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(60,536 posts) Wed Jan 24, 2018, 05:39 PM Jan 2018

Pentagon looking into images purporting to show US soldiers killed in Niger

Source: The Hill

BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 01/24/18 04:05 PM EST

The U.S. military is reviewing images posted on social media purportedly showing dead American soldiers from the Oct. 4 ambush in Niger.

One author and researcher posted on Twitter that a video broadcast by an affiliate of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) lasted more than 10 minutes and included scenes of a wounded soldier and the bodies of the three other U.S. soldiers killed in the ambush.

Link to tweet

U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement it is aware of the images on Twitter and is investigating the claims.

"USAFRICOM is aware of a post on Twitter purporting to show a US Soldier from the Oct. 4 ambush in Tongo Tongo, Niger," AFRICOM said in a release.

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/defense/370564-pentagon-looking-into-images-purporting-to-show-us-soldiers-killed-in-niger

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Pentagon looking into images purporting to show US soldiers killed in Niger (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2018 OP

To Congress: Dear Mr. President. What was their mission and where was their backup? ffr Jan 2018 #1

Trump couldn't find Mr.Bill Jan 2018 #2

Well, it is a small country. Ztolkins Jan 2018 #3

And that's what our children will repeat too. The president said so. ffr Jan 2018 #4

Its from the soldiers helmet cam... Historic NY Jan 2018 #5

Too bad the CinC cannot be court martialed for dereliction of duty. keithbvadu2 Jan 2018 #6

ffr

(22,670 posts)

1. To Congress: Dear Mr. President. What was their mission and where was their backup?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 06:36 PM

Jan 2018

This is a cover-up to shield tRump's incompetence!

Mr.Bill

(24,300 posts)

2. Trump couldn't find

Reply to ffr (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:03 PM

Jan 2018

Africa on a globe.

Ztolkins

(429 posts)

3. Well, it is a small country.

Reply to Mr.Bill (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:46 PM

Jan 2018

ffr

(22,670 posts)

4. And that's what our children will repeat too. The president said so.

Reply to Ztolkins (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 07:56 PM

Jan 2018

Historic NY

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5. Its from the soldiers helmet cam...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 08:58 PM

Jan 2018

keithbvadu2

(36,820 posts)

6. Too bad the CinC cannot be court martialed for dereliction of duty.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 10:30 PM

Jan 2018

Too bad the CinC cannot be court martialed for dereliction of duty.

Trump says he knows more then the generals.

All that spare time playing golf when he could have been planning missions and not killing soldiers by assigning less qualified underlings to the task of mission planning.

Our military requested more resources for Niger mission(s) but the Trump administration refused them.

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-niger-20171019-story.html

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