U.S. Drones on Humanitarian Mission

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U.S. Deploys 80-Man Force to Help Find Nigerian Girls


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/u-s-deploys-80-man-force-help-find-nigerian-girls-n111266

Eighty American service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.

The White House formally notified Congress that the troops are in the neighboring African nation of Chad.

The mission includes 40 people to operate and maintain the Predator drone and 40 more to protect the force.




“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” President Barack Obama said in a letter.

“The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required.”


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Yep, U.S. drones are being deployed to help find those missing girls. Then when it finds them, it's going to bring freedom to them.

Murica style.

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U.S. Deploys 80-Man Force to Help Find Nigerian Girls


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/u-s-deploys-80-man-force-help-find-nigerian-girls-n111266

Eighty American service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.

The White House formally notified Congress that the troops are in the neighboring African nation of Chad.

The mission includes 40 people to operate and maintain the Predator drone and 40 more to protect the force.




“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” President Barack Obama said in a letter.

“The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required.”


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How the hell can the Nigerian government not be able to find 300 freakin people on their own.

[BB-35]

How the hell can the Nigerian government not be able to find 300 freakin people on their own.

They're all hiding behind a bush...

[Professor Peabody]

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U.S. Deploys 80-Man Force to Help Find Nigerian Girls


http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/missing-nigeria-schoolgirls/u-s-deploys-80-man-force-help-find-nigerian-girls-n111266

Eighty American service members are on the ground in North Africa to oversee drone operations in the search for the 276 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls, the Obama administration said Wednesday.

The White House formally notified Congress that the troops are in the neighboring African nation of Chad.

The mission includes 40 people to operate and maintain the Predator drone and 40 more to protect the force.




“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area,” President Barack Obama said in a letter.

“The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required.”


Video Inside

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A Humanitarian mission armed with Missiles? Too bad they didn't sent that one to watch Benghazi instead of the unarmed one.

[exotix]

A Humanitarian mission armed with Missiles? Too bad they didn't sent that one to watch Benghazi instead of the unarmed one.
Kind of like wondering why Saddam didn't use his *WMD's* on U.S Troops invading and advancing in Iraq ... on a *humanitarian mission*

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A Humanitarian mission armed with Missiles? Too bad they didn't sent that one to watch Benghazi instead of the unarmed one.

If they had sent the armed one, nothing would have changed. That drone would have blown the terrorists and the consulate sky high.

[Don]

They're all hiding behind a bush...

That's Ethiopia, not Nigeria.:laugh:

[BB-35]

Kind of like wondering why Saddam didn't use his *WMD's* on U.S Troops invading and advancing in Iraq ... on a *humanitarian mission*

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[Professor Peabody]

Kind of like wondering why Saddam didn't use his *WMD's* on U.S Troops invading and advancing in Iraq ... on a *humanitarian mission*


Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Sada Says

By IRA STOLL, Staff Reporter of the Sun | January 26, 2006

The man who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed.

"There are weapons of mass destruction gone out from Iraq to Syria, and they must be found and returned to safe hands," Mr. Sada said. "I am confident they were taken over."

Mr. Sada, 65, told the Sun that the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons of mass destruction to Syria from Iraq approached him in the middle of 2004, after Saddam was captured by American troops.

"I know them very well. They are very good friends of mine. We trust each other. We are friends as pilots," Mr. Sada said of the two pilots.

The pilots told Mr. Sada that two Iraqi Airways Boeings were converted to cargo planes by removing the seats, Mr. Sada said. Then Special Republican Guard brigades loaded materials onto the planes, he said, including "yellow barrels with skull and crossbones on each barrel." The pilots said there was also a ground convoy of trucks.

The flights - 56 in total, Mr. Sada said - attracted little notice because they were thought to be civilian flights providing relief from Iraq to Syria, which had suffered a flood after a dam collapse in June of 2002.

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/iraqs-wmd-secreted-in-syria-sada-says/26514/

They were already gone.

[Professor Peabody]

If they had sent the armed one, nothing would have changed. That drone would have blown the terrorists and the consulate sky high.



Security Incidents Prior to the Benghazi Attack

December 2011: Terror plot thwarted, but Benghazi emergency plan warns of many Islamic terrorists still operating in area.

[B]March 2012: U.S. Embassy in Tripoli lead security officer, RSO Eric Nordstrom, requests additional security but later testified he received no response.

April 10, 2012: An explosive device is thrown at a convoy carrying U.N. envoy Ian Martin.

May 22, 2012: A rocket-propelled grenade hits the offices of the International Red Cross.

June 6, 2012: An IED explodes outside the Benghazi consulate compound.

June 11, 2012: An RPG hits a convoy carrying the British Ambassador. The U.K. closes its consulate. Col. Wood, military Site Security Team (SST) commander, is in Benghazi, and helps with emergency response.

July 2012: RSO Nordstrom again requests additional security (perhaps via cable signed by Amb. Stevens dated July 9, see below).

July 9, 2012: Amb. Stevens sends a cable requesting continued help from military SST and State Dept. MSD (Mobile Security Deployment team) through mid-Sept. 2012, saying that benchmarks for a drawdown have not been met. The teams are not extended.

Before death, Amb. Stevens warned of "violent" Libya landscape

Early August: State Dept. removes the last of three 6-man State Dept. security teams and a 16-man military SST team from Libya.

August 2, 2012: Ambassador Stevens sends a cable to D.C. requesting "protective detail bodyguard postions" -- saying the added guards "will fill the vaccum of security personnel currently at post... who will be leaving with the next month and will not be replaced." He called "the security condition in Libya ... unpredictable, volatile and violent."

August 8, 2012: A cable from Amb. Stevens to D.C. says "a series of violent incidents has dominated the political landscape" and calls them "targeted and discriminate attacks."

Aug. 27, 2012: The State Department issues a travel warning for Libya citing the threat of assassination and car bombings in Benghazi/Tripoli.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57544719/timeline-how-benghazi-attack-probe-unfolded/

Hillary Clinton's State Dept actually REDUCED security in Benghazi, despite pleas from Ambassador Steven's and others to INCREASE it. Liberals and Democrats want to frame the Benghazi attack as beginning when the attack did, so there was nothing that could be done. Nothing could be further from the truth. A Benghazi terror plot had been thwarted as far back as 12/2011, a FULL 9 months before the attack. There was plenty of time to execute an exit/defense strategy. In order for this never to happen again, it is necessary to closely examine the breakdown in leadership of Clinton's State Dept. This would be relatively easy if they were forthcoming with all information. Unfortunately, the Democrats have chosen the path of secrecy instead of the transparency President Obama promised us would be the touchstone of his administration.

The U.S.S New York was in the Gulf of Aden at the far end of the Red Sea. With all the security warning the Clinton State Dept had, the USS New York could have been stationed offshore in Benghazi LONG BEFORE the attack.

USS New York (LPD-21) - Aircraft carried: Launch or land, two CH-53E Super Stallion, two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, four CH-46 Sea Knight, four AH-1 SeaCobra or four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.

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2 Sea Cobra's could have made short work of the attackers in that open area. Do you think nothing could be done?

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Hillary Clinton's State Dept actually REDUCED security in Benghazi, despite pleas from Ambassador Steven's and others to INCREASE it. Liberals and Democrats want to frame the Benghazi attack as beginning when the attack did, so there was nothing that could be done. Nothing could be further from the truth. A Benghazi terror plot had been thwarted as far back as 12/2011, a FULL 9 months before the attack. There was plenty of time to execute an exit/defense strategy. In order for this never to happen again, it is necessary to closely examine the breakdown in leadership of Clinton's State Dept. This would be relatively easy if they were forthcoming with all information. Unfortunately, the Democrats have chosen the path of secrecy instead of the transparency President Obama promised us would be the touchstone of his administration.

The U.S.S New York was in the Gulf of Aden at the far end of the Red Sea. With all the security warning the Clinton State Dept had, the USS New York could have been stationed offshore in Benghazi LONG BEFORE the attack.

USS New York (LPD-21) - Aircraft carried: Launch or land, two CH-53E Super Stallion, two MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, four CH-46 Sea Knight, four AH-1 SeaCobra or four UH-1 Iroquois helicopters.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/25/AH-1W_Super_Cobra_assigned_to_HMLA_167.jpg/800px-AH-1W_Super_Cobra_assigned_to_HMLA_167.jpg

http://www.phibetaiota.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/benghazi-compound.jpg

2 Sea Cobra's could have made short work of the attackers in that open area. Do you think nothing could be done?

How does that wall of text change the fact that if you dropped a hellfire on the attackers, you would have taken out the consulate too?