Posted on 04/18/2024 12:57:49 PM PDT by Tell It Right
Hundreds of U.S. troops are effectively being held as “hostages” in Niger with medical supplies running low — stuck between the military junta-controlled government’s demands for them to leave and the Biden administration’s refusal to let them go home after the end of their deployments, according to a report prepared by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and obtained exclusively by Breitbart News.
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“This is an outrage!...................”
One of many and I’ve lost count by now. I’m thinking the Marxists plan on making “outraged” the new norm for us.
When we, the US, leave Niger we leave one of our finest bases in Africa. When we leave, Russia takes control of it. Will Biden leave all the best equipment in the world for them, a la Afghanistan????
Some chick wearing a tablecloth is running our nation. I’m so disgusted.
So much for getting Niger to legalize Gay Marriage and Pedophilia. Obviously Russia and China won’t do either of that crap.
“One consideration, it is illegal to share prescription medication even if it is the same type of medicine.””
Why do we have High School principals running our military bases?
Read the article. It’s all about shortage of medical supplies. Medical supplies are important, but what about ammunition and other military supplies?
Is there a pattern of treachery and insanity?
Will Biden leave all the best equipment in the world for them, a la Afghanistan????
I don’t think that he has a lot of lee way re what to do.
This is likely the latest example of yet another fiasco caused by incompetent U.S. meddling in matters we have no business meddling in. We trained these Nigerians and now they have applied their training to take charge over the country and they want us the hell out of their midst. Sounds a lot like Afghanistan. We invested in building a huge new military base and now who knows how much military hardware and other assets are on the base. It sound familiar - like another Afghan debacle in the making. To add insult to injury, note that the so called U.S. Nigerian trainees now appear to be on Putin’s side.
They are targets, they can blame the Russians for anything that happens to them.
Russia was already GIVEN US Uranium under Mr Hopey Changey.
US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger.
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base.
US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger.
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base.
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US agrees to withdraw troops from key drone base in Niger
The United States agreed Friday to withdraw its more than 1,000 troops from Niger, officials said, upending its posture in West Africa where the country was home to a major drone base.
Issued on: 20/04/2024 - 08:24
Modified: 20/04/2024 - 08:25
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Protesters react as a man holds up a sign demanding that soldiers from the United States Army leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration in Niamey, on April 13, 2024.
Protesters react as a man holds up a sign demanding that US soldiers leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration in Niamey on April 13, 2024. © AFP
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The long-expected move effectively marks a new regional gain for Russia, which has ramped up its focus on Africa and backed military regimes in neighboring Mali and Burkina Faso.
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell accepted the call to remove troops in a meeting in Washington with the prime minister of the junta, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, US officials told AFP on condition of anonymity.
They agreed that a US delegation would head within days to the capital Niamey to arrange an orderly withdrawal, the officials said. Nigerien state television earlier announced that the US officials would visit next week.
The State Department made no immediate public announcement and officials said no timeline was yet set to withdraw the troops.
Niger was long a linchpin in the US and French strategy to combat jihadists in West Africa. The United States built a base in the desert city of Agadez at the cost of $100 million to fly a fleet of drones.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken in March 2023 became the highest-ranking American ever to visit Niger, vowing economic support for one of the world’s poorest countries and seeking to bolster elected president Mohamed Bazoum, a stalwart Western ally.
But the military four months later sacked Bazoum and quickly kicked out troops from former colonial power France.
Translation: Russia has their rare earths.
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