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        1. EXCLUSIVE: Green Berets "training/advising" Nigerien forces were attacked by ISIS militants and killed 11 of them in December, a firefight the military didn't publicly disclose two months after the deadly ambush in October nytimes.com/2018/03/14/world/africa/niger-green-berets-isis-firefight-december.html w/ @EricSchmittNYT @Tmgneff
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        Moreover, there were at least 10 other firefights in which joint US-Nigerien patrols were attacked between 2015-2017, some of which left enemies dead, but DOD didn't disclose them. (No others with US casualties.) nytimes.com/2018/03/14/world/africa/niger-green-berets-isis-firefight-december.html
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      Also, we obtained Trump administration's (otherwise fairly useless) report responding to Congress's mandate that it explain how the executive branch's legal and policy frameworks guiding military force (e.g. drone strikes) have changed since Obama documentcloud.org/documents/4411374-Legal-and-Policy-Frameworks-on-US-Use-of.html
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