Dissecting The U.S. Hostage Rescue Operation In Nigeria: Here Are All The Assets That Took Part In The Raid
November 9, 2020 Military Aviation, Terror, Troubled Areas
David Cenciotti
American hostage Philip Walton was rescued in northern Nigeria last month and several U.S. aircraft supported the operation.
Early on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2020, members of the Navy’s elite “SEAL Team Six†or “DEVGRU†(Development Group), based on intelligence gathered by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency using sophisticated cell phone surveillance, rescued U.S. citizen Philip Walton, in central-northern Nigeria.
Philip Walton, 27, reportedly a farmer who keeps camels, sheep, and poultry and grows mangoes near the Niger-Nigeria border had been abducted from a village in the neighbouring country of Niger to the north of Nigeria six days earlier, by six men armed with AK-47 assault rifles on motorcycles.
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