UK Special Forces on Standby to Rescue Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram.
**British highest government’s emergency committee, Cobra just finished meeting on how to tackle the terrorist.
The British government is set 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. Whitehall source says government is prepared to deploy special forces and spy planes if requested by Nigerian authorities, reports The Guardian.
Options for British support for the Nigerian forces struggling to find nearly 200 young girls were discussed by officials at a meeting of the government’s emergency committee, Cobra. The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence declined to say what help Britain might provide until the Nigerian authorities made an official request.
Details of the assistance that Nigeria requires was handed to Britain on this afternoon, though it is understood that unofficial talks between the two countries have already taken place early in the week.
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