America’s African President To The Rescue! U.S. Combat Troops To Battle Africans Raping Each Other

It’s taken years of determined lobbying by international aid groups, but the Pentagon is finally deploying 100 combat troops to do battle with Ugandan cult leader Joseph Kony and his brutal Lord’s Resistance Army rebel group in Central Africa.

“These forces will act as advisers to partner forces that have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA,” President Barack Obama said Friday.

The LRA has its roots in a bloody civil war in Uganda in the 1980s and ’90s.

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The U.S. advisers began deploying this week. “Although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice and assistance to partner nation forces,” Obama said. “They will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”

Though the danger to American lives is probably minimal, any effort against the LRA poses serious risks. Previous operations targeting Kony have ended badly.

In 2006, a squad of Guatemalan commandos trained by the U.S. infiltrated an LRA encampment.

But Kony was away.

In the ensuing firefight, LRA troops wiped out the entire eight-man commando force and beheaded their commander.    ARTICLE

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