The Wall Street Journal: FBI joins review into deaths of U.S. infantry in Niger

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has assimilated a review into how militants killed 4 American soldiers in Niger dual weeks ago, an surprising pierce that comes as U.S. officials face flourishing critique over their onslaught to answer questions about a incident.

U.S. troops officials pronounced Thursday that they are still perplexing to square together a timeline of what happened, while lawmakers desirous for information criticized a Pentagon and White House for a miss of transparency.

The FBI’s impasse comes amid an deficiency of sum on a ambush, that has turn a core of a domestic firestorm over how President Donald Trump has interacted with kin of a passed soldiers.

The impasse of a FBI in a examine of a troops operation left badly is surprising though not unprecedented, FBI officials said. The FBI has a management to take over a review though hasn’t nonetheless finished so, a officials said. FBI investigators are assisting accumulate and weigh justification about a militants deliberate obliged for a waylay and how members of a organisation schooled of a corner U.S.-Nigerien patrol.

An stretched chronicle of this news appears on WSJ.com.

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