sentences:  During 2004–2007, U.S. Special Forces teams trained Tuareg units of the Nigerien Army in the Sahel region as part of the Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Partnership.Some of these trainees are reported to have fought in the 2007 rebellion within the MNJ.The goal of these Tuareg appears to be economic and political control of ancestral lands, rather than operating from religious and political ideologies.