Good wednesday morning. The United States military has joined the hunt in nigeria to help in a kidnapping case thats sparked international outrage. The team will help in the search for nearly 300 schoolgirls taken by a terrorist group. Abcs Tahman Bradley is following the latest from washington. Reporter with unicef reporting that eight more nigerian girls have been kidnapped by the boko haram group, the United States is joining the manhunt. The u. S. Has sent a collaboration cell to nigeria. They accepted our help. A combination of military, law enforcement, and other agencies, who are going in, trying to identify where, in fact, these girls might be. And to provide them help. Reporter three weeks after more than 300 girls, age 15 to 19, were abducted from this school, the Nigerian Government says it has no idea where most of the students are. The failure to find the girls has led to protests around the world. Bring back our girls. Reporter about 50 of the girls escaped. But the rest
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The search intense identifies for the hundreds of school girls in africa. And president obama telling abc news today that the u. S. Is sending help. All this as around the world the grand swell of outrage is building. People from every corner of the Globe Holding up signs that say bring back our girls. Abcs brian ross is tracking the search at this hour. Brian. Reporter what it calls the worsening nightmare. Unicef reported the abduction of eight more Nigerian School girls. A second kidnapping by the same terror Group Holding hundreds mo more taken last month. They have been brought here to take their final exams in safety. Young women who then came face to face with the very terror group they had tried to flee whose name means western education is a sin. Three weeks later the government of nigeria says it still has no idea where the missing girls or their kidnappers are. Today at the white house president obama told ginger zee of abc news the u. S. Is now taking action. We have alread
How we can offer options for support of the Nigerian Government in the current situation. So thats a big clue here about what is going on behind the scenes, planning options for support. Dont look for boots on the ground, so to speak. Dont look for u. S. Military operations on the ground. What we are talking about is how to offer the Nigerian Government the support, the help that it needs to get these girls rescued if that is even possible. Some of the examples that are under discussion with the military and the Intelligence Community are intelligence sharing, investigation help, hostage experts, not really included at this point, expected to include rescue mission personnel. Dont look for special forces on the ground kicking doors down so to speak. All of this is coming from the center of the effort, the u. S. Embassy in nigeria. There have been military intelligence, Law Enforcement personnel there, they work out of that embassy all the time. The president talking about putting this