Posted on 11/13/2017 4:38:54 AM PST by JP1201
This account is based on five members of the special-operations community who were not cleared to speak publicly. Representatives of both U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) declined comment for this story, as the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has an active investigation into Melgar’s death. NCIS would not comment beyond confirming the investigation is underway.
Dirty Money, Damning Excuse
There is a minimal U.S. troop presence in Mali at most—nothing compared to the 800 troops in neighboring Niger, another West African nation that hosts a sizable special operations cadre. But special operations forces aid U.S. diplomats, Malian soldiers and their French partners in gathering intelligence on a confluence of capable local militants trending Islamist. As the elite troops do in so many countries, they operate in the shadows, with comparatively little oversight—and what their actions actually look like on the ground can be much dirtier than the heroic image the Pentagon prefers to portray.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
SOROS’ Daily Beast.
Why the *ell are we in Africa?
Who’s leaking?
Terrorist connected to AQ or ISIS...
If they are there - we are there.
While certainly no fan of this news source, if what is written is true, this case has some troubling aspects without a doubt. I will watch this case with interest and hope & pray what is suggested her is not the reality.
Yep, exactly and defeating them before they can spread is the strategy.
For a credenza?
Sorry .. had my page sizing at 150% and that’s all that showed up on my screen ...
WHERE IS THE BARF WARNING?!?!?!
Same here. Maybe he could delete the post
Why are we in Africa ??
Answer - so they don’t come here
Remember Afghanistan before 9/11
When the link is to The Daily Beast, I think "barf" is implied.
What I remember is that almost all of those 911 maniacs were Saudis who were here on expired visas. It would've made more sense to keep Afghanis and Saudis out of the US than to get involved there.
Virtue-signalling from Moochie. Has there ever been a more embarrassing FLOTUS??
Someone needs to Photoshop “MY B@LLS ITCH” onto that sign.
We must always be on a covert offensive posture. Sitting in a continuous defensive posture didn’t work well with Chamberlain and doesn’t work well today either
We respectfully disagree. We’ve been at war for decades, and what has it gotten us?.....ISIS
ISIS is the direct offspring of Al Qaeda, and Al Qaeda was the consequence of Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Nearly a decade following that invasion Osama bin Laden declared war on the West (and Christianity), and given his funding by Arab plutocrats, the rest as they say is history.
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