Posted on 03/23/2014 7:22:51 PM PDT by kristinn
President Obama has ordered a sharp increase in U.S. Special Forces deployed to Uganda and sent U.S. military aircraft there for the first time in the ongoing effort to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony across a broad swath of central Africa.
At least four CV-22 Osprey aircraft will arrive in Uganda by midweek, along with refueling aircraft and about 150 Air Force Special Forces and other airmen to fly and maintain the planes, according to Amanda Dory, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs.
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LRA attacks have decreased significantly and the number of people killed has dropped more than 75 percent since 2010, said Grant Harris, a special assistant to Obama and senior African affairs director for the National Security Council.
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Ensuring justice and accountability for human rights violators like the LRA and protecting” the rights of gay and transgendered persons “are not mutually exclusive,” Harris said.
He said the administration has already moved to shift funding away from partners “whose actions don’t reflect” U.S. values, including $6.4 million that had been designated for the Interreligious Council of Uganda, which has supported the legislation.
A planned survey of key populations at risk for HIV, to be jointly conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Uganda University, has also been suspended because “we think proceeding could cause danger to staff and respondents,” Harris said.
He said that approximately $3 million in tourism and biodiversity promotion programs has been transferred from the Ugandan government to nongovernmental organizations. The Pentagon has also shifted regional military conferences that were to be held in Uganda to other locations.
“We are continuing to look at additional steps we might take,” Harris said, and “continue to urge Uganda to repeal the law.”
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“So Putin humiliates him, so now Obama wants to capture Kony to get his ratings back up.”
Only problem with that is people are going to ask “Who”. I’ve never heard of him until now.
Believe me, the Press will be ready....they will portray Kony was the worst thing since Hitler, and how great Obama is for killing here.
Kony is scum of the earth with his children army. Sam Childers did a lot of good over there trying to protect those kids.
that should be “Obama is for killing him.”
Go rent the movie machine gun preacher, you might learn something.
Yeah your right. I never thought of that.
being the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) is enough for me/mostly because he's famous for kidnapping children to use as cannon fodder not that there prolly aren't a dozen others that did/do the same thing, they just don't have the name recognition
I don’t care what Kony is. I know what he isn’t is our problem.
Machine-gun Preacher is an outstanding bio-movie of his fight
He may not be our problem but the ATF raided and deflected a container of clothes and shoes owned by Sam Childers for relief aid to many of those children. Instead of aircraft and our service men, they should just gave old Sam a few hundred grand and let him finish the job.
Bite off, more than you can chew...find...funding of lower self...then the reality sets in,,,...
China has been moving into Uganda big time in the last 10 years.
The President’s wife is in China right now, discussing all kinds of things with all kinds of high-ranking people.
Who knows what sort of present might have been promised for the Presidential Retirement Fund if we’d take care of this little problem?
Can you say, “Blackhawk Down”
Yippee, another undeclared war brought to us by the Nobel Peace Prize recipient in chief! probably in reality to support or force into power more IslamoNazis like in the other places he’s invaded, subverted governments in, or bombed
LMAO.
Osprey Down.
They crash all by themselves.
That Red Line has got to stick somewhere.
They will put on a drag show.
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