Posted on 10/28/2013 10:35:03 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEAR GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, Congo — For 15 hours, a team of U.S. Special Forces soldiers shepherded four dozen South Sudanese commandos through an unremitting nighttime rainstorm, plunging into elephant grass so tall and thick they could not gaze beyond the reach of their arms. They heard the telltale cry of a panther and the ripples of crocodiles lurking in the bogs. Quicksand sucked a few men down to their waists before their comrades could haul them out.
Their destination was a crude encampment used by the Lord’s Resistance Army, a band of rebels led by the messianic warlord Joseph Kony, who has spent years kidnapping and killing villagers — and eluding his pursuers — across a wide swath of central Africa. By the time the troops reached the camp, as beams of morning light pierced the treetop canopy, the rebels had absconded again. The soldiers gave chase for a day, summoning tracking dogs and an infrared-equipped drone, but their quarry melted into the dense Congolese jungle.
The September raid did capture, almost perfectly, the state of the under-the-radar U.S. campaign to help hunt down Kony and his top lieutenants. After two years advising and assisting local troops in four African nations, American forces have significantly expanded their activities — but Kony is still not in handcuffs or a casket.
The assault on the camp last month was the first time U.S. Special Operations advisers had provided in-the-field support to African forces searching for Kony’s rebels in Congo. . .
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What a waste.
They going to storm the white house?
Wasn’t the U.S. sending teams of “Advisers” to Africa last year?
My plan for africa is to arm Christian villages with weapons and a phone. Then provide satelite surveillance. When Muslims are seen moving towards a village give them an early notification warning.
Good point. And the Congo is where the UN’s visions of more aggressive military adventuring ended, long ago now.
A year or so ago, this LRA suddenly became big “news”, simultaneously pushed by HuffPo, DailyKos, ABCBPBSNPRBC, every leftist larva on FB, and the rest of the usual noise machine parrots.
The Sudan genocide? Not so much.
The Islamofascist takeover of Somalia? Not so much.
The Iranian push in Africa? Not a peep.
Thanks Brad from Tennessee.
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