Posted on 07/11/2013 6:19:06 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
UN peacekeepers in the Congo were drawn into a gun battle between unidentified gunmen and the M23 rebel group today and shot four of the attackers, a UN spokesman said.
About 30 unidentified people assaulted an M23 rebel position early today five miles (eight kilometres) from Goma in Congo's North Kivu province, spokesman Martin Nesirky said.
The M23 rebels counter-attacked, and as the assailants retreated they fired shots at the UN peacekeepers' post, Nesirky said.
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The United Nations pays about 22,000 third world soldiers to stand around and watch the local factions fight (MONUSCO ). Since that hasn't seemed to work they've now formed an "intervention brigade" which is an offensive force of about 3,000 troops to go attack the group that the UN has decided is "bad". But for some reason the South Africans have delayed putting their soldiers in blue helmets under a Brazilian general and the new mission has stalled. Meanwhile the government is corrupt, the various rebels groups are getting aid from neighboring countries, and we are paying for it all directly and indirectly. Oh, and lots of big corporations are grabbing as many natural resources as they can while there are no enforcable labor laws, tariffs or export controls. P.S. Susan Rice has been deeply involved in all this.
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