Footage shows US troops trying to escape Niger ambush - video

[turbinetree]

Drone footage of a militant ambush in Niger that killed four US and five Nigerien service personnel shows the soldiers desperately trying to escape. Later they are seen being fired upon by friendly forces who mistook them for the enemy.

It shows how the fleeing troops set up a quick defensive location on the edge of a swamp and, thinking they were about to die, wrote messages home to their loved ones

[sandensea]

1. Definitely near the top of the list Congressional Dems should investigate

After the Blue Wave this November (knock wood).

[turbinetree]

2. I hope so...................

Knock on Wood......................171 days to go

[sandensea]

3. And we should make sure Trump's Niger disaster makes the headlines every other night at least

Like Faux did with Benghazi and the e-mails.

By 2020, I want every soccer mom, eight-grader, and everyone around the water cooler to be a bonafide expert on Niger.

"Trump is being a real Hamani Diori."

"Yeah. Someone should Kountché his ass."

[Dalida]

4. Who were the friendly forces that fired on them?

Nigerians or Americans? And the four were killed by this friendly fire and not by the ambush?