US President Joe Biden said that the White House administration welcomed the news of the release of aid worker James Woodke, who was kidnapped 6 years ago in Niger, and that they consider the return of all Americans illegally detained abroad to their homeland as a priority. It has been reported DEA News.
“We remain hopeful for the (emancipation) of Americans held hostage and illegally around the world, and this administration has no higher priority than our job to get them home,” Biden said.
He stressed that the American side expressed its deep gratitude to the Niger government, which played an important role in the release of Vudke.
Wudke was allegedly kidnapped by jihadists in October 2016 outside his home in Tahoua, Niger. During this attack, his bodyguard was shot dead.
Biden has made it clear before that intend to keep secret some of the intelligence information about the formation of the coronavirus, despite the bill he signed.