Captain Perozeni was reprimanded but successfully appealed it. at the time and had nothing to do with the specific mission or its execution, Company Commander Alan Van Saun, was formally reprimanded for not training his team adequately and was told he had no future in the army. As one father says, “The army let my son down and then they lied about it and forced the blame down the ladder.” In fact, one member who was on paternity leave in the U.S. The worst is that the subsequent investigation of the tragedy, carried out by AFRICOM rather than another entity, concluded that the ODA team itself was to blame. The film also alleges that one unidentified vehicle in the military convoy was manned by a CIA team looking for an American Christian aid worker being held hostage, Jeffrey Woodke, and it was their search for Woodke is what drove the “mission”. The families were told one thing and then another, some of which made no sense. The Army’s redacted report on the ambush, that family members read from throughout the film, has been removed from the Pentagon’s website. What happened next, the film asserts, was a cover-up to protect the careers of those higher up on the chain of command. The ambush left four Special Forces members dead: Staff Sargent (SS) Bryan Black, SS Jeremiah Johnson, Sgt. Soon after they got on the road again, they came under deadly fire.Īlthough Perozeni texted and called for cover and rescue, Painter denied the assistance, according to the film.
The ODA team met with village leaders to gather intelligence about the area, but the leaders delayed their departure. At 8:30am they began the return journey to Ouallam but the Nigerien soldiers wanted to stop at Tongo Tongo for water and food. The soldiers, therefore, traveled north overnight and at sunrise on October 4 th found the camp deserted. Commander Donald Painter based in Chad, denied both requests to return to Ouallam. His commanding officer, in this case, Lt. On their way back to their base in Ouallam, Niger, they were directed to change plans and travel north to “pinpoint, capture and kill” a highly valued Islam extremist terrorist named Doundou Chefou.Ĭaptain Michael Perozeni who headed the ODA team protested this change of plans twice because they did not have needed intelligence, were not equipped for the mission and they did they have any backup. Special Forces ODA (Operational Detachment Alpha) highly qualified team along with Nigerien soldiers, left on what an approved one-day plan to gather intelligence about Islam extremists in Tiloa. This is what 3212 Un-Redacted is all about.Īccording to this ABC News Investigation documentary, on October 3, 2017, a convoy of military vehicles with a U.S. She, like the parents and families of the four men killed, would demand the truth and accountability in the name of justice. military is deployed around the world and acting in our name. I think Day would also demand to know where and why the U.S. Army and the AFRICOM desk at Pentagon in the aftermath of the deaths of four Special Forces service members in Niger, Africa in 2017.
Similarly, I think she would be outraged – and would have protested – at the revelations of cover-ups and lies told by the U.S.
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