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Nigerian villagers are rattled by #US airstrikes that made their homes shake & the sky glow red

Sanusi Madabo, a 40-yr-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red.

The light burned bright for hours, Madabo said: “It was almost like daytime.”

#Trump #Nigeria #law #WarPowers #Congress #oil
https://apnews.com/article/nigeria-jabo-village-trump-us-airstrikes-d2795bbc099255d71f2c371c60832157

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Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged Islamic State camp in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo.

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 2 hours ago

He did not learn until later that he had witnessed a #US attack on an *alleged* Islamic State camp.

#Trump announced late Thursday that the US had launched a “powerful & deadly strike” against forces of the Islamic State group in #Nigeria. The Nigerian government has since confirmed that it cooperated with the US government in its strike.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #WarPowers #Congress #InternationalLaw #WhiteSupremacy #geopolitics #oil

George Saich

@geos@toot.community replied · 1 hour ago

@Nonilex Didn't 🍊💩 previously say he eliminated ISIS?

Nonilex

@Nonilex@masto.ai replied · 2 hours ago

Residents of Jabo, a village in the NY Nigerian state of Sokoto, told AP Friday that they were seized with panic & confusion at the airstrikes.

They also said the village had never been attacked by armed gangs as part of the violence the #US says is widespread, though such attacks regularly occur in neighboring villages.

“As it approached our area, the heat became intense,” recalled Abubakar Sani, who lives just a few houses from the scene of the explosion.

#Trump #Nigeria #law #oil

Chris Espinosa

@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social replied · 2 hours ago

@Nonilex Of course, rationale, effectiveness, and consequences are not any part of the strategy here. The whole point was to be able to make a statement with the words powerful and lethal. Who got killed, why, and what will happen next are immaterial to this team.

Pretty soon they’ll just make the announcements and post synthetic videos of explosions without bothering to drop the bombs. Because the posturing is the point.

Alex 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@alexlac51@mastodon.scot replied · 2 hours ago

@Nonilex

Nigeria has oil reserve doesn't it...

he says tongue in cheek...

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