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Obama hiring contractor for African bomb
WND ^ | July 14, 2013 | Steve Peacock

Posted on 07/14/2013 6:42:58 PM PDT by Perseverando

The Obama administration continues to ramp up its military-response capabilities in Africa, where it is now looking for contractor support to transport U.S. Africa Command troops, weaponry and explosives.

The U.S. Transportation Command on behalf of AFRICOM is soliciting help from private aircraft providers who can move U.S. troops and supplies in the Central African nations of Uganda, Central Africa Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.

The development comes at a time when the Department of Defense simultaneously is strengthening its ability – also with contractor assistance – to retrieve soldiers trapped and injured in hot spots ranging from Cameroon to Kenya.

As WND reported in recent months, Defense plans to place medical and transportation vendors on stand-by, 24/7, for cross-continent airborne mobilization, primarily to extricate U.S. Special Forces injured in African military ventures.

The endeavor, known as the Trans-Sahara Short Take-Off and Landing Airlift Support initiative, specifically identified the above-mentioned Central African nations as possible locations where contractors could assist U.S. Special Operations Command-Africa.

In the latest contracting action, vendors must be able to transport personnel and, likewise, must be willing to carry “hazardous” cargo, including small arms ammunition, signal flares, smoke grenades, blasting caps, rockets, mines and explosive charges.

According to a Request for Information that WND located through routine database research, much of the activity will take troops in and out of Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport, which is considered a U.S. military Cooperative Security Location, or CSL.

Travel in and out of remote and undeveloped sites also will be required.

“The contractor will be asked to routinely take off/land on improved and unimproved dirt airfields of a minimum of 1800 feet in length to support resupply and personnel transportation requirements,” the RFI said.

Routine locations could include airfields such as Obo and Djema in

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; africom; alqaeda; benghazi; burkinafaso; congo; dea; dod; egypt; ghana; guinea; kenya; libya; mali; niger; nigeria; southafrica; southsudan; tanzania; togo; uganda

1 posted on 07/14/2013 6:42:58 PM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Yes. The Purple Lipped Perfumed Prince of the Peace Prize - at it again


2 posted on 07/14/2013 6:48:57 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: atc23

He loves Africa; it’s only America he hates.


3 posted on 07/14/2013 6:52:20 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: AmericanVictory

I believe he loves himself more than anything, but he’ll never give up the land of golf courses, limo’s and an adoring media.


4 posted on 07/14/2013 6:57:15 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Perseverando

Gitmo still open, droning up 900%, new wars, and now new dirty wars to **IMPROVE AFRICA**.

Quite a handful, wow.

Good thing he’s doing all that liberal stuff, right?


5 posted on 07/14/2013 7:09:43 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Perseverando
The development comes at a time when the Department of Defense simultaneously is strengthening its ability – also with contractor assistance – to retrieve soldiers trapped and injured in hot spots ranging from Cameroon to Kenya.

Kinda like the retrieval executed in Benghazi Libya, eh?

Good luck, guys.

6 posted on 07/14/2013 7:12:03 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Perseverando

Have we cut our military so badly we cannot even transport our troops?

We have to resort to Contractors?


7 posted on 07/14/2013 7:14:16 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer

We have been doing this for years and years


8 posted on 07/14/2013 7:36:28 PM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: Perseverando

Yes, just the region we need to be getting involved in various civil wars and rebellions in.


9 posted on 07/14/2013 7:53:53 PM PDT by River Hawk
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To: Perseverando

What private war is the Resident up to now? Follow the money.

Nice big oil fields being developed in Uganda. Diamonds and gold in the Congo.


10 posted on 07/14/2013 9:04:32 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Venturer

In 1973 my battalion flew home from the Indian Ocean on a civilian airplane.


11 posted on 07/14/2013 9:40:14 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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