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Feb 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
ISWAP training camps somewhere in Lake Chad.
What awaits them when they are done training....
For the trigger happy jesters. Revisit my thread of about 2 weeks ago and see how many ISWAP commanders were killed in their training camps. It took a week of extensive ISR to locate the camps. Terrorist camps are not permanent physical structures. They move from one location
..to another almost on a daily basis to avoid detection. You should appreciate the effort put in by the military rather than make mockery at the slightest opportunity.

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