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By Yakubu Uba Maiduguri, Dec. 25, 2020 The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Saddique Abubakar, took lunch on Friday with troops of Air Task Force of ” Operation Lafiya Dole” in Maiduguri to celebrate Christmas. Speaking at the occasion, Abubakar said that the gesture was to fill the vacuum created as a result of troops inability to celebrate with their families. “This occassion also fosters comradeship and gives us the opportunities to commend ourselves for our collective efforts in the ongoing fight against insurgency. “It is not easy to quantify your enormous contributions and sacrif...

A starting point on all these so-called war criminals. >> we call them persons indicted for war crimes. abbreviated pifwc, which of course, the troops immediately begin to say pifwics. >> the number one cia guy in bosnia was routinely digging up great intelligence, running sources very specifically against certain pifwics so the cia in concert with forces in the ground would then build the intelligence picture. >> my role was as a task force commander to command the recognizance and surveillance forces that looked for and identified these war criminals. our job was to blend in with the environ...

Action. my great-grandfather's brother. he was 19 years of age and never came home. i had several soldiers that i lost when i was a task force commander in iraq and many were 19 so there's a lot of, just a lot of different feelings that you feel during memorial day that it's great that we have our freedom and we do the outings and the barbecues, but it really about those that didn't come home. elizabeth: and you probably associate yourself more so as a person who serves our country on the military side than you do, obviously now a congressman. that being said, there was big news this week. thi...

So they have to keep on this. it's getting massive publicity at this point. they need people to give information. i haven't heard a mention of a reward but as the hours tick on, it is worrying time if they don't have leads. the caveat here is you don't know what they have inside of the investigation. >> well, i know they were also speaking about the possibility of surveillance video. they wouldn't comment on whether there's dash cam video and cameras from around the area and the town and this is the officer talking about that. let's listen. >> there's video throughout the area as you know it's...

Act of war? >> reporter: they're not calling it that necessarily, wolf. but any time you fire tomahawk missiles at ground sites in a country, it does constitute a hostile action. i mean, these tomahawks fly very close to the ground. they are programmed with a target before they're launched and they have an ability to go around both natural and manmade obstacles. and when they hit their target, they explode. so when these tomahawks hit, it is by its very nature a very violent action. >> as of right now, chris -- correct me if i'm wrong -- the u.s. military is in charge of this entire operation ...