10-15-2011, 08:08 AM
FYI: The news is that we sent 100 Special Ops soldiers to help save the lives of innocents.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...67d7e6ef1e
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Here's a brief and incomplete list of massacres that those rebels are responsible for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Re...#Massacres
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...67d7e6ef1e
A special forces unit can be highly effective beyond what the number of soldiers might suggest. They are highly skilled in disrupting insurgency networks by discovering where rebels are based and how they procure guns, money and other logistical support.
The Lord's Resistance Army has been pushing westward since it began its attacks years go, and the administration and human rights groups say its atrocities have left thousands dead and have put as many as 300,000 Africans to flight. They have charged the group with seizing children to bolster its ranks of soldiers and sometimes forcing them to become sex slaves.
Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court under a 2005 warrant for crimes against humanity in his native Uganda. A self-styled prophet, who mixes Christian mysticism with politics, he is believed hiding along the Sudan-Congo border.
Most of the troops will deploy to regional capitals to work with government officials and military commanders on countering the rebels and protecting civilians, Pentagon officials said.
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Here's a brief and incomplete list of massacres that those rebels are responsible for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord%27s_Re...#Massacres