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US Sends 80Soldiers to Chad To Locate The Kidnapped Nigerian Girls [View all]
Armin Rosen
May 21, 2014
President Obama informed Congress today that he is sending 80 U.S. armed forces personnel to Chad. They will not be there in any combat capacity but will be aiding in the search for over 200 girls that the Islamist group Boko Haram abducted from a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok last month.
Last week, the U.S. sent a team of special operations forces to train and advise their Nigerian counterparts, in a move that was not officially connected to the ongoing search for the girls. In contrast, Obama's letter to Congress, which is reproduced below, directly cites the Chibok abductions as the reason for the troops' deployment.
This is reminiscent of the involvement of U.S. special operations forces in the hunt for the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Although there are several hundred U.S. personnel involved in the search, they are prohibited from engaging with Kony's forces unless they are fired on first.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-sending-soldiers-to-chad-2014-5#ixzz32OB2O6W9
May 21, 2014
President Obama informed Congress today that he is sending 80 U.S. armed forces personnel to Chad. They will not be there in any combat capacity but will be aiding in the search for over 200 girls that the Islamist group Boko Haram abducted from a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok last month.
Last week, the U.S. sent a team of special operations forces to train and advise their Nigerian counterparts, in a move that was not officially connected to the ongoing search for the girls. In contrast, Obama's letter to Congress, which is reproduced below, directly cites the Chibok abductions as the reason for the troops' deployment.
This is reminiscent of the involvement of U.S. special operations forces in the hunt for the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Although there are several hundred U.S. personnel involved in the search, they are prohibited from engaging with Kony's forces unless they are fired on first.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-is-sending-soldiers-to-chad-2014-5#ixzz32OB2O6W9
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