The White House announced today (May 6, 2014) that it is going to send a team to Nigeria to help assist its government in finding nearly 300 girls who were abducted from their school by Islamic extremists last month, the Washington Post website reports.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that the United States will provide military personnel, intelligence, and hostage negotiators to help the government.
Carney said that Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan welcomed the U.S. offer. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with President Jonathan this morning, according to Carney.
Carney added there is a "utility to having U.S. military personnel and experts on intelligence" on the ground in Nigeria, "and hostage negotiators to assist and advise the Nigerian government as they deal with this challenge."
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