Under President Ronald Reagan, the United States gave covert CIA paramilitary support to help Habré take power and remained one of Habré's strongest allies throughout his rule
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiss%C3%A8ne_Habr%C3%A9
Posted on 04/04/2023 8:59:46 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1975, French Major Pierre Galopin was executed by Chad rebel Hissène Habré. Galopin (English Wikipedia entry | French) had been dispatched to the former French colony to negotiate the release of two French nationals* seized as hostages by Habre’s Command Council of the Armed Forces of the North (CCFAN).
You’ll never guess it: CCFAN also took Galopin hostage.**
CCFAN tried to leverage its new captive into an arms trade. When France dragged its feet, the Chadians terminated the negotiation by having Galopin condemned by a “revolutionary tribunal” and hanged to a roadside tree....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
I was 19, flunked out of junior college after my first term, working on a Olympic sized swimming pool construction site, where the owner hired murderers but no thieves. On a lunch break one of the murderers asked another one why he killed the man in the bar and the response was the guy needed killing. vita sic est
Well yeah, Habre was fighting the Libyans
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