straight Story]

The FBI is likely to join the hunt for at least 200 schoolgirls abducted in Nigeria, according to Sky News sources.

More follows...

http://news.sky.com/story/1256415/fbi-set-to-join-hunt-for-nigeria-schoolgirls

[backscatter712]

1. It's a positive development.

There were a lot of people calling for the Marines.

I think the FBI's a better tool for this job.

I'd also suggest calling in the CIA - maybe they can infiltrate Boko Haram, locate the girls, and put a dose of The Strangler from Game of Thrones into its leader's falafel.

[CTyankee]

2. I posted my idea here on DU where we have a "deal" worked out to pay the leader of those

thugs to meet at a designated place to make the exchange, get the girls and the blow the whole gang of bad guys to hell. Oh, and the "money" would be counterfeit.

[backscatter712]

4. I'd suggest lacing the ransom money with dimethylmercury.

It'll kill the Boko Haram members who handle it... in a few months...

[CTyankee]

8. that's a great idea!

I hope it is a slow, painful death.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. Uh oh....some DUers will likely consider this to be an imperialistic move by the Obama admin

It's nothing more than a ploy which will ultimately lead to the US sucking up all of Nigeria's natural resources.

Because....you know....Victoria Nuland!!11!!!!

PNAC!!!11!!(one)!!!

[okaawhatever]

5. No kidding. They will want to know if the FBI is bringing cookies because that clearly shows

pre-coordination with the protest groups.

I think many of the anti-American re the Ukraine situation have gone back to bashing Obama. We'll see if they share their positions on this with us

[okaawhatever]

6. From the article it seems that the Boko Harum have taken these girls into areas that are

similar to where the FARC hide. Almost impossible to find people there. I hate to put the last two sentences in, but it's what's in the article:

Inside Nigeria, the government has been under growing pressure to "do something".
Dr Sakyimah Akilu, a presidential adviser and spokeswoman on national security, told Sky News that it was true that there was a general impression that the Nigerian government had failed to react to the mass abductions.

"The truth is that we are pursuing every lead we have had. But you have to understand that they have been taken into the Sambisa forest and perhaps into the mountains in Cameroon - there are many places to hide," she said.

This fatalism may explain why the Nigerian administration of Goodluck Jonathan appears to have been flat footed in hunting down the radical Islamist group which is now threatening the girls with a most un-Islamic torment.

SNIP

A similar military analysis would emerge on Boko Haram - finding and saving the missing girls would be almost impossible - slaughtering elements of Boko Haram would not.

But killing won't solve the problem.

The sad truth is that Nigeria's missing children are likely to stay that way.

Efforts to negotiate a peace deal with Boko Haram's leader Abdulbakar Shekau over the last four years - while 4,000 Nigerians died - have come to nought.

[CTyankee]

7. well, we found and killed Osama bin ladin, didn't we?

IIRC, we didn't let Pakistan in on the deal but it got smoothed over.

Shekau must go.

[okaawhatever]

9. Absolutely. I just think it will be different because this would be a rescue operation for the girls

Shekau is the type who would start killing the girls if police got close. I hope the Nigerian special forces can use our equipment in a way to help them get the girls without any losses to the girls or Nigerian forces. They can take a scorched earth policy to Shekau and his group as far as i'm concerned. They've already killed, what? 4k? Those are up in the OBL range, he needs to go.

[CTyankee]

10. It can't be too soon for me...those girls MUST be saved from these monsters!

[DirkGently]

11. Well there's a good use for our technological sleuthing prowess.

... for a change.