These images provided by the U.S. Army show, from left, Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black, 35, of Puyallup, Wash.; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson, 39, of Springboro, Ohio; Sgt. La David Johnson of Miami Gardens, Fla.; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright, 29, of Lyons, Ga. All four were killed in Niger, when a joint patrol of American and Niger forces was ambushed by militants believed linked to the Islamic State group. A military investigation into the Niger attack that killed four American service members concludes the team didn’t get required senior command approval for their risky mission to capture a high-level Islamic State militant, several U.S. officials familiar with the report said. It doesn’t point to that failure as a cause of the deadly ambush. (U.S. Army via AP)
The Pentagon is briefing the families of the four soldiers killed in an ambush linked to the Islamic State in Niger last October. The report on that ambush acknowledges mistakes contributed to their deaths.
Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Seth Jones (@SethGJones), director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the U.S. military mission in Africa.
