I just saw this report that was released earlier this month and I just had to share. Did the military commanders really do this? If they did Nigeria has more problems than the obvious ones known to the general public. Please read
Reports from US intelligence sources have revealed that Nigerian military
commanders leaked plans to rescue the abducted Chibok girls to Boko Haram
terrorists which ended up botching the operation.
On April 14, over 200 pupils were abducted from Government Girls Secondary
School Chibok in Borno State, sparking an international outrage. In response to
the global outcry, the US sent spy planes to Nigeria to help locate the girls
and a plan was agreed with the military to mount a daring rescue operation.
However, according to two US Army generals, details of the rescue mission was
leaked to Boko Haram before it could be put into operation, enabling the
terrorists to take preventative action. Accusing the Nigerian Army of treason,
the generals revealed that that the war against Boko Haram was purposefully
sabotaged by the Nigerian government, as if it would not, defeating the terrorists would not have taken longer than a month.
US sources pulled out from helping Nigeria rescue the missing Chibok girls
after Washington discovered that Boko Haram had been fed the details of a covert
rescue mission that would involve using gas. Source said that as soon as the
Americans arrived and flew surveillance flights over Nigeria, they located the
girls and proposed gassing the areas in the Sambisa Forest and then sending in a
raid mission to rescue the girls while their terrorist captors were paralysed
asleep.
However, shortly after Nigeria’s security chiefs were given this plan in high
confidence, its details were leaked to Boko Haram who promptly acted to foil the
plot. On its next surveillance flight over the area, the US team saw the Boko
Haram terrorists all wearing gas masks.
US agents were very disappointed with this and immediately afterwards,
Washington announced that it will no longer share information with Nigeria. This
was one of the major reasons why the US gave up on a mission of working with the
Jonathan government and eventually pulled out of the fight against Boko
Haram.
According to military sources, it was this betrayal that led to Washington
sanctioning Nigeria and preventing her from purchasing security equipment
because the US is not convinced of the sincerity of the Jonathan government.
Since the episode, the US has refused to sell Nigeria military hardware amid
fears that it may end up in the hands of Boko Haram, although the official
reason given was the human rights record of the Nigerian Army.
Since it began its operations in 2009, Boko Haram has always managed to
infiltrate the Nigerian security forces where it has as lot of supporters and
sympathisers. Terrorist cells are regularly tipped off about military missions
and have subsequently been able to lie in ambush for Nigerian soldiers.
Of late, however, Boko Haram has been on the back foot since the
establishment of the regional Multi National Joint Task Force. Because the task
force is made up of regional neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger Republic, Boko
Haram has been unable to infiltrate it, ass their troops have not been
compromised.
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