One hint: The Israelis always had excellent intelligence on Africa, in part from more than a decade of arms sales of everything from Uzi submachineguns to rebuilt Sherman tanks to many of Africa's strongman regimes...including Idi Amin's Uganda, which is one reason the Israeli troops on the Entebbe raid in 1976 had pretty good intel on where and what to hit.
But they also got some fascinating info from former British colonies, in particular in Kenya, where the successful Brit intelligence operations against the Mau Mau terrorist insurgents pretty well shut that trouble down in around three years. And the Israelis, knowing that they too faced fanatical and suicidal opponents [if not necessarily cannibal ones] very carefully researched the operations of the Brit officers who systematically dismantled their oppo, and even found out who many of the informants working for the British had been. That helps explain why Obama so much despises both the British AND the Israelis.
Of course, the Maoists in the Provisional IRA didn't much like *Bloody Frank* Kitson's way of doing business either....
