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Auggie

(32,824 posts)
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:21 AM 5 hrs ago

'Bomb fell and burst into many pieces': Jabo village residents describe US attack

Source: ALJAZEERA

Residents in the village of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria’s Sokoto State who spoke to Al Jazeera said the air strike did not result in any casualties.

Abdulrahman Mainasara, a Jabo resident, explained that Thursday night’s attack struck an already cultivated farmland behind a primary school at the outskirts of the village.

Abulrahman visited the scene last night, took some pictures and witnessed how some locals carried debris from the scene.

“The bomb fell and burst into many pieces. There were two big pieces of debris. One of them was carried by two people,” he told Al Jazeera on Friday.

Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/12/26/live-nigeria-confirms-joint-us-strikes-on-isil-targets-in-its-north-west



The article concludes:

While armed fighters, locally known as bandits, operate in Nigeria’s northwest, their operations are mostly in the eastern part of Sokoto State and not the southern part of the state where the US attacked.


The first airstrike targeting ISIL (ISIS) fighters in northwest Nigeria for (in the words of Krasnov), "targeted and viciously” (killing) “primarily, innocent Christians, at ⁠levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!”

The real motive must be some kind of profit.
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Lovie777

(21,591 posts)
3. Yep..............
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:34 AM
5 hrs ago

but profit outweighs that.

And shithole nor comrades care about christianity.

dem4decades

(13,600 posts)
6. So we're bombing farmers in Nigeria and fisherman in Venezuela?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:45 AM
5 hrs ago

I've never been so proud of my country, when are we going after hunters and gatherers? They're the most dangerous.

mwmisses4289

(3,126 posts)
7. Ah. Another oil rich country, another easy target.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 08:54 AM
5 hrs ago
on the "easy target" part.
Ya know, the rest of the world has joked about "stupid americans" for years--sadly, it is no longer a joke.

tavernier

(14,227 posts)
9. I get the feeling that he's just bombing randomly over there
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:33 AM
4 hrs ago

to tell his followers that he’s saving Christian lives. I don’t think he really cares who gets killed as long as he looks good to them. And now there is something to do with oil?? Hmm, interesting.

ratchiweenie

(8,156 posts)
10. The whole world has to realize that if Trump orders attacks, there is something in it for him. The man is insane for
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 09:57 AM
4 hrs ago

money and power. He does not care one iota for any other human being.

flashman13

(1,968 posts)
13. I think this is more like, "hold my beer - watch this". He just wants to flex whatever he's got to flex.
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 10:42 AM
3 hrs ago

Just another Epstein diversion.

ArizonaLib

(1,284 posts)
14. Christians?
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:07 PM
1 hr ago

If conservatives really cared about Christians, they would be pushing for clergy to be allowed into ICE facilities.

Bayard

(28,379 posts)
15. The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight
Fri Dec 26, 2025, 12:30 PM
1 hr ago

No where near what they were supposedly aiming at, and threatening much needed crop land and a school. How courageous.

trump and Kegbreath are just picking random countries to bomb now that have weak military. They just like to see things go--BOOM.

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