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2018-03-16 Africa Subsaharan

CNN: US military reveals new firefight in Niger

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 What the hell are they doing there? It's not our fight and not our job. Get them out!

Posted by Harcourt Angoluting9366 2018-03-16 05:50|| 2018-03-16 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 With that said, our forces do operate in unstable areas and are occasionally exposed to danger from enemy forces.

So, sort of like Chicago or Baltimore.

When such a situation occurs, our personnel are authorized to respond to threats and violence appropriately,

Stand outside while the shooting goes on and wait for backup?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-03-16 09:24|| 2018-03-16 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 US Niger ambush: Mali militia says it has American vehicle and weapons

Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-16 09:41|| 2018-03-16 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 My orders in Angola and Rhodesia were to avoid contact, if you can't avoid contact don't take any prisoners, and above all else do not leave witnesses.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-16 15:40|| 2018-03-16 15:40|| Front Page Top

#5 Salute to TCE and the late Lt.Col. Reid-Daly.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-16 16:08|| 2018-03-16 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Looking through the archives, it was originally thought the October 4th ambush was by Al Qaeda in North Africa’s Mali branch, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Moslemin (JNIM), but later ISIS in the Greater Sahara — which apparently had been in existence for about two years, led by a certain Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi — posted a video claiming credit. So heaven only knows who attacked our guys in December.

Mali militia says it has American vehicle and weapons

Good article, Skidmark. It’s nice there are people like those Tuaregs about.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-03-16 18:22|| 2018-03-16 18:22|| Front Page Top

#7 What the hell are they doing there? It's not our fight and not our job. Get them out!

Same reason that our guys are in Afghanistan. To prevent jihadists from using the place as a training ground for foreign operations like the one on 9/11. Green Berets are much harder targets than the civilians who were slaughtered at the WTC, and they are trained and compensated to take the risk.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2018-03-16 20:25|| 2018-03-16 20:25|| Front Page Top

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