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We cannot comment further on this issue, or the ongoing investigation related to the Oct. 4 ambush until the investigation is complete.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Twitter account with a name in Arabic that roughly translates to \u201cMohammed Mahmoud Abu Maali\u201d made two posts about the purported video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe video shows one side of the attack, the American dead, some photos were shot by an American soldier, but ISIS took them after the photographer was killed,\u201d the Twitter account wrote in a related post. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the Twitter user posts primarily in Arabic, some of the posts being reviewed by AFRICOM were written in French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The posts claim that the author was given footage by the Islamic State\u2019s Mali offshoot depicting U.S. forces killed in Niger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first Twitter post was deleted by the user, while the second one remained up at the time of AFRICOM\u2019s statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although a reverse-image search of the photo did not yield any matching images, the pictures appear to be stills from a helmet camera that could have easily been edited or manipulated or from an unrelated video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/10\/27\/politics\/niger-ambush-convoy-separated\/index.html\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\" target=\"_blank\" data-original-title=\"\" aria-describedby=\"popover909606\">October report by CNN<\/a> quoted a Nigerian soldier who said the U.S. soldiers involved in the Niger attack were not wearing body armor. 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