U.S. notes failures, acts of bravery in Niger attack
By Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports
Posted: May 11, 2018 at 3:20 a.m.
WASHINGTON -- Multiple failures led up to the deadly Niger attack in October, but top military leaders said Thursday that none directly caused the overwhelming enemy ambush that killed four American service members and sent others fighting and running for their lives.
"The direct cause of the enemy attack in Tongo Tongo is that the enemy achieved tactical surprise there and our forces were outnumbered approximately 3-to-1," Maj. Gen. Roger Cloutier Jr. told reporters during a Pentagon news conference. Cloutier led the investigation, which interviewed 143 witnesses, including one survivor of the attack who accompanied an investigative team back to the battlefield.
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