The President of the united states informed the house speaker and the president of the senate on the move to deploy like 80 of its armed forces to help in the rescue mission of the school girls abducted in Chibok last month.
"These personnel will support
the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft for
missions over northern Nigeria and the surrounding area," it said in a
letter.
"The force will remain in Chad
until its support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer
required."
The forces will be involved in
maintaining aircraft and analyzing data, but because they are armed, the
President is required by law to inform the speaker of the House, Pentagon
spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said.
"These are not combat infantry
troops that we put into Chad," Kirby told CNN's "The Lead with Jake
Tapper" Wednesday. "These are folks that are there to support the
reconnaissance mission."
"Just geographically, Chad's a
great location to do this from," Kirby said, adding the United States has
a good relationship with its leaders.
Reconnaissance flights will be
searching an area roughly the size of West Virginia, he said, that includes
parts of Nigeria and other countries..
The insurgent group has escalated
its attacks in Africa's most populous nation as its bloodletting extends far
beyond its hotbed in the rural northeast.
The sudden escalation of attacks,
together with the failure to find the missing schoolgirls, has spread concern
about the government's inability to quash the insurgency. Protesters have
gathered daily nationwide to express frustration over the lack of progress in
rescuing the schoolgirls.
"The Jos attack has only
strengthened our resolve." He said.
More than 200 people were killed in two bomb attacks in a market in Jos, tuesday afternoon. Read here
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