5/8/2023 0 Comments Niger video ambush![]() ![]() ![]() The post American Held Hostage in Africa Is Freed appeared first on New York Times. Cheffou, but hours later four of the Americans were killed in an ambush near the village of Tongo Tongo. Cheffou was being tracked by American intelligence agencies both because of his seniority in the terrorist group and because he was suspected of having played a role in Mr. In October 2017, American soldiers raced to a location in the scrubland of Niger after intelligence officials intercepted a signal from the cellphone of a terrorist known as Doundoun Cheffou, a senior lieutenant of a former affiliate of Al Qaeda that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Woodke’s kidnapping played a role in a fatal ambush of American soldiers in West Africa. officials believed at times that a dangerous military operation would have been required to free him. His release ends of an arduous ordeal for Mr. official confirmed he was in Niamey and said he was being medically evaluated. “I don’t yet know if he is healthy.”Ī U.S. “He is safe,” she said in a phone interview. She said she was told that he was in Niamey, the capital of Niger. His wife, Els Woodke, of McKinleyville, Calif., said the United States government had notified her that her husband had been freed. The aid worker, Jeffery Woodke, was kidnapped in Niger in October 2016 and then was believed to have been taken to neighboring Mali. What the US Special Forces Niger Ambush video did NOT show: Looks like the French went in and did an operation recently that uncovered a 45 minute uncut version (which I doubt will be anywhere online anytime soon). An American aid worker abducted by militants more than six years ago in West Africa has been freed, his wife and a senior military official said on Monday, but the circumstances of his release were not immediately clear. ![]()
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