Nigeria's premier terror circus conveniently grabbed the headlines away from an embattled White House this week (simmering scandals, Behghazi, and IRS), just in the nick of time, pulling off the terror caper of the year. Without booking any coaches, a relatively small group of Boko Harem operatives managed to kidnap up to 300 young girls from a secondary school in Chibok in remote northeastern Nigeria... on April 14th.
If this was indeed a real kidnapping even, the response time is pretty pathetic - nearly one month? Barack and Michelle Obama were a bit slow on the uptake of this story, not least of all because Washington has been very busy indeed - ginning-up war with Russia, shipping weapons to Islamic extremists in Syria, various and sundry coups and destablisation plans around the globe, and last but not least, pretending to care about the missing airliner Flight MH370. Not worry, the FBI have been sent to Nigeria to take control of the crime scene - which may, or may not be good news for Nigerians. If the FBI were really there to figure out what happened, then they should dig into this: for some unknown reason up until a few months ago, the White House was trying to keep Boko Haram off the State Dept's Official Designated Terror List, and there's probably a very good reason for that...
CLUELSSS? First Lady takes a break from shopping to get her #hashtag on, weighing in on what looks like a CIA-linked theatrical production in Africa.
Comment: Clinton, Obama, and Boko Haram Yup, we armed them and let them run wild