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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Here’s my question: Why should US taxpayers care about a Ugandan warlord? I read some leftist saying Uganda is “America’s fault” (as usual). Why is anything in Uganda America’s fault? Was Idi Amin America’s fault?
Unbelievable.
So Putin humiliates him, so now Obama wants to capture Kony to get his ratings back up.
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...
“We are continuing to look at additional steps we might take,” Harris said, and “continue to urge Uganda to repeal the law.”
Uganda would do well to decline 'help' from the Godless and Sodomite abetting US Administration.
Good.
Kony From what I’ve read he’s an aging nutcase with an aging army of around 20 people.
The Internal (in)Consistency of this Presidency
Never ceases to amaze me
If he was a dyed-in-the-wool warmonger...
Ok, maybe he is
The USA military Generals should have a
Come to Jesus meeting with him...
Active Duty ping.
I am thrilled to see the US supporting Uganda. Can’t figure out why Obama would do so, but grateful nonetheless.
Kony, the new Emmanuel Goldstein.
Instead of the ATF raiding the contents of a container of supplies of clothes and shoes belonging to the machine gun preacher, they could have just given him an extra 3 or 4 hundred thousand dollars and let him finish the job.
Uganda ping.
pretty much... that said, should he be caught, Uganda should skin his azz alive
so the mission was to kill more us soldiers...? /osprey
As if he’s the only bad guy in all of Africa...why did they pick this particular one?
When this Kony crap first appeared a few years ago I did some digging and found the far left International Crisis Group lobbying for intervention to track this Kony nobody down.
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