[net-gold] COUNTRIES: NIGERIA : CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE, KIDNAPPING : TERRORISM: Nigeria's Army Hampers Hunt for Abducted Schoolgirls
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- Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:57:03 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: NIGERIA :
CRIME AND CRIMINALS: MURDER HOMICIDE, KIDNAPPING :
TERRORISM:
Nigeria's Army Hampers Hunt for Abducted Schoolgirls
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Nigeria's Army Hampers Hunt for Abducted Schoolgirls
By Adam Nossiter
May 23, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/24/world/
africa/nigerias-army-holding-up-hunt-for-taken-girls.html
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ABUJA, Nigeria - Intelligence agents from all over the globe have poured
into this city, Nigeria's capital, to help find the nearly 300 Nigerian
schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram more than
a month ago - but there has been little or no progress in bringing the
young women home.
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The problem, many involved in the rescue effort say, is the failings of
the Nigerian military.
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There is a view among diplomats here and with their governments at home
that the military is so poorly trained and armed, and so riddled with
corruption, that not only is it incapable of finding the girls, it is also
losing the broader fight against Boko Haram. The group has effective
control of much of the northeast of the country, as troops withdraw from
vulnerable targets to avoid a fight and stay out of the group's way, even
as the militants slaughter civilians.
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Boko Haram's fighters have continued to strike with impunity this week,
killing dozens of people in three villages in its regional stronghold, but
also hitting far outside its base in the central region. Car bombs have
killed well over 100, according to local press reports.
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"It's been our assessment for some time that they are not winning," said
one Western diplomat in Abuja, speaking anonymously in keeping with
diplomatic protocol.
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Desperate for clues, the United States has dispatched drones to scan the
37,000 square miles of Sambisa Forest, a scrubby semidesert tangle of low
trees and bushes in the corner of northeastern Nigeria where the girls are
believed to be held.
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"You have a lot of guys in town right now," said the diplomat, referring
to foreign intelligence and security personnel. But, he added, "A lot of
this is assessment, and this is a pretty steep learning curve." And one
senior diplomat offered a sober picture of the prospect, for now:
"Realistically I don't think we've seen anything to indicate that we are
on the verge of a huge breakthrough."
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That the hopes of many across the globe rests on such a weak reed as the
Nigerian military has left diplomats here in something of a quandary about
the way forward. The Nigerian armed forces must be helped, they say, but
are those forces so enfeebled that any assistance can only be of limited
value? "Now it's a situation where the emperor has no clothes, and
everybody is scratching their heads," another diplomat here said.
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Military officials in the northeast, Boko Haram's stronghold, insisted
that patrols are already underway in the Sambisa Forest, and that 10 days
ago one even came close to where some of the girls were being held. It was
attacked by Boko Haram, these officials said, and two officers were
killed.
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