Niger Investigation Cover-Up

The Niger Investigation is a cover-up. A few key omissions and errors stand out in the report.

1. The official report omits that the ambush by ISIS-GIS forces began with a feint terror attack on the village.

2. The villagers were complicit in the feint and ambush, possibly even taking part in the torture of LaDavid Johnson.

3. LaDavid Johnson did not die in a valiant last stand, but was captured, tortured, and executed by ISIS-GIS and locals.

4. The raid to capture Doundou Chefou was a violation of the mandate of US forces which forbade direct combat operations.

5. The raid to capture Doundou Chefou was well known to the Nigerien Defense Minister. That means that the "unauthorized" mission was well known to higher levels of command in Niger.

6. Malian ISIS-GIS forces took possession of the US vehicles after the ambush.

During the press conference a few lies were made.

1. That the direct cause of the attack was the ambush itself. That's tautology.

2. That there have been no further US fire fights in Niger. December 6th the US was in a fire fight.

Given these issues a few questions arise?

1. Who gave US forces the intel that Doundou Chefou was in the area? Have we considered that he was likely a double agent for ISIS-GIS?

2. Why are the villagers left out of the official summary? The mayor of Tongo Tongo admitted that the villagers support ISIS-GIS so this isn't a secret. The villagers were clearly complicit in the feint attack that initiated the ambush.

3. Why is the feint that initiated the ISIS-GIS ambush left out of the official report?

4. Why is the capture, torture, and execution of LaDavid Johnson omitted from the official report?

AFRICOM gave us and 8 page summary of a 6,300 page report. Is the whole report a cover-up or just the summary?

Sources:

Niger Investigation by the AFRICOM
https://www.defense.gov/portals/1/features/2018/0418_niger/img/Oct-2017-Niger-Ambush-Summary-of-Investigation.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180510161253/https://www.defense.gov/portals/1/features/2018/0418_niger/img/Oct-2017-Niger-Ambush-Summary-of-Investigation.pdf
https://www.c-span.org/video/?445374-1/pentagon-report-blames-niger-ambush-series-failures
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/05/09/congresswoman-close-to-soldier-killed-in-niger-raises-suspicions-about-pentagon-investigation/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3188946959b8
http://archive.li/HEHO8
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-unveil-niger-attack-investigation-212733783--politics.html
http://archive.li/3fRZl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doundou_Chefou
http://archive.li/5tFOm
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/05/10/niger-investigation-what-went-wrong-whats-being-done-to-fix-it/
http://archive.li/tIhne
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/387157-pentagon-wont-seek-disciplinary-action-for-failures-in-niger
http://archive.li/6959t

Niger Ambush Video from ISIS-GIS
https://kaotic.com/video/klrmyip8_2018404143945_t

Niger SOFA
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/205314.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20171125111151/https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/205314.pdf

Background
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-niger-usa/at-least-46-attacks-in-area-of-niger-where-u-s-troops-killed-u-n-idUSKBN1CP20E
http://archive.is/GqIsq

1,000 Troops Deployed (officially who has any idea what the real number is)
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/10/23/senators-stunned-to-learn-us-has-1000-troops-in-niger/
http://archive.is/FG2au

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/10/24/us-officials-niger-is-hub-for-us-operations-in-western-africa/
http://archive.is/6V9Ry

http://news.antiwar.com/2017/10/29/niger-deaths-start-new-debate-on-us-war-authorizations/
http://archive.is/jC8DC

>Even more ominous is that the 1,000 troops in Niger are just a fraction of the over 20,000 US troops deployed overseas in unidentified places, meaning that there are countless other operations ongoing that are just as unauthorized.

Nigeriens ok drones
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/11/01/niger-dm-us-can-use-armed-drones-as-needed/
http://archive.is/cJHG6

Drone bases in Niger and Algeria.
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/12/14/us-will-preposition-jet-fuel-in-algeria-niger-to-expand-drone-wars/
http://archive.is/LoQqC

Niger Drone Base Tours
https://theintercept.com/2018/02/27/u-s-military-opened-secretive-drone-base-to-visitors-after-the-intercept-wrote-about-it/
http://archive.is/7XwJP

Pentagon continues to blow smoke and deflect in the official story.
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/11/03/a-month-after-ambush-us-and-niger-cant-get-their-stories-straight/
http://archive.is/Ll12M

Expanded and Contrary Reports
https://www.voanews.com/a/new-details-emerge-about-attack-that-killed-us-soldiers-in-niger/4080617.html
http://archive.is/DLScm

>"These Nigerien soldiers are part of a security and intelligence battalion that has been trained by the U.S. forces during several U.S.-led training exercises known as Flintlock," said Moussa Aksar, director of the newspaper l'Évènement in Niamey, and a terrorism specialist in the Sahel.

>The soldiers were trying to track down an accomplice [Doundou Chefou] of Abu Adnan al-Sahraoui, a former member of the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), who joined the Islamic State terror group in the Sahara Desert.

>For his part, Mayor Hassane said, “The attackers, the bandits, the terrorists have never lacked accomplices among local populations.”

>A fake terror attack attracted the soldiers to a trap outside the village, where about 50 assailants in vehicles and motorcycles armed with Kalashnikovs and heavy weapons opened fire on them. Four Nigerien soldiers and three Americans were killed on the spot. The body of the fourth American soldier was found 48 hours later, about a mile away from the initial site, CNN reported.

>Since the attack, Tongo-Tongo village chief Mounkaila Alassane has been arrested, and there is no information on his whereabouts.

>No group has officially taken responsibility for the attack. According to sources in the region, however, it is the work of Abu Adnan al-Saharaoui, who calls himself the Islamic Emir of the Great Sahara, affiliated with the Islamic State group.

Nigerien DM backs up that story.
http://news.antiwar.com/2017/11/05/niger-dm-us-troops-were-fighting-on-mali-border-before-ambush/
http://archive.is/7sbFz

Guardian does too.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/15/niger-us-troops-military-ambush-attack
http://archive.is/HsAXx

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/04/special-forces-unit-ambushed-in-niger-desperately-called-for-help-sources-say
http://archive.is/FXq41

Found that ISIS executed 1 US Soldier at least. One dead in his truck. 2 dead outside, one of whom holding a radio.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/africa/us-soldier-in-niger-ambush-was-bound-and-apparently-executed-villagers-say/2017/11/10/3aebba3e-c442-11e7-9922-4151f5ca6168_story.html
http://archive.is/wvBSA

US didn’t report a December 6th gunfight with ISIS in Niger.
https://news.antiwar.com/2018/03/14/us-never-disclosed-december-firefight-in-niger/
http://archive.is/ZPISI

Malian terrorists got US vehicles captured during the raid.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mali-usa-niger/mali-militia-says-it-obtains-u-s-military-vehicle-from-niger-raid-idUKKCN1GQ2EG
http://archive.is/RuqNa