The United States has deployed a drone and 80 troops to Chad to help
with regional efforts to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in
neighboring Nigeria, officials said Wednesday.
“These personnel will support the operation of intelligence,
surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for missions over northern
Nigeria and the surrounding area,” President Barack Obama said in a
letter to Congress.
“The force will remain in Chad until its support in resolving the
kidnapping situation is no longer required,” he said, without mentioning
the type of aircraft deployed.
A US defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reliable Click
the troops will oversee at least one unarmed surveillance drone to try
to track those who kidnapped the Nigerian schoolgirls.
Last month, Islamist militants from the Boko Haram extremist group
seized more than 200 Nigerian girls from school dormitories in the
northeastern community of Chibok, near border with Chad.
Nigerian and international authorities were slow to react but, after
concerned citizens launched social media campaign and the group
threatened to sell the girls into slavery, offers of help have
multiplied.
France also has forces in Chad, and Britain and the United States
have sent small teams of specialists to Nigeria to assist President
Goodluck Jonathan’s government in the search for the girls.
Washington recently began surveillance drone flights over
northeastern Nigeria to try to track down the location of the kidnapped
girls.
Meanwhile, the violence has continued, with attacks on villages
attributed to Boko Haram leaving scores dead and a bomb attack on the
Nigerian city of Jos killing at least 118 people Tuesday.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
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