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" Why US troops are in Niger - ABC News
They arrived in early 2013 to help the French military that had intervened in neighboring Mali the year before. The French had moved into Mali after an Al Qaeda affiliated group and tribal groups took over the vast northern part of the country and were moving toward the capital of Mali.
As part of the U.S. effort to assist that mission then- President Barack Obama ordered 150 U.S. military personnel to set up a surveillance drone operationover Mali that would fly from Niger's capital of Niamey." |
You are trying to turn this into a political issue when it is not. You are pointing a finger at Obama. For me it doesn't matter who sent them there, but why. Obama might have sent troops into Niger, but we've been in Africa since long before them.