MSNBC: Niger Ambush of Green Berets May Have Been a ‘Setup’

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DILANIAN: "Chris, my colleagues have been asking questions all day. What the heck happened here? How did they get into this situation? And what we're learning, the prevailing theory is this was a setup. This team of Green Berets was on a reconnaissance mission, as the general said. They stayed overnight, and in the morning they visited a village that apparently was infiltrated with ISIS supporters. And the bad guys were made aware of their presence and essentially ambushed them on the way out. They were in light vehicles. They were not anticipating a fight. So they engage in a firefight. They moved a mile down the road to another location. The fighting got really intense. And it wasn’t — an hour elapsed before they called for help. And when they finally called for help, it was another hour before French Mirage jets arrived on the scene and sort of flew low over the situation, and our sources are telling us dispersed the enemy fighters. But this raises a host of questions about why these guys were in this situation where they supposedly thought there wasn’t going to be a conflict, how these enemy were able to amass without the U.S. Military knowing about it, Chris."