‘Hell to pay’: Trump announces military strike against ISIS in Nigeria
President Trump announced Thursday night that the U.S. launched a strike against ISIS terrorists in Nigeria as punishment for the “the slaughtering of Christians” in that nation.
Trump’s Truth Social post said:
“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! 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. Under my leadership, our Country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper. May God Bless our Military, and MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including the dead Terrorists, of which there will be many more if their slaughter of Christians continues.”
The president has spotlighted Christian persecution at the hands of radical Muslism in Nigeria for the last several weeks, warning last month that the U.S. would go into the African nation “guns-a-blazing” if the targeting of Christians did not stop.
“Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands and thousands of Christians are being killed,” Trump said in November. “Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter. I am hereby making Nigeria a country of particular concern, that’s a legal definition.
“When the Christians or any such group is slaughtered like is happening in Nigeria – 3,100 vs. 4,476 worldwide, what horrible numbers – something has to be done.”
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