Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN World

PUBLISHED Dec 26, 2025, 8:06 PM ET


Abuja, Nigeria - A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the people of Jabo in northwestern Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion. Suleiman Kagara, a resident of this quiet and predominantly Muslim farming community in Tambuwal district of Sokoto state, told CNN he heard a loud blast and saw flames as a projectile flew overhead at around 10 p.m. on Thursday.

Soon after, it came crashing down, exploding on impact with the ground and sending the villagers fleeing in fear. “We couldn’t sleep last night,” Kagara said. “We’ve never seen anything like this before.” Kagara did not realize it at the time, but what he was witnessing was part of a US strike that President Donald Trump would later refer to as a “Christmas present” for terrorists.

Not long after the impact in Jabo, Trump declared on Thursday that the US had carried out a “powerful and deadly strike” against ISIS militants in the region, who he accused of “targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even centuries!”

According to US Africa Command, the operation neutralized multiple ISIS militants. But Trump’s explanation has left Kagara and his fellow villagers scratching their heads. While parts of Sokoto face challenges with banditry, kidnappings and attacks by armed groups including Lakurawa – which Nigeria classifies as a terrorist organization due to suspected affiliations with Islamic State – villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the Muslim majority.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/africa/trump-christmas-strike-jabo-nigeria-latam-intl

[Botany]

1. " villagers say Jabo is not known for terrorist activity and that local Christians coexist peacefully with the ...

… villagers Muslim majority.”

IOWs the strike was unneeded and most likely done to distract from EPSTEIN.

[rampartd]

2. "local christians coexist..." until we started bombing them

what is wrong with trump that he can do this?

[Botany]

3. Getting us involved in a sectarian Islam vs Christian conflict that we have stirred up in a country that is ..

…. majority Muslim in a Continent that is majority Muslim is madness.

[rampartd]

4. if there were no oil involved i would really be confused.

[Roy Rolling]

12. This 👆

The root of the root of the problem.

[Igel]

27. If there is, he has super-duper

abilities to sense it where nobody's even ventured a claim that it exists.

NW v SE.

[ColoringFool]

5. HE'S A SADISTIC PSYCHOPATH!

[rampartd]

6. he does intend to kill us all.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. He certainly wouldn't care if he did.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

[rampartd]

10. i thought just carelessness

but the rfk /dr oz foolishness is intent to murder millions by communicable disease.

[littlemissmartypants]

11. It's how psychopaths operate and they are birds of a feather who flock together. ...

Pain and destruction is what they live for. To them, to love is to hurt.

It's so psychologically twisted it's hard for a normal human to even try to imagine.

❤️

[slightlv]

34. I agree he wants to kill us all

And save earth's resources for the truly important people. Thete are too many of us "takers" walking around.

But he also is dying for any excuse to kill elections in this country. Less attention on Epstein, no elections, and his tech bros running g everything means he can accomplish something even Hitler couldn't do... world domination. And with his helper shelter bombing, he's achieving it. If WE can't stop him, im afraid we're going to pay the price with WWIII, and us on the wrong side.

[rampartd]

35. all noted and agreed

closing down cancer research indicates that there is a cure, but is too expensive for the proletarians.

[popsdenver]

21. The kind of guy,

when we were kids, who would spend all day at the ant pile with a magnifying glass......

[GCG]

30. Yes he is!

And he has a willing military at his disposal!

[Biophilic]

7. It was the idiot military that decided on the target.

Hegseth strikes again. He keeps making the US military look like idiotic killers without brains or conscience.

[GCG]

32. No more free passes for the US Military!

The US military, so far, have shown that they are more than capable of being killers without brains or conscience!

[Dave Id]

8. Trump's love of attacking helpless POC

With Donald Trump's love of football and his psychical inability to to actually play any sport without cheating, I sincerely hope his handlers are keeping the Nuclear Football out of reach to his tiny hands.

[travelingthrulife]

13. So a Christmas bombing for no reason.

At least we can freely say Merry Christmas now.

[yardwork]

14. I've never once felt uncomfortable saying Merry Christmas.

Has anyone ever, really?

[barbtries]

26. i forced myself this year.

because it was unusually hard to summon the spirit.

[tavernier]

15. As I recall, he once said of the nuclear bombs,

Since we have them, why not use them? (or similar wording)

Nigeria is very oil rich so he probably wouldn’t want to destroy his future cash cow with a mushroom cloud. Just regular bombs to clear the area for his gold plated oil rigs.

[paleotn]

17. Might make sense if Jabo wasn't way up north.

Just south of the Sahel. There isn't a hell of a lot there. All the proven oil reserves are way down south in the Niger Delta and offshore. It might be nice to at least put some reasoning behind what they're doing. But I don't think there's much reasoning there at all. Just stupid shit from an bizarre and grossly inaccurate world view.

[paleotn]

16. A stupid regime, stupidly operating on bad info, and not giving a shit who gets killed.

All based on the ramblings of a demented old man who was dumber than a post even in his prime. What could possibly go wrong?

And what's the point of all this anyway? Little boys doing exactly what Das Furhrer tells them to and blowing shit up because it's "fun". That's all I can figure. A few pin prick strikes will accomplish nothing, even if it were an ISIS related group of bad guys.

The Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa are nearly as big as the US and Western Europe combined, with good guys, bad guys, but mostly just guys running around. And a hell of a lot of empty space. It's only moderately strategic at best given its remoteness and the sheer difficulty of getting anything of value in and out of it at scale. And it's impossible to assert one's will there for very long. Russia "plays" there only because they're locked out of nearly every other region on earth. After the Syrian debacle, it's really all they got with respect to influence. But then again, I'm thinking. Something magat trash never do.

[Martin68]

18. The mission was a total FAIL. No ISIS, no Christians. Fortunately the bomb landed in an empty field of onions.

The perfect symbol of Trumps' administration.

[chouchou]

19. ANYTHING and any-action to cover up the rape of little girls back-in-the-days.

If I said things on this forum, regarding Trump.... what I'd like to do? . The Mods would bury me in a deep, deep hole

[hibbing]

20. U.S. bombs, while China builds infrastructure in the continent n/t

[barbtries]

25. yeah.

"the once dominant and respected USA..."

motherfuckers

[Bayard]

22. How much more of this is he planning now,

And putting some flimsy excuse on it? Venezuela, Part II.

[tornado34jh]

23. I'm confused, I thought the main group in that area was Boko Haram, not ISIS

Yes, they pledge allegiance to IS (Islamic State), but they are not the same group as ISIS.

[Igel]

28. Boko Haram's mostly NE.

Mali's to the NW. It's an utterly peaceful area, absolutely at ease.

Unless you ignore the siege of its capital city, Bamako, by ISIS affiliates and friends and the chaos that they've sown trying to establish Caliphate v. n + 1.

They have no trouble making nice with allies, of course.

[tornado34jh]

31. I know that a lot of jihadist groups swear allegiance to IS/ISIS

But the only jihadist group I knew of in that area was Boko Haram. I'm not saying ISIS doesn't have members there, but I was thinking the most likely group to be causing issues was Boko Haram. But apparently there is an offshoot of ISIS in Africa, but as far as I know, I haven't heard anything, and I'm not sure if Boko Haram is fighting ISIS or not.

[barbtries]

24. this is so disturbing.

the US government is a cabal of inept and murderous terrorists.

Why???

[IronLionZion]

29. Anyone will do. Kind of like the small boats in Venezuela.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

33. Yeah, the bombed villagers are just "scratching their heads"

Could the fucking US media soft pedal this asshole more??

Oh, the Christians, Piggy pedophile wants to save the Christians in Nigeria. Who the hell do these idiots think they're fooling??

[Evolve Dammit]

36. Just flaunting power without much research. "They" are going to get us into multiple conflicts as distractions.

[Blasphemer]

37. And they wonder why "they hate us for our freedom"...