The President of the United States, Donald Trumpannounced that it had bombed targets in the Northern Nigeria against suspected “Islamic State terrorists” to defend “innocent Christians.” The attack happened this Thursday during the Christmas party.
“Tonight, under my leadership as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a… powerful and deadly attack against the terrorist scum of the Islamic State in northwest Nigeria brutal attacks and murder (…) of innocent Christiansat a level that has not been reached for many years and even centuries!,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social.
At the same time it is Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the attacks in a statement and assured that they had been coordinated with the USA. “The Cooperation between the Nigerian authorities in structured security with international partners, including United States of Americato address the ongoing threat of terrorism and violent extremism. “This has resulted in precision strikes on terrorist targets in Nigeria through airstrikes in the northwest,” one document said. The official number of victims of the bombings has not yet been announced.
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Although the Nigerian ministry assured in the last hours that the attack had previously been carried out in collaboration with the United States, in October this year the government of this country rejected Trump’s statements about the killings of Christians. At that time, African management stuck to the allegations “They do not reflect the situation on site”.
A month later, in November, Trump threatened that U.S. forces “might invade Nigeria to completely eliminate the Islamic terrorists who are committing these terrible atrocities.”
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However, that is Economic Community of West African States Rejected the US president’s claims, noting that there were reports that the terrorist attacks in Nigeria had targeted Christians “wrong and dangerous”and expressed solidarity with the region’s most populous country.
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