New York Times Did Not Say That A Screwdriver Seller Provided Targetting Intelligence For The Sokoto Missile Strike.
Strangely some people have claimed that the New York Times said that a screwdriver seller in Onitsha provided targetting intelligence for the US missile strike in Sokoto. The paper/article never said any such thing (I will post the full article on this thread).
Clearly these people did not read the New York Times article. I wonder if it's
because it was behind a pay wall.In simple terms this is what the article actually said.
1) Emeka Umeagbalasi set up several NGOs including one called International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (or InterSociety for short).
2) He, his wife and his friend are the only members of the board of the NGO.
3) He rarely goes to northern Nigeria where the insurgency is raging.
4) Yet he was publishing numbers of Christians that have been killed in the insurgency in the north.
5) Here's an example of what that means. Remember that some Muslims girls were kidnapped from a school in Kebbi State late last year?
https://www.nairaland.com/8563474/teacher-killed-25-girls-abducted
He listed them among Christians that have been kidnapped.
He has never ever been to the school before.
6) When the reporter told him that the girls were Muslim, he said that the government changed the names of the girls in order to deceive people.
7) Any time this guy hears that there has been an attack in the north, he'll list the victims as Christians, without even verifying if they are actually Christians.
8 ) It is this man's figures that Senator Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and other Republican politicians are citing as the number of Christians that have been killed in Nigeria.
9) That's why they are saying that there is a Christian genocide.
This thing is so easy to understand.
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