Documents obtained by Declassified show that senior British army officers have played key roles at US Africa Command, which conducts drone strikes and secret operations, and they effectively serve as US military personnel at its base in Djibouti.
The UK is prime contributor to US military operations in Africa
Tag: Al-Shabaab
US to cut military presence in Niger + Pentagon lied to Congress
The Pentagon reportedly plans to pull out some of its troops from the African country
The US has begun “repositioning” the troops it has in Niger and plans to cut their number “nearly in half” over the next several weeks, Politico reported on Friday citing two Defense Department officials.
US to cut military presence in Niger
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Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
U.S. Special Operations forces are not required to vet for past human rights violations by the foreign troops they arm and train as surrogates, newly disclosed documents show.
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The irregular warfare program has provided training to allied forces in countries that face a threat of invasion by larger neighbors, the senior Defense Department official said. The Washington Post has reported that an irregular warfare proxy program in Ukraine was terminated just before the Russian invasion, and that some officials want to restart it.
Rules for Pentagon Use of Proxy Forces Shed Light on a Shadowy War Power
US Airstrike in Somalia Killed 7 Civilians in January
According to the monitoring group Airwars, a suspected US drone strike killed seven civilians, including three children, in Somalia on January 30.
US Airstrike in Somalia Killed 7 Civilians in January
Previously:
United States’s Pursuit of Imperial Military Base in Northern Somalia Fuels Brutal War
United States’s Pursuit of Imperial Military Base in Northern Somalia Fuels Brutal War
Ethiopia blocks social media amid Orthodox church tensions
Ethiopia blocks social media amid Orthodox church tensions:
The religious crisis erupted last month after a group of rebellious ethnic Oromo archbishops formed a breakaway group called the Holy Synod of Oromia in defiance of the church’s highest body or the synod.
The splinter group accuses the church of “maintaining a system of linguistic and cultural hegemony in which congregations in Oromia are not served in their native languages“, an allegation the church denies.
H/T: Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed suspends American big tech
Related:
The Lingering Danger of Google & Facebook
Another schism?! Is the Holy Synod of Oromia supported by the US?! TBD, soon.
Read More »Why China’s belt and road plan is facing threat of jihadist terrorism
Why China’s belt and road plan is facing threat of jihadist terrorism
Afghanistan and China share a 74km-long border along the mountainous Wakhan Corridor. At Beijing’s insistence, the Taliban relocated TIP militants from Badakhshan province, near the border, to other areas last year. However, some TIP elements are believed to have rebuilt their bases in Badakhshan.
Isis-K’s anti-China rhetoric may also be intended to attract Uygur militants to its fold. The more the Taliban regime curtail TIP activities, the greater the chances of Uygur militants gravitating towards Isis-K. According to a United Nations Security Council report, Isis-K has reached out to disgruntled fighters from other terrorist groups, and as many as 50 Uygur militants have joined it.
Notes for self:
- ISIS-K, likely supported by the US, is actively recruiting members from groups like TIP, ETIM, and Uygur extremists to target China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
- According to the Jamestown Foundation, a hawkish think tank, the Voice of Khorasan Magazine is produced by the al-Azaim Foundation for Media Production.
- It’s noteworthy that ISIS-K adopted a name reminiscent of Voice of America, a US-funded media outlet, which raises questions about potential symbolic connections.
Is the U.S. and NATO Running Another Operation Gladio in Europe?
Part Two of a Three-Part CAM Series on Mercenaries and Clandestine Operations in Ukraine
[In Part Two of this three-part series on foreign mercenary fighters in Ukraine, (see Part 1) the nexus between mercenaries with experience in Syria, Ukraine and U.S.-EU-NATO armed forces becomes more apparent. This second part of the investigation looks at Shaun Pinner, Alexander Tobiassen, John Harding, Sjoerd Heeger, Craig Lang and Ben Fischer.—Editors]
Is the U.S. and NATO Running Another Operation Gladio in Europe?
Archived (WordPress is now private): American YPG Fighter Complains About Group’s Lack of Medical Care
Biden Changes Drone Strike Policy
The guidance requires the president to approve strikes outside of Iraq and Syria with exceptions for ‘self-defense’
Biden Changes Drone Strike Policy
European Ukraine’s Lives Matter! Asian, MidEast, African, Latin Lives Didn’t!
While it would be expected for Western media to report fully on civilian life taken in the Ukraine by the military of US designated enemy Russia, and for CIA managed Western media1 to avoid reporting civilian loss of life caused by US/NATO military throughout the Third World, people in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are surely noticing an element of racism with so much media attention given White European lives lost reminding them of the complete absence of compassionate media coverage of the millions of civilian lives lost by peoples of skin of various hues during the many US led neocolonialist wars in their nations since the Second World War.
European Ukraine’s Lives Matter! Asian, MidEast, African, Latin Lives Didn’t!
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