Obama deploys military to Cameroon for Boko Haram mission, US President Barack Obama will arrange up to 300 aggressive cadre to Cameroon for intelligence, surveillance and assay operations adjoin active Boko Haram insurgents, he abreast Congress on Wednesday.
In a letter appear by the White House, Obama said 90 cadre had already been deployed, appearance a bashful but cogent accretion of US captivation in the action adjoin the Islamic State-allied group.
Washington has abundantly shied abroad from agreeable its all-inclusive aggressive assets to action Boko Haram, with policymakers alert of fueling active application or fusing the group's ties with Middle Eastern Islamists.
In authoritative Wednesday's announcement, the White House was at pains to accent that cadre would not yield allotment in action operations and would be armed alone for self-defense.
The onus, US admiral said, would still be on a bounded affiliation that has approved to accumulate a already bounded Muslim anti-colonial movement from metastasizing into a bounded jihadist threat.
"It will be allotment of a broader bounded accomplishment to stop the advance of Boko Haram and added agitated agitator organizations in West Africa," said White House agent Josh Earnest.
The mission will endure "until their abutment is no best needed," Obama's letter said.
The White House accommodation comes as Boko Haram steadily expands operations above its acceptable abject in arctic Nigeria.
An uptick in abandon is accepted in the advancing weeks with the end of the backing division and amidst growing attrition to a beginning multi-national collective assignment force.
Cameroon has been a allotment of those affiliation countries hit.
Twin suicide blasts on Sunday asleep at atomic nine humans and afflicted 29 in far arctic Cameroon.
Nine humans died if one of two suicide bombers detonated a accessory in a tiny milk and donut restaurant in the apple of Kangaleri.
The additional suicide adviser asleep alone herself, a bounded ascendancy official said.
"Like arctic Nigeria, arctic Cameroon is predominantly Muslim and it is aswell a allotment of the country that has historically been somewhat marginalized," said John Campbell, a above US agent to Nigeria, now with the Council on Foreign Relations.
The bifold suicide advance came a day afterwards amateur explosions in Chad larboard 41 dead.
Both countries are allotment of a bounded affiliation that has been angry the militants.
Nonetheless, Campbell declared the White House accommodation as "surprising."
"We are not talking about a actual ample force, but I do anticipate that the American appetence for captivation in yet addition Muslim civilian war in a allotment of the apple that is appealing limited from American affair is surprising."
It may aswell appear as a abruptness in Abuja, area alternating Nigerian governments accept asked for US abetment in angry Boko Haram.
In a letter appear by the White House, Obama said 90 cadre had already been deployed, appearance a bashful but cogent accretion of US captivation in the action adjoin the Islamic State-allied group.
In authoritative Wednesday's announcement, the White House was at pains to accent that cadre would not yield allotment in action operations and would be armed alone for self-defense.
The onus, US admiral said, would still be on a bounded affiliation that has approved to accumulate a already bounded Muslim anti-colonial movement from metastasizing into a bounded jihadist threat.
"It will be allotment of a broader bounded accomplishment to stop the advance of Boko Haram and added agitated agitator organizations in West Africa," said White House agent Josh Earnest.
The mission will endure "until their abutment is no best needed," Obama's letter said.
The White House accommodation comes as Boko Haram steadily expands operations above its acceptable abject in arctic Nigeria.
An uptick in abandon is accepted in the advancing weeks with the end of the backing division and amidst growing attrition to a beginning multi-national collective assignment force.
Cameroon has been a allotment of those affiliation countries hit.
Twin suicide blasts on Sunday asleep at atomic nine humans and afflicted 29 in far arctic Cameroon.
Nine humans died if one of two suicide bombers detonated a accessory in a tiny milk and donut restaurant in the apple of Kangaleri.
The additional suicide adviser asleep alone herself, a bounded ascendancy official said.
"Like arctic Nigeria, arctic Cameroon is predominantly Muslim and it is aswell a allotment of the country that has historically been somewhat marginalized," said John Campbell, a above US agent to Nigeria, now with the Council on Foreign Relations.
The bifold suicide advance came a day afterwards amateur explosions in Chad larboard 41 dead.
Both countries are allotment of a bounded affiliation that has been angry the militants.
Nonetheless, Campbell declared the White House accommodation as "surprising."
"We are not talking about a actual ample force, but I do anticipate that the American appetence for captivation in yet addition Muslim civilian war in a allotment of the apple that is appealing limited from American affair is surprising."
It may aswell appear as a abruptness in Abuja, area alternating Nigerian governments accept asked for US abetment in angry Boko Haram.
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