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AFRICOM (US Africa Command) was activated on October 1, 2008. Its mission is to secure and solidify unchallenged US control over the continent's resource riches.
Besides oil and gas, they include uranium, gold, diamonds, other precious stones, cobalt, and columbite-tantalite (coltan) essential for computer chips, circuit boards, mobile phones, laptops, and other electronic devices.
Other US Special Forces and troop contingents operate throughout Africa. Obama called those sent to Uganda "time-limited" for a few months. He lied. He concealed Washington's mission to secure continental imperial control.
From Djibouti's Camp Lemonier, killer drones bomb Somalia and Yemen. An expanding drone base network is being readied worldwide. Major media scoundrels ignore it, including Washington's Uganda mission.
Special Forces Death Squads Deployed Globally
In September 2009, then Central Command head General David Petraeus issued a secret directive. It ordered covert US Special Operations forces sent to friendly and hostile states in the Middle East, Central Asia, and Horn of Africa.
In fact, it suggested sending them anywhere to "penetrate, disrupt, defeat or destroy" terror threats and "prepare the environment" for planned military attacks.
On June 4, 2010, Washington Post writers Karen DeYoung and Greg Jaffe headlined, "US 'Secret War' Expands Globally as Special Operations Forces Take a Larger Role," saying:
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