On Monday this week, the story of another United States military operation in Nigeria trended. Sebastian Lukacs Gorka, United States Senior Counterterrorism Director and President Donald Trump’s confidant, made startling revelations about a counter-terrorism operation in Nigeria that took place three weeks ago at an undisclosed location. According to him, he watched the operation from the White House Situation Room, during which 199 jihadist terrorists “who will not harm Americans again” were eliminated in Nigeria.
He described the kill haul of terrorists as unprecedented since 9/11. Perhaps more important than the human yield was the confiscation of such a large quantum of electronic and digital devices from terrorist camps that it took “an additional plane” to move them out of Nigeria to a safe place where American experts are studying them to better understand how Islamic State (ISIS) operatives communicate and coordinate their activities. ISIS is a frontline international jihadist terror group bankrolled by Iran, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Having been defeated in the Middle East, it is now focused on Nigeria and the continent of Africa while also targeting the West in their quixotic ambition to bring the world under Islamic rule.
