red light - did you know that over 1million people were slaughtered in rwanda within a space of just 3 months ? did you know that america were aware that this was going to happen and they did nothing?
did you also know that over 10 million people have died and are still dying in DRC as we speak and guess what america is fully aware of this but is actively blocking journalists from reporting about this to the world - you need to ask yourself why these things are happening?
okosodo: The favourite passtime of fulani people is going to the church to kill christians. What is giving them the liver is that christians are cowards, yes they are.
people like you should be quarantined and sterilised because you are serving no useful purpose on this earth.
[quote author=Red-Light]so its america that started religion extremism in somalia and northern nigeria or the arabs? [b]So it was americans that told gadafi and al-alsaad to start killing their people?[/b]Why do u people always like to ignore the root the problem and end up blamin americans 4 wantin ur resources.. If lybians didnt ask 4 d west support, would they even care? Same with nigerians.. If dis arab zombies didnt start killing innocent people are we guna be asking 4 western help? btw do u tink americans need conflict in nigeria to steal our wealth with many greedy people we have around as leaders[/quote]you are a disgrace to the human race - how come your precious america did not come to the rescue of nigerians, ghanaians and other black africans who were slaughtered like animals by the NATO sponsored NTC in libya - illiterates like you are a curse on the african people.
why didnt these same americans come to save igbos during the nigeria/biafra civil war, why didnt they save igbos from starvation and genocide during that war since they beelieve in humanitarianism
AFRICOM, literally known as ”The United States Africa Command”(USAFRICOM) is one of nine Unified Combatant Commands of the United States Armed Forces headquartered at Kelley barracks, Stuttgart in Germany.
AFRICOM was created by George W Bush by Presidential Order in 2007 to cordinate US military activities throughout Africa and is directly responsible for U:S military operations and military relations with 53 african nations – an area of responsibility covering the whole of Africa except Egypt.
In mid-2006, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld formed a planning team to advise on requirements for establishing a new Unified Command for the African continent. In early December, he made his recommendations to President George W. Bush
On 6 February 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced to the Senate Armed Services Committee that President George W. Bush had given authority to create the new African Command and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Moeller, the director of the AFRICOM transition team, arrived in Stuttgart Germany to begin creating the logistical framework for the command. On 28 September the U.S. Senate confirmed General William E. "Kip" Ward as AFRICOM's first commander and AFRICOM officially became operational as a sub-unified command of EUCOM with a separate headquarters. On 1 October 2008, the command separated from USEUCOM and began operating on its own as a full fledged combatant command.
The Combatant Commander AFRICOM reports to the Secretary of Defence and the Secretary of Defence reports to the President of the United States. In individual African countries, US Ambassodor continue to be the President's personal representatives of AFRICOM.
AFRICOM's military objectives Deter or defeat al-Qaida and other violent extremist organizations operating in Africa and deny them safe haven.
Strengthen the defense capabilities of key African states and regional partners. Through enduring and tailored engagement, help them build defense institutions and military forces that are capable, sustainable, subordinate to civilian authority, respectful of the rule of law, and committed to the well-being of their fellow citizens. Increase the capacity of key states to contribute to regional and international military activities aimed at preserving peace and combating transnational threats to security.
Ensure U.S. access to and throughout Africa in support of global requirements. This raises the question of why .
Be prepared, as part of a whole of government approach, to help protect Africans from mass atrocities. The most effective way in which AFRICOM would do this is through sustained engagement with African militaries.
When directed, provide military support to humanitarian assistance
[b][/b]AFRICOM's secret objectives To increase the USA's access to Africa's oil , gas and other mineral resources such as Gold, Diamond ,Coltan under the pretext of waging Global War on Terrorism. But this military mission is without regard for the needs or desires of African people. Enabled by oil companies and private military contractors, AFRICOM serves as the latest frontier in military expansionism, violating the human rights and civil liberties of Africans who have voiced a strong "no" to U.S. military presence e.g Gaddafi and the people of Libya. The discovery of massive oil in Ogaden region of Ethiopia, in Somalia stretching all the way to Yemen has attracted the US attention in the region.
The need to occupy Nigeria in 2013 because of it has the highest quality oil in the world. Shell is the worlds largest oil company and the biggest and most dominant foreign oil company in Nigeria. The Rothschild's is the largest share holder of Shell and basically controls it. The Rothschild make up the majority of the Loby group in the US Congress.
“At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market”, before citing China's increasing presence in the region as challenging to American interests”.
In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J. Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM's strategic objectives of “protecting access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential treatment.” (Nile Bowie, COVERT OPS IN NIGERIA: Fertile Ground for US Sponsored Balkanization Global Research, April 11, 2012.)
The “War on Terror” fraud serves to cover up the destabilization of Africa with a view to taking control of its resources. The Balkans were destabilized for the same purpose in the 1990's:
To stop and eventually remove the influence of China in Africa. After the cold war ended, the USA and its Western allies were left in a position of being without rivals in Africa and so had no competition in acquiring Africa's natural resources. This gave them the ability to control Africa basically through economic blackmail. The Western powers were left with a monopoly of Finance: That means any country of Africa had to go to the West for Finance, Trade and Loans. This meant that, the Western powers led by the US could basically control Africa through economic means alone. The rise of China changed the situation permanently in that, now African countries do have an alternative to seeking Finance and Trade with the West as they can get them from China. China since 2000 has been stepping up its involvement on the African continent massively offering much more favourable terms of trade to African countries , infrastructural investment, The Western powers are now trying to claw back what they have lost economically in Africa using the one field in which they do have a competitive edge over China. This competitive edge is the military means which they are using to claw back what they have lost . Since China established trade ties in Africa from 2002, Africa has seen a rapid increase in economic and infrastructural developments due to direct investment and butter trade. By this I mean roads, dams for hydro-electric power production, schools, hospitals, clean water projects. The best examples are Ethiopia and Ghana. What China has done in Africa for the last eight years is what the USA and its western allies have never done for 40 years. The presence of China is therefore a direct threat to the economic survival of the USA and its western allies because the flow of African oil, gas and other mineral resources have been diverted to China on a more favourable terms that have benefited Africa and its people. During the last four years alone, African countries have borrowed more money from China than from the World Bank, IMF, the USA and its western allies. Chinas influence in Africa has resulted into the loss of multibillion dollar contracts and the biggest loan finance market in the world as Africa used to get the bulk of its funds from the World Bank, IMF, USA and its western allies. AFRICOM was created to stop China's influence in Africa by changing regimes in Africa that have embraced China as number one trading and direct foreign investment partner.
This is the context in which AFRICOM was formed established in 2007
Strategic reasons: The US and Israel wants to use North Africa to control the Mediterranean Sea by re-establishing the military base in Libya, which Gaddafi closed down when he took over power in 1969. They also want to use Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea to keep an eye on the anti-West Muslim countries of Iran and Syria in the Middle East.
Gaddafi's role in preventing AFRICOM In order to to establish AFRICOM bases in each African country, the USA government actually bribed the leaders of these African Nations by giving them millions of dollars in exchange of accepting AFRICOM.
The reisitence to AFRICOM on the African continent was mainly led and spearheaded by Muammar Gaddafi and Libya. He was the only African President who was suspicious and wary of AFRICOM's role in the recolonisation of Africa. He paid African leaders to refuse to cooperate with AFRICOM by offering investment and infrastructure and offering cash to African countries that refused to host US military base on their soil and who refused to cooperate with AFRICOM. Gaddafi actually paid each African leader twice the amount of money they received from the USA government. Libya under Muammar Gaddafi was really the biggest obstacle to the plan of subordinating African Union Forces to AFRICOM. This led to the refusal of AFRICOM bases in many Africa countries. As long as Gaddafi was alive, Africa would not be recolonized.
With Gaddafi out of the way now, the plan of establishing AFRICOM bases in AFRICA will continue . For instance shortly after the assassination of Gaddafi , President Obama sent about 100 US Special Forces to four different countries of Africa ostensibly to hunt down Joseph Kony , leader of the notorious Lords Resistance Army in Uganda. Ugandan forces , alongside Kenyan and Ethiopian forces, are largely in Somalia fighting a proxy war for the US in Somalia and its Western allies. The US forces were sent to Uganda to train Ugandan forces to fight on their behalf in Somalia. Uganda has about 8000 troops in Somalia.
Gaddafi's refusal of AFRICOM was another major reason that led to his overthrow and execution by NATO and its western allies.With Gaddafi gone, Africa is therefore vulnerable to the forces of recolonisation as he had the vision, influence and fund that had initially blocked the establishment of AFRICOM bases in Africa from 2007 to 2011.
The U.S. secret warfare in Africa is alive In addition to its military command in Africa (AFRICOM), America has been deploying special forces all over the continent:
“Small teams of special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The soldiers' mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist target or rescue a hostage.” (Kimberly AP, October 2, 2012.) Dozier, White House widens covert ops presence in North Africa.
The U.S. is spreading its clandestine army all over Africa. As reported by Nile Bowie (Global Research, April 2012), the goal is to “balkanize” the African continent:
Under President Obama, in fact, operations in Africa have accelerated far beyond the more limited interventions of the Bush years: last year's war in Libya; a regional drone campaign with missions run out of airports and bases in Djibouti, Ethiopia, and the Indian Ocean archipelago nation of Seychelles; a flotilla of 30 ships in that ocean supporting regional operations; a multi-pronged military and CIA campaign against militants in Somalia, including intelligence operations, training for Somali agents, a secret prison, helicopter attacks, and U.S. commando raids; a massive influx of cash for counterterrorism operations across East Africa; tens of millions of dollars in arms for allied mercenaries and African troops; and a special ops expeditionary force (bolstered by State Department experts) dispatched to help capture or kill Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and his senior commanders. And this is just the beginning of Washington's fast-expanding plans and activities in the region.
The geographic scope of AFRICOM The territory of the command consists of all of the African continent except for Egypt, which remains under the direct responsibility of USCENTCOM, as it closely relates to the Middle East. USAFRICOM also covers island countries commonly associated with Africa;
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all4naija:Hahaha!!! That Cap of a guy is so clueless that you wonder if he makes sense to himself at times. Indeed, the Boko Haram nature in him speaks most about his inclination toward support for terror-related issues and when finding solutions to the menacing attacks in the North.
I still think it is the best way out, allowing the American soldiers to come in as the Nigerian security team is incapable to get rid of them being a clear reason. I would be very glad to see them arrive on time to fight this Boko Haram shiit!
i dont bother responding to your posts because you are still at an elementary stage of reasoning, like i have said in previous posts, until you start learning how to read and research international issues at an indepth level, me and you have nothing to say to each other.
The African 'Star Wars' by Pepe Escobar 26 april 2011 It is the Pentagon's Africom versus China's web of investments - the ultimate prize: Africa's natural resources.
From energy wars to water wars, the 21st century will be determined by a fierce battle for the world's remaining natural resources. The chessboard is global. The stakes are tremendous. Most battles will be invisible. All will be crucial.
In resource-rich Africa, a complex subplot of the New Great Game in Eurasia is already in effect. It's all about three major intertwined developments:
1) The coming of age of the African Union (AU) in the early 2000s.
2) China's investment offencive in Africa throughout the 2000s.
3) The onset of the Pentagon's African Command (Africom) in 2007.
Beijing clearly sees that the Anglo-French-American bombing of Libya – apart from its myriad geopolitical implications – has risked billions of dollars in Chinese investments, not to mention forcing the (smooth) evacuation of more than 35,000 Chinese working across the country.
And crucially, depending on the outcome – as in renegotiated energy contracts by a pliable, pro-Western government – it may also seriously jeopardise Chinese oil imports (3 per cent of total Chinese imports in 2010).
No wonder the China Military, a People's Liberation Army (PLA) newspaper, as well as sectors in academia, are now openly arguing that China needs to drop Deng Xiaoping's "low-profile" policy and bet on a sprawling armed forces to defend its strategic interests worldwide (these assets already total over $1.2 trillion).
Now compare it with a close examination of Africom's strategy, which reveals as the proverbial hidden agenda the energy angle and a determined push to isolate China from northern Africa.
One report titled "China's New Security Strategy in Africa" actually betrays the Pentagon's fear of the PLA eventually sending troops to Africa to protect Chinese interests.
It won't happen in Libya. It's not about to happen in Sudan. But further on down the road, all bets are off.
Meddle is our middle name
The Pentagon has in fact been meddling in Africa's affairs for more than half a century. According to a 2010 US Congressional Research Service study, this happened no less than 46 times before the current Libya civil war.
Among other exploits, the Pentagon invested in a botched large-scale invasion of Somalia and backed the infamous, genocide-related Rwanda regime.
The Bill Clinton administration raised hell in Liberia, Gabon, Congo and Sierra Leone, bombed Sudan, and sent "advisers" to Ethiopia to back dodgy clients grabbing a piece of Somalia (by the way, Somalia has been at war for 20 years).
The September 2002 National Security Strategy (NSS), conceived by the Bush administration, is explicit; Africa is a "strategic priority in fighting terrorism".
Yet, the never-say-die "war on terror" is a sideshow in the Pentagon's vast militarisation agenda, which favours client regimes, setting up military bases, and training of mercenaries – "cooperative partnerships" in Pentagon newspeak.
Africom has some sort of military "partnership" – bilateral agreements – with most of Africa's 53 countries, not to mention fuzzy multilateral schemes such as West African Standby Force and Africa Partnership Station.
American warships have dropped by virtually every African nation except for those bordering the Mediterranean.
The exceptions: Ivory Coast, Sudan, Eritrea and Libya. Ivory Coast is now in the bag. So is South Sudan. Libya may be next. The only ones left to be incorporated to Africom will be Eritrea and Zimbabwe.
Africom's reputation has not been exactly sterling – as the Tunisian and Egyptian chapters of the great 2011 Arab Revolt caught it totally by surprise. These "partners", after all, were essential for surveillance of the southern Mediterranean and the Red Sea.
Libya for its part presented juicy possibilities: an easily demonised dictator; a pliable post-Gaddafi puppet regime; a crucial military base for Africom; loads of excellent cheap oil; and the possibility of throwing China out of Libya.
Under the Obama administration, Africom thus started its first African war. In the words of its commander, General Carter Ham, "we completed a complex, short-notice, operational mission in Libya and… transferred that mission to NATO."
And that leads us to the next step. Africom will share all its African "assets" with NATO. Africom and NATO are in fact one – the Pentagon is a many-headed hydra after all.
Beijing for its part sees right through it; the Mediterranean as a NATO lake (neocolonialism is back especially, via France and Britain); Africa militarised by Africom; and Chinese interests at high risk.
The lure of ChinAfrica
One of the last crucial stages of globalisation - what we may call "ChinAfrica" – established itself almost in silence and invisibility, at least for Western eyes.
In the past decade, Africa became China's new Far West. The epic tale of masses of Chinese workers and entrepreneurs discovering big empty virgin spaces, and wild mixed emotions from exoticism to rejection, racism to outright adventure, grips anyone's imagination.
Individual Chinese have pierced the collective unconscious of Africa, they have made Africans dream – while China the great power proved it could conjure miracles far away from its shores.
For Africa, this "opposites attract" syndrome was a great boost after the 1960s decolonisation – and the horrid mess that followed it.
China repaved roads and railroads, built dams in Congo, Sudan and Ethiopia, equipped the whole of Africa with fibre optics, opened hospitals and orphanages, and – just before Tahrir Square – was about to aid Egypt to relaunch its civilian nuclear programme.
The white man in Africa has been, most of the time, arrogant and condescending. The Chinese, humble, courageous, efficient and discreet.
China will soon become Africa's largest trading partner – ahead of France and the UK – and its top source of foreign investment. It's telling that the best the West could come up with to counteract this geopolitical earthquake was to go the militarised way.
The external Chinese model of trade, aid and investment – not to mention the internal Chinese model of large-scale, state-led investments in infrastructure – made Africa forget about the West while boosting the strategic importance of Africa in the global economy.
Why would an African government rely on the ideology-based "adjustments" of IMF and the World Bank when China attaches no political conditions and respects sovereignty – for Beijing, the most important principle of international law? On top of it, China carries no colonial historical baggage in Africa.
Essentially, large swathes of Africa have rejected the West's trademark shock therapy, and embraced China.
Western elites, predictably, were not amused. Beijing now clearly sees that in the wider context of the New Great Game in Eurasia, the Pentagon has now positioned itself to conduct a remixed Cold War with China all across Africa – using every trick in the book from obscure "partnerships" to engineered chaos.
The leadership in Beijing is silently observing the waters. For the moment, the Little Helmsman Deng's "crossing the river while feeling the stones" holds.
The Pentagon better wise up. The best Beijing may offer is to help Africa to fulfil its destiny. In the eyes of Africans themselves, that certainly beats any Tomahawk.
Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times (www.atimes.com). His latest book is Obama Does Globalistan (Nimble Books, 2009). He may be reached at pepeasia@yahoo.com
Zet72: Cap28 or whatever u call ur self I'm not buying into the crap u hav been spewing in this tread, go & tell ur mohamedians to lay down they arms or rather relocate to the north & see if ur family will not be blown to pieces., Chief conspirator& propagandist thats what u are, mallam. USA u are welcome in the north no qualms.
You deserve to be put back into shackles and enslaved because your brain does not function properly, the fact that i do not agree with what the US is planning to do in nigeria does not make me a moslem - use your brain for a change.
do you know of any country that america has intervened in militarily that is still in one piece?
why would a country built on the sweat and blood of african slaves care about africans? a country that aided and abetted the aparthied govt of south africa
a country that helped the aparthied govt of south africa build a nuclear weapon to ensure that the white minority remain in control of every valuable resource in that country.
these peoople you worship and idolise hate your guts and only tolerate your existence because you are currently useful to them, a time will come when your presence will no longer be of any use to them, they invade and take down anyone who refuses to bow to them try and get that into your thick skull.
they took down libya using the rebel NTC troops who were funded, aided and abetted by the CIA
they are currently using rebels to try and take down syria.
and yet in your mind you think they are intervening in nigeria out of the goodness of their heart.
confusion247: USA military is highly welcomed. We want them to come with enough drones and missiles. Boko haram and northern muslems should prepare for the jihad they started.
keep being a dumb fool, go and check US's history - what has been their relationship with africa? are you aware that they were working in collaboration with the aparthied govt of south africa prior to Mandela's release, did you know that they supplied the aparthied govt of south africa with surveillance equipment to enable that govt keep in place their police state and subjugation of black people in that country? are you aware that american mining corporations have millions of dollars worth of investments in south africa and therefore have an interest in ensuring that the white minority continue to own all of the natural resources in taht country, you nigerians think you are smart but are the most st.upid and foolish imbe.ciles i have ever come across in my life.
if they couldnt help liberia a country that they sent their ex slaves to do you seriously think its you dumb idi.ots in nigeria that they will give two fcks about?
for your information the majority of west african slaves that were shipped to north america, the carribean and south america were of nigerian origin.
they picked the white man's cotton, tobacco and provided the free hard labour that made the united states the economic powerhouse that it is today, now they have come back to take over the entire african continent while fools like you continue to wallow in ignorance.
claremont: A good development IMHO, their technical expertise on terrorism will be invaluable to the Nigerian army.
BTW, too many black racists and conspiracy theorists on this thread, you guys need to loosen up. Stop blaming the white man for your own failure in life.
YOLO-- You Only Live Once!
You deserve what's coming - no wonder they call us monkeys and apes.
With your kind amongst us i can see where they are coming from.
this is what a nigerian historian Professor Chinweizu had to say about your kind:
[b]NEGROPHOBIA AND BLANCOPHILIA, it's twin brother are -- of course, conditioned responses to white power and black powerlessness. The negrophobia syndrome is characterised by melanotropism. A magnetic movement away from or toward different intensities of melanin, the skin pigment. Blancophilia induces a reflex movement toward things white, even toward white ugliness. The stimulus object is white skin, any skin that is low in melanin. In a sad case of stimulus substitution, the responses to superior power have become transferred to white skin, and those to powerlessness have become transferred to black skin. The negrophobia syndrome is a chronic disease with the white race, a disease born of pride of power. It is a disease with which they have infected the whole world, including the black race, giving rise to negro negrophobia, the disease of black self-hate. What are the symptoms of NEGRO NEGROPHOBIA? Negro negrophobia makes black women bleach, till some proudly sport yellow monkey faces and ebony-black thighs. (or 'Fanta Orange face and Coca-cola legs' as some call it). It makes black parents prefer their lighter skinned children to the darker skinned. It makes blacks who marry white or mulatto think they are marrying up and improving the race. It makes a pitch-black Sudanese proclaim himself Arab, on account of just one white Arab ancestor ten generations back; it makes him count as nothing, indeed as a blemish, all his 1,023 black ancestors in that generation, and all the millions before and since. [ READ MORE: http:///negro-negrophobia ] -- Prof. Chinweizu, Critic, Poet and Journalist.[/b]
keith harmon snow is another erudite mind who knows whats going on in africa and the role the the united states and europe are playing in the destabilisation of the entire continent of africa:
shymexx: Hmmm... Pepe Escobar, one of the few investigative journalists out there who tell it as it is, by using his unique borderline satirical style of writing and impressive pencraft - salute!!
Dr. Ray Hagins, the man whose lectures saved me from mental slavery - salute...
Big ups to cap28 for those great videos..
Thanks bro - i was totally reliant on Pepe escobar's accurate analysis when libya was taken down by NATO.
boko haram = US intelligence - nigeria is about to get shafted big time by Uncle Sam
Goodluck Jonathan is a CIA agent and puppet he has no power or control over anything that goes down in nigeria.
the united states are fighting for control over nigeria's vast oil and gas reserves with China and boko haram is america's weapon - remember ivory coast , remember how france and the united states used rebel forces from burkina faso to invade and remove Gbagbo in order to place their puppet - IMF lackey Allasane Ouattarra in power- europeans will stop at nothing to retain their position of dominance in the world order.
hmmm - i dont beleive this story for a second - is she saying she would rather remain in dead dartford, kent than spend her time jetting around the world with this guy?
she probably got to jamaica and found out that she couldnt compete with the legion of women that he has access to over there and decided not to take it any further
He stopped the vehicle in front of 333 North June Street and Robyn F. turned off the car, removed the key from the ignition and sat on it.
Brown did not know what she did with the key and began punching her in the face and arms. He then placed her in a head lock positioning the front of her throat between his bicep and forearm. Brown began applying pressure to Robyn F.'s left and right carotid arteries, causing her to be unable to breathe and she began to lose consciousness.
She reached up with her left hand and began attempting to gouge his eyes in an attempt to free herself. Brown bit her left ring and middle fingers and then released her. While Brown continued to punch her, she turned around and placed her back against the passenger door. She brought her knees to her chest, placed her feet against Brown's body and began pushing him away. Brown continued to punch her on the legs and feet, causing several contusions.
Robyn F. began screaming for help and Brown exited the vehicle and walked away.
The beast stopped the vehicle but instead of walking away, resumed his brutal attack on her and even tried to strangle her !!! he only ended the attack when she started screaming alerting members of the public - this guy is pure scum and should be either in a psychiatric ward or prison. For him to have this amount of rage and anger in him at such a young age means something must be seriously wrong with him, a leopard does not change its spots - he will definitely do this again.
Politics › Re: US To Send Soldiers To Tackle Boko-Haram by cap28: 6:13pm On Dec 25, 2012
Cap28 or whatever u call ur self I'm not buying into the crap u hav been spewing in this tread, go & tell ur mohamedians to lay down they arms or rather relocate to the north & see if ur family will not be blown to pieces., Chief conspirator& propagandist thats what u are, mallam.