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Foreign Affairs Committee to Consider Legislation Condemning Boko Haram's Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls
2014-05-09
[FOREIGNAFFAIRS.HOUSE.GOV] Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that Friday morning the Committee will consider H.Res. 573, legislation that condemns Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
's abduction of female students in Nigeria.

Chairman Royce is an original cosponsor of the legislation. Earlier today, he sent a letter to Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
 and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, in which he announced that he will convene a hearing to examine the Administration's response to the abhorrent and appalling kidnappings of hundreds of young Nigerian girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram. In the letter, Chairman Royce urged the Administration to "facilitate strong intelligence sharing and an advice-and-assist role for the U.S. military to work with Nigeria to combat Boko Haram."
That word you're probably searching for right now is "tepid."
Posted by:Fred

#13  Hoping the House can keep this contained. Would not want to see another red line drawn by CiC.
Posted by: Uncle Phester   2014-05-09 19:59  

#12  Been on it, Raj.
Posted by: trailing wife   2014-05-09 11:39  

#11  Mods - huge cleanup in this aisle!
Posted by: Raj   2014-05-09 11:37  

#10  Yep, the resolution will go to Bok0 Haram as an attachment to the UNs strongly worded letter.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-05-09 11:25  

#9  One last correction. Very long week. Option 2 you should click the first symbol from the right at the bottom of the Rantburg comment box. Rantburg creates the code in the comment box. You enter the image URL after the src= tag.
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281   2014-05-09 10:12  

#8  oops Booby = Bobby
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281   2014-05-09 09:42  

#7  Booby

< img src ="http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/nigeria/boko_haram_map.jpg" width = "400" / >

Remove the space after the < and the space just before the > and you mage will show after copying the above line of HTML code into your comment. Must be the url to an online image. It will look like this below.



img src width are the three key words to an HTML image tag. src width you supply corresponding values to. The < and /> are the beginning and ending image tag symbols.

Option 2. Clicking the third from right symbol at the bottom of the Rantburg comment box brings up field where you just enter an image URL address http://www.marxist.com/images/stories/nigeria/boko_haram_map.jpg and Rantburg creates the image tag for you behind the scenes within your comment. Click Preview in your comment box to see if it works before clicking Submit.
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281   2014-05-09 09:42  

#6  Hey Bobby, will this do ?












Myself, I would say this whole episode is like yelling "Squirrel" in crowded theater, all the nuts start running around.

Yet in essence I must agree with P2kontheroad, the Hausa tribe (mohamadeans) aka Boko Haram have been doing these tribal raids for brides for centuries. Nothing new here, just has grabbed the attention of the shallow western media, and frankly to apply logic of the former Secretary of State Clinton - "What difference does it make now."
Posted by: Fleremble Flusort1165   2014-05-09 09:01  

#5  Race and gender hustlers - NB, this is what the people, who you disparagingly heap the term 'privilege' upon, keep so many thousands of miles away from your doorsteps. This is what the world has been for thousands of years. You live in a very small bubble of the one percent of history.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2014-05-09 08:33  

#4  I can't seem to remember how to post a Rantburg foto in a comment. I done it before. It's be the circus pic.
Posted by: Bobby   2014-05-09 07:22  

#3  Hillary had the chance to list Boko Harum as a terrorist group while Secretary of State and did not.

Yet another foreign policy victory for the Obama administration. These folks are so wise, so prescient, so competent.

/sarc
Posted by: no mo uro   2014-05-09 04:58  

#2  A large efficient military force at your disposal and no will to use it, means that "shaming" is the only weapon in your arsenal that you will use.
Posted by: badanov   2014-05-09 01:02  

#1  The kidnapping of the girls is 6th century fundamentalist Islam. The girls are now wives of the the raiders and others back at the base. They are the reward for loyalty to raiding and killing for "Alah". Not that they should not be rescued, but trying to shame Boko Haram Islamists into returning the girls most likely will not happen.
Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281   2014-05-09 00:17  

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