On Christmas Day, the United States laid down the gauntlet for 2026. If you are an anti-Western, anti-freedom terrorist in ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or Boko Haram, if you are bringing drugs into the US mainland or killing and kidnapping Christians in Burkina Faso, Africa, satellites guided by our counterintelligence operatives will find you and eliminate you.
ISIS maintains a presence across the African continent, but its most dangerous concentrations are in northeastern Nigeria and the tri-border area connecting Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Our mortal enemies in the Axis of Evil, Putin and the Mullahs running Iran, are interested in Niger’s critical mineral reserves. Of particular concern to the US is Niger, the world’s seventh-largest uranium producer.
Even though the Nigerian government does a poor job in protecting Nigerian Christians and in fighting the jihadi menaces of Boko Haram and ISIS, it agreed to this week’s strikes and to work with the United States on countering violence against Christians.
Any plan for counterterrorism in Africa must also target Al Qaeda, which has multiple franchises in Africa and is arguably more dangerous than ISIS. In Somalia, Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabab is threatening to do what the Taliban did in Afghanistan and take control of the entire country. It already controls the American Congressional District centered in Minneapolis, headed by an anti-American, newly wealthy Somali woman, Ilhan Omar.
While ISIS murders Christians in African states, Al Qaeda threatens to transform entire nations into terrorist safe havens, creating breeding grounds for operatives who will enter the US and find American allies who will aid them in stealing billions from welfare agencies sufficient to mount attacks on US soft targets such as oil refineries or hydroelectric installations and to kill Americans.
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