I don’t think I could possibly care less about the Congo.
Is there a Muslim angle to this? A lot of mayhem in west Africa involves Jihadists - but the Lamestream papers that over.
as best as i can tell from all of this confusion is that a bunch of african tribes are fighting a bunch of other african tribes, just like they’ve done for a thousand years, the only difference is they’re now fighting with fully automatic machine guns instead of spears and such ...
Speaking of M23:
Democratic Bundler in Bed with Congolese Warlord
The Washington Free Beacon ^ | Adam Kredo | Adam Kredo
Posted on 2/21/2012, 9:59:09 AM by jmcenanly
A prominent Obama administration trade advisor is one of the central players in a series of scandals and ethical rows that have reportedly placed him in cahoots with corrupt Congolese warlords and other questionable figures.
Kase Lawal, an oil mogul with longstanding ties to the Clinton family, was appointed in 2010 as a member of Obama’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.
Since his selection to the trade board, Lawal has become enmeshed in a pact to purchase large quantities of illegal gold from a violent Congolese warlord, according to a U.N. investigation and various reports.
The crooked gold deal—as well as several other past scandals—raise concerns that the Nigerian-born Lawal is unfit to advise the White House about an issue as sensitive as global trade.
Lawal—founder of the oil and gas conglomerate CAMAC International—stands accused of transferring millions of dollars to Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, a rebel commander who has been linked by the International Criminal Court to a series of ethnic massacres and rapes. The deal, if verified, violates a U.N. ban on doing business with rogue Congolese warlords.
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