Frappes américaines au Nigeria : Lagos a fourni des renseignements à Washington en amont
Nigeria said on Friday that it had provided the United States with intelligence on jihadists ahead of the Christmas Day raids that President Donald Trump described as "powerful and deadly" strikes against Islamic State militants in the northwest of the country.
"It was Nigeria that provided the intelligence" to Washington, Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar told local television station ChannelsTV on Friday, adding that he was on the phone with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
"We spoke twice. We talked for 19 minutes before the attack, then we spoke again for five minutes before it started," said Yusuf Tuggar.
The Nigerian foreign minister stated that he had "long" discussions with Marco Rubio and that President Bola Tinubu had given his "green light" to the American strikes.
The strikes would be "an ongoing process" that would also involve other countries, he added without giving further details.
He stressed that Nigeria's approach to combating terrorism was not influenced by the religion of the victims, "whether they were Muslim or Christian, and regardless of the type of terrorism."
"I previously warned these terrorists that if they did not stop the massacre of Christians, they would pay dearly, and tonight they paid," Donald Trump said Thursday on his Truth Social platform, adding that the "War Department carried out many perfect strikes" on Christmas Day.
A video of about ten seconds later posted by the US Department of Defense appears to show the launch, at night, of a missile from the deck of a warship flying the American flag.
The US Africa Command stated on X that it had struck "at the request of Nigerian authorities (...) killing several Islamic State terrorists" in Sokoto State.
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