US suspects Niger villager betrayed Army troops

[DonViejo]

LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press•October 25, 2017

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military believes someone in a Niger village may have tipped off attackers to the presence of U.S. commandos and Nigerien forces in the area, setting in motion the ambush that killed four Americans, a senior defense official says.

The official said Tuesday that the Army Green Berets and about 30 Nigerien forces stopped in a village for an hour or two to get food and water after conducting an overnight reconnaissance mission. After they left, they were ambushed by about 50 heavily armed enemy fighters, who also killed four Nigerien fighters and wounded two Americans and several Nigerien troops.

Details about the attack and the events leading up to it have been murky, trickling out over the last three weeks. According to the official, the joint U.S. and Niger patrol was asked to help a second American commando team that had been hunting for a senior member of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb believed to be in the area.

The official wasn't authorized to discuss the incident publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.

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[doc03]

1. I love making comments on the Yahoo News stories

it pisses the Trumpsters off bigly.

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2. What did you say?

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4. Something like Comrade Trump is the one that betrayed them and what

would we do if there were troops from Niger in our village. I post as Donald K.

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5. Nice

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9. I always comment on a couple of their stories every day

Yahoo notifies you if anyone reacts to your post. I like reading them, it is always Obummers
or Crooked Hillary's fault

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3. What would Trump's supporters do if there were uninvited foreign troops from

say Niger in their village? I am guessing they would be using their 2nd Amendment remedies, wouldn't they?
We have troops in just about every country on earth what if we had foreign troops in our country? Hell the
nut jobs in Texas were thinking our own Army was going to invade them a year ago.

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6. This requires critical thinking

An attribute that is rare these days.
Thank you.

[Baconator]

8. Well if a moron did happen to shoot at an invited foreign military guest...

... they would and should be shot themselves or go to prison.

Our troops are invited at the national level and that ODA was invited at the local.

[doc03]

10. Funny how our troops are invited guests in over a hundred other countries and

we don't have any foreign troops over here. WTF do we need to be interfering in every country on earth?
Not saying they deserved to be shot or defending whoever killed them. Just why the hell are we there. People in
the USA get all fired up if there are Russian or Chinese troops even in South America let alone in our country.

[doc03]

13. Sure we have some here for training but not as combat troops or occupiers . If we had

armed troops from another country wondering around our country side people in this country would go bonkers. I am
70 years and never once seen an armed soldier from another country. According to the Bush clan we were invited into
Iraq as liberators. Can't you have civil conversation without calling names, we get enough of that from the fool in the White House?
I have always heard it takes one to know one.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Sounds like Viet Nam. nt

[maxsolomon]

12. "If you don't tell us when the Americans come we'll kill your Mom/Daughter"

Guerilla Warfare 101.