Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Effort To Capture Joseph Kony Is Proving To Be Difficult


U.S. Officials Cite Challenges To Capturing Joseph Kony -- CNN

Capturing and bringing to justice the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a group terrorizing a large portion of central Africa, will be a challenge, officials from the Obama administration told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.

Speaking to the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on African affairs, officials on Tuesday said the task of stopping Joseph Kony is complicated by the region's vast and inhospitable terrain, along with the difficulty of coordinating the efforts of four partner nations' armies and gathering and sharing intelligence.

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My Comment: He is hiding in an area that is the size of California .... and heavily wooded at that. The U.S. simply does not have enough boots on the ground to make a difference .... our only hope is to train the government military forces in the region, and hope that a lucky break unfolds.

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