Right across central Africa?
Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
Posted on 02/23/2012 4:15:06 AM PST by EBH
The U.S. announced in October it was sending about 100 U.S. troops — mostly special operations forces — to Central Africa to advise in the fight against the LRA and its leader Joseph Kony, a bush fighter wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, the top U.S. special operations commander for Africa, said the U.S. troops are now stationed in bases in Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
"We've already seen a decrease in the lethality of LRA activities, which we think is attributable in part to the pressure we and our partners are applying," Losey said in a telephone briefing to journalists.
Losey said counter-LRA actions will increase in frequency and effectiveness in coming months.
The LRA began its attacks in Uganda in the 1980s, when Kony sought to overthrow the government. Since being pushed out of Uganda several years ago, the militia has terrorized villages in Central Africa.
A top State Department official, Karl Wycoff, said that Kony has shown the ability to mobilize combatants and militant leaders to carry out "horrible atrocities" for the LRA, which he called "some kind of cult," given that the group has no clear agenda. He said the U.S. effort was not just aimed at Kony but at all the LRA leaders.
However, Col. Felix Kulayigye, the spokesman for Uganda's military, said the hunt for Kony was an important aspect of the anti-LRA effort.
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Who’s making money off us being there ?
The better question is why are we so interested in helping capture this particular guy?
They say this group is a cult with no agenda. Hmmm, last time I checked “cults” have agendas, serious agendas. Granted it might be the spaceship is landing for them, but they have an agenda.
So what is up with this rogue group?
Right across central Africa?
Uganda, Congo, South Sudan and Central African Republic.
“Joseph Kony (born 1961) is a Ugandan guerrilla group leader, head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that is engaged in a violent campaign to establish theocratic government based on the Ten Commandments in Uganda.[1] The LRA say that God has sent spirits to communicate this mission directly to Kony.[4]”
I know that.
But what does it have to do with the United States?
Same people making money off of being in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, we WANT troops there, and are in fact bitching that we don’t have enough boots on the ground. So make up your minds, people, we’re either the world’s policemen or we’re not.
>>So what is up with this rogue group?
“By 1992, Kony had renamed the group United Democratic Christian Army and it was at this time that they kidnapped 44 girls from the Sacred Heart Secondary and St. Mary’s girls schools.[8]”
Kidnapping’s ok because it’s not explicitly covered in the 10 commandments?
Quack, Waddle — “Jones, paging Rev. Jim Jones...”
>>But what does it have to do with the United States?
Securing Odumbo’s Homeland?
Between Bush in Iraq, and Obama in Libya, and Obama meddling with Egypt and prob soon to be Syria, and now 4 African countries, when does the point come that it is understandable why the world views us differently than we ourselves do? While we say we have humanitarian reasons for some, if not all, of the above, people are getting killed just the same. Why is the nanny state wrong domestically, but OK internationally? Aren’t we trying to nanny state the world?
Just a guess that this is the strongest pro-Christian group operating in Africa and poses a threat to the islamist movements in the Northern tier.
“Aren’t we trying to nanny state the world?”
Same question Ron Paul is asking. Just sayin.
Why should we be? This has nothing to do with us. No matter who takes one thug out, six more will pop up there. It's long past time we let these little punks kill each other off and start taking care of our own problems at home.
Years ago, during Operation Manta in Chad, the French Foreign Legion had been staging out of Bangui, CAR. The Legion has long been active all over Africa. Their east African training base is in Djibouti, which is now our Horn of Africa HQS in the GWOT.
Wouldn’t these troops be better used in Afghanistan? Well, if we were trying to win?
There have been, at least in a non-military sense. The eldest son of my former church small-group leader was in Africa with a group called Invisible Children, working on getting child soldiers and servants out of the clutches of the LRA and back to their families. The LRA are not “Christian”...their leader is a whackjob who has adopted certain Christian verbiage to try and make his group of bandits and thugs look more legitimate. They attack and raze villages, kill the adults, and carry the children off; the boys are forced into being soldiers, the girls into servitude and eventually sex.
In a sick irony, the son was killed not by the LRA, but by Islamists. He was the only American casualty of the 2010 Ugandan suicide bombings, when an Islamonazi blew himself up in the midst of a crowd of Ugandans watching the World Cup.
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Are our servicemen dying, defending or helping the mosloms get or stay into power?
Is our country committing suicide with a leader that says he will stand with the mosloms if push came to shove?
I feel like I’m starting to spin around that abyss.
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