Trump publicizes strikes towards ISIS in Nigeria and desires MERRY CHRISTMAS to ‘dead terrorists’ he claims are concentrating on Christians | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump has introduced the U.S. army has performed lethal strikes towards ISIS targets in Nigeria after the group is accused of concentrating on Christians.

“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!” the president wrote in a Truth Social submit the night of Christmas Day.

“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,” Trump continued.

“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.”

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt additionally posted on-line in regards to the strikes.

Hegseth mentioned in a submit on X, “The President was clear last month: the killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria (and elsewhere) must end. The @DeptofWar is always ready, so ISIS found out tonight — on Christmas.”

The protection secretary added, “Grateful for Nigerian government support & cooperation. Merry Christmas!”

The Nigerian authorities is but to remark publicly on the strikes.

Last month, Trump mentioned he was instructing the Defense Department to “prepare for possible action” in Nigeria, claiming the nation’s authorities “continues to allow the killing of Christians.”

He additionally declared that Nigeria is a “country of particular concern.” The U.S. authorities makes use of this designation for nations decided to have dedicated “particularly severe violations of religious freedom,” in keeping with the State Department’s web site.

Trump mentioned in November, “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,”

Much of northern Nigeria has been struck by battle in an ongoing safety disaster and Trump has singled the nation out for what he calls “the killing of Christians” by “radical Islamists.”

Victims and church leaders have reiterated Trump’s claims that Christians are persecuted, saying they’ve lengthy been attacked, kidnapped or killed over their religion.

But many insist the truth isn’t that straightforward, with specialists and residents saying most assaults emphasize the widespread violence that has lengthy plagued the West African nation, the place everyone seems to be a possible sufferer, no matter background or perception.

With reporting from the Associated Press.

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