Get paid to share your links! TVC NEWS [WASHINGTON DC]- The United States has deployed manned surveillance aircraft over Nigeria and is sharing satellite imagery with the Nigerian government to find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist insurgents, a senior Obama administration official said.
TVC NEWS Foreign Bureau gathered that Washington has sent military, law-enforcement and development experts to Nigeria to help search for the missing girls.
“We have shared commercial satellite imagery with the Nigerians and are flying manned ISR (intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) assets over Nigeria with the government’s permission,” the US official said.
State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki told a news briefing yesterday that the US was providing intelligence, surveillance and reconnassance support. She said US teams on the ground “are digging in on the search and coordinating closely with the Nigerian government as well as international partners and allies.”
Two US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States was also considering deploying unmanned, drone aircraft to aid the search.
One of the US officials said the United States had been carrying out the manned surveillance flights “for a few days” but did not elaborate
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