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Intervening in a volatile and brutal crisis, President Barack Obama said Friday he has dispatched 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to support a years-long fight against a guerrilla group accused of horrific atrocities. Obama said they were sent to advise, not engage in combat, unless forced to defend themselves.
In a letter to Congress, Obama said the troops will act as advisers in a long-running battle against the Lord's Resistance Army, considered one of Africa's most ruthless rebel groups, and help to hunt down its notorious leader, Joseph Kony.
The first of the troops arrived in Uganda on Wednesday, the White House said, and others will be sent to South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
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I know for a fact there were US special forces attached to the UPDF when they went Kony-hunting in the CAR in 2008 or 2009 but it wasn't a success. Ideally,we'd develop our own indigenous force projection capacities,a universal and historic lack among black people; one I feel is our perpetual undoing.
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Africans should brush up on their albino killing skills. Now more then ever. Obama was created because of this day, to sent American troops into Africa.
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This is disconcerting. After a decade of relative peace, the colonial powers are at their game again in Africa. Libya is already up in smoke from NATO bombings and now central East Africa.
Shame on Museveni, Obama and all those African leaders who approved this time bomb.
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There was never any "decade of relative peace". The only difference is that the plunder, murders and mayhem by the U.S., France, and Britain were in the last decade renditioned out by proxy to their favourite hitmen in Africa like Zenawi(Ethiopia), Kagame(Rwanda), Mubarak, Habre(Chad), Ali(Tunisia, etc.
Now the U.S. and its lesser altar boys--France, Britain, etc.--are now intervening directly to kill, murder, rob and plunder to keep their unfortunate quarry from looking elsewhere for other alternatives--e.g. China. Hence, the frenetic murder spree now taking place in Africa led by that degenerate mulatto, Obama. His latest killing spree is slaughtering Africans in Libya. Disgusting.
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What is up with this Kony thing? In yout opinion, why are those guys fighting?
Lion!
Kony,without doubt is a creature of his masters-who script his agenda ,arm and pay him. In early 2007,when I was in S.Sudan,specifically Yei,informed gossip had it that the Arabs had flown his militia from the Imatong mts.where they had inflicted serious casualties on the UPDF 4th division to the E.Congo CAR border region. The Kony thing is also a messianic revanchist thing with roots in Uganda's pre colonial history. The Brits favoured the Nilotes in the forces as they were politically reliable(ignorant!)compared to the more exposed Bantu Baganda or Basoga in the South. Called Nubians they were feared for their unthinking brutality-Amin was a perfect example. While a sergeant with the KAR during the Mau Mau emergency ,he would threaten suspects with castration and was nearly court-martialled for killing 7 Turkana cattle rustling suspects just before independence. Anyway,the Nilotes,the Acholi,Langi,Kakwa aka Nubians dominated the institutions of real power, the Uganda armed forces. Horrible depredations were inflicted on the Southern Bantus especially 72-86.Finally a Southerner,Museveni took over and the shoe was on the other foot. It was a shock from which the Nubians never recovered. Instantly former victims had the guns and the power to avenge years of victimisation. The loss of status and livelihood ,thousands of Nilotes were demobbed sparked off the first Nilote rebellion led bt Alice Lakwena immediately after Museveni seized power.
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The Acholi had lost their power in Uganda, their influence, their pride, their sense of identity. The Acholis had gained that power by being some of the best soldiers in the army of Uganda (this began in the colonial days of Uganda under the British), becoming people of influence and power…now in January of 1986; it was a dark night in land of the Acholis. ..
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The best troops were brought in, artillery and Katusha rocket launchers, the rebellion was over, the spirit Lakwena left Alice Auma and she fled into exile into Kenya never to return to Uganda.
The armAlice Auma Lakwena before her death in Kenyay celebrated its victory but it was short lived when it was announced that another rebel group called “Lord’s Resistance Army” had declared war on the government of Uganda. http://kabiza.com/African-Insights-Blog-Alice-Auma-Lakwena.htm I hope its clear.
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It's time for this nonsense to stop. The wicked colonialists corral together disparate groups into one holding pen, called a "colony", then play the groups off against each other.
Some for the army, some for colonial education, some to do the books, some to grow the crops, etc. Then they make sure that they beef up the boys with the guns with more guns come so-called independence. Mayhem quickly ensues as the boys with the guns want to monopolise everything. Others will be resentful. War inevitably ensues.
Obama's belated move re the LRA is just to move Museveni into the U.S. imperialism corner as matters remain highly volatile in North and East Africa.
U.S. imperialism's latest prize is, of course, South Sudan hived off from Sudan under joint U.S./Israeli operations. Witness the sea of Jew star flags being flown by the naive South Sudan crowd at so-called "independence day" celebrations. And the U.S. is now in charge of building up South Sudan army.
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And those 100 Yankee troops. Hardly see them going up country to tangle with the LRA and the mosquitoes.
These 100 are mainly CIA spies and other state mercenaries looking for a good time in Kampala--as they would be tooling around in their big 4-wheel drives and military hummers. Immediate impact: increase in demand for beer and whores. Pathetic! Well, what else from slave-boy Museveni!
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What is up with this Kony thing? In yout opinion, why are those guys fighting?
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Kony,without doubt is a creature of his masters-who script his agenda ,arm and pay him. In early 2007,when I was in S.Sudan,specifically Yei,informed gossip had it that the Arabs had flown his militia from the Imatong mts.where they had inflicted serious casualties on the UPDF 4th division to the E.Congo CAR border region. The Kony thing is also a messianic revanchist thing with roots in Uganda's pre colonial history. The Brits favoured the Nilotes in the forces as they were politically reliable(ignorant!)compared to the more exposed Bantu Baganda or Basoga in the South. Called Nubians they were feared for their unthinking brutality-Amin was a perfect example. While a sergeant with the KAR during the Mau Mau emergency ,he would threaten suspects with castration and was nearly court-martialled for killing 7 Turkana cattle rustling suspects just before independence. Anyway,the Nilotes,the Acholi,Langi,Kakwa aka Nubians dominated the institutions of real power, the Uganda armed forces. Horrible depredations were inflicted on the Southern Bantus especially 72-86.Finally a Southerner,Museveni took over and the shoe was on the other foot. It was a shock from which the Nubians never recovered. Instantly former victims had the guns and the power to avenge years of victimisation. The loss of status and livelihood ,thousands of Nilotes were demobbed sparked off the first Nilote rebellion led bt Alice Lakwena immediately after Museveni seized power.
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The Acholi had lost their power in Uganda, their influence, their pride, their sense of identity. The Acholis had gained that power by being some of the best soldiers in the army of Uganda (this began in the colonial days of Uganda under the British), becoming people of influence and power…now in January of 1986; it was a dark night in land of the Acholis. ..
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The best troops were brought in, artillery and Katusha rocket launchers, the rebellion was over, the spirit Lakwena left Alice Auma and she fled into exile into Kenya never to return to Uganda.
The armAlice Auma Lakwena before her death in Kenyay celebrated its victory but it was short lived when it was announced that another rebel group called “Lord’s Resistance Army” had declared war on the government of Uganda. http://kabiza.com/African-Insights-Blog-Alice-Auma-Lakwena.htm I hope its clear.
Thanks man.
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is a list published by the American publishing and media company Forbes. The list contains ten fugitives that Forbes, with the help of international law enforcement agencies, deems as the world's most wanted. The list was first published in April 2008. Subsequently, in August 2008 Forbes published a new list that focused solely on white-collar crime: World's 10 Most Wanted White-Collar Fugitives. There has been a new list as of May 2011, following the death of Osama bin Laden. Fugitives
The World's Most Wanted Fugitive
Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, Mexican. Drug lord, leader of Sinaloa Cartel.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian. New leader of al-Qaeda, after Osama bin Laden's death.
Félicien Kabuga, Rwandan. Implicated in organizing and funding the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Joseph Kony, Ugandan. Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army.
Dokka Umarov, Russian. Russian terrorist and self proclaimed leader of the Caucasus Emirate ______________________________________________________________
White-Collar Fugitives
The list is currently at nine instead of ten due to Canada approving extradition of accused smuggler Lai Changxing to the PRC and his immediate arrest in July 2011.
Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, Israeli-American. Wanted by US for securities fraud, currently in Namibia.
Ghaith Pharaon, Saudi, wanted for involvement in BCCI scandal. Warren Anderson (chairman), American, wanted by India, charged with manslaughter in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Gao Shan, Chinese, now in Canada, wanted by the PRC for embezzlement.
Tomo Razmilovic, Croatian, wanted by US for securities fraud. Alven Yakatori, Ukrainian, swindler.
Boris Berezovsky, Russian, resides in the UK.
Casper Malwsa, American, wanted by US for fraud and money laundering.
Joseph McCool, American, accused of running a Ponzi scheme[1]
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Some experts say forces sent to fight guerrilla group are country's reward for its military service in Somalia
By Jason Straziuso
Associated Press
Nairobi Kenya: Why is the United States sending its troops to finish off a fractured band of bush fighters in the middle of Africa?
Political payback for the quiet sacrifices of Uganda's troops in Somalia could be one reason.
President Barack Obama announced Friday he is dispatching about 100 U.S. troops-- mostly special operations forces--to central Africa to advise in the fight against the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerilla group that is accused of widespread atrocities across several countries.
The first U.S. troops arrived Wednesday.
Long considered one of Africa's most brutal rebel groups, the Lord's Resistance Army began its attacks in Uganda more than 20 years ago.
But the rebels are at their weakest point in 15 years. Their forces are fractured and scattered, and the Ugandan military estimated this year that only 200 to 400 fighters remain. In 2003, the LRA had 3,000 armed troops and 2,000 people in support roles.
But capturing the LRA leader Joseph Kony remains the highest priority for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, a 25-year-leader who has committed thousands of troops to the AFrican Union force in Somalia to fight militants from al-Shabah, a group with ties from al-Qaida.
The LRA poses no known security threat to the United States, and a report from the Enough Project last year said that Kony no longer has complete and direct command and control over each LRA unit.
Some experts believe the U.S. military advisers sent to Uganda could be a reward for the U.S.-funded Ugandan troops service in Somalia.
''I've been hearing that. I don't know if our group necessarily agrees with that , but it definitely would make sense,'' said Matt Brown, a spokesman for the Enough Project, a U.S. group working to end genocide and crimes against humanity, especially in central Africa.
''The U.S. doesn't have to fight al-Qaida-linked Shabab in Somalia, so we help Uganda take care of their domestic security problems, freeing them up to fight a more dangerous--or a more pressing, perhaps--issue in Somalia. I don' tknow if we would necessarily say that, but it's surely a plausible theory.''
Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda's military spokesman, said previously that Ugandan forces have long received ''invaluable'' support from the U.S.military, including shared intelligence, in the fight against the LRA.
Though the deployment of 100 troops is relatively small, it marks a possible sea-change for Washington in overcoming its reluctance to commit troops in Africa.
The United States has not had forces in Somalia since pulling out shortly after the 1993 Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu, where 18 Americans died.
[*] bold in original article October 16, 2011, Sunday; more than likely as a topic headliner.
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Kenyan military for the first time crossed their borders in pursuit of Somali militants who had run an international kidnapping ring threatening to unravel Kenyan's tourist industry....
Recall Obama is a Kenyan too!
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What is up with this Kony thing? In yout opinion, why are those guys fighting?
Lion!
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What about the oil deposites discovered in Uganda? You think it has something to do with this move?
There are many Chinese in Uganda and this may be Obama's chess move at pre-empting Chinese meddling...
Sending military advisers is a way of showing the depth of commitment you are ready to invest in a place.
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What is up with this Kony thing? In yout opinion, why are those guys fighting?
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Kikuyu
What about the oil deposites discovered in Uganda? You think it has something to do with this move?
There are many Chinese in Uganda and this may be Obama's chess move at pre-empting Chinese meddling...
Sending military advisers is a way of showing the depth of commitment you are ready to invest in a place.
Of course but for the Chinese of greater interest is the Lamu Port (by the Somali border)to Juba railroad which is slated to reach Douala in Cameroon when complete. A massive 16 bn $ project that will serve as a land bridge opening up S.Sudan,CAR,and N.Kenya,with a pipeline pumping oil to the Indian ocean-another reason why the gov't decided to invade Somalia. http://allafrica.com/stories/201001060866.html Iron,truly,the world has changed and the old paradigms no longer apply:has any western country ever undertaken such a project anywhere in the 3rd world?
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But that does not mean ever. Right now, Africa is ruling the west through our sons and daughters. More of them are lined up to take over.
It is captives taking captivity captive.
They will pay ever single penny and I see in Obama's desultory steps, a tentative beginning to the re-balancing....
If I'm reading you correctly you expect some good from Obama. Hmmm....lets see,apart from allowing his handlers an extremely important make-over(totally symbolic);can you say there have been fundamental changes in the structure of the Anglo-jewish imperium?
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But that does not mean ever. Right now, Africa is ruling the west through our sons and daughters. More of them are lined up to take over.
It is captives taking captivity captive.
They will pay ever single penny and I see in Obama's desultory steps, a tentative beginning to the re-balancing....
If I'm reading you correctly you expect some good from Obama. Hmmm....lets see,apart from allowing his handlers an extremely important make-over(totally symbolic);can you say there have been fundamental changes in the structure of the Anglo-jewish imperium?
It is coming. First is psychological change. Now Black men and women know they can be the Boss in the Amerikkka.
Second is the take down, and touch down.
It happened in music. Pinks shut out Muurs from the music industry until we came with soul, rock and roll, jazz, etc. The rest is history.
Then baseball.
Then boxing.
Then football.
Then going to college.
Then municipal politics (Mayoralties of big cities like Chicago, New York, Atlanta)...
Then the Presidency.
We are a blessed and beloved people, when we focus. We are the magic Johnsons, the Air Jordan, and the magick Negro Obama.
WE first charm, mesmerize, hypnotize and then take control.
It is called juju by the unlearned.
Rastas call it natural mystic!
My brother, today is our day. All you have to do is change your psychological outlook, then walk the walk.
All else will follow.
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since Hispanics have the fastest growing population in the U.S. it may be a non black hispanic president before another black one and probably some whites in between, possibly a woman at some point. The first non Christian or Jewish president I'm not sure about. I think mainstream America doesn't trust people who have religions other than Christianity.
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