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Originally Posted by oilers_fan
Boko Haram is basically worse than ISIS at this point. The stuff they do is unbelievable. But like you said, it is happening in Africa, so the west doesn't care.
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Just FYI we were there last year along with 1600 other NATO troops providing training to government forces fighting boko Haram. It is a yearly US army exercise called operation flintlock.
"Troops from Canada are training African counterparts in shooting, communications and mission planning – skills they could use in order to combat groups such as Boko Haram, which controls more than 50,000 square kilometres of territory in western Africa and is destabilizing the region."
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/politics...acks-1.2953371
And we are going back there again in the next few weeks.
"As many as 100 soldiers, most of them special forces from Petawawa, will be heading to Senegal to conduct counter-terrorism training for African commandos.
The training comes in the aftermath of the killings of six Canadians in Burkina Faso and as western nations try to shore up African militaries to battle Islamic extremists."
http://ottawacitizen.com/news/politi...orism-exercise
So blame the media for not making these stories more accessible and known to the public because even though it isn't a full blown combat mission we are trying to do something there.