The United States has deployed drones to Nigeria to help search for more
than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by militant group Boko Haram, officials
confirmed Wednesday.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said “unmanned, unarmed” aircraft had
joined reconnaissance flights over a swath of Nigeria where Boko Haram is
believed to be holding the girls hostage. Carney cautioned during a news
conference that the area of greatest suspicion still covering an expanse of
land “along the size of West Virginia.”
Carney, however, said U.S. counterterrorism
experts dispatched to Nigeria would limit their activity to an “advisory
capacity,” focused on finding the girls.
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