300 Schoolgirls Abducted In Oil-Rich Nigeria? Send In The Drones

Increasing potential threats in resource-rich Africa was made clear to President Barack Obama during his visit there last week, the New York Times reports. Obama’s visit coincided with the abduction of 300 Nigerian schoolgirls in mid-April, purportedly by a terrorist group, according to a video by a terrorist that was also released this week.

The ”missing” schoolgirls, who were taken by gunpoint last month, is rocking the Twitter world under the hashtag campaign. #BringOurGirlsHome. Solution? Send in the drones. 

Just one thing that mainstream media fails to report in relation to the “missing” Nigerian schoolgirls: The U.S. already has surveillance in place to detect what every individual in Africa is doing, so how can the girls’ whereabouts be unknown? “Missing” Malaysia Flight MH370 and “disappeared” 239 missing persons deju vu.

The only “official” U.S. base in Africa, Camp Lemonnier is known as the “busiest Predator drone base outside the Afghan war zone,” according to The Washington Post. Camp Lemonnier is central to drone operations in Somalia and Yemen. The base primarily serves the Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) and currently houses more than 2,000 U.S. personnel. 

Though largely undisclosed, the U.S. military’s presence in Africa extends far beyond the “official” base Lemonnier. U.S. forces “average far more than a mission a day on the continent, conducting operations with almost every African military force, in almost every African country, while building or building up camps, compounds, and ‘contingency security locations,” TomDispatch investigations have revealed, 

Nick Turse, an investigative journalist with TomDispatch, recently disclosed that the U.S. military has been working towards establishing a “permanent footprint” in Djibouti, awarding over $320 million in construction projects in 2013, including a $220 million Special Operations compound at the base.

Human rights groups have accused Djibouti of being a “knowing participant” in the CIA’s rendition program and of housing CIA “black sites,” where prisoners of the U.S. military have been held and tortured.  Al-Asad, a Yemeni, claims he was arrested at his home Dec. 27, 2003, in Tanzania, blindfolded and flown to a location he insists was in Djibouti. Two US officials, who read an early draft of the US Senate Investigation into the CIA rendition program, confirmed the report found several detainees had been held in Djibouti, at least two “wrongfully,” as if kidnapping is justifiable when the US does it.  

The Djibouti Ambassador to the US, Roble Olhaye, maintains his country was not a “knowing participant” in the US rendition and torture program. He rejected claims that al-Asad was retained there and claimed that Djibouti’s agreement with the US did not allow it to be used to house prisoners. But he added, “If something was done in the context of the American base there how would we know?”

What else has the CIA been busy doing in Africa that officials and grieving mothers do not know about? Could the CIA possibly not know the whereabouts of the 300 “missing” school girls? An even more disturbing speculation is that it has worked with terrorists there as it has in other resource-rich regions, to trigger a humanitarian crisis so the US is justified in intervention: militarized invasion and occupation.

Mass abduction of schoolgirls, global green light for US “humanitarian” aid

The mass abduction of nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls on April 14 turned even more outrageous Tuesday when eight more girls were kidnapped, according to UNICEF. A #BringBackOurGirls campaign took Twitter by a storm this week, after which Obama’s military “aid” offer to the oil-cursed nation was accepted – to locate and rescue the girls, of course.

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It took two weeks for the story of nearly 300 kidnapped schoolgirls to go viral on Twitter, attention that oil-thirsty Obama, the US State Department and the Pentagon have long awaited. The U.S. is a major consumer of Nigerian oil. It’s been watching closely and lusting after more of that black gold for years.

Bingo. Now, Africa is begging for US intervention.

“We need in Africa — not just in Senegal but the whole of Africa — to have the military capacity to solve this problem, but we need training, we need materials, we need intelligence,” President Macky Sall of Senegal said after meeting with Mr. Obama in Dakar to discuss fears of a growing violent Islamist threat in the Sahara, according to Reuters.

Perfect, as the US needs Africa, specifically its oil.

“The U.S. is facing a security environment in Africa that is increasingly more complex and therefore more dangerous,” said Michael R. Shurkin, a former Central Intelligence Agency analyst who is now at the RAND Corporation. “Effective responses, moreover, require excellent knowledge about local populations and their politics, the sort of understanding that too often eludes the U.S. government and military.”

The New York Times reports that threats facing Niger are typical of those worrying officials. 

“The government of President Mahamadou Issoufou is struggling to stem a flow of insurgents across Niger’s lightly guarded borders with Mali, Nigeria and Libya. On May 23, terrorists using suicide car bombs attacked a Nigerien military compound in Agadez and a French-operated uranium company in Arlit, both in the country’s north.

“Two groups claimed credit for the bombings, which the authorities in Niger say killed at least 24 soldiers and one civilian, as well as 11 militants. One is led by the Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar and attacked a large gas field in Algeria in January, and the other is a regional offshoot of Al Qaeda called the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or Mujao.”

Terrorist attacks in May, combined with an escape from Niamey’s biggest jail last month by 32 detainees, including many suspected militants, have left Mr. Issoufou’s government vulnerable to criticism that it cannot provide security, despite allowing American drones on Nigerien soil.

And now, US military intervention in oil-rich Nigeria, for humanitarian reasons of course, is finally a done deal.

The US has agreed to sign a long-term lease agreement with the government of Djibouti, Obama announced Monday, cementing the U.S. military’s presence at Camp Lemonnier, home to U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and key foothold for the killer drone program.

In a statement announcing the agreement with Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, Obama hailed Camp Lemonnier’s “critical role as an operational headquarters for regional security,” emphasizing “the importance the base plays in protecting Americans and Djiboutians alike from violent extremist individuals and organizations.”

“When are we going to grasp the demonstrated fact that our drone and other ‘shock and awe’ type efforts are terrorist multiplying endeavors not terrorist defeating measures?” Bill M. comments, “Despite ouir failure to destroy terrorists we persist in bankrupting ourselves doing the same old military approaches that make military contractors wealthy as they drain money from taxpayers pockets into their own coffers, but serve no useful end.

“Sounds as if we are fulfilling the classic definition of lunacy. Are we doomed to keep it up, or can we start acting intelligently?”

If Libya is any example of what’s in store for Nigeria, the refugee crisis is bound to worsen there, but the US will have what it wants to steal: black gold. 

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“I get suspicious whenever CNN suddenly expresses interest in some tragedy in the third world,” commented FC on Tuesday below the article, US PSYOP? Abduct 300 Nigerian Girls, Release Terrorist Video, Deploy Troops, Control Oil. ”They ignore the enviro devastation in Nigeria caused by US based oil companies. [T]hey ignore the west’s leading banks enabling the looting of the oil profits from Nigeria to offshore banks.”

Nevertheless, mainstream media is launching a media propaganda attack on Nigeria now, and there is seemingly no way to stop it from “just following orders.”