Only a smiling black face in the White House could send U.S. troops to kill Africans, first Libya, now Uganda.

Obama Sends Troops Against Uganda Rebel

President Barack Obama authorized about 100 “combat-equipped U.S. forces,” including special operations personnel, to central Africa to help fight against Uganda’s renegade Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony.

The troops are to “provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward” Kony’s removal “from the battlefield,” Obama said today in a letter to House and Senate leaders released by the White House.

The White House was responding to 2010 legislation pushed by a group of lawmakers and human rights organizations that supported a comprehensive U.S. effort short of active military involvement to mitigate or eliminate the Lord’s Resistance Army threat.

The Lord’s Resistance Army for more than 20 years “has murdered, violated and kidnapped tens of thousands of men, woman and children in central Africa,” Obama’s letter said. The State Department has designated the group a terrorist organization, and in 2008 the Treasury Department added Kony to its list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.

The U.S. has provided more than $40 million since 2008 for “critical logistical support, equipment and training” to forces fighting Kony, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.

Previous assistance includes 17 U.S. military advisers on a training mission, U.S. Africa Command spokesman Kenneth Fidler said in an e-mail.

Removing Kony
“Even with some limited U.S. assistance, however, regional military efforts have thus far been unsuccessful in removing Kony or his top commanders,” Obama’s letter said.

The 100 troops, primarily U.S. special operations forces, will assist forces from Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo with “information, advice, and assistance,” the letter said.

U.S. troops will not directly engage Kony’s forces “unless necessary for self-defense,” Obama said.

“We don’t know how long the duration” of the deployment will be, and “hope it will lasts until Kony and his commanders are brought to justice,” said Michael Poffenberger, executive director of Resolve, a Washington-based human rights groups pushing for action. Poffenberger said he was briefed by the National Security Council before release of the Obama letter.

‘Internal Defense’
The special operations forces will be performing “foreign internal defense” training that’s to “provide the right balance of strategic and tactical experience to supplement host nation military efforts,” Fidler said.

“Our forces are prepared to stay as long as necessary,” he said. The personnel will be commanded by Special Operations Command-Africa.

Besides the humanitarian grounds for sending troops cited by Obama, the U.S. has growing concern that the instability caused by the LRA will benefit militant Islamic groups in Somalia and northern Africa.

So far, said William M. Bellamy, a former U.S. ambassador to Kenya who heads the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, there is no evidence that the LRA has links to any Islamist groups. “The LRA is kind of off on its own planet,” he said.

The U.S. does have a growing interest in helping Uganda battle the LRA, Bellamy said, in part because the country is preparing to send an additional 2,000 peacekeeping troops to battle the militant group al-Shabaab in Somalia.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-14/obama-sends-troops-against-uganda-rebels.html

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Joseph Kony, head of the Lords Resistance Army, prepares to take questions from journalists at his first press conference after twenty years of armed conflict between the LRA and the Ugandan government on August 1, 2006, Southern Sudan

That man Joseph Kony deserved to be slaughtered like a goat, I don't care who does it and the manner it is carried out!

Uganda rebels are just an alibi.
Make no mistake ,before one realizes it, this mission will end up in a huge miliatary base. Then long range fighter jets will be positioned on this base to cover the whole african continent.

[b]October 14, 2011


Why Send US Troops Against African Bush Fighters?


NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Why is the U.S. 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 guerrilla group 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 earlier 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 LRA leader Joseph Kony — a ruthless and brutal thug — 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-Shabab, a group with ties from al-Qaida.

The U.S. has not had forces in Somalia since pulling out shortly after the 1993 Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu in which 18 American troops died.

Some experts believe that 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't know if we would necessarily say that but it's surely a plausible theory," Brown said.

Col. Felix Kulayigye, Uganda's military spokesman, told The Associated Press previously that Ugandan forces have long received "invaluable" support from the U.S. military, including intelligence sharing, in the fight against the LRA.

That support got a huge boost this week.

Though the deployment of 100 troops is relatively small, it marks a possible sea-change for Washington in overcoming its reluctance to commit troops to Africa. Even the U.S. Africa Command, which oversees U.S. military operations on the continent, is based in Germany. The U.S. maintains a base in the tiny East African nation of Djibouti, but most troops there are not on combat missions.

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.

But the group's tactics have been widely condemned as vicious. Few are expected to object to Obama's move to help regional security forces eliminate a group that has slaughtered thousands of civilians and routinely kidnaps children to be child soldiers and sex slaves.

Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court for his group's attacks, which now take place in South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic.

Still, Bill Roggio, the managing editor of The Long War Journal, called the Obama administration's rationale for sending troops "puzzling," especially since the LRA does not present a national security threat to the U.S. — "despite what President Obama said."

"The timing of this deployment is odd, especially given the administration's desire to disengage from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan," Roggio said. "It is unclear why the issue has resurfaced, but the administration may be rewarding Uganda" for its military contributions in Somalia, he said.

Obama said that although the U.S. troops will be combat equipped, they will not engage LRA forces unless it is in self-defense.

In recent months, the administration has stepped up its support for Uganda. In June, the Pentagon moved to send nearly $45 million in military equipment to Uganda and Burundi, another country contributing in Somalia. The aid included four small drones, body armor and night-vision and communications gear and is being used in the fight against al-Shabab.

Last November, the U.S. announced a new strategy to counter the LRA's attacks on civilians. U.S. legislation passed last year with huge bipartisian support calling for the coordination of U.S. diplomatic, economic, intelligence and military efforts against the LRA. That's one reason, Brown said, Obama may be sending in advisers. He said that regional stability is also good for U.S. interests.

"It really doesn't take that many U.S. resources," Brown said. "You've got 100 troops to go in and take care of the LRA problem once and for all."

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Jason Straziuso has been AP's bureau chief in East Africa since 2009.[/b]

This guy Kony deserves to be killed like saddam. The autrocities commited by LRA are beyond any human's imagination.
He has avoided arrest for so long I even thought he died in the bush with one lukwena woman.
But wait a minute!! Is museveni for this? I want to know what Kizya Besigye( museveni's big opponent) is saying then regarding this because I know what has been causing the rift btwn museveni and Kizya and the west has their hand in that.
Somebody is being smart here and it must be Museveni but I wonder why now? Why a change of heart? Is it a strategy to keep kizya away. *my thoughts*
When dd the US start developing interest in helping uganda battle LRA? cz I heard about Kony since I was born. Where has the US been?!I swear you cant beat the US. These guys can smell gold from far and there's lots of 'gold ' in Uganda.
obama.

@AfroBlue,

African Bush fighters, you say? You are having a laugh!
Kony is the vilest war lord we have ever had on the continent and deserves no less than the OBL treatment, in my opinion.

If you do nothing else today, please read up on the antecedents of this psycho.

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eGuerrilla:

@AfroBlue,

African Bush fighters, you say? You are having a laugh!
Kony is the vilest war lord we have ever had on the continent and deserves no less than the OBL treatment, in my opinion.

If you do nothing else today, please read up on the antecedents of this psycho.

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I am in no means posting this information to excuse the atrocities of Kony. The point of the thread is to highlight the in your face tactics of the Imperialists powers. No longer are they satisfied with supporting behind the scenes clandestine military and political operations, now its right out in the open. Western powers are now in a cold war with China to control the natural resources of Africa. Before you know it colonialism will return in full-force on the continent. Mr. Obama with his war machine and military industrial complex industry is a disgrace to the voters that put him in office 3 years ago. He promised to fight for peace and prosperity but has sold out to the real powers that rule the planet with war financing, weapons, and banking corruption.

The USA is a stone's throw behind Greece when it comes to default and economic frailty. Mr. Obama has plenty on his plate to fix in America instead of sticking his nose in other's affairs. The so-called war on terror that western powers are pursuing is one gigantic fraud of epic proportions soon to engulf Africa. The die has been cast and the chess pieces are obeying the commands of the chess masters.


Notice below the French and United Nations (NWO) in attendence.




ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Meet In Abuja




A two day meeting has been opened by the ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city on Tuesday.

The Ecowas committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff is working on measures that can be used to check the influx of weapons spilling over from the Libyan crises into the sub-region.

Air Chief Marshall Oluseyi Petinrin who chaired the 29th meeting of the ECOWAS committee in Abuja explained that the Libyan crises has resulted in a spillover of weapons into Niger, Mali and other parts of the region giving rise to terrorism.

He said the meeting will come up with specific measures to tackle these security concerns among ECOWAS member countries.

With the terrorism challenges in Nigeria laced with spates of bombings in various parts of the country every opening for more influx of weapons needs to be closed else it could further empower terrorists.

The meeting is scheduled to put into consideration the recommendations of an extraordinary meeting of the defence chiefs that focused on the right response to the security threat between the Cote d'Voire and Liberia's borders and the region's general security situation.

Defence chiefs of Nigeria, Liberia, Ghana, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast had on September 13 held an extra ordinary meeting to comply with the directive of the summit held by the six countries' heads of state and government on September 10 in Abuja.

In attendance at the meeting are the Defence Chiefs of ECOWAS member states, force commanders of the United Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and United Missions in Cote D'Ivoire (UNOCI). Commander of the French Forces based in Dakar and representatives from the United Nations in West Arica (UNOWA) another Dakar based United Nations organisation.

UNOCI and UNMIL Force Commanders will also be briefing members of the committee during the meeting, said a statement by ECOWAS.

They will also be considering the proposal by Forum of Ministers of security on the code of conduct for military-security personnel, counter terrorism strategy, INTERPOL-European Union-ECOWAS initiative on security and the maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea.

The Defence Chiefs will also be discussing other issues including the ECOWAS Small Arms Programme (ECOSAP) based in Bamako, Mali and issues relating to the Freetown based regional logistic depot.[/b]


P.S. Mr. eGuerrilla, please read up on where (OBL) aka Tim Osman received his training.

Joseph Kony routinely kidnaps children, makes the girls sex objects and the males murdering child soldiers. The man himself is a crazed mass murderer terrorising the people with what he calls a religious war.

I wonder why there are so many foolish "bark at the Moon" threads suddenly dotting NL?
Perhaps we will soon have folk demanding the right to be paedophiles. Some people should be sat down and remorselessly slapped until their ears pop through their nostrils.

Beaf:

Joseph Kony routinely kidnaps children, makes the girls sex objects and the males murdering child soldiers. The man himself is a crazed mass murderer terrorising the people with what he calls a religious war.

I wonder why there are so many foolish "bark at the Moon" threads suddenly dotting NL?
Perhaps we will soon have folk demanding the right to be paedophiles. Some people should be sat down and remorselessly slapped until their ears pop through their nostrils.

And the NTC rebels routinely behead and disembowell black migrant workers, gang rape women and girls and cut off their br.easts and yet america and europe thinks it okay to install them in power and describe them as "revolutionaries" is it me or is there something sickening about this level of hypocrisy?

ECOWAS Defence Chiefs Meet In Abuja -

COMPLETELY POWERLESS AND UNABLE TO PREVENT THE RECOLONISATION OF THEIR OWN CONTINENT

[b]Monday, September 26, 2011British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab
Beneath fraud, media spin, & UN stamps of approval, awaits an unfolding nightmare for the people of Africa and the world.
by Tony Cartalucci

The New York Times recently reported in an article titled, "In Scramble for Land, Group Says, Company Pushed Ugandans Out," that the British "New Forests Company" has evicted over 20,000 people from their land in Uganda to make way for tree plantations. Homes were burnt, people, including women and children, were brutalized and murdered during the long eviction process. However, the New York Times states that in this case "the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming."



The "group" the New York Times is referring to is Oxfam, which published a report titled, "The New Forests Company and its Uganda plantations," detailing the activities of New Forests in Uganda and the evictions the New York Times gingerly describes in its article.

Who is The New Forests Company?

Meet "New Forests," a UK-based firm that claims to be a "sustainable and socially responsible forestry company with established, rapidly growing plantations and the prospect of a diversified product base for local and regional export markets which will deliver both attractive returns to investors and significant social and environmental benefits." Their corporate website is not short of the color green, nor of African people smiling and prospering, so apparently, we are left to believe, New Forests has made good on their mission statement.


Image: Taken from New Forests' website, they proudly display the swath of destruction their company is responsible for, of course, instead of depicting the displacements, murders, and thuggery they are committing against the people of Africa, they place images of thriving trees.
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Meet Robert Deveruex, chairman of New Forests, one of the founding shareholders of The Virgin Group and former chairman of Soho House Group. He has spent a great deal of time and energy making what his corporation is doing in Africa appear to have a philanthropic spin. In an August 2010 Guardian article titled, "Robert Devereux donates £4m of art collection to set up African charity," Devereux claims of his New Forests company that it "has a huge community development programme. It's not philanthropy. We go to the community and we say, 'We want to co-invest with you. If you provide what labour and materials you can, we'll provide money for things that you can't get.'" Devereux, however, never mentioned what happens if the community says, "no thanks."


Photo: Robert Devereux, a long time investor, a long time con-artist spinning his company's despoiling of Africa as some sort of cutting-edge investment strategy that makes money and "helps" people. Even as Devereux made his disingenuous statements in 2010 regarding New Forests, the villagers in Uganda he was "helping" had already filed a court case a year earlier protesting the British company's encroachment on their land.
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Meet New Forests executive director and CEO Julian Ozanne, who previously worked for the Financial Times, advised US and European investment banks on business and political risk in Africa and worked for the global corporate-fascists nexus, the World Economic Forum. Also serving as a New Forest director is Jonathan Aisbitt, chairman of the investment firm, The Man Group, and previously a partner and managing director at the now notorious Goldman Sachs.

There is also Avril Stassen, who is not only a director at New Forests but is also currently a principal at Agri-Vie Investment Advisers, which claims to be "focused on food and agribusiness in Sub-Sahara Africa with a mission to generate an above average investment return, as well as demonstrable socio-economic development impacts through its equity investments in food and agribusinesses." In other words, buying up land in African nations people depend on to live, to instead broaden foreign investors' portfolios and profits, all under the cover of feel good rhetoric and pictures of smiling Africans pasted all over their website and annual reports. A good website that seems to be keeping watch on Agri-Vie is Farmlandgrab.org, which in one short URL explains exactly the game Agri-Vie is playing.

And finally, meet Sajjad Sabur, also a director at New Forests, as well as a managing director at HSBC, heading the mega-bank's "Principal Investments Africa" branch which targets African businesses with management buyouts, growth capital and recapitalization "opportunities." Sabur's HSBC invesment arm has actually invested in New Forests.

Quite clearly, this looks more like the profile of a Wall Street-London corporate-fascist hit team than anything at all involving humanitarian, environmental, or social concerns. And judging by Oxfam's report and the subsequent attempt by the New York Times to mitigate the gravity of what the largest banks in the world are doing to Africa, it seems like a corporate-fascist hit is just what is unfolding in Uganda at New Forests' hands.

Globalization is Modern Day Imperialism by Anglo-American Bankers

Backtracking to New Forests' mission statement, apparently "social responsibility" equates to murdering or displacing tens of thousands of Ugandans in their own nation, and "attractive returns" equates to the extraction and exportation of Ugandan resources for a corporation's shareholders 4,000 miles away. What we are told is of significant "benefit" to society and the environment looks more like a textbook case of imperialism, perpetrated by British, surely new to being socially and environmentally responsible, but certainly not to imperialism nor gimmicks used to mask it behind noble causes.

The New York Times reveals that the World Bank is also an investor in New Forests along with HSBC, and that the true nature of the scam goes beyond merely displacing tens of thousands to grow trees, but that the trees are being used for the purpose of selling contrived carbon credits, not even to provide tangible resources for economic activity. The New York Times also implicates the United Nations, which granted New Forests permission to "trade" with the Ugandan government regarding its 50-year lease to grow trees in the landlocked nation.

The government of Uganda, led by President-for-life Yoweri Museveni for the last 25 years, was the result of a protracted civil war led by Museveni himself. After seizing power, he was immediately lauded by the West, embraced the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's plans for restructuring his newly conquered nation, and has been running it as a dictator ever since. It is no surprise that Museveni is now selling his own people out, no doubt in exchange for his perpetual, unhindered rule, transiting a vast corporate media black hole enjoyed by regimes servile to Wall Street and London worldwide.

The globalist New York Times has a long tradition of apologizing not just for Anglo-American bankers as they defile the planet, but defending their accomplices, Museveni apparently one of them. In a 1997 New York Times article titled, "Uganda Leader Stands Tall in New African Order," Museveni is praised for his extraterritorial meddling throughout neighboring African states. The New York Times claims, "not only has Mr. Museveni resurrected his own impoverished nation from two decades of brutal dictatorship and near economic collapse, but he is also widely seen as the covert patron of rebel movements like the one that has just toppled Mobutu Sese Seko, the longtime dictator of Zaire." The article then brushes off accusations that Museveni is dictator of a single party system of governance by providing Museveni's own defense, that Uganda is pre-industrial and not ready for multiparty democracy.

How resurrected Uganda is from poverty is a matter of debate, and certainly, the concept of poverty has taken on all new dimensions for over 20,000 Ugandans forced from their land by Anglo-American bankers and their willing accomplices in the Ugandan government. How Museveni plans on bringing Uganda past its "pre-industrial" state by handing over land to foreigners to grow trees on for the next 50 years, leaving his own people homeless, jobless, and destitute for an entire generation is also a profound mystery.

What we are watching in Africa is the grotesque reality that is globalization peaking through the thick layer of lies, propaganda, spin, liberal ideologies, and imagery used to dupe the Western world, and increasingly many in the developing world. It is a reality that entails theft on a massive scale, human exploitation, mass-murder, collective punishment, and intimidation. For those that think Uganda is an isolated anomaly and are somehow able to dismiss the backgrounds of New Forests which represents an entire network designed specifically to exploit and strip mine all of Africa, one need look no further than Southeast Asia's Cambodia. There, half way around the world from Uganda, another Western backed dictator-for-life, Hun Sen, has literally sold half his country to foreign investors, displacing hundreds of thousands at gunpoint in a nearly identical Wall Street-London land-grab.

Globalization is a multi-billion dollar packaged update of the British Empire's "spreading of civilization." Designs of dominion and exploitation have historically always been accompanied by excuses seen as palatable for the masses who were expected to support and carry these designs to fruition for the ruling elite. While it is no longer fashionable to kill black and brown people while accusing them of being "savages," it is still quite fashionable to consider them "undemocratic," "backwards," "overpopulating," "terrorists," and above all, "detriments to our environment." At least, New Forests and New York Times seem to think so.

Once again, the choice we the people have, upon learning of this, is to either detach in cowardice and apathy, or identify the corporations, banks, and institutions leading this "globalization," expose them, boycott them, and ultimately replace them. Those of New Forests guilty of displacing, even murdering people simply for profit in a foreign nation, thousands of miles from their shores, don't belong in business anymore.

The darkest villains we face on earth today are not cave dwelling Islamic fundamentalists, Libyan colonels, or Americans selling sliver coins, instead, the most dangerous, degenerate, and detrimental members of the human race reside on Wall Street and in London's financial institutions. [/b]

I wonder why there are so many foolish "bark at the Moon" threads suddenly dotting NL?
Perhaps we will soon have folk demanding the right to be paedophiles. Some people should be sat down and remorselessly slapped until their ears pop through their nostrils. Angry

Dude we are not saying we want Joseph Kony to be saved. We are just questioning what is REALLY going on here. The last time the U.S went into Uganda was under Bush Jr, and he used a team of Venezuelans which were completely annhilated by LRA forces. It is widely believed that Musveni or one of his officials tipped off Kony allowing him to escape the ambush. Americans complained Ugandan officials were corrupt and working both sides.

All of this spreading democracy in africa is just recycled garbage about spreading civilization in the 1890's. Medieval Europe was awash with legends about great civilizations in the land of the ethiopians. The British and French came in the 1890's and found complex civilizations which they destroyed after they refused to submit. The most easily pacified ones kept more of their history, while the most nationalistic nations had their cities burned, histories destroyed, and relics stolen i.e Benin Kingdom.

The most vocal opposition was killed, and the survivors were taught that the white man brought civilization to them and they should be thankful.

Now they tell us we cant govern ourselves after they subverted our democracies, they tell us we are ignorant farmers then buy our land, kill the ones who protest, and employ the rest to work for slave wages while forcing them to buy the food grown on their land with their slave wages. They tell us we need to conserve the environment, so they kill all the people in the forest whose religion revolves around the very forest in which they live.