The Nobel peace prize winner starts yet another war!Barack Obama deploys US special forces to central Africa
President Barack Obama on Friday announced he was sending 100 combat troops to central Africa to advise forces aiming to hunt down the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army, which stands accused of gross human rights abuses over the course of two decades.
n a letter to Congress, Mr Obama said: "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."
In an attempt to head off criticism from his war-weary country, Mr Obama stressed that the American troops would not act independently and would only fire on LRA forces "in self-defence".
"Although the US forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces," the president said.
The Friday afternoon timing of the announcement seemed a deliberate attempt by the White House to avoid an extended public debate about sending US ground forces into Africa for the first time since the "Black Hawk Down" incident in Somalia in 1993, when 18 US military personnel died in a botched attempt to capture a warlord.
But what promises to be a dangerous and sensitive mission immediately prompted doubts













































































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