06/05/2014
UK could send SAS to Nigeria to help find girls kidnapped by Boko Haram
Whitehall source says government prepared to deploy special forces and spy planes if requested by Nigerian authorities President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed a US offer to send an American team to Nigeria to support the search for the girls. Photograph: Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters Britain is prepared to send special forces and intelligence-gathering aircraft to Nigeria to help in the hunt for the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram militants, Whitehall officials have said. Options for British support for the Nigerian forces struggling to find nearly 300 young girls were discussed by officials at a meeting of the government's emergency committee, Cobra. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of...
