Kony 2012

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U.S. sends troops to Uganda
to help fight Lord's Resistance Army

Charles Okello, then 23, was cutting sugarcane outside the Patongo camp for displaced people
people in northern Uganda when he was attacked by LRA rebels who suspected him of being a
Ugandan soldier. Credit: Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times


Los Angeles Times
October 14, 2011


REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON AND JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA --
President Obama is deploying about 100 special operations troops to Africa
to help target the leadership of the Lord’s Resistance Army, a notorious rebe
l group that has been entrenched in a stalemate with the government of
Uganda for more than two decades.

In a letter notifying Congress on Friday, Obama said the first small team of
U.S. “combat-equipped” advisors arrived in Uganda on Wednesday.

Over the next month, the remaining U.S. troops will be sent to surrounding
countries, including South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Congo.


The goal of the U.S. mission is to assist regional African forces in removing
Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and other commanders of the
group “from the battlefield,” the letter says.

“Although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing
information, advice and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not
themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense,” the letter
says.

A militia known for abducting children and forcing them to fight, often mutilating
them, the Lord’s Resistance Army has long been condemned by the U.S. and
human rights organizations for atrocities against civilians.

The militia keeps sex slaves, rapes women and has killed thousands of people.
For years, in Uganda and neighboring countries, it has resisted efforts by
African forces to curb its violence.

Inspired by a combination of mysticism and eccentric Christian rhetoric, Kony,
who is about 50, is on the U.S. terrorist list and is wanted by the International
Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity committed in a two-
decade war in northern Uganda between rebels and government soldiers. Kony
signed a peace deal in 2006, but continued to operate in neighboring countries.

The Lord’s Resistance Army has since cut a swath across Congo, the Central
African Republic and South Sudan.

The head of the U.S. Africa command, Gen. Carter Ham, said this month that he
believed Kony and other commanders were hiding in the Central African Republic.

Addressing the Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank in
Washington, he said the rebel group was still committing atrocities, kidnapping
people and killing.

Over the last three years, the U.S. has provided more than $40 million in
equipment and training to armies in the region to combat the rebel group and
target Kony, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a
statement.







http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/10/us-uganda-troops-lord-resistance-army.html

 

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Re: U.S. Sends Troops to Africa


LRA leader Joseph Kony:
Why Obama sent US troops to Uganda to get him

The feared group LRA is responsible for the murder and rape
of thousands in Central Africa. Siding with interventionist
advisers, Obama sent the US troops to help remove Joseph
Kony from the battlefield.

President Obama has sent 100 US troops to Uganda to track
down Joseph Kony, shown here at right in this 2008 photo,
the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a guerrilla army
that is accused of mass atrocities throughout central Africa.
Media/Reuters/File



By sending 100 US troops to Uganda to help in the battle against one of Central Africa’s most violent and feared armed groups, President Obama is once again siding with those in his administration who favor American intervention against the world’s worst violators of human rights.

On Friday Mr. Obama informed Congress that he has dispatched the “combat-equipped US forces” to assist regional forces in their fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army, a group that has murdered, kidnapped, and raped thousands of Central African civilians and which Obama says continues to commit “atrocities” across several African countries.

Obama said an initial team was dispatched to Uganda Wednesday, and that additional forces would deploy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

Specifically, the American troops are tasked with assisting in “the removal from the battlefield” of Joseph Kony and other senior leaders of the Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, Obama said in a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate.

Although the troops will be equipped for combat, officials specified that their principal role would be advisory. “These advisers will not engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense,” said State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland in a statement Friday.

In his letter, Obama noted that Congress has supported US efforts to “help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability” in legislation in 2009 and 2010.


Victory for the Liberal Hawks

But the president’s announcement Friday is also reminiscent of the decision he made in March to undertake a bombing campaign in Libya targeting the forces of Muammar Qaddafi. At that time Obama’s decision was seen as a victory for the administration’s “liberal hawks” – in particular Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice, and White House special adviser Samantha Power – who argued for US intervention on the side of Libya’s threatened civilian population.

That intervention was not favored by other administration officials more cautious about the deployment of US forces – most notably former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

But this new Africa deployment, though modest in scale, would appear to bear the imprint of Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice in particular. Both women have dedicated special attention to addressing the mass atrocities committed by “terror armies” across portions of Africa, from the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Uganda and South Sudan.

And both women have insisted since the early days of the Obama administration that the horror for Africa’s women of mass rapes must not be left unaddressed.

Early reactions to Obama’s decision suggest support from the “interventionist” wings of public opinion.

“By deploying these advisers, President Obama is showing decisive leadership to help regional governments finally bring an end to the LRA's mass atrocities,” said Paul Ronan, director of advocacy at Resolve, a public policy dispute resolution organization involved in Africa. “These advisers can make a positive difference on the ground by keeping civilians safe and improving military operations to apprehend the LRA's top commanders.”

Resolve’s statement was part of an announcement from a coalition of human rights and anti-genocide organizations applauding Obama’s deployment of troops.

But the decision also garnered support from the right, particularly among some evangelical Christians involved in African issues.

One of the first congressional responses to the announcement was from Sen. Jim Inhofe, (R) of Okla., who cited his own experience in Africa in applauding the military deployment.

“I have witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by the LRA, and this will help end Kony’s heinous acts that have created a human rights crisis in Africa,” Senator Inhofe said. “I have been fervently involved in trying to prevent further abductions and murders of Ugandan children, and today’s action offers hope that the end of the LRA is in sight.”

Inhofe noted that the steps Obama announced Friday were “outlined in our legislation” of 2009 that called for assisting in the “disarmament” of the LRA and in the “recovery” of northern Uganda in particular.







http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreig...-sent-US-troops-to-Uganda-to-get-him/(page)/2

 

[Cruise]

Re: U.S. Sends Troops to Africa

I will say this in the most poignant, thoughtful, and considered manner possible...

















Obama is an evil, piece of s*it!

 

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Re: CNN BREAKING NEWS: Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African 'army' lea

Profile: Joseph Kony

The Lord's Resistance Army leader believes he is a prophet and has led a brutal
insurgency for more than 20 years.


Elusive and motivated by a purported belief that he is a prophet, Joseph Kony
has waged a guerrilla insurgency against Uganda's government for more than
two decades as the head of the Lord's Resistance Army.

Utilising central Africa's dense bush for strategic advantage and occasionally
expanding his fight to neighbouring countries, Kony has become an
internationally wanted war criminal and the head of a dwindling band of
fighters.

Though the LRA and the government of Uganda, led since 1986 by President
Yoweri Museveni, signed a permanent ceasefire in 2008, Kony did not show
up to the final signing agreement, and military action against the LRA by the
governments of Uganda as well as the neighbouring Democratic Republic of
Congo and Southern Sudan have continued.

The United States maintained increasingly close relations with Museveni's
administration during the presidency of George W. Bush, and in November
2010, the Obama White House announced a policy entitled "Strategy to
Support the Disarmament of the Lord's Resistance Army," of which one of the
main objectives was to "apprehend and remove from the battlefield Joseph
Kony".

Kony was born in Odek, a village in a region of northern Uganda known as
Acholiland, sometime in the early 1960s. Not much is known about his early
years, though he reportedly served as an altar boy within the Catholic church
and was heavily influenced by both Christian and spiritualist teachings.

Kony joined the Uganda People's Democratic Army, a rebel alliance formed
after Museveni's nascent National Resistance Army came to power in 1986.
He became a key ally to Alice Lakwena, an Acholi spiritual healer whose
following, the Holy Spirit Movement, led the UPDA and who may have been
related to Kony.

After Lakwena suffered a devastating defeat against the Ugandan
government in a battle at Jinja, around 100km from the capital Kampala, she
fled to Kenya and Kony emerged as the leader of the forces who remained.
With Kony's assumption of power came a shift in the rebels' strategy and a
new name: the Lord's Resistance Army.

The LRA took to Uganda's north and began to operate almost exclusively
against civilian targets, rather than the Ugandan military. Under Kony's
control, the LRA has waged a durable insurgency utilising brutal tactics,
forcing 1.5 million people from their homes and abducting more than 20,000
boys and girls to become fighters or forced "wives" to LRA members.

Sponsored in part by the government of Sudan, the LRA conducted
operations in both the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan,
though activity in the latter has almost ceased due to the forging of a
comprehensive peace between north and south and the creation of an
independent South Sudan.

Kony has long said that his movement is aimed at liberating Ugandans from
oppression and has made himself into a dogged enemy of Museveni, whose
career as Uganda's leader has run in parallel with Kony's as a infamous
warlord.

He has reportedly claimed to be a prophet, possessed by spirits and to
believe in the power of the Christian cross and holy oil to protect him and his
fighters from physical harm.

After Museveni consolidated power, Kony moved his fighters into Sudan, then
the Democratic Republic of Congo, then the Central African Republic, typically
seeking out spaces where weak governments were unable to reach.

In 2005, Kony was indicted by the International Criminal Court for leading the
LRA in a campaign of "murder, abduction, sexual enslavement, mutilation, as
well as mass burnings of houses and looting of camp settlements" since at
least 1987 and for personally issueing broad orders to target and kill civilian
populations.

The indictment was partly based on intercepted radio communications where
Kony could be heard praising LRA forces for attacking camps of displaced
persons and calling on them to find targets with "even more people".

Though not fully endorsed by international observers, Uganda's two recent
multi-party elections have both delivered Museveni back into power, and
Kony has become increasingly pursued, both by Ugandan troops - including
ex-LRA fighters - and now by a contingent of about 100 American "combat-
ready" special forces, apparently aimed at ending the fight once and for all.







http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/10/2011101582435154748.html

 

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Re: CNN BREAKING NEWS: Obama orders U.S. troops to help chase down African 'army' lea


African villagers embrace U.S. role in
hunt for Lord's Resistance Army leader

Emmanuel Daba was abducted by guerrillas from the Ugandan rebel group
Lord's Resistance Army on March 6, 2008 from the town of Obo, Central
African Republic. He says he was forced to kill many civilians until he
escaped a year later. | Alan Boswell/MCT



McClatchy Newspapers
By Alan Boswell |




OBO, Central African Republic — On the edge of this quiet town in the isolated forests of central Africa sits one of America's newest military outposts, a base made of grass surrounded by razor wire. Outside, a baby chimpanzee plays on a green rope, and three local policemen lounge in a pickup truck. Inside, up to 30 U.S. special forces plot the demise of one of the world's most elusive and sadistic rebels.

The U.S. troops arrived two months ago and by most accounts have yet to undertake any military actions. But their mere presence has transformed this tattered out-of-the-way enclave of Congolese refugees, Ugandan soldiers and traumatized local residents into an upbeat cluster of newfound hope.

At night, energized locals bang homemade 8-foot-long xylophones and straddle voluminous bass drums, crooning new tunes to celebrate their good luck. "The Americans are here/Our saviors are here/Let's dance" goes one such song.

"Americans are favored by God wherever they are in the world," said Bassiri Moke, a local chief. "We asked God to save us and the Americans came. We hope we won't have to die like before."

The American deployment here forms the core of a new plan constructed in Washington to end the violent cross-border marauding of Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony and his band of 200 hundred or so fighters known as the Lord's Resistance Army. Masters of survival, they slink through thick equatorial forests and brush-littered plains in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, preying on the civilian population for food and new conscripts, killing and abducting as they go. Thousands have died in their wake.

That the U.S. has joined the hunt for a group that horrifies millions of Americans but poses no direct threat to the United States is testament to the influence of human rights campaigners, who, together with evangelical Christians, lobbied Congress to pass a law requiring renewed U.S. efforts against the LRA. The Obama administration responded by dispatching 100 special operations troops to help find Kony.

Most of the U.S. troops are based near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. But this outpost in Obo — a town of 15,000 in the far-eastern obscurity of the Central African Republic, an impoverished former French colony of 4 million people — is the true heart of the effort. Kony and his core followers are believed to be living off the surrounding forests, always on the run.

Expectations among those who live in the rebels' vicious shadow are sky high.

"Kony will die now that the Americans have come," bellowed Longbango Jean-Claude, a 38-year-old Congolese refugee who had three family members killed and three more abducted by the LRA in 2009. "Don't put him in prison like a child. Just kill him."

The area where Kony operates gives new meaning to "middle of nowhere." A sequestered and ungoverned land with few roads, the area lies near the intersection of three of the world's most failed states and one of the remotest points on the continent.

There is little here of international economic interest, though the land itself is so fertile that even refugees have no problem growing their own food. There are vast mineral deposits in eastern Congo, and the U.S. government recently has changed sanctions laws to open South Sudan's oil industry to U.S. companies. But those are hardly factors in hunting down Kony.

The most direct U.S. interest may in fact be tighter cooperation with the Ugandan military, which also has become a channel for U.S. efforts in Somalia, where Uganda shoulders the fight against Islamist rebels with links to al Qaida.

A McClatchy correspondent, joined by a writer and a photographer from Time magazine, were the first journalists to visit the site of the new American deployment. The U.S. military's Africa command, known as Africom, was informed of the visit in advance but said the mission was not ready to accommodate journalists.

Twice in emails, a spokesman for the military said there was no U.S. base in Obo and that U.S. troops deployed here were staying at a Ugandan base. But the Ugandan base is at an abandoned church on one side of town, while the newly constructed outpost where the Americans stay is near a police station on the opposite side. Locals say the American compound has its own helicopter pad.

When reporters approached the American outpost, two close-cropped white heads poked briefly above the wall. One yelled, "You are not allowed in here." A white pickup truck carrying what appeared to be four Americans pulled up to the compound as the reporters were preparing to leave.

Not long ago, life here slogged away as it had for centuries. But in early 2008, as peace talks over South Sudan collapsed, Kony's men, who had been operating largely within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo, began venturing further north and west.

On March 6, 2008, they struck here.

Moke was the town mayor at the time. There was a huge funeral party. He warned everyone not to stay out late. He went to bed at 8 p.m.

"They didn't listen," he said. Around 2 a.m., the music suddenly stopped. The villagers realized they were surrounded. "They took them all," Moke recalled.

About half of the abductees were released after a few days, but 30 or so others remained. Boys and young men became LRA fighters; girls and young women, "wives."

Most have since escaped and found their way back, scarred with searing images of brutality and cruelty.

When asked how he is adjusting to life after a year in the hands of the LRA, the eyes of one abductee darkened.

"The images are always flashing in front of my eyes. It's like I'm projecting my own movies," said Emmanuel Daba, who was turned by the LRA into a soldier before he fled in South Sudan. "I doubt I can ever escape it."

Officials in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, say that this country was the weakest link in the Uganda-led regional effort to finish off the guerrilla group. Kony and his men have not set foot in Uganda for years. Most of the attacks take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan is also seriously affected, but each of those countries have United Nations peacekeeping operations and somewhat functional, if ill-disciplined, national armies.

The Central African Republic, however, has a weak army with a spare presence here. When small groups of Central African Republic troops started arriving in some of the more rural areas in 2008, some teenagers had never seen a soldier before.

Now, they see American special forces drive around in white Toyota Hilux pickups and jogging for fitness along the edge of town.


What exactly the Americans have in mind is unclear.


There are differing opinions among officials about whether killing or capturing Kony would be enough to end his movement, which originated in the marginalized Acholi tribe of northern Uganda and offers an ideology that is a cult-like mish-mash of Christianity and traditional mysticism, held together by the force of Kony's charismatic and cruel leadership. Kony and two of his top lieutenants have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and would theoretically face trial if captured alive.

The U.S. says it is here to provide logistical support, bolster intelligence sharing and improve the coordination among the four nations' armies now fighting the LRA.

"Our intent is to supplement host nation military efforts with advice and assistance that maximizes the flow of information to, and synchronizes the activities of, host nation units in the field," said Maj. James Scott Rawlinson, a spokesman for U.S. special operations forces in Africa. "The end state for this mission is to enable local forces to be able to render the LRA ineffective."

Although local residents are impatiently expecting a major new military operation soon, they say they have seen little American activity, and the troops themselves keep a low profile. Obo's acting mayor said he hasn't met any of the U.S. troops. The one identifiable U.S. project is the construction of a bigger broadcast tower for the local radio station.

Rawlinson did not directly respond to a question about whether U.S. personnel would join the Ugandan military on patrols, but he said that it is the African militaries that "have the responsibility of specifically countering the threat."

Ledio Cakaj, a researcher who has interviewed 200 former LRA fighters, women, and abductees over the past several years, is openly skeptical that the U.S. involvement will make any difference in a battle that has gone on for decades.

"The so-called military solution has not worked for over 25 years," he said, noting that the LRA is far more organized and rational than it is often portrayed in Western media. "It is not practically possible to kill them all."

Locals in Obo have had their hopes raised before. When Ugandan troops arrived in 2009, they were warmly welcomed as protectors. But more than two years later, with Kony still at large and the Ugandan strategy for finding him opaque, that good will has evaporated. Locals say Ugandan soldiers sometimes rampage through town drunk, abusing civilians, and they accuse them of running business schemes instead of finding Kony.

For the time being, the U.S. presence seems to have straightened out their allies' behavior, and once again the people of Obo feel their liberation is near. How long the status quo can remain before that elation craters is impossible to know. Locals seem to anticipate Kony only has a few months, if not weeks, remaining.

Until then, life remains a daily struggle.

In mid-January, Mbolifue Dieudonne and his brother, Danambutigo James, carried peanuts and clothes toward South Sudan for sale. They crossed four rivers, climbed a mountain, and then they saw them: five reeking dreadlocked men, armed with AK-47s.

They dropped their goods and ran for it, but James was captured. He was marched a mile and a half and stripped of his clothes. "We will kill you," said a man on his right. But the commander, to his left, released him.

Just like that, he was free. Once again, the tormentors from another land had left him empty-handed. And once again, he had no explanation for the shadowy force that has turned his life upside down in a conflict he still doesn't understand.

"I don't know why they let me go," he said. "I'm still terrified."

(Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent.)




http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/02/13/138737/african-villagers-embrace-us-role.html

 

[jackfrost]

how about koni2012 for a change

Imagine they are your kids...

 

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Re: how about koni2012 for a change

'Kony 2012' Charity Invisible Children
Addresses Its Critics
​

30-minute YouTube film critical of Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony has logged close to 37 million views since Monday, but <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">the charity behind the video is suddenly on the defensive, forced to explain its motives, financial practices and religious affiliations</SPAN>.


The Intent of Invisible Children, Inc.

Invisible Children Inc. said its intention was to "create a cultural tipping point" even as critics took to the Internet to recount their concerns.

"We want to do some epic things because our time on Earth is so short," Jason Russell, an Invisible Children co-founder and filmmaker, told ABC News. "Why not do this? Start here with Kony. Use him as the example of what injustice looks like in the world and then we're going to move to the next one and the next one."

The San Diego-based nonprofit uploaded the video "Kony 2012" to bring attention to Kony and the rebel group Lord's Resistance Army, which human rights groups say has terrorized central Africa for years. The video is part of a campaign that includes an April 20 call for supporters to blanket their cities with Kony 2012 posters.​

The Critics

With the viral sensation, however, has come criticism. Several Internet sites have drawn attention to:

• the group's evangelical roots;

• a 2008 photo of the charity's founders posing with guns; and

• how it has disbursed its funds.

Invisible Children responded to most of the allegations in a statement on its Website.

Russell said that although the group's concept -- "treat our children around the world the way we would treat our own children -- was faith-based, Invisible Children didn't want to be defined that way.

"We are unorthodox and if you don't accept the unorthodoxy of what we do, then you won't get it," he said.


Invisible Children Has 'Supporters From All Walks of Life'

"We have supporters from all walks of life and all backgrounds and we're united under this umbrella," he said. "This umbrella of peace and exposing the story of the Invisible Children that Joseph Kony has had for this long."

But an image circulating the Internet today has highlighted the group's uneasy relationship with its detractors. In the photo, Invisible Children's founders -- Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole -- posed with guns with members of the Sudan People's Liberation Army. Critic Grant Oyston of the student-run blog Visible Children said that the photograph showed that the group supported direct military intervention.

On the charity's website, Russell said the photo had been taken at the 2008 Juba Peace Talks during which Kony was supposed to sign a peace treaty. He called the snapshot a "joke photo" to take back to family and friends.

But Glenna Gordon, an Associated Press photographer who took a few pictures that day, including the one of the founders with the weapons, said on her blog that she felt uncomfortable taking the photo.

"It just contributes to the stereotypes of kids messing stuff up by showing the worst of the worst and showing it without context," she wrote. "It adds to the Invisible Children bad a-- mythology even while attempting to cast doubt on their practices. ... At the end of the day, I do hope that all of this can make us look at Invisible Children with a more critical glance."​

Invisible Children Is Created

The charity came about after the three Southern California filmmakers headed to Africa in 2003 and later released a documentary about the child soldiers.

According to Human Rights Watch, in the past 20 years, Kony's LRA has killed and mutilated thousands of civilians -- and forced children to become fighters -- in Uganda and neighboring countries. Kony and his top commanders are wanted by the International Criminal Court.

In 2010, President Obama signed into law a bill aimed at stopping the LRA and bringing stability to Uganda. And in October, he sent 100 troops to Uganda to help regional forces battle the LRA and capture or kill Kony.​

'Kony 2012' and Invisible Children's Programs

Russell said the charity's programs in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan included the building of a rehabilitation center, an expanded and early-warning radio network connecting communities and an LRA crisis tracker, which is a mapping platform and data-collection system.

But Visible Children pointed out that although Invisible Children had spent more than $8.6 million last year, "only 32 percent went to direct services with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production."

Russell defended the group's spending, saying that Invisible Children needed to spend money on advocacy and awareness of young people, especially in the West.

"Let's be honest. They set the agenda. What they like matters," he said. "We need to educate and transform and reshape [their] paradigm to saying, 'This is what really matters. This is what we can really do.' ... So we do spend money on our films and on our advocacy and awareness. We are proud of that.

"When someone posts only 30 percent or 40 percent is going to the actual ground -- it's an old paradigm where every nonprofit was trying to get 98 percent of all funds to the region that's in conflict. That's an old model.

"We have strategically been putting all the puzzle pieces, all the dominoes in place, and everything is prepped for him to come to the Hague. ... This is never ever happened in 26 years of the conflict," he said. "We need to make sure everyone is aware who Kony is. By making him famous, we will bring his crimes to the light and bring the children who've been abducted back home. That's the goal."​

http://gma.yahoo.com/kony-2012-char...BzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3

 

[Cruise]

Cause we all know, the only bad people are black people.

I wonder why whites in the United States & Europe are never the problem?

Funny how that works.

 

[QueEx]

Cause we all know, the only bad people are black people.

I wonder why whites in the United States & Europe are never the problem?

Funny how that works.

I agree, Funny. Ignorance, no matter how it might manifest itself, seems to work the same. Funny how that works.

 

[blancasa]

good question cruise..plz take this sheep post somewhere else..we've seen this script b4.. emancipate yourself from mental slavery. damn. where's 'Gaza 2012'?

 

[Thick Johnson]

imagine the prison system trading your kids like baseball cards

so your juvenile can be shipped across country where u can't even see em

its niggas reaction or lack of reaction to the wicked shit done here
that pisses me off....and fake outrage for the sake of discussion

 

[blancasa]

..control your remote bro, don't be the remote.

 

[Thick Johnson]

America is the last one who can point the finger at anyone.

Funny how these ----- forget and co-sign their oppressors
against Africa. ------ who dont even claim Africa have also
jumped on this "save Africa" (oil) bandwagon.

Here they are running this oh so familiar tyranny script again.

Some of these ------ would have captured slaves for the man.

To as they say "Feed their family"

FOH!

 

[thoughtone]

Limbaugh defends this guy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend!


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In wake of viral video, African Union to launch a new
regional military against the Lord’s Resistance Army

The operation, which aims to bring together 5,000 troops from four African countries
each victimized by the Lord’s Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony, will tap
from troops already deployed to fight the group. But officials said the force will be more
cohesive and disciplined.

 

[QueEx]

Top Joseph Kony commander captured

Caesar Acellam en septembre 2006.
REUTERS/James Akena

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA
May 13, 2012



KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan forces captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border, an army official said Sunday, in what an analyst said was an "intelligence coup" for forces hunting for Kony.

Lt. Col. Abdul Rugumayo, intelligence chief for Uganda's military operation against the LRA, said Caesar Acellam was captured Saturday with two other rebel fighters as they tried to cross a river called Mbomu.

Although Acellam is not one of the LRA commanders indicted along with Kony in 2005 by the International Criminal Court, Ugandan officials say he was one of Kony's top military strategists and a reliable fighter.

"He's been on the defection shelf for a long time," said Angelo Izama, a political analyst with the Kampala-based security think tank Fanaka Kwawote. "This is a big intelligence coup for the Ugandan army."

A Ugandan army official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said losing Acellam was a big blow to Kony, whose forces have become increasingly degraded by a lack of food and having to constantly move to elude capture.

"He is big fish, very big fish," the official said of Acellam, who has been with the LRA for over 20 years. "He is one of the top division commanders."

Only about 200 LRA members remain the jungle, according to Ugandan officials.


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