Monday, October 17, 2011

U.S. Special Forces Sent To Uganda -- News Roundup



Africom to work Lord's Resistance Army problem with Uganda -- Time

WAPO and NYT reporting over the weekend that the US will send around 100 armed advisers to help the Ugandan military work the stubborn problem of the Lord's Resistance Army, a beyond-its-expiration-date insurgency that's terrorized rural populations across four states for a couple of decades now. These guys really are the worst of the worst, engaging in atrocities galore, mass rape as a tool of terror, and the forced recruitment of child soldiers. They check every box on war crimes.

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More News On The U.S. Intervention With Uganda In the War Against The LRA

U.S Military Intelligence ‘Critical’ to Defeat Rebels, Says Uganda Official -- Voice of America
U.S. to Go After Kony and the LRA -- Time
Uganda president: US troops not sent in to fight -- CBS/AP
Now U.S. sends troops to Africa to take down brutal rebel leader -- Daily Mail
Obama risks miring US in an African war: McCain -- AFP
Activists React to President Sending Troops to Africa -- ABC
LRA: Rebels worth sending U.S. troops to Africa? -- CBS/AP
Why Is Obama Sending Troops Against the Lord's Resistance Army? -- Max Fisher, The Atlantic
Mission to Uganda -- National Post editorial
Obama, the king of Africa -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
Profile: Joseph Kony -- Al Jazeera

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