U.S. Troops To Remain In Uganda Until LRA’s Kony Is Dead Or Captured

Countries Where Lord's Resistance Army Operates (Diana Benedetti/The Epoch Times)

Uganda Mission Is Likely To Go On Until LRA’s Kony Is Dead Or Captured, U.S. General Says -- Washington Post

About 100 U.S. troops that President Obama ordered to Uganda last month to help crush the cult-like Lord’s Resistance Army will likely remain deployed until the group’s leader is captured or dead, according to the top U.S. commander for Africa.

Army Gen. Carter F. Ham, the head of the U.S. military’s Africa Command, said most of the American forces have landed in Uganda and are beginning to coordinate the efforts of four central African countries as they comb a huge expanse of jungle for Joseph Kony, the messianic founder of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony and his rebels are accused of killing, maiming, kidnapping and raping thousands of civilians in Uganda, the Central African Republic, Congo and South Sudan.

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Update #1: US military in CentrAfrica ahead of rebel hunt -- AFP
Update #2: End Game Looms For Dreaded Central African Militia -- Epoch Times
Update #3: The LRA and the most popular Africa legislation in recent US history -- Christian Science Monitor

My Comment: An open-ended mission that will only end when LRA’s Kony is dead or captured .... hmmmm .... something is telling me that this is going to be a very long mission.