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President Trump has abounding acknowledged ascendancy beneath a 2001 war allotment to accelerate U.S. arena troops afterwards the Boko Haram extremists in Africa if he absitively it was necessary, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in affidavit to a Senate board Monday.
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Mattis was responding to a academic catechism by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., the baronial affiliate of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on how far the president’s admiral go beneath an crumbling allotment for the use of aggressive force, or AUMF, anesthetized afterwards the 9/11 attacks.
The 2001 AUMF gave the Bush administering acknowledged ascendancy to action al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated groups, but the Senate board is afresh grappling with replacing or afterlight the legislation. That accomplishment has been underscored in contempo weeks by an ambuscade of U.S. troops in Niger that dead four soldiers.
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“From what I understand, you’re saying, unless we adapt this AUMF, you would feel that you accept able allotment to accomplish American arena troops in arctic Africa,” Cardin said.
Mattis said troops in Africa are currently deployed for noncombat advising roles, but action adjoin Boko Haram, which operates primarily in Nigeria, could abatement beneath the president’s absolute authority.
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“If the admiral bent they are a blackmail to the United States and beneath the AUMF if they say they are affiliated with al Qaeda or ISIS, yes, sir, I accept so,” Mattis said.
Cardin has argued Trump does not accept a acknowledged base beneath the absolute AUMF to action ISIS and he pushed aback adjoin Mattis’ assertion.
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“When we were attacked on Sept. 11, we accustomed the charge for a aggressive acknowledgment and we absolutely accepted that American troops are activity to be alleged aloft to assure our country. I’m not abiding that Congress envisioned that we would accept the abeyant of arena troops in arctic Africa in action missions,” he said.
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