Jihadi linked to G.I. ambush in Niger is busted

NIGER GOVERNMENT forces have reportedly arrested a man they believe to be Doundoun Cheffou, a high-ranking Islamic extremist whom four U.S. soldiers were trying to track down when they were killed in an ambush last year.

Niger soldiers cuffed someone who matches the physical description of Cheffou during an army patrol near the Mali border about two weeks ago, Col. Maj. Moussa Salaou Barmou, head of Niger’s special forces, told The New York Times.

An investigation into the Niger ambush is ongoing, and a string of questions about what the slain U.S. soldiers were doing there remain unanswered.