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FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>U.S. troops\u00a0trying to combat al Qaeda and ISIS jihadist fighters<\/a> in Niger and some other West African countries in the terror-ridden Sahel region are reportedly \u2018completely blind\u2019, following what a former senior State Department official has told Fox News Digital was a policy proposal developed by the Biden administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A U.S. military source who spoke exclusively to Fox News Digital, claimed that now the Pentagon, when trying to react to serious incidents such as the Oct. 21 kidnapping of a U.S. citizen, is faced with \u2018a black hole\u2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. had two airbases in Niger until September of last year. American surveillance drones<\/a> operated from the bases, using high-tech cameras to peer through thick forest to locate terror groups, and were thought to be involved in locating another American Niger resident who was kidnapped in 2020, during the first Trump administration. Washington sent in Seal Team Six to successfully rescue that citizen.<\/p>\n

According to the military source, Niger wanted Washington to keep its Niger bases. But in March last year, Niger complained about the \u2018condescending attitude\u2019 of a U.S. delegation sent to Niger by the Biden administration, and ordered all American base personnel to leave.<\/p>\n

AMERICAN MISSIONARY KIDNAPPED IN NIGER BY SUSPECTED ISLAMIST MILITANTS, SOURCES SAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Niger\u2019s government spokesperson, Amadou Adramane, went on national television following the meeting, on March 16, complaining that the former administration\u2019s officials did not follow diplomatic protocol, adding “Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerien people the right to choose their partners and types of partnerships.”<\/p>\n

Adramane continued: “Also, the government of Niger forcefully denounces the condescending attitude accompanied by the threat of retaliation from the head of the American delegation towards the Nigerien government and people.”<\/p>\n

Mary “Molly” Phee, then Assistant Secretary of State for the Biden administration<\/a>, was tasked with leading the U.S. team in their meeting with Niger\u2019s military leadership. Several sources reported as the delegation head she demanded that the country stop dealing with Russia and Iran, or face sanctions.<\/p>\n

One source told Fox News Digital\u00a0that she \u2018flame sprayed\u2019 Niger\u2019s leaders in the meeting, adding the\u00a0“rant led us to being kicked out.” The Washington Post<\/a> also reported the Nigerien leaders took particular umbrage at her remarks.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Phee, now retired, told Fox News Digital, “It\u2019s a classic case of blame the messenger if you don\u2019t like the message.”<\/p>\n

EXPERT WARNS CRITICAL HOURS SLIPPING AWAY AS KIDNAPPERS LIKELY TO MOVE US MISSIONARY IN NIGER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Phee said she was following Biden administration policy, saying, “I\u2019m a professional diplomat with more than 30 years of experience, and I was leading an interagency delegation dispatched to share a proposal developed and approved by the White House. The Nigerien junta rejected our offer and employed a misogynistic trope to deflect legitimate concerns about their conduct.”<\/p>\n

Within months of the Phee delegation\u2019s meeting with Niger\u2019s leaders, all U.S. personnel, and their drones, had gone from Niger, leaving Washington, the military source claimed, with “no eyes in the sky.”<\/p>\n

This led the then Commander of the U.S. Africa Command, (AFRICOM) Marine Corps General Michael Langley<\/a>, to tell military chiefs at an African Chiefs of Defense Conference in May, “since we\u2019ve left Niger in September of last year, we\u2019re observing a rise in attacks by violent extremist organizations, not only in Niger but across the Sahel to include Nigeria as well and emanating in \u2013 going into Burkina Faso and Mali.”<\/p>\n

The General added that terror groups have both increased their capability and \u2018proliferation of weapons\u2019, concluding “unfortunately with our withdrawal from the region, we have lost our ability to monitor these terrorist groups closely.”<\/p>\n

RUSSIAN MERCENARIES REPLACE WESTERN FORCES AS ISIS SURGES ACROSS AFRICA’S SAHEL REGION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The U.S. military source\u00a0told Fox News Digital that, “AFRICOM is severely resource constrained with only one base in Djibouti, and some smaller forces in Somalia and Kenya. The Biden administration kept cutting our budget \u2026 we are one of the largest land masses with all the problems \u2014 Russia, China, drugs and terrorism \u2014 but make up less than 1% of the Department of War\u2019s budget.”<\/p>\n

“Since the previous administration lost us access to Niger, the Americans and Western powers are completely blind and unable to quickly react to anything.”<\/p>\n

The source agrees that Seal Team Six could conceivably be sent in again to rescue this new American kidnap victim. But he said first, the rescue team needs to know where the victim is “If we had stayed (in Niger), right now\u2026 Niger would be much safer, and we would have eyes in the sky to help find the American missionary \u2026 now we have nothing in the way of resources.”<\/p>\n

Rescue, the source told us, is “difficult to impossible \u2026 first we have to find the guy.”<\/p>\n

Analysts agreed that, particularly in Sahel\u2019s hot conditions, it\u2019s difficult for Washington\u2019s other \u2018eyes\u2019, satellites, to be effective in tracking the victim.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0State Department<\/a> has issued its highest possible travel advisory\u00a0alert, stating “Do not travel to Niger for any reason due to crime, unrest, terrorism, health, and kidnapping.”<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to AFRICOM, the Department of War and the State Department on several occasions, but at the time of publication there had been no response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/biden-admins-diplomatic-failure-niger-leaves-us-without-eyes-sky-terror-fight <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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