They don't have any heroin, but they have oil and Muslims.
Niger's army convoy arrives in the city of Bosso on June 17, 2016 following attacks by Boko Haram fighters in the region.
© ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images Niger's army convoy arrives in the city of Bosso on June 17, 2016 following attacks by Boko Haram fighters in the region.
WASHINGTON — Three United States Army Special Forces were killed and two were wounded in an ambush in Niger on Wednesday while on a routine patrol with troops they were training from the West African nation, American military officials said.
“We can confirm reports that a joint U.S. and Nigerien patrol came under hostile fire in southwest Niger,” Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, a spokesman for the United States Africa Command [1] in Stuttgart, Germany, said in an email on Wednesday.
A United States military official said that the three Army Green Berets were killed in the attack. It took place 120 miles north of Niamey, the capital of Niger, near the border of Mali, where militants with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, an affiliate of Al Qaeda, have conducted cross-border raids.
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1. What, the Middle East isn't shitty enough, so we had to find someplace worse to send our men?
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