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US conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump’s threat to intervene to end persecution of Christians

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And now, American surveillance has begun, bringing the Trump administration’s threats closer to actualizing.

The Nigerian government has tried to cover its indifference to the persecution of Christians by presenting the conflicts as being between warring factions. The government insists that what is happening is not Muslim persecution of Christians, but conflicts between Muslim groups. However, when Muslim groups are fighting each other, both sides of the war focus their brutal attacks on Christians, who suffer the worst — from forced conversions to church and village burnings and beheadings.

No Western government has taken interest in persecuted Christians to the degree that the Trump administration has, not even the Vatican, which instead is obsessed with advocating for Western surrender to suicidal open-door, unvetted immigration.

“Exclusive: US conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump intervention threat,” by Jessica Donati and Idrees Ali, Reuters, December 22, 2025:

Dec 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to flight tracking data and current and former U.S. officials, in a sign of increased security cooperation between the countries.

Reuters could not determine what information the flights are meant to obtain.

But the flights in West Africa follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats in November to militarily intervene in Nigeria over what he says is its failure to stop violence targeting Christian communities. The flights also are occurring just months after a U.S. pilot working for a missionary agency was kidnapped in neighboring Niger.

The U.S. contractor-operated aircraft used for the surveillance operations typically takes off from Ghana and flies over Nigeria before returning to Accra, the Ghanaian capital, the tracking data for December shows.

Flight tracking data shows the operator is Mississippi-based Tenax Aerospace, which provides special mission aircraft and works closely with the U.S. military, according to the company’s website. Tenax Aerospace did not respond to a request for comment.

Liam Karr, the Africa Team Lead for the Critical Threats Project at the American Enterprise Institute, has analyzed the flight data. He said the operation appeared to be running out of an airport in Accra, a known hub for the U.S. military’s logistics network in Africa.

Karr said the operation was an early sign the U.S. was rebuilding its capacity in the region after Nigeria ordered U.S. troops to leave a sprawling, newly built air base in the desert last year, and turned instead to Russia for security assistance.

“In recent weeks we’ve seen a resumption of intelligence and surveillance flights in Nigeria,” Karr said in an interview.

A former U.S. official said the aircraft is among several assets the Trump administration moved to Ghana in November. It is unclear how many aircraft remain in Ghana, but the former official said the missions include tracking down the kidnapped U.S. pilot and gathering intelligence on militant groups operating in Nigeria. Boko Haram and its splinter organization, Islamic State West Africa Province, are among the militant groups operating in Nigeria…

Comments

  1. Okay! And then what? Let’s say one surveillance plane spots a bunch of Fulanis doing a massacre of people. What next – bomb them?

    • What are the options with the FUlanis and in fact, the jihadis in Africa?

      Talk to the them? Build them better cities? Give them more aid/ Ignore the genocide of Christians?

      What?

    • I would suggest, Infidel, that this could be just a first step by Trump. Yes, this alone will not be enough but it is a provocative action of sorts and let’s not forget that billions of dollars in aid to Nigeria in the future hangs in the balance.

      BTW, may I wish you a Merry Christmas. I know you are a Hindu, while I am an agnostic, but if wishing all a Merry Christmas can offend people who are easily offended then why not take the opportunity? Besides, Christmas as a frame of mind is a good thing for all of humanity, never better illustrated than in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carrol.” So, Merry Christmas.

      • Merry Christmas to you too, Wellington

        No, my parents celebrated Christmas from the time I was a kid, so I’m not offended at that at all. As a Hindu, I do celebrate Hindu festivals as well

  3. WE know drones have taken out muzzie terrorists. Will he send drones to do a little house-cleaning?

    OT
    ‘Christmas Eve Church Violence Erupts in Egypt
    Raymond Ibrahim
    Dec 25
    Coptic Solidarity

    As Christmas Eve was being celebrated in the West, in Egypt, Muslims rioted and attacked a church on Dec. 24, 2022.

    The church’s great “crime” was to have tried to fix its dilapidated roof, which contradicts the draconian, anti-Christian dictates of Islamic law, sharia, as enshrined in Article 2 of Egypt’s Constitution.”

    • “dictates of Islamic law, sharia”

      Thank you, Raymond.

      So tired of politicians and other useful idiots regurgitating the bogus term ‘sharia law’.

    • We can only thank Sisi for Egypt’s security, because he is the last bulwark against the complete Islamization of Egypt. Something on the level of Libya’s Haftar. Courage and honesty, which Trump should also support in Syria and install the Islamic atheist (apostate from Islam) ABDI as president of Syria.

  5. FOX News

    “Trump launches Christmas night airstrikes on ISIS ‘terrorist scum’ in Nigeria after killings of Christians”

    “President Donald Trump said the U.S. launched airstrikes in northwest Nigeria on Christmas night targeting ISIS militants he accused of killing Christians, calling the operation decisive and warning further attacks would follow if the violence continues.”

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-launches-christmas-night-airstrikes-on-isis-terrorist-scum-in-nigeria-after-killings-of-christians/ar-AA1T2k37?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3d48aa8a64dd4fad950da70435149edf&ei=7

    • “”Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries!” Trump said Thursday on Truth Social. “I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay, and tonight, there was. The Department of War executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing.”

  6. US conducting surveillance flights over Nigeria after Trump’s threat to intervene to end persecution of Christians
    …………………………………………….

    I hope so…

  7. The situation in Nigeria is not new.

    How many here remember the 2002 Miss World riots there?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_World_riots

    The Miss World riots were a series of religiously motivated riots in the Nigerian city of Kaduna in November 2002, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 people. The Miss World beauty pageant, which was controversial in Nigeria, was relocated to London after bloody clashes between Muslims and Christians, caused by what some Muslims deemed to be a “blasphemous” article in the newspaper ThisDay about the event. The Miss World riots were part of the Sharia conflict in Nigeria, that started in 1999 when several predominantly Islamic states in Northern Nigeria decided to introduce Sharia law.

  8. This will not work because in Mali, after the death of Wagner’s commanders, ISIS’s holy war (JIHAD) began. Wagner was the only one capable of defending Mali and the rest of West Africa from ISIS.
    Black Catholics will be killed because Putin killed Wagner’s commanders. Trump and Hegseth will achieve nothing. ISIS will return because Wagner is gone.

  9. My big question is why are we the American people sending aid to these corrupt countries. Foreign aid is no different than the aid system in Minnesota, corrupt.

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