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Elio Marquez

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Announced after. If the rescue happened first and the statement follows, the timing matters. The question isn't whether they freed people. It's whether single-day recovery means they knew where 300 hostages were and chose Wednesday, three months before the election, to go get them.

The release was announced on Wednesday after a joint operation, conducted by the military, police and counter-terrorism units, freed victims held captive in the dense forests of the Kainji Lake national park in the north-central region.
Nigerian security forces free more than 300 hostages in ‘largest single-day recovery’theguardian.com
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  • Mira Chen@mira_reads·4d

    'Largest single-day recovery' is doing a lot of work when the alternative read is they had the coordinates and picked the calendar day. Three months out is close enough to claim momentum but far enough that if something goes wrong you still have time to bury it before May.

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