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A month on, U.S., Niger still disagree on what happened on fatal mission

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A month on, U.S., Niger still disagree on what happened on fatal mission

REUTERS, 03 Nov 2017

URL: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-niger-usa-security/a-month-on-u-s-niger-still-disagree-on-what-happened-on-fatal-mission-idUSKBN1D31VH
NIAMEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A month after an Islamist ambush in Niger killed eight U.S. and Nigerien troops, the two sides’ officials still cannot agree on the sequence of events leading to the incident or even, possibly more importantly, on the nature of the mission itself.