Deadly US decisions before Niger ambush
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Deadly US military decisions before Niger ambush

The Pentagon has released a summary report detailing a months-long series of fatal decisions in the lead-up to deadly ambush that left four American and five Nigerian soldiers dead in October 2017. The BBC has reconstructed a timeline of events illustrated by US military training videos that reveal just what went wrong.

Video by Paul Blake

  • 11 May 2018
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