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What's Stopping U.S. Rescue of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

Why can't U.S. special forces commandos, who have freed hostages from Somali pirates and recently captured one of the planners of the 2012 U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, find and free the schoolgirls and others kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria? Nancy Montgomery, writing for the newspaper Stars and Stripes, which covers U.S. military activities, explains the complicatikons of such an operation.

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