Twitter: What Happened in Niger (a theory)

[iluvtennis]

Link to tweet

2. While everyone is so busy talking about the president's handling of his call to the widow of the soldier killed in Niger....

3.you 're all missing the important part of that story...the part about what happened that night in Niger.

4. The story that is emerging is so much worse than anything that happened in Benghazi

5. but the same GOP Congress that investigated Benghazi with a fury seems to have little or no interest in this story.

6. Here's what we know so far...
.These soldiers went to a meeting in an area near the border with Mali a well known hot spot for ISIS

7. Our soldiers were not backed up by US Military air support- backed up by the French, who were not authorized to intervene or even fire

8. Our soldiers did not have armored vehicles. They traveled in pickup trucks.
Our soldiers were given faulty intel... that said

9 "it was unlikely that they would meet any hostile forces." Of course, they walked into an ISIS ambush-chaotic and they took three lives

10 It took the French 30 minutes to arrive. When they did they were not authorized to help.

11. So, a dozen of our Green Berets fought a battle with more than 50 Isis fighters, without help, for 30 minutes.

12 Finally, a rescue helicopter arrived, but it was not a US military helicopter.

13 No, we apparently outsourced that job to “private contractors.”

14 So, these contractors landed and loaded the remaining troops, the injured and the dead.
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Here's where this gets really bad...

15 Because they were not military, they never did a head count. That is how Sgt. La David Johnson was left behind.

16 That's right...they left him behind.

17. According to the Pentagon, his locator beacon was activated on battlefield, which indicates that he was alive when they left him there

18. They recovered his body 48 hours later but are refusing to say where.

19 According to his widow, she could not have an open casket. This means that he was mutilated after being left behind on the battlefield.

20 This is what led to the nonsense we're obsessing over. This is the real story.

21 As usual, you're allowing it to be about Trump's distraction, but this is Benghazi on steroids.

22. The Trump Pentagon gave these men bad intel, no support, outsourced rescue people and then,,,

23. tried for more than a week to pretend it never happened. In that time, Trump spoke on many occasions and never mentioned it.

24 He tweeted attacks on many but never mentioned this
Only after pressure from the media did he acknowledge these men and their service..

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Wow, just wow. Seems plausible to me. We know Don the Con has thoughts of outsourcing military functions to Erik Prince. And we know that Sgt La David Johnson's widow was told she could have no open casket for his memorial service.

BTW, Don Lemon is reporting on this right now.

[canetoad]

1. K & R

The story is being pieced together now. Hope it hits all the headlines tomorrow.

[tecelote]

7. This bit about Chad should be added...

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10029730515

Chad was protecting our troops until they were added to the travel ban for dubious reasons.

[sprinkleeninow]

2. Have been following this as best I can.

But what you posted, it is unfolding into a tragic account of sickening elements.

Such nonchalant/callous responses from our so-called leaders in office. Sickening.

I have no further words to say understanding this.

"Blessed Be Their Memory Eternal."

[Pachamama]

3. Bookmark this: That when the full story is told, Erik Prince was involved

I feel certain that if this involved "Contractors" that it leads back to something involving Erik Prince "Mr Blackwater" and sibling of Betsy DeVos.

I am certain that this story is far worse than Benghazi....

[iluvtennis]

15. I agree that the "contractors" is very likely from Erik Prince, just shameful. We have military

helicopters that could have done the rescue and recovery. This all about lining the pockets of the wealthy. This administration so disgusts me

[Maraya1969]

4. Can she request an autopsy?

[WinkyDink]

5. He was probably scavenged by desert animals.

[tecelote]

6. You mean tortured and mutilated by ISIS?

[WinkyDink]

16. Read it however you want. Both work.

[yardwork]

11. In the middle of a war zone? I doubt that.

[WinkyDink]

17. Still, in the middle of the desert... And it was more a construction site as opposed to a war zone.

It BECAME a battle area with the attack.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/what-we-know-niger-attack.html

[leon8822]

8. Just watch Rachel Maddows show on 10-19-17

She's probably has the best reporting so far.

[oasis]

9. You can bet there will be in depth reporting on the entire Niger fiasco. nt

[oswaldactedalone]

10. But no investigation

We should be screaming, "Niger" "Niger" at them the ways they screamed "Benghazi" at us. Only, we're too nice to do it and we don't have a media outlet doing our bidding.

[oasis]

12. The more this looks like a cover up, the more the American

public will demand answers. And those answers damn well better make sense.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Am I the first to say it? 1000 Time worse than Benghazi.

They intentionally sent soldiers into a hot spot without an exit plan. Who does that?

[FSogol]

14. K & R. n/t

[herding cats]

18. Kicking for exposure.

[Brother Buzz]

19. The cynic I am, I can entertain this theory

It will be interesting to see how they spin and try to get in front of the story.