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  • The Bay of Pigs Epilogue: Humiliating Che Guevara and John Kerry

    04/30/2022 2:52:53 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2022 | humberto Fontova
    “Those Cuban-CIA men (Bay of Pigs vets) were as tough, dedicated and impetuous a group of soldiers as I’ve ever had the honor of commanding,” wrote legendary anti-communist mercenary “Mad Mike” Hoare, commander of the “Wild Geese,” in his book Congo Mercenary. ''This is the history of a failure,'' said the oddly frank opening lines of Che Guevara’s Congo Dairies. “I stood above Che Guevara, my boots near his head, just as Che had once stood over my dear friend and fellow 2506 Brigade member, Nestor Pino. ‘We're going to kill you all," Che said to Pino.’ Now, the situation...
  • Researchers confirming AIDS passed to humans from chimps in Central Africa So Much For Bill Cosby

    01/17/2002 12:38:00 PM PST · by Outraged At FLA · 103 replies · 412+ views
    MSNBC ^ | MSNBC
    Here is some of what is posted on the page: Jan. 17 — The chimpanzee version of the AIDS virus appears to be extremely rare in wild chimps, which suggests the apes evolved a way to deal with the killer virus generations ago, researchers said on Thursday. The study also confirmed earlier theories that AIDS passed to humans from chimps in Central Africa, they said SCIENTISTS HAVE long known nonhuman primates carry their own version of the AIDS virus. But so far, it has been found only in captive chimpanzees. No one knows how prevalent or geographically or genetically diverse ...
  • Central African Republic: Where have all the people gone?

    12/04/2013 8:17:31 AM PST · by Pan_Yan · 24 replies
    BBC ^ | 2 December 2013 Last updated at 19:34 ET | Andrew Harding
    The dirt roads here are ominously empty. So are the villages. Every few kilometres the thick bush recedes to reveal a few mud brick houses with straw roofs. Sometimes a dog or a goat stares from a doorway. Many of the homes have been burnt. But where are the people? (SNIP) Half an hour later, we reached a clearing and more than a dozen civilians standing beside a makeshift shelter. In all, roughly 400,000 people in CAR are thought to be in a similar plight. "We live like animals here. No clean water. No food. No medicine. No salt. No...
  • Kony 2013: U.S. quietly intensifies effort to help African troops capture infamous warlord

    10/28/2013 10:35:03 PM PDT · by Brad from Tennessee · 6 replies
    Washington Post ^ | October 28, 2013 | By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    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...
  • Obama: US troops sent to aid evacuation of diplomats in Central African Republic

    12/30/2012 7:17:53 AM PST · by Libloather · 9 replies
    The Hill ^ | 12/29/12 | Kyle Balluck
    President Obama sent approximately 50 U.S. military personnel to Chad earlier this week to aid in the evacuation of U.S. embassy personnel and U.S. citizens from the neighboring Central African Republic. In a letter to congressional leaders on Saturday, Obama cited the “deteriorating security situation” in the Central African Republic and the threat to U.S. citizens. U.S. embassy personnel and several private U.S. citizens were evacuated from the Central African Republic capital of Bangui on Thursday. Obama said the “stand-by security force” was deployed for the sole purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property. Rebels in the Central African Republic...
  • Benghazi Report: Al Qaida is Alive and Well

    12/21/2012 11:04:32 AM PST · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 21, 2012 | Nightwatch
    Republic of Korea: For the record. Pak Ku'n-hye (Park Geun-hye) of the New Frontier Party won South Korea's presidential election on 19 December, media reported. She is the daughter of Park Chung-hee and the first woman elected to be president of the Republic of Korea. That should confound the North! North Korea-Iran: According to a Japanese news service, an Iranian lawmaker told the service that North Korea informed Iran in October of its plan to launch a satellite. The head of an Iranian parliamentary delegation to North Korea, Hamid Reza Taraghi, revealed talks took place mid-October with the North's delegates...
  • Red China’s Economic Strategies for Central Asia: Building Roads to Afghan Strategic Resources

    09/25/2012 10:46:49 PM PDT · by bruinbirdman · 7 replies
    Jamestown Foundation Eurasia Daily Monitor ^ | 9/21/2012 | Zabikhulla S. Saipov
    Recent Chinese diplomatic maneuvers in Central Asia, both bilateral and multilateral, show that Beijing’s strategy treats the region as a corridor for reaching resource bases in Afghanistan, the Middle East and Africa. Central Asia is thus part of China’s broader blueprint of securing strategic resources and supplies to feed its developing economy (Z. Saipov, China Oil & Gas Monitor, Week 21, Issue 396, News Base, May 31, p. 3–4). Hu Jintao (L) and Islam Karimov Illustratively, Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu’s two-week official tour of Congo, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan on September 1–13 (English.sina.com, September 6) supports the premise that...
  • Friday war document dump: Obama sends troops to Africa

    10/14/2011 2:41:18 PM PDT · by opentalk · 19 replies
    Michelle Malkin ^ | October 14, 2011 | Michelle Malkin
    All those Occupiers holding their “End the War!” signs better march on over to the White House. President Obama just announced he’s sending U.S. troops to central Africa to fight something called “the Lord’s Resistance Army.” The letter to House GOP Speaker John Boehner: TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE October 14, 2011 Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) For more than two decades, the Lord’s Resistance...On October 12, the initial team of U.S. military personnel with appropriate combat equipment deployed to Uganda....
  • Africa: Amnesty Reports on Sub-Saharan Africa's Human Rights Record

    05/28/2011 2:43:46 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 9 replies · 1+ views
    AllAfrica ^ | 13 May 2011 | Amnesty International
    The armed conflict in Darfur, Sudan, intensified throughout the year, resulting in tens of thousands of newly displaced people, some of whom crossed into neighbouring Chad. Civilians were directly targeted in some attacks by armed groups and by government forces. Parts of Darfur remained inaccessible to humanitarian organizations and the joint UN-African Union (AU) mission in Darfur (UNAMID). Humanitarian workers and UNAMID staff were frequently abducted in Darfur, following a pattern similar to that seen in eastern Chad in recent years. Various mediation efforts during the year produced no tangible results. Repression by the Sudanese authorities continued in Darfur, with...
  • Khartoum Summit Ends With Declaration Calling For Comprehensive Peace

    05/28/2011 12:47:26 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies
    Bernama ^ | May 24, 2011 | BERNAMA-NNN-SUNA
    The tripartite summit meeting of the presidents of Sudan, Chad and the Republic of Central Africa (CAR) here has ended... with the adoption of the Khartoum Declaration which also seeks the achievement of sustainable development, exchanges and consultations on regional and international issues, and supporting one another in regional and international forums... the establishment of a joint force to protect the common borders of the three countries and trilateral co-ordination among the Interior Ministries to control smuggling, infiltration along borders, illegal hunting, combating organised crime and cross-border crimes... to work on boosting peaceful co-existence between tribes living near the common...
  • WSJ Book Review: So Badly Misled - "The Fate of Africa" by Martin Meredith

    08/31/2005 5:46:01 AM PDT · by OESY · 12 replies · 833+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 31, 2005 | ROBERT GUEST
    "The Fate of Africa"... is a heavy book, but it is light reading because it is so unfashionably straightforward. Martin Meredith has written a narrative history of modern Africa, devoid of pseudointellectual frills, gender discourse or postcolonial angst. He takes each of the larger African countries and tells you what happened there after independence.... Mr. Meredith's critics will accuse him of cultural insensitivity. By knocking down Africa's heroes, he is denying Africans the right to be proud of their own heritage. This is piffle. If Africa is to prosper, the first step is for Africans to understand what has gone...
  • US Ship Promotes Security in Gulf of Guinea

    07/29/2005 1:39:36 PM PDT · by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island · 3 replies · 237+ views
    Voice of America ^ | 28 July 2005 | Al Pessin
    The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter "Bear" is usually deployed in the Caribbean, scouting for drug traffickers and illegal migrants heading for the United States. The Coast Guard is not part of the Navy, or even the Defense Department. It is part of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But for the past two months, the Bear has been assigned to the U.S. Navy's 6th Fleet, and is currently visiting unfamiliar waters off the coast of West Africa. "We're helping these countries be able to get boats and crews out onto the water," said Commander Robert Wagner, the Bear's commanding...
  • Explicit Photos Fan U.N. Sex Scandal

    02/12/2005 9:47:09 AM PST · by saquin · 127 replies · 20,381+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 2/12/05 | Maggie Farley
    UNITED NATIONS — A scandal about the sexual abuse of Congolese women and children by U.N. officials and peacekeepers intensified Friday with the broadcast of explicit pictures of a French U.N. worker and Congolese girls and his claim that there was a network of pedophiles at the U.N. mission in Congo. ABC News' "20/20" program showed pictures taken from the computer of a French U.N. transport worker. The hard drive reportedly contained thousands of photos of him with hundreds of girls. In one frame, a tear can be seen rolling down the cheek of a victim. The news report coincided...
  • Congo Confirms Deployment of Thousands of Troops as Central Africa War Fears Rise

    06/21/2004 6:22:37 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 7 replies · 141+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Jun 21, 2004 | Eddy Isango
    KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo on Monday denied claims by rival and neighbor Rwanda that it was massing troops for attack, and international diplomatic pressure built to avert what one African leader called a "potentially catastrophic war" in central Africa. Congo's defense minister told The Associated Press that his country was sending a total of 5,000 troops east to provinces bordering Rwanda, Congo's chief enemy in a devastating five-year central African war - but insisted the deployment was to quell ex-rebels on Congo's soil, not to invade Rwanda. "We are not threatening the integrity of our neighboring country. We trust...
  • A TALE OF TWO BISHOPS; A TALE OF TWO CHURCHES

    06/07/2004 12:07:25 PM PDT · by ahadams2 · 1 replies · 59+ views
    Virtuosity ^ | 7 June 2004 | David Virtue
    A TALE OF TWO BISHOPS; A TALE OF TWO CHURCHES News Analysis By David W. Virtue WEST CHESTER, PA--A rare double event took place in the Diocese of Pennsylvania this past weekend - an event that encapsulates the contradictions inherent in The Episcopal Church and in the wider Anglican Communion. A revisionist bishop who believes Jesus was a sinner and who forgave himself, and who likened the growth of the Anglican Church in Africa to the rise of the Nazi Party, behaved in a Hitlerian fashion by forcing his way, unwanted, onto an orthodox Bible-believing Episcopal parish. Another bishop, an...
  • ARCHBISHOP MALANGO MAKES WELCOME VISIT TO ORTHODOX [Anglican] PARISH

    06/07/2004 12:02:06 PM PDT · by ahadams2 · 4 replies · 56+ views
    Virtuosity ^ | 7 June 2004 | David Virtue
    ARCHBISHOP MALANGO MAKES WELCOME VISIT TO ORTHODOX PARISH By David W. Virtue ROSEMONT, PA (6/6/2004)--The Primate of Central Africa, Archbishop Bernard Malango made a welcome visit to the Church of the Good Shepherd on Sunday, and was greeted warmly by the Anglo-Catholic traditionalist congregation. He was accompanied by the Rt. Rev. Edwin Barnes, Bishop of Richborough (retired) of the Church of England. "We are living in extraordinary times and days with unusual provisions and relationships," said the visiting Primate. "It is important for you to know that the struggles you face have not escaped the attention of leaders in all...
  • Anger as Primate takes Presidency at Eucharist

    03/18/2004 6:13:48 PM PST · by ahadams2 · 2 replies · 109+ views
    Church of England Newspaper ^ | 18 March 2004 | staff writer
    Anger as Primate takes Presidency at Eucharist Number: 5709 Date: March 18 Anglican leaders have criticised the decision to allow the American Primate at the centre of the row over the Communion’s first openly gay bishop to celebrate the Eucharist in Canterbury Cathedral. The Primate of Central Africa, the Most Rev Bernard Malango, who was present at the ceremony, expressed his anger at having such a ‘political’ move thrust upon him. Attending the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop Malango said that no warning had been given that Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold would be celebrating the Eucharist until...
  • The Realignment: A Summary Update

    02/14/2004 8:26:30 PM PST · by ahadams2 · 13 replies · 273+ views
    The Christian Challenge ^ | February 2004 | Editor of the Christian Challenge
    The Realignment: A Summary Update By The Editor REPORTS OF FALLOUT at home and abroad from the U.S. Episcopal Church's embrace of an openly gay bishop and optional same-sex blessings just keep coming. "The implications are staggering. Hardly a day goes by without international mention of more consequences," said Archbishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone of America—one of the latest Anglican provinces to declare broken or some form of impaired communion with the Episcopal Church's liberal leadership. Provinces in that category now number 11 (out of 38), and represent nearly half of all Anglicans worldwide. In addition to the...
  • CENTRAL AFRICA PRIMATE CONDEMNS GRISWOLD FOR PREACHING FALSE GOSPEL

    12/04/2003 9:18:04 AM PST · by ahadams2 · 14 replies · 95+ views
    Virtuosity ^ | 3 December 2003 | David Virtue
    CENTRAL AFRICA PRIMATE CONDEMNS GRISWOLD FOR PREACHING FALSE GOSPEL EXCLUSIVE REPORT Submitted by David W. Virtue The Church of the Province of Central Africa, The Anglican Church in Zambia, Botswana, Malawi & Zimbabwe ,The Most Rev. Bernard A. Malango, Archbishop and Primate, Private Bag 1, Chilema, Malawi November 12, 2003-12-03 The Most Revd Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, 815 Second Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Dear Frank, Mercy grace and peace be unto you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Please know that this comes with my...
  • French Troops Head to Cent. African Rep.

    03/17/2003 3:28:04 PM PST · by knak · 36 replies · 264+ views
    guardian ^ | 3/17/03
    BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) - Victorious rebels raced through the streets, firing guns in the air to celebrate their weekend coup as French troops evacuated foreigners Monday from Central African Republic. Rebel leader Gen. Francois Bozize declared himself president, dissolved the legislature and suspended the constitution Sunday after his rebels captured the country's capital, Bangui, while President Ange-Felix Patasse was out of the country. Meanwhile, the United Nations and the African Union strongly condemned the takeover. A statement from U.N. Secretary-general Kofi Annan called for ``the speedy restoration of the constitutional order and for the respect and protection of...