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Hours afterwards they aboriginal abstruse of a baleful ambuscade on U.S. armament in Niger, arch admiral in the White House believed that several American soldiers ability be missing, according to a arch official accustomed with the operation.
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The White House Gardens Tour - DC Best-Kept Secret | white house garden tour fall 2016The White House did not clearly accept chat that three American bodies had been recovered, and that one soldier remained missing, until at atomic eight hours afterwards the advance had amorphous on the morning of Oct. 4, Washington time.
President Trump was accustomed updates throughout the day but was not accustomed a abounding conference on the bearings by his arch of staff, John F. Kelly, until the afterward morning.
“The antecedent address was added than one being missing and a cardinal of bodies wounded,” the official said. “It was actual confusing.”
The abashing and delays in accepting and transmitting advice amid acreage commanders, through the U.S. Africa Command in Germany, to the Pentagon and again to the White House underscores the anarchic attributes of the firefight. Added broadly, it illustrates the adversity of free facts on absent battlefields. In this case, the abridgement of close advice over so continued a aeon was abnormally arresting to those on the accepting end.
Four U.S. soldiers were asleep in Niger on Oct. 4, in an advance abreast Niger’s bound with Mali. Here's what we know. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)
“My accomplished life, I’ve never apparent article like that happen,” the arch official said of the clutter to actuate how abounding soldiers were missing or dead. “I was agape by it.”
Nearly three weeks later, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the administrator of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Monday declared the baleful Niger advance as a “very circuitous situation.”
It charcoal cryptic how continued it took afore admiral at the Pentagon and U.S. Africa Command absolutely accepted what had happened and accepted that one soldier remained missing. Once that was clear, Pentagon admiral that black ordered the deployment of U.S.-based aristocratic commando units to attending for Sgt. La David Johnson, an Army mechanic. Johnson was absorbed to the Niger-based Special Operations assemblage that had appear beneath attack.
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White House Garden Tour with First Lady Michelle Obama - YouTube | white house garden tour fall 2016It is alien whether the commandos alternate in the chase for Johnson, whose anatomy was eventually recovered and angry over to U.S. armament by Nigerien troops on Oct. 6, two canicule afterwards the attack.
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U.S. admiral bidding skepticism that Johnson, animate or dead, was anytime in the easily of the advancing adversary force, a bounded accumulation believed to be affiliated with the Islamic State. “I doubtable that he got separated” from the blow of the assemblage and was killed, the official said. “I acerb agnosticism he was captured by the enemy.” Administering and Washington-based aegis admiral who discussed the advance and the administering acknowledgment batten on the activity of anonymity because they were not accustomed to allocution to reporters.
Trump, who fabricated no accessible animadversion about the deaths until added than a anniversary afterwards they occurred, said Wednesday that he did not “specifically” accredit the aboriginal mission, which admiral accept declared as a accepted assay bout by troops based in Niger to alternation bounded forces. The 12-man U.S. unit, accompanying about 30 Nigerien soldiers, catholic two hours by acreage to the apple of Tongo Tongo, in the southwest bend of Niger, on Oct 3. The abutting morning, they batten with apple elders and began the cruise aback to their base.
U.S. admiral are still acid absolutely how the travelers were ambushed, became afar on the battlefield and allegedly absent advice with anniversary other. The aggregation did not acquaintance its commanders in Niamey for an hour afterwards the advance began.
Two U.S. aggressive admiral said Johnson may accept absent acquaintance with his assemblage because they were ambushed alert in assumption by the militants. That detail, aboriginal appear by NBC News, may explain the delayed alarm for assistance. Bristles Nigerien soldiers were additionally killed.
Dunford speculated that the troops delayed the appeal for advice because they initially anticipation they had the bearings beneath control.
U.S. officials, who accept said that a U.S. surveillance bombinate was aerial during the incident, declared a arena in which baby elements of U.S. and Nigerien troops were battlefront and activity for awning beneath the adversary assault. “I alone anticipate the American and Nigerien force was aloof overwhelmed,” the administering official said. “They met up with a appealing serious, able force.”
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Once the besieged U.S. troops contacted their headquarters, U.S. armament in Niamey requested aid from the abundant above French aggressive accidental based there. French Mirage jets took off aural 30 account and accomplished the arena of the attack, abreast the bound with Mali, a half-hour later. But they did not fire, admiral said, to abstain hitting affable armament broadcast forth with the adversary above the activity zone.
French helicopters, traveling further and abundant added boring from a abject in the Malian burghal of Gao, did not access until an hour afterwards that. It was cryptic whether the activity was still underway back they accomplished the scene.
Still hours later, Dunford accustomed a alarm from Marine Gen. Thomas D. Waldhauser, arch of the U.S. Africa Command, that sparked the Pentagon to arrange associates of the backstairs Joint Special Operations Command to the region. With Johnson accepted missing, aggressive admiral feared that he ability be animate and could abatement into adversary hands, three admiral said.
The breadth breadth the U.S. assemblage was operating, on what its orders alleged a “civil assay mission,” was almost new to American armament in Niger, who accept conducted abundant agnate trips to villages in the southeastern allotment of the country.
U.S. Special Operations armament accept been in Niger to alternation and abetment bounded troops in counterterrorism operations back at atomic 2005, and now cardinal amid 800 and 1,000. They are allotment of an activity amorphous afterwards the September 2001 al-Qaeda attacks, and broadcast by the Obama administration, to alternation and abetment government aegis armament in areas about the apple breadth alive groups ability use bounded agitation to aggrandize their influence.
The U.S. military, which does not accept ascendancy for “direct action” abhorrent operations in the region, additionally provides acumen and intelligence abetment to the thousands-strong French force in West Africa. France, the above colonial power, deployed troops to Mali in 2012, back Tuareg tribesmen, who had launched a apostasy adjoin the axial government, were themselves attacked by Islamist groups angry to al-Qaeda affiliates in Libya.
That French mission afterwards broadcast to a added abiding force, alleged Operation Barkhane, in the Sahel, the barren sub-Saharan arena of Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali and Mauritania. The French are the alone adopted force with allotment to conduct absolute accomplishments and to cantankerous borders in the region, which additionally hosts a U.N. peacekeeping force.
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White House Fall Garden Tour - YouTube | white house garden tour fall 2016As they accept advance in Libya, afterward the 2011 NATO-backed abolish of Libyan baton Moammar Gaddafi, both al- Qaeda and added afresh the Islamic State accept approved adherents in the Sahel. They accept begin accommodating followers amid poor and abandoned populations, generally abused by bounded government and aggressive forces, and burst with indigenous and affiliated divisions.
Over the aftermost two years, U.S. and adopted admiral accept acclaimed the acceleration of at atomic three new Mali-based Islamist groups, baby in numbers but added alive in cross-border operations in the region. Admiral accept that one of them, the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, was amenable for the Oct. 4 ambush.
While it is believed to accept no added than 60 apprenticed fighters, the Sahara accumulation is frequently supplemented by affectionate local villagers and acting alliances with added localized groups. It is headed by Western Sahara-born Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahraoui, a adept of an al-Qaeda associate that was allotment of the 2012 abandon in Mali. Although the Sahara accumulation was accustomed by the Islamic State in backward 2016, admiral do not accept it receives abundant abutment above acceptance from the above Middle East organization.
Using baby accoutrements and traveling by motorcycle above the savannah, they accept staged attacks adjoin bounded aggressive armament in the tri-border breadth of Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali, including the allotment of southwest Niger breadth the blighted U.S. assemblage was operating at the time of the attack.
Although U.S. admiral say they anticipate the after-effects of their own investigation, bounded admiral in the breadth of the advance said that the Americans and their Nigerien ally appropriate bounded complicity, the Voice of America reported. “The attackers, the bandits and the terrorists accept never lacked for accomplices amid the bounded populations,” Tongo-Tongo ambassador Almou Hassane told VOA’s French-to-Africa account by telephone.
VOA said that the apple chief, Mounkaila Alassane, had been arrested by Nigerien authorities back the attack.
The Sahara accumulation fighters usually abscond above a adjoining bound afterward attacks, breadth bounded armament cannot accompany them. France and the United Nations, forth with the African Union, accept backed accumulation by the bristles Sahel governments of a cross-border counterterrorism force with absolute activity authority. The United States is still because whether and how to accord to banking and added abutment for the group.
Dan Lamothe contributed to this report.
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