U.S. deploys 80 troops to help find kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
Wednesday, May 21, 2014 - 18:50
in Mathematics & Economics
JC SevcikWASHINGTON, May 21 (UPI) -- President Obama sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy Wednesday, notifying Congress that the United States has deployed 80 troops to Chad to aid in the search for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group.