Posted on 01/12/2012 6:49:52 PM PST by Pan_Yan
He's like a phantom. Of course, thousands have seen him, tens of thousands have died because of him, and hundreds of thousands have suffered thanks to him and his supporters. But the people on his trail haven't been able to catch him.
The man is 49-year-old Joseph Kony, the self-appointed general of God, guerrilla fighter and mass murderer. For more than two decades, he and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have terrorized people living in an area of roughly 100,000 square kilometers (40,000 square miles) of jungle in Uganda, the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan.
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Though they have only just arrived, the advisers have already been training Ugandan units on how to prepare air-dropped packages meant to help better organize the resupply system on the front. They have observed Ugandan troop operations in the western part of South Sudan and the southern part of the CAR. They have also helped by providing satellite imagery, though it has been of only limited use in some cases owing to the dense forest cover. Lastly, plans call for the local population to play a significant role in helping track Kony down.
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In November 2011, the International Crisis Group, which has focused on the LRA and its leader for some time now, wrote a report in which in questioned whether the LRA was approaching its "end game." Likewise, Gen. Margaret Woodward, the commander of US Air Force operations in Africa , told the Ugandan newspaper Daily Monitor in mid-December that Ugandan military forces "are going to win here in a short time, and it is not going to be that long before they are victorious in the war and the LRA will no longer be a problem."
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
There is a photolog that goes with the story but obviously it doesn't show any Americans.
Ping. Some more details about our troops in Uganda. I can’t find anything else about the ones in Nigeria.
Nice to see our President has his national security priorities straight. /s
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