US Deploys 80 Military Personnel to Help Find Nigerian Girls

U.S. President Barack Obama has deployed 80 U.S. military personnel to Chad to help find more than 250 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants last month in neighboring Nigeria. In a letter Wednesday to the U.S. Congress, Obama said the U.S. personnel will "support the operation of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft" over northern Nigeria and in "the surrounding area."  He said the force will remain in Chad to hunt for the children until it...

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