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American Soldiers Help Mozambique Battle an Expanding ISIS Affiliate
With a small military training program, the United States military has joined efforts to fight a brutal insurgency that has devastated northern Mozambique.
An American soldier training Chadian troops in Mauritania last year. American soldiers began training Mozambican forces this week. Credit.Laetitia Vancon for The New York Times
Published March 15, 2021Updated March 30, 2021
NAIROBI, Kenya American Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican troops this week as part of an effort to repel a spreading insurgency in northeastern Mozambique that American officials say is linked to the Islamic State. The insurgency, near some of the world’s biggest gas reserves, has killed at least 2,000 civilians and displaced another 670,000.
Women in Northern Uganda welcome visitors into their village. (Photo by David Hoekema)
On February 4, the International Criminal Court found Dominic Ongwen, a trusted lieutenant in the Lord’s Resistance Army, guilty of 61 counts of murder, rape, sexual enslavement, and the “forced pregnancy” of women a charge not previously lodged in that court.
In founding the guerrilla group known later as the LRA in 1987, Joseph Kony declared that its purpose was to restore the dignity of the ethnic Acholi people in northern Uganda and to call them to return to the dictates of God’s law.
But spiritual warfare soon became a brutal civil war. LRA forces began rampaging through villages, killing and maiming indiscriminately. Abducted boys, indoctrinated in the bush, were trained to be ruthless killers. Abducted girls were distributed to officers as sexual prizes.
Monday, FNC "Tucker Carlson Tonight" host Tucker Carlson opened his program criticizing President Joe Biden's so-called "counterterrorism" approach to Middle East foreign policy, which recently included airstrikes on Syria. | Clips
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