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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 19, 2013 0:23:08 GMT 3
MODERN EUROPE'S MILITARY INCURSIONS INTO AFRICA.. It is never a bad idea to take a look at a single image of a conflict, to get an idea of how certain relationships are perceived of in the dark. How they are satirised, especially by a witty artist. And so I saw this cartoon, which is essentially demeaning, but summarised the situation brutally. Professor Traore, the current lackluster president of Mali, is on all fours tonguing the shoes of Francois Hollande in supplication. He beseeches him thus: 'Africa is lost without Europe, and Mali specifically to the dogs without France! Help me, O Lord Francois!'Hollande looks confused. He enjoys his divinity, the Almighty Status this educated African accords him; and on the other side, he registers distaste --the distaste of every human for a usual bothersome beggar; and in this case, enacted with racial undertones none too discrete. The white-man is doomed to superiority over the Malian, even if the Malian's academic title, achieved in esteemed French colleges, would indicate a superior intellect of the African relative the non-elite provincial Hollande! And so the best friend of Franco Africa rose to the occasion. Dispatching 1400 troops from Paris to join another 900 legionnaires stationed in the West of Africa, in such desperate countries as Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Ivory Coast and Burkinafaso. The resistance met was above expectations. The escalation in Algeria by a man known as Mokhtar ben Mokhtar of AQIM, has for the moment taken the spotlight off Mali.... www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-18/french-troops-in-mali-show-west-africas-importanceTo be continued. |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 19, 2013 0:58:58 GMT 3
As if starving for a hero, France honoured her dead captain, shot down abroad in action. Draped in the tri-colour that loves to dance to the violent tunes of Les Marseilles, the casket of the pilot and commando downed a week ago either in Somali or Mali, was televised in an archaic ritual to the citizens of the fifth republic, tabled as if it were an object of national fetish unveiled by an occult high priest. ---Notice So-MALI and MALI both end in MALI, so most of the citizens watching TV as they feasted upon their favourite fries, washing them down with the wines they are equally famous for, basically took them as the same thing. (Not the same country that is. The concept country is a sophisticated thing in France, and is not applicable to our African entities! The stringent standards of french public discourse do not allow one to credibly refer to those things which end in MALI as countries! And you do not read main news in France if you did not go to an Ecole Superieur where such distinctions are daily diet!}
But ever since a perfectly literate Parisienne told me all Africans understand one another because they all speak the same ape-like mono syllabic guttural, I have my own cartoonish idea of the levels of superior curricula! Though that day I did not protest because there was sex in the air, and when it is going to rain that thick, I do not care what dolls, especially blond ones, call me!
But yes, while the useless elite held themselves aloof from their national problems, the rebels up North in Azawad, made an awakening move, capturing the a town barely 250km from Bamako. That should be like Kericho falling when you are capitaled in Nairobi. That was when the Malians down south, an ancient people used to dumb leaders like Mansa Munsa (him who once took all the treasury bullion to waste in Mecca as alms and thereby initiated the economic collapse of his empire), looked unsettled and considered their options. Even the blue movie theaters with Allha Akhbar signs outside for camouflage as reli-movie-houses, reportedly switched off the Made in Nigeria porns, and tuned in to News Channels.
Swallow their cheap pride and help Traore shout Viv' la France? in prayer to Hollande? A market madame was caught in the dilemma. 'The French and what I think of them here?' she twitched her nose. 'Go to the ban lieu's of Paris or Marseilles. That is where Al-Qaida nests. But here... well, if they will contain the Tuaregs in the North, why not! And spend some euros here too. Times are hard and business is slow.' And she shrugged, looking around the market displaying mostly Chinese ware.
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 19, 2013 16:59:34 GMT 3
To Laurent Fabius the French minister for external affairs, it was in today, out tomorrow. For the defense man, Jean-Yves Le Drian, a few days until ECOWAS troops took over. Hollande put it at minimalist and very limited deployment, both in equipment and manpower. Three days later all these positions were revised, and Mali is now a full-fledged EU operation with NATO on the side wings. Indeed the last two days have seen an escalation which, though a side-show, has been capturing the international media, because of the number of Westerners kidnapped in the Algerian Almenas gas fields, and the subsequent ruthless kill-all 'remedy' operation launched without consulting the bosses. Western Leaders like Cameron of the UK implied in their parliaments that President Boutaflika should have CONSULTED THEM before ordering the infamous 'rescue'  operation. Here is an Arab nationalist chant on the subject: 'So, our Arab dog who wakes over Algeria on behalf of, should not have barked in his yard before Cameron ordered him???But here is the story most of us Africans interested in the surface just below an international conflict are watching: www.dw.de/militias-prepare-for-war/a-16468461The formation of the Front for the Liberation of Nothern Mali. Volunteer soldiers, most of them the remnants of the decimated National army in the North, have set up shop all over the place, recruiting, training and mobilising a desperate array of militias. You saw it in Ivory Coast and Liberia and Sierra Leone, when every 'commander'set up shop for himself, and things started to evolve on their own dynamic. These village militia will be asking for arms which they wont get. They have been asking for arms from their own defense ministry which has been deaf. The french army and their ECOWAS foot soldiers will ignore them too, ignore their patriotism, and most importantly, make light of their MOTIVATION. Ordinary able bodied Malians who want to fight and die for the unity of their country, will be relegated to laughing stocks by a foreign legion, cruising in Rambo fashion through their dusty, poverty stricken villages. That to me, is a dangerous prospect. Deliberately reducing Malians to helplessness. To re-enforce dependency. To maintain a local acolyte class beholden to. And keep Mali with her Uranium deposits a subsidiary to. news.yahoo.com/mali-army-reinforces-town-near-capital-islamist-sighting-111939659.htmlscroll for military pics as the Ecowas and French army roll out in Mali. MORE ON THE SUBJECT. www.news8000.com/news/Residents-flee-French-airstrikes-in-Mali/-/326/18162150/-/nisowb/-/index.html the scramble into Mali]. ALGERIAN COMMANDOS LAUCH A RESCUE MISSION IN ALMENAS GAS PLANT. JAN 18/2013. finance.yahoo.com/news/algeria-army-rescues-hostages-toll-211400861.html |
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Post by jakaswanga on Jan 20, 2013 19:02:17 GMT 3
Within Europe, especially in Berlin the de facto capital of the EU, the sigh was so long it could be heard in Brussels --the pretender capital city. There go the French again before consulting anybody, starting a fight they can not finish themselves! --That is what they did in Libya too, quickly throwing a few bombs to start the air-war, then running out of cash and material, rushing for oil contracts, but leaving the others with deeper pockets and fuller armouries to go the full distance with the war! And so this time around too, it became clear that one of Europe's leading military powers did not have the wherewithal to, at once, transport 1500 hundred troops with their heavy gear to Mali. --Security Partners were asked --begged by blackmail is the translation-- to assist with the logistics. There came the English with heavy lifters,there came the Dutch with sky-lorries, there came the Danes with sky-maersks, and too, the coy the Germans --hiring a massive Antonov from the Ukraine to lift armoured personnel carriers perhaps!? The German treasury, already funding the bail-out of the PIIGs of Europe and feeling the weight as the last figures indicated a shrink in the last quarter, squinted seethingly at chancellor Merkel whose party is facing a serious elections this weekend [20/01/13] in Lower Saxony. (Niedersachsen they call it, and this is where the cities Hannover and Bremen are nestled, and with over 6 million voters, a thermometer for the national mood. General elections are in the pipeline later this year!). All this was when Merkel's sigh was heard reverberating in Brussels. When Sarkozy had last begged for money, he had promised to cut loose France's expensive African hobbies! But Hollande was selling this as the security of all. Mali is at the doorstep of Europe, and an Al-Qaida enclave there is a clear existential danger to the EU! ---What with gas interests in Algeria and the oil contracts just robbed off the Chinese and Russians in Libya? (These are directly under threat. So pay up, Angela, France is a hero at the frontline defending the common European home!) And so, the cheque will roll. And 250 EU military instructors for the Malian army too. This is the same army they hit with sanctions March 2012, when it overthrew an elected government and suspended the constitution. [He He!]. And this is the army which has been having a 10 year training program sponsored by the US army. Coup-leader captain Amadou Sanogo is a beneficiary and graduate of that program. And what a bill it was for the American taxpayers to pick up! STOP PRESS: This lawless frontier, dubbed an Al-Qaida enclave, actually moves from South Morocco and North Mauritania (where renegade bands of semi POLISARIO hold sway), via the long border strip of Algeria, taking curved slice of lower Libya, then moving through mid Mali to Niger, with a thin corridor thrusting all the way to Northern Nigeria of the Boko Aram fame. Effectively, this enclave is an area thrice the size of Westerm Europe. Azawad alone being bigger than France. AQIM with its Afghan veterans are the fish which swim in these sandy waters. But the franchise has grown since the visionary Bin-Ladin handpicked the Marlboro-man to set up shop in the Maghreb. Here it is then, that the 3000 ECOWAS troops will restore order on the ground, and re-unite Mali. A Belgian logistic officer familiarizing himself with a detachment of 300 crack Togolese arrivals in Mali, went off message: 'They come to war without equipment! they expect us to provide everything, even their food! Back-packers going on a road holiday they are! I do not see no fight in them!'[Another Benin soldier wanted his French brother to help him with telephone and credit to call home ... at his brother's cost!] But his Senior was a diplomat: the ECOWAS troops are professional and disciplined, tested in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast. We look forward to getting the job done with them. It will be done! But the Malian military spokesman stole the show. Receiving a Nigerian commander who spoke no French, he turned away from the camera and grinned toothy. ;D We are brothers you know, and as loving brothers, we understand one another without words. After all, the noise of battle will soon be so thick, words wont come through! ---Any more questions???The questionnaire looked a bit unsettled! Onward Christian soldiers marching us to war! news.yahoo.com/w-african-troops-arrive-mali-aid-french-mission-055203210.html ecowas arrives. |
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Post by OtishOtish on Jan 28, 2013 21:24:56 GMT 3
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Post by Titchaz on Jan 29, 2013 9:51:20 GMT 3
Jakaswanga,sema omeraaa!...acha nikupige tafu katika hii nyuzi yako mkuu mwenzangu. Ulimaliza zile chupa mbili mazee?... ;D The British are mulling entering into this quagmire of sorts. London mulls sending troops to Mali: reports People wave as French and Malian soldiers enter the historic city of Timbuktu, on January 28, 2013. London is considering sending about 200 non-combat troops to help the military operation against Islamist militants in Mali, with a decision expected within days, media reports said January 29, 2013. AFP By AFP Posted Tuesday, January 29 2013 at 08:29 LONDON London is considering sending about 200 non-combat troops to help the military operation against Islamist militants in Mali, with a decision expected within days, media reports said Tuesday. This would likely include a small number deployed to Mali itself, as part of an EU training mission. A larger number would help train West African forces in the region to join the battle alongside the French and Malian troops. Prime Minister David Cameron called President Francois Hollande on Sunday to say Britain was "keen" to provide further help to French forces in Mali. But his Downing Street office declined to give more details other than to stress that, as more than a decade of conflict in Afghanistan finally approached its end, Britain would not be deploying combat troops to another war zone. Asked about the latest reports on Tuesday, a Downing Street spokeswoman told AFP: "We're not commenting on troops on the ground." Amid reports that an announcement could come later Tuesday, or at least within the coming days, she said planning for further assistance "really depends on the discussions with the French". National security advisor Kim Darroch was in Paris on Monday for talks on what London could do to help, after already sending a Sentinel surveillance plane and two C-17 transport planes to assist French forces. The Guardian and Mirror newspapers said the 200 troops would include some deployed as part of an EU mission to train Malian forces, the rest in neighbouring countries to help train a regional intervention force. The Daily Mail said those involved would be drawn from infantry regiments, logistics and signals corps, with 40 going to Mali to join the EU mission. Nearly 8,000 African troops from Chad and the west African grouping ECOWAS are expected to take over from the French troops, which went in 19 days ago. The 500-strong EU mission will provide instruction to the Malian army on command and control, logistics, civilian protection and humanitarian law. It will have no combat role and be made up of soldiers from 10 EU nations. Asked about the EU mission in the House of Commons last week, Cameron said that "if there were a British contribution to it, it would be in the tens, not in the hundreds. "It is a training mission, not a combat mission," he stressed, seeking to avoid any comparisons with Britain's military action in Afghanistan. "The lead on this will clearly be taken by the French, who have the greatest interest in rapidly training up west African forces to replace the French forces that are currently in action in Mali." In his phone call with Hollande, Cameron explained "that we are keen to continue to provide further assistance where we can, and depending on what French requirements there may be", a Downing Street spokesman told reporters on Monday. www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/London-mulls-sending-troops-to-Mali/-/1066/1678352/-/6vrfetz/-/index.html
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Post by Titchaz on Jan 29, 2013 9:55:44 GMT 3
French-led forces are advancing on Timbuktu in northern Mali, continuing an offensive against Islamist rebels that began two weeks ago The area around Diabaly was pounded by air strikes by French forces before the al-Qaeda-linked militants fled the town on Tuesday As the French and Malian forces secured Diabaly, the town bore signs of fierce fighting The retreating Islamists captured northern Mali last April, taking advantage of turmoil in the capital following an army coup After a string of strategic town were retaken, including Gao on Saturday, the rebels fled into the desert |
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Post by Titchaz on Jan 29, 2013 9:59:41 GMT 3
The advance by French-Malian forces has been swift. Most residents in recaptured areas have hailed their arrival However Mali is investigating claims that its soldiers were responsible for atrocities - including the death of people whose bodies were found in a well in Sevare France intervened in its former colony saying that if Islamists were allowed to take over Mali, they would threaten all of Africa and even Europe A number of African countries have pledged troops to support the French-Malian campaign |
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Post by omundu on Jan 29, 2013 13:14:13 GMT 3
What had me knocking my head against the wall was the news that the rebels burned some ancient libraries and left with some priceless documents. Most of those documents are historic records found nowhere else in the world. The ancient manuscripts are a cherished heritage of the african (if not the world) people. They explain our rich history (including the Tuaregs themselves) some say that they even provide a Nubian link to the Pharaonic Egypt ruling class. All this while our African countries sit and await the legionaires to save our heritage. Like said earlier, these developements have ramifications beyond just Mali. I would add that the ramifications may extend beyond the political www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-library-ancient-manuscripts |
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 3, 2013 0:33:28 GMT 3
Francois the good man in africa and Mali the whiteman's burden. www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2013/jan/27/mali-conflict-pictures#/?picture=403109233&index=1 --Mali war pictures. President Francois Hollande was met with jubilant scenes in Mali that must have surprised his heart. In the famous Timbuktu, his whole security details lost the plot as the crowd consumed Hollande, chanting French-praise, waving the blue white and red, and performing dances with motions which obviously Hollande had never imagined the human joints are capable of. In the jamboree, if a suicide bomber had been on the prowl, the Frenchman and his sickly host, Diouncounde the mathematician who cannot run a country, would have been blown to bits! it was different from cold Paris, where budgets can not balance, the economy stagnating, and half the population wouldn't know who the hell Francois Hollande is, leave alone Timbuktu in Mali, or vice versa. But here in Afica, France was still a power, a godsend, a worker of miracles. In two weeks they had done what the Malian army could never do in 10 years! whatever general in power/ In France, an unpleasant question awaits Hollande on his return. Amnesty International and other such moral trouble-shooters, have documented the savagery with which the Malian army tried to make up for its loss of face in the past months. Local populations got the idea, and something akin to ethnic cleansing became a pattern. In Mali where some are Nilotic dark, ebony, and others like the Tuaregs relatively light, the term ethnic moves towards a coincidence with racial. That is sensitive in Europe, and the question has been asked if France troops have been party to or abetted the 'clearing operation' by some savage units from the south! But as happens, a very dark Malian colonel had not had media training. His face an opaque mask of a thousand years of dealing with death as a normal human experience, he told the interviewer: 'You the French will soon go home. Better we use your presence here to sort out this problem once and for all. They [enemy] all die, they sure wont come back to trouble us in this life. It would be foolish to ask my men to be mindful of killing. Killing is what we came to do, and better do it while we are on the up.'No fake smile on the face. No negro grin for the TV audience back in France. A mask like those wooden hollow carvings saying what was and goes on. Crimes against humanity? He never heard of that one. But the enemy had burnt a library of old texts and destroyed Mali's proud past. Malians have a saying. Better burn the people than the books. The enemy had burnt books; him and his supporters must be done worse. That is just the way it is. Bensouda, Her Highness, will no doubt somewhere in the future meet with this scorched-earth policy machine. If he survives the war which is still far from over. Meanwhile Hollande can go back to Europe, to business as usual. That is running an emotional blackmail racket on Germany on whom France is a parasite. Hollande has no money to pay the crowd for their circus act in Timbuktu. Nor for the 4,500 French commandos keeping the show on the road. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21233394 |
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 3, 2013 0:45:48 GMT 3
Francois the good man in africa and Mali the whiteman's burden. President Francois Hollande was met with jubilant scenes in Mali that must have surprised his heart. In the famous Timbuktu, his whole security details lost the plot as the crowd consumed Hollande, chanting French-praise, waving the blue white and red, and performing dances with motions which obviously Hollande had never imagined the human joints are capable of. In the jamboree, if a suicide bomber had been on the prowl, the Frenchman and his sickly host, Diouncounde the mathematician who cannot run a country, would have been blown to bits! It is surely humiliating when, so long after "independence", we have to import a Baba-na-Mama. That is why I am for outsourcing the governance of our countries. If we did that, the Hollandes would be no more than visiting business-leaders. By the way, what happened to the AU/EAC/ECOWAS/... ABC/XYZ? Still looking for phone credit? |
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Post by Titchaz on Feb 3, 2013 4:45:10 GMT 3
What had me knocking my head against the wall was the news that the rebels burned some ancient libraries and left with some priceless documents. Most of those documents are historic records found nowhere else in the world. The ancient manuscripts are a cherished heritage of the african (if not the world) people. They explain our rich history (including the Tuaregs themselves) some say that they even provide a Nubian link to the Pharaonic Egypt ruling class. All this while our African countries sit and await the legionaires to save our heritage. Like said earlier, these developements have ramifications beyond just Mali. I would add that the ramifications may extend beyond the political www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/28/mali-timbuktu-library-ancient-manuscripts The senior officials, including Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore (third right) and Unesco General Director Irina Bokova (centre) - were driven to the 700-year-old mud mosque of Djingareyber and the Ahmed Baba Institute, where fleeing militants set fire to about 2,000 priceless manuscripts. |
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Post by Titchaz on Feb 3, 2013 5:01:24 GMT 3
Francois the good man in africa and Mali the whiteman's burden. President Francois Hollande was met with jubilant scenes in Mali that must have surprised his heart. In the famous Timbuktu, his whole security details lost the plot as the crowd consumed Hollande, chanting French-praise, waving the blue white and red, and performing dances with motions which obviously Hollande had never imagined the human joints are capable of. In the jamboree, if a suicide bomber had been on the prowl, the Frenchman and his sickly host, Diouncounde the mathematician who cannot run a country, would have been blown to bits! It is surely humiliating when, so long after "independence", we have to import a Baba-na-Mama. That is why I am for outsourcing the governance of our countries. If we did that, the Hollandes would be no more than visiting business-leaders. By the way, what happened to the AU/EAC/ECOWAS/... ABC/XYZ? Still looking for phone credit? Baba and Mama indeed...from the look of the people in these pictures, they are glad to have Baba come back and sort out this mess for them. Crowds beating drums and chanting "Vive la France" have greeted French President Francois Hollande who is in the northern Malian town of Timbuktu, which French and Malian troops recaptured from Islamist rebels six days ago The rapturous crowd of perhaps 3,000 people craned their necks for a glimpse of the man they credit with liberating the ancient town from months of brutal occupation by Islamist militants Mr Hollande - accompanied by several senior ministers - went on the one-day visit to congratulate French troops who, in three weeks, have rolled back the insurgents who seized northern Mali last year But speaking in Timbuktu, Mr Hollande said that it would be wrong to assume that the conflict in Mali was over, and he stressed that France had no plans to stay in Mali long-term |
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Post by Titchaz on Feb 3, 2013 5:05:15 GMT 3
Before his trip, Mr Hollande said he would be urging the speedy deployment of African forces to Mali and stressed the need for Mali's transitional government to restore democracy soon Speaking in the capital Bamako later, Mr Hollande told crowds that Islamist rebels in the north had been pushed back, but not yet defeated He called for all human rights to be respected, even those of the insurgents. As Malians expressed their gratitude, interim President Dioncounda Traore thanked France for its military intervention and promised to restore democracy within months. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2013 7:42:23 GMT 3
"More details are emerging of what life was like under the group Ansar Dine in Timbuktu. On Monday, French troops took Timbuktu, forcing fighters to flee into the surrounding desert. Now, Malian women recount the rape, torture and beatings they suffered under the al-Qaeda-linked fighters for nearly a year. Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from Timbuktu." watch here www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2013/01/201313020350264948.html |
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Post by OtishOtish on Feb 8, 2013 17:15:28 GMT 3
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Post by joblesscorner on Feb 17, 2013 20:25:29 GMT 3
www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-in-mali-and-africoms-african-agenda-target-china/5322517"The strategic target is China and the rapidly growing Chinese business presence across Africa over the past decade. The goal of AFRICOM is to push China out of Africa or at least to irreparably cripple her independent access to those African resources. An economically independent China, so goes thinking in various Pentagon offices or Washington neo-conservative think-tanks, can be a politically independent China. God forbid! So they believe."
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Post by jakaswanga on Feb 23, 2013 12:44:29 GMT 3
THE NEW DARLINGS OF THE WEST, THE SAME OLD STORY! The United States has made two major announcements on the Malian situation, and several other lesser ones worthy of note. 1. She will resume full military relations with the army of Mali after the agreed elections. Agreed  is one of those terms, you know, they are still working on the date, and some details. 2. The USA will launch a fully operational drone-base in nearby Niger, to oversee the region. 3. Obama's kill-list will be extended to include 'undesired elements' in the Maghreb. Bull's-eye season! 4. Mauritania will get special military aid from the Americans. They already are on the take, so it simply means INCREASED! NB: France is in no position to run an empire in the Maghreb. Her 3,000 Africa-core troops, desperately dispersed from Bangui-CAR, Libreville-CONGO, N'Djamena-CHAD to Abidjan, and extended from Nouakchott ... to Wagadaga in Burkina Faso, are a spittle on in a furnace, and the EU has other financial obligations than to sponsor these Don Quixote's with a taste for champagne in the tropics. So, just like when Vietnam proved too big for the French [after Dien Bien Phu and the rest], and the USA, with its limitless resources and missionary empire drive, substituted them to show the gooks a thing or two about law and order and capitalist-driven progress, now too the small boys leave and the USA takes over the theater of operations. The French will still perform some auxiliary roles --translations with the native elites who majorly are non anglolingo, entertaining the dictators and laundering their money as their wives come to shop in Paris, and some other such menial chores. But the USA, by way of the CIA, will now run the Maghreb and West Africa. To rid her of the plague of Islamic militants. ;D As I go to press now, Johny Carson must be wishing he never spoke past his mouth on Kenya, on who can or can not be dealt with as president. Rightly, Jendayi Frazer has re-criticised him again, from the perspective of purely American interests. Watch this story. What has ECOWAS been doing in Mali all along since the coup? Otishotish should answer that one. After all, I think he was one of the negotiators trying to convince the Nigerians not to include bottles of champagne as soldiers essentials, especially when they expected the Ghanaians and others to foot up the bill! including mobile credit to call home!But, as I go to press now, Idris Derby, is the man of the moment and the future. For the Americans. While Ecowas troops are coy of pursuing AQIM, and are confined to milling around bars in airport comfort zones getting drunk on European beer and doing business organising prostitution rings with Malian delicate flesh, Chadian troops in the mode of Idris Derby are desert foxing. This week, a battalion of Chadian troops, once referred to as sand scorpions --that was in the incipient period when Derby as a young commander smashed Gaddafi's expeditionary forces that occupied North Chad, took the battle to the hide-outs of the Islamic radicals who had taken over Azawad. All the way to the Algerian border. All the Americans have to do, is bribe the Algerian army to move south and corner some huge rebel retreat colonies. But who is Idris Derby? For one, his latest wife, a miss Africa potential, is the daughter of a J anjawid militia commander wanted by Fatou Bensouda.2. He has always been holding elections which he always wins. And 60% of oil revenues [find the figures in $ at the IMF country by country data] are his private bank account credits! Chevron and Exxon-Mobil, are his greatest allies, and, if you look at the contributions of these two oil giants to the Obama campaigns, you will know why the head of one of these oil-corps once told Ronald Reagan: You cannot bomb Libya before we tell you so. Or have you boys in Washington found someone else to be paying your bills?3. How does Brother Idris treat his prisoners?  Mungiki can go have some tips for sure. But caught by French journalists, Idris shrugged. You want to fight Al-Qaida in the Magrehb in one of the most inhospitable terrains, I am your man. You want to talk about fighting while you are drinking champagne in air-conditioned suits, then pass on to other African capitals!And so, while the Johny Carsons of the state department are reading holier than thou sermons at Kenya, in the real world of war, death and murder, the CIA--would that be American or Russian, is going to equip one of Africa's harshest dictators with the wherewithal to kill. With impunity. Well, I have an idea some of those to be killed will be pro-democracy activists in Chad. Collateral damage. I am sure Jonny Carson hadn't thought of it, but once he does, he will find it acceptable. Jendayi Frazer --please do not believe Omwenga when he calls her clueless and a nobody-- is much more in tune with the real world. If the US interests dictate living with a rigged election. So be it. If those interests are best served with ICC indictee presidents, so too deals will be done. Carson does not know the external service of the USA government is not the local church where you can preach the loftiness of redemption. Or so I understood Jendayi to be telling Carson. The truth is I do not like Jendayi, because of the cold cynical ruthlessness of her pragmatic thinking. But she comes from the school of reality in super-power games. Carson, I find a silly baby. Idris Derby, Paul Kagame, Yoweri Kaguta, [leaving out those monsters of Algeria, Mauritania and Niger] are Obama's best buddies in town.  I ask you, Is it Jendayi Frazer or boy Carson who is the baby who understands not his world? This is just AQIM, we have not yet discussed the price the USA is ready to pay to contain China in Afrika. The allies she is ready to countenance and subsidise. Ach, Silly Carson. I suggest a second reading of Jendayi Frazer's masterpiece on policy toward Afrika. It is the paper which informed Bush's and Condy's relations to Afrika, and, if you ask me, is still the paper used by Dr. Susan Rice, the godmother of Africa's dictators! Idris Derby's latest toy! a $26 million bed-warmer! tumfweko.com/2012/01/28/chad-president-pays-us26-million-to-marry-a-sudanese-girl-whilst-his-fellows-wallop-in-poverty/ |
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Post by jakaswanga on Mar 3, 2013 14:40:05 GMT 3
But, as I go to press now, Idris Derby, is the man of the moment and the future. For the Americans. While Ecowas troops are coy of pursuing AQIM, and are confined to milling around bars in airport comfort zones getting drunk on European beer and doing business organising prostitution rings with Malian delicate flesh, Chadian troops in the mode of Idris Derby are desert foxing. This week, a battalion of Chadian troops, once referred to as sand scorpions --that was in the incipient period when Derby as a young commander smashed Gaddafi's expeditionary forces that occupied North Chad, took the battle to the hide-outs of the Islamic radicals who had taken over Azawad. All the way to the Algerian border. The desert scorpions have made a top kill, and the trophy is gone to N'Djamena. Cold eyed, laying wreaths on his heroic troops, one of them his son, Idris Derby made his point again. Those who want to fight terrorism and Alqaida in North and West Africa, come to Chad to do business. Those who want to talk and drink champagne and be safe, they find other African capitals to wander. Chad is business, chilling business. ---please have a thought for members of the Chadian opposition agitating for more democracy at home, while do-mi-ciled at Western Capitals. There is a winter ahead for them. Maghreb is a tough neighbourhood, and Sheriff Idris is as tough as they come. Professors of mathematics, whether Dioncoundas or the other [ Modibo Diarra] NASA engineer who was his PM in Mali, are mere cry babies in such a neighbourhood. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21645769It will be noted, that mighty Algerian army under the butcher of Algiers ---the man who smashed the GI terrorists from the urban areas, has always balked from the operation to flush out Mokhtar from his hide-out. Derby's nerves come a notch steadier. ;D |
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Post by jakaswanga on Nov 20, 2015 20:46:34 GMT 3
THERE IS THE TERRIBLE STORY OF THE COLLAPSED, FAILED STATE OF MALI!I had a glimpse of some moments of the live coverage of the Malian hostage situation in Bamako. Venue and theatre of action, the hotel Radisson. I thought of our own mayhem at the Westgate Mall some years back, and I must say I had an undeniable flash of pride for Our Kenyan police -the Recce guys. It is a long and painful story. It is traumatic. It has to do with sovereignty, dignity, and national or nationalist pride. A student of historic German Iron and Prussian valour, I do do comparative analyses whenever some kind of situations unfold in Africa. Westgate in Nairobi and the Radisson in Bamako are such situations. In Malian Bamako, the French and the Americans moved in immediately and shoved the Malians aside from command. We will wait for the fine details likely to emerge later. In Nairobi, apparently the specialists from Israel arrived with the arrogant assumption they would push the natives aside and take charge. It turned out different. I have painfully tried to reconstruct the situation. I have pulled rank with former school- and class mates, licked the feet of former girlfriends, bribed down and out drunken soldiers to build a picture of what really happened in the tense stand off. People are cagey, there is a whole lot of stuff out there lots of people would rather never saw the light of day. There is shame, and more deep shame. The problem, I can state, is just why the RECCE commander needed die by friendly  fire. This is the wound at the centre of the shame. The real reason Munene died, could be because of an insult he delivered to the army and its top brass. The top brass of the army were ready to defer to Israeli command and let the IDF commandos get done with it. RECCE disagreed. This was an ABC hostage situation, just their kind of cup of tea, and they were well up and drinking it, and well, ws surrendering command at such a moment to foreigners not TREASONABLE!? The Recce commanders did not share the inferiority complex of the military top. Nor did they share the mercenary attitude to loyalty. In this, the RECCE commandos may have committed a terrible sin. They insulted the Kenya army and her commandos on site, with male sexist terminology. --p-ussy army! 'Mash-oga nyinyi, laleni chini muto-mbue na wahudi! Wacheni wanaume wamalize kazi!' The army could not take it. They shot the RECCE commander. But even in death, Munene had forced Karangi to change his mind. His inferiority complex was cured and the IDF went back un operationalised. Now, I do not exclude totally the possibility Munene was shot by mistake, but the way people are cagey about it, has convinced me it was cold-blooded murder. But the murder of such a man must have a rational motive.From the given disjointed pieces of information I have developed the theory the motive was rage. But what could have enraged the army enough to blindly (point blanc) execute a top-notch death police commander of the country's leading hostage rescue squad? It can not be an ordinary motive. So I tore history books looking for precedents, cold cases and more of that sh!t. If Ndegwa Muhoro -the country's leading  criminal investigator over there at the CID--- has suffered a mental paralysis on the case of Munene, that is good for him and his career, but it aint good enough for us citizens. We will just think on. Hard,patienly and diligently. Until we solve the crime. Some of us simple work in environments where excellence is the average, and, strangely, the pay peanuts: --(so hurry up, Uhuru, pay that September salary quick! I need a drink. If I get drunk, I wouldn't be having the capacity to think out the motive for the murder of Munene, the RECCE commander, would I? NB: 'Always pay the workers on time, so that they can get regularly drunk, and leave the thinking to us! We will teach them obedience to you!' A Belgian catholic priest advised Belgian industrialists who were likely faking cash crunches like our man Rotich, there to loot further their already impoverished labour force!) It has gone into history as the numb an dumb consensus. On one side kept numb by cheap alcohol, on the other kept dumb by the church!Now, back to Mali. O once Great Mali! I couldn't help noticing how low this ancient Kingdom has sunk. A hopeless, mindless, prideless backwater of uselessness: Unable to fend for itself, its toy president goes through the motions. Her army, defeated in 2/3rds of the national territory, loiters aimless between trafficking all forms of contraband and plotting lacklustre mutinies. And in every crisis, foreigners take the lead and the retarded Malians follow in good cheer, lesser than sheep! It is a horror to behold. A horror worse than the hostage situation itself. I was watching this horror, thinking it was typical of Africa, then, howbeit, the ghost of Munene rose before me like the djini in the rubbed Alladin lamp. 'He he he he!'' He laughed at me! 'Why do you think I died, you goat!? there are exceptions to fcucked up Mali!''Well, one hopes the mutilated cun-nts of Mali bore a cop like you Munene, to stand up and be counted for the dignity of that colony!' I blasted at the proud Recce ghost!
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is one of those terms, you know, they are still working on the date, and some details.
Mungiki can go have some tips for sure. But caught by French journalists, Idris shrugged. You want to fight Al-Qaida in the Magrehb in one of the most inhospitable terrains, I am your man. You want to talk about fighting while you are drinking champagne in air-conditioned suits, then pass on to other African capitals!
fire. This is the wound at the centre of the shame. The real reason Munene died, could be because of an insult he delivered to the army and its top brass.
criminal investigator over there at the CID--- has suffered a mental paralysis on the case of Munene, that is good for him and his career, but it aint good enough for us citizens. We will just think on. Hard,patienly and diligently. Until we solve the crime.