But no one tried to rescue them.
Why not? Would rescuing them have been “Islamophobic”?
Although 57 of the girls managed to escape the rest have remained missing and have not been heard from or seen since apart from in May that year, when 130 of them appeared in a Boko Haram video wearing hijabs and reciting the Koran.
Terrorists stormed a Government Secondary School in the remote town of Chibok in Borno state, northern Nigeria in April 2014, seizing 276 girls who were preparing for end-of-year exams.
Dr Andrew Pocock, the former British high commissioner to Nigeria, has now revealed that a large group of the missing girls were spotted by British and American surveillance officials shortly after their disappearance, but experts felt nothing could be done.
h/t The Black Kettle
We are but a shell of we were once was.
Seems like another “what difference does it make at this point” success for the administration.
With daughters the same age as those kidnapped, Barry essentially abandoned his daughters to rape rooms.
It seems the options were: a. Attempt rescue and possible death for the girls. b. Let them be mercilessly raped as slaves and eventually murdered, while promoting a hashtag.
How far we have fallen, even jimmy tried a rescue.
List of excuses (from the Daily Mail article):
– experts felt nothing could be done
– Western governments felt powerless to help as any rescue attempt would have been too high risk (w/ Boko Haram using the girls as human shields)
– the Nigerian government didn’t ask for help anyway
– an air-based rescue…would have required large numbers and would have meant a significant risk to the rescuers and even more so to the girls
– the excuses go on…
(Excuses given by Dr. Andrew Pocock, former British high commissioner to Nigeria – who has let this particular cat out of the bag.)
Since “Boko Haram make ISIS look like playtime”, pretty sure these girls would have welcomed the chance at rescue, whatever the risk. Nothing could be worse than what they faced at the hands of these evil men.
Terribly irony – the 80 girls were gathered around a tree locally known as the “Tree of Life”.
Hey Michael got out of the situation what he wanted: facetime on the news looking concerned!