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Target: Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony has been wanted since 2005 when he was charged with crimes against humanity


President Barack Obama said Friday he's dispatching roughly 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help battle the Lord's Resistance Army, which the administration accuses of a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping children that spans two decades.

In a letter to Congress, Obama said the troops will act as advisers in efforts to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony but will not engage in combat except in self-defence.

Pentagon officials said the bulk of the U.S. contingent will be special operations troops, who will provide security and combat training to African units.

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This country sent thousands of its own soldiers to fight Al shabab, but they couldnt beat their own Christian radical terrorist group for 2 decades

I was just about to post this

Anyway, a U.S. president sending troops to capture an African warlord? How can this go wrong?

I'm still shocked at how Ugandan peackeepers are in Somalia when there's been a brutal and savage (even by Somali standards) civil war raging in Uganda for decades. The LRA make Shabaab look like the Salvation Army.

Based wrote:I was just about to post this

Anyway, a U.S. president sending troops to capture an African warlord? How can this go wrong?

I'm still shocked at how Ugandan peackeepers are in Somalia when there's been a brutal and savage (even by Somali standards) civil war raging in Uganda for decades. The LRA make Shabaab look like the Salvation Army.

Why isnt bill clinton & Bush senior stopping Obama? They have first hand experience regarding these situations I mean Aidid made them look like bitches.

What are 100 soldiers going to do in the middle of the jungle? bring them guys to Kismayo to take out Dulyadeyn and Afghani.

Coeus wrote:

Based wrote:I was just about to post this

Anyway, a U.S. president sending troops to capture an African warlord? How can this go wrong?

I'm still shocked at how Ugandan peackeepers are in Somalia when there's been a brutal and savage (even by Somali standards) civil war raging in Uganda for decades. The LRA make Shabaab look like the Salvation Army.

Why isnt bill clinton & Bush senior stopping Obama? They have first hand experience regarding these situations I mean Aidid made them look like bitches.

Obama's doing whatever it takes to distract people from the economy at this point. He thought the Osama thing was definitely going to get him reelected, but this is just retarded.

Although, I kind of feel like this is a test run for a possible American intervention in Somalia when you think about it. The LRA isn't what it used to be, especially since South Sudan got its independence so why send U.S. troops now?