On Christmas Day, President Donald Trump announced that the military launched strikes on ISIS terrorists in Nigeria.
Trump wrote on Truth Social:
Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.DONALD J. TRUMPPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar said the country provided intelligence to the U.S.:
Now, Nigerian foreign minister, Yusuf Tuggar, has told broadcaster ChannelsTV that he was on the phone with the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and that Nigeria “provided” the intelligence.“We spoke twice. We spoke for 19 minutes before the strike and then we spoke again for another five minutes before it went on,” Tuggar said.He added that they spoke “extensively” and that President Bola Tinubu gave “the go-ahead” to launch the strikes.Tuggar did not rule out further strikes, describing them as an “ongoing process” that would also involve other countries.In an interview with the BBC, Tuggar insisted the strikes had “nothing to do with a particular religion”. He said the operation did not have “anything to do with Christmas, it could be any other day – it is to do with attacking terrorists who have been killing Nigerians”.
Last month, Trump told the Pentagon to prepare for action in Nigeria if the country does not step up to protect Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump said at the time.
It’s hard to keep up the violence against Christians in Nigeria:
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