And football camp . A. Good afternoon, im Michael Gleaves and im morgan radford. Thank you for joining us. Officials say an attack that set homes and shops on fire during the 12hour attack near the border with cameroon. Now this attack comes as Nigerian Police offer even more money for any and all information leading them to the more 200 school girls who were kidnapped just last month. Describing what residents said about that attack. These people operated within that city for over 12 hours. She did notthey did not leave until 1 00 in the night. Before the city was visited by the military and control volunteers. The military and the civilians vigilanty moved to the northern border when they heard that some of the school girls who had been abducted from sighted around that area. So the insurgents took advantage of the situation, and they came in to the city. Actually when they came the villagers thought it was the military who came because they came in with military vehicles and militar
Body was not found for 30 years. Her killer or killers was never punished. Attention focused on recordings made by an interviewer and oral historian under the hospices of Boston College. Mar tis pants were assured their identitied would be protected but prior toish pros it prosecutors were not playing along. The arrests of shin feign leader in connection with the killing was a reminder of the troubles unanswered questions. The so called hard men of Northern Ireland strife, those that wanted to join the irish republic, ore keep their hometowns in the united kingdom, still walk the streets today, along with their victims and their victims survivors. Point four days in jail last week, he was questioned in connection with the abduction and murder of gene mcconvoy. Adams maintains his innocence, and has always denied he was a member of the ira. I am conscious theres another way at the heart of all of this. And that is the family of gene mcconnell. Let me be very clear, i am innocent of any
And boko haram Holding Hundreds of kidnap girls. President obama making a big announcement on u. S. Involvement in afghanistan today. He laid out how many u. S. Troops will stay in country at the beginning of this year. Well have approximately 989,800 u. S. Service members in different parts of the country. Mike viqueira in washington. Take us through the specifics of the troop withdraw plan. Reporter the president has long promised withdrawal by 2014. Its something that he has campaigned on and promised ever since. His surprise visit outside of kabul was a precursor to the announcement he made today. He laid out the numbers. At the height of mr. Obamas serge, by 2010 and 2011, u. S. Had 200,000 troops on the ground. By the time of his visit was 32,000. 9800 americans left in afghanistan. That number cut in half by the end of 2014. And by the end of 2016 the president promises the u. S. Will have a normal emabout as is presence and over 13 years of war. Now the americans who do remain
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the lynn group hamas will pay for kidnapping and killing three teenage israelis in the settlement. This comes as tens of thousands of people attended a funeral for the three teens. Their bodies were found yesterday near where they disappeared in the middle of june. The israeli army said at least three rockets were launched were gaza today. Some landed in israel. We have more on todays events. Reporter the israelipalestinian relations are at the most precarious point in a decade. Rockets flying from gaza into israel and israel into did g gaza. For israel this was a day of grieving. Three separate funerals for three teenage boys. This is a country that rallies during crisis and the abduction and murder of three israelis created an outpouring of grief in a spirit of sol laye solidarity. The kidnappers and murderers try to weaken us, we shall not weaken. Reporter as families grief, israel sparks attacks. Hamas which runs gaza with threats
Several developments today in the crisis in iran. The u. S. Military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect u. S. Troops and diplomats. Human rights say it has evidence fighters of Islamic State in iraq and the levant killed up to 190 men after taking tikrit this month. Mike viqueira is live for us at the white house with more on these developments. Mike, does the president s drones in the iraqi theater, lets call it that, represent a major escalation for the United States . We do know that the United States was flying drones as well as f18 off the aircraft car carrier george h bush. What theyre doing is getting a better idea of those Islamic State in iraq and the levant and trying to identify targets. Today we do learn that some of those drones are armed. The pent makes no apologize for that, and they say that theyre there as private contractors and some of those 300 or so advisers, about half who are in country can be protected if it comes to that. They described the mission