The United States has deployed a team comprised of intelligence, military, law enforcement, and diplomatic specialists to Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to help find more than 250 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist extremists, The Washington Post reported.
The United States is already conducting reconnaissance flights over Nigeria and weighing whether to add drones, already stationed in nearby countries, into the hunt for the hostages, according to the Post. Washington will likely also use satellite and electronic intercepts in combing the area, which is the size of New England.
Drones based in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Niger are currently searching for al-Qaida terrorists, as well as Lord's Resistance Army chief Joseph Kony. Some of those drones may be diverted to the Nigerian investigation.
The girls are being held for ransom by Boko Haram, which claims to have converted some of them to Islam. Nigerian authorities have been criticized for waiting three weeks before making the girls' fate much of an issue.
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8 comments:
Islamists bad.
Politically correct liberals dumb.
Wasting taxpayers money again! Drones don't fly for free, we got a whole lot more important things to be doing then getting involved with what goes on in Africa!
Make Nigeria pay for their use.
Drones are a good thing
yeah 1003, its not like extremists set up shop in lawless foreign countries then train and implement terrorist attacks on the US homeland
I feel for these gi5rls and their families.. but why wasn't there any outrage when they killed all the boys earlier this year? 11:13 while you are correct in that they do train terrorists in these countries, we can't go after them unless there is evidence that the US is danger or being threatened. We might want to start the search right here in our own country,,,
America needs to go back to the foreign policies or the 1940's, Isolationism, we only get involved when our country is attacked, period! Who gives a dam about a bunch of people killing and kidnapping in Africa! We have more than enough problems here in America we need to be involved with!
What took so long? (to get the drones searching)
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