We know exactly where they are - said the air marshall Alex Barde (pictured below) - but we can't go and release them. An assault by our armed forces - the military man concluded - would certainly cause victims even among the hostages, but we know what to do.
Barde has not given any reference to the location of the hostages.
This declaration, however, sent the White House on a rampage, accustomed to acting, for similar circumstances, when the operation was completed. The Pentagon preferred not to comment on Marshall Barde's statements.
Has the news that everyone expected has come?
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We need to grab these declarations uttered with great pomp by a representative of a government that has been defined as violent, corrupt and incapable.
A declaration of this kind, if in some ways can be welcomed by public opinion, could turn into a death sentence for girls hostage to Islamic fundamentalists. Because if the female students kidnapped last April have been traced, the terrorists have two options: either to stay inside their stronghold and wait for their own destiny or move away, leaving their tracks in the Sambisa forest. In any case, they could start executing hostages.
Unless Barde himself has spoken these words to alert the Boko Harams and warn them against an imminent blitz.
Politics, perhaps (but we are talking about a government whose army has also been accused of crimes against humanity and whose ties with fundamentalists have never been excluded). But it is only one of the many conspiracy theories that run just in the last hours on the net. The most popular is that the entire abduction was concocted by the CIA. Pure fantasy.
Returning to reality, we analyze the context, taking Barde's statements as true.
"We found the 300 girls, but we can't save them because we risk killing them."
Let's take this sentence as true. The girls, therefore, denying what was said in the last few weeks, would not have been divided into small groups, but would have been held together. Of course, the groups could have been grouped in the last hours, taking on the dimensions of a small community. In addition to the 270 girls, in fact, we must add the 1000 / 1500 guerrillas in the service of the mad leader Abubakar Shekau. A number of people capable of generating an abnormal heat concentration for a forest inhabited by snakes, hardly not traceable back to the sensors of American drones flying for weeks over Nigeria. But let's try even more to contextualize the variables.
The girls could be kept inside some cavity carved in the rock of some promontory, which would hide them from any type of aerial and satellite research. The supplies, however, would still be visible. Let us remember that the average African terrorist is an exalted subject who acts under the influence of narcotic substances and whom he loves and even loves, driving the western off-road vehicles. And Shekau showed the world to have several (just go to yuotube to see them in action).
So, we ask ourselves: is it really possible that from a thousand to two thousand people aboard heavy vehicles and not, have they moved undisturbed all this time inside a forest without being traced? Absolutely not.
Here then that having communicated to the world of having found the hostages, could really complicate the rescue operation, perhaps already being studied for weeks.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (pictured above), seems to be at ease in the spotlight. He is aware that he will take credit for the rescue of the female students, but that the entire operation will be conducted by the Americans and the countries that have deployed emergency response groups.
Forces deployed:
Boko Haram counts a force of around 1000 / 1500 men. The equipment is of the Soviet / Russian type. Most of the militiamen of the Islamic group do not have a military background, while some would have received an approximate training in one of the many camps managed with the Al Qaeda groups in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM) and of Al Shabab in Somalia. The terrorists move aboard off-road vehicles (stolen from the many Western societies that have interests in Nigeria). Shekau owns an armored vehicle of Soviet production, but they are not considered functional and used only for propaganda.
The United States deployed spy planes and MQ-9 Reaper in Chad, at an air base long used by French special forces near the capital N'Djamena. Obama authorized the sending of "multipliers", but the training of Nigerians has not yet started. The United States is reluctant to train those who could one day turn into possible enemies. Confirmed presence of an armed group of the CIA. 150 men between Seal, Delta and Tier-1 deployed in Chad. Marine force of a thousand men ready to intervene from the Naval Air Station of Sigonella, in Sicily. The 2nd reconnaissance battalion (known for having conducted some special operations) is part of the Air-Ground Task Force Crisis Response Unit.
But if the targets were in fixed structures, the Pentagon could opt for another plan that we will analyze in the next few hours.
Confirmed, presence of British SAS and Israeli special departments. Australia has put under US command the "Squadron 4" assault unit, already present in Africa and operating in Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique.
THE CASE
We act only ourselves, we are alone. Many countries have given no availability. These are the words of John Kerry, Secretary of State during an institutional dinner to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the creation of the American diplomatic service. And how can you blame John Kerry and the United States, a country that has been asked countless times to save the freedom of the world?
Those same countries that turn their backs on Uncle Sam, they do it by virtue of that freedom born under the wings of US fighters, and beyond the sympathy or otherwise that can be felt for American politics, this is the story.
Kerry then rectified, making clear reference to the Syrian affair and the ambiguous role played by France. The US, if they were to attack Boko Haram, demand the full availability of all the men put on the field. Paris would put the Foreign Legion on the field.
Franco Iacch
