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White faces in fatigues – I’m sure that’s
just what most Mozambicans
were hoping to see upon their shores. After all, it certainly isn’t the first
time. Ever since the Portuguese started planting trading posts and forts on
what was known as the Swahili Coast around the year 1500, an arrival of
armed whites has never really ended well for the locals. Now, if half a millennium
late to the party, America recently shipped an army special forces detachment
to the country.
The 12-man team hit the ground in mid-March, as part of a program that the