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provided intelligence or other support to the Nigerian military. involvement in the 2017 airstrike, but Stokes’s official instructions suggest that the U.S.
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Relying on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the Intercept said “it is impossible to ascertain the full extent of U.S. “Its findings were never made public,” the paper reported, noting “AFRICOM did not answer its questions about the results of Stokes’s investigation or the extent of U.S. Stokes to undertake an investigation to determine the facts and circumstances of a kinetic air strike (‘strike’) conducted by Nigerian military forces in the vicinity of Rann, Nigeria.” Africa Command secretly commissioned Brig. The paper reported that “just days after the attack, U.S. surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations have often been employed in Nigeria, including a Predator drone flown from neighboring Chad, in addition to a longer-range Global Hawk and a manned, turbo prop plane, deployed over Nigeria beginning in 2014, ostensibly to search for children kidnapped by Boko Haram, the Intercept said. “Thus, when the mass movement was noticed through aerial satellite observation, it was taken for Boko Haram terrorists’ activity, which needed to be neutralised with speed,” Mr Eneche said. The Nigerian Air Force expressed regrets for carrying out the airstrike, which also “killed nine aid workers and seriously wounded more than 120 people.”
The Nigerian military and the federal government had said the “jet was meant to target suspected Boko Haram members when it accidentally bombed the camp.” PREMIUM TIMES reported how the air raid by the military occurred in January 2017 to target Boko Haram members. inquiry, the existence of which has not been previously reported, was ordered by the top American general overseeing troops in Africa and was specifically designed to avoid questions of wrongdoing or recommendations for disciplinary action.” launched a near unprecedented internal investigation of the attack because it secretly provided intelligence or other support to the Nigerian armed forces,” the American non-profit news organisation reports, citing a secret U.S, military document it obtained. The report published on 28 July said the attack was “referred to as an instance” of U.S.-Nigerian operations. An investigation by the Intercept, an online newspaper, has accused the United States of playing an “unacknowledged role” in the 2017 bombing of Rann Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Borno State.Īt least 160 civilians, many of them children, were killed in the attack.
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