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Obama Dispatches 100 US Troops To Niger To "Support Predator Drone Base"
As we speculated from the very beginning, and as was reaffirmed in "Is Nigeria, And Its Light Sweet Crude, About To Be Drawn Into The Mali "Liberation" Campaign?", the "French" (with complete and fully-comped US support) Mali campaign is slowly but surely migrating to its intended target: Nigeria, and rather its holdings of light sweet crude. And while the US presence in this latest resource land grab, this time in Africa, was so far rather stealthy, it appears the time for foreplay is over and moments ago Obama told congress has has dispatched 40 more American troops to Niger this week, bringing the total U.S. military presence in the west African country to 100. Let's hear it for the full retroactive transparency demanded by the War Powers Resolution.
The Hill reports: "The troops have been deployed to support the intervention in neighboring Mali, where French troops have been helping local forces rout Islamist militants from the country's north since last month. The Obama administration is also planning to build a base in Niger for unarmed Predator drones to conduct surveillance on militants in the region, The New York Times reported last month. On Wednesday, “the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger,” Obama wrote to the House and Senate leaders." Next: extensive weapons of mass destruction are discovered in Abuja while Al Qaeda terrorists are seen making threatening gestuers and using harsh language at Nigerian oil rigs which is the international acknowledged symbol that the US has to do its sworn globocop duty and liberate all that oppressed Nigerian crude.
More importantly, China is surely delighted over what as everyone can now understand, is an imminent confrontation over who owns what in Africa.
Here's the full letter:
TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE
February 22, 2013
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
On February 20, 2013, the last elements of a deployment of approximately 40 additional U.S. military personnel entered Niger with the consent of the Government of Niger. This deployment will provide support for intelligence collection and will also facilitate intelligence sharing with French forces conducting operations in Mali, and with other partners in the region. The total number of U.S. military personnel deployed to Niger is approximately 100. The recently deployed forces have deployed with weapons for the purpose of providing their own force protection and security.
I directed this deployment of U.S. forces in furtherance of U.S. national security interests, and pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct U.S. foreign relations and as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive.
I am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep the Congress fully informed, consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148). I appreciate the support of the Congress in this action.
Sincerely,
BARACK OBAMA
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Thanks for the map. I flunked geography.
Africa belongs to China!
Obummer better be careful.
Every single chinese person carries a smart phone. Seems like an easy problem to fix.
"The Obama administration is also planning to build a base in Niger for unarmed Predator drones to conduct surveillance on militants in the region"
Unarmed for now. Always starts that way.
There once was a POTUS dispatching troops to Niger,
who went for a ride on a tiger.
They came back from the ride
with the POTUS inside,
and a smile on the face of the tiger.
Shee-it, ain't nuffin' new!
Obama bin dispatchin' nigers wid dronz since he got mo'lected
Did O just say "That's my Niger!"?
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"The troops have been deployed to support the intervention in neighboring Mali, where French troops have been helping local forces rout Islamist militants from the country's north since last month."
Gotta love those Islamist militants, always in the right place at the right time!
religious sheeple are the sheeplest of all sheeple and easily play into the hands of TPTB.
This one is going to end with a new Black Hawk Down incident. 100 troops in the middle of nowhere with many millions of high-tech gear that any number of state actors would pay richly for is just asking for a raid. If they get attacked there's no way that support can arrive in time to do anything, even if the President happens to be awake and working at the time to authorize it.
It sure would be a "darn shame" if Chinese-backed militants were to attack peaceable US soldiers, there only for humanitarian observation reasons, and force the US into conflict with those dirty commie bastards.
Nice country you got there, sure would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.
Oh yeah - "Remember the Maine!!!"
BTW, for those who are denser than a APFSDS-T, /sarc.
"U.S. Africa Command protects and defends the national security interests of the United States by strengthening the defense capabilities of African states and regional organizations and, when directed, conducts military operations, in order to deter and defeat transnational threats and to provide a security environment conducive to good governance and development."
http://www.africom.mil/about-the-command/mission
Activated in 2008, US Africom is a direct response to China's growing influence in Africa. If you peruse the Africom website, you will not find one mention of securing resources. However, despite the atypical platitudes of ensuring national security and helping the Africans fight terrorism in the region, it is quite obvious that it is an incursion with the ultimate prize being Africa's treasures. It is a pillaging, just as egregious as Pizzaro's Spanish conquest of the Incan Empire.
The Spice must flow!
Actually what it is is bureacratic expansion.
It's jobs, money and positioning for another four star general and his staff. And once in place, they need to do something and justify their existence.
Any pillaging will be an effect of that.
Africa belongs to China!
Not anymore. We claim this land in the interest of peas.
And Amercia Belongs to Jesus!
"Amercia is Jesus' Favorite Country ©"
"Jesus Watches Fox News ©"
"Jesus Guides Our Drones ©"
cat and mouse game at this point. Positioning before the real game starts. Someone will blink and then the U.S. will get a real shooting war. Enjoy these days .......gl
... and mineral rights will change hands.
Oh, and while he's at it, let's just go ahead and ban tropical waves that originate from there, causing all of our troubles over here, in the form of hurricanes.
We still got a couple months till hurricane season, just dont forget, BAN AFRICAN TROPICAL WAVES.
Hey, they're called Assault Tropical Waves.
Africa belongs to China!
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Not even. If so, it could be an area of growth for 'americans' but the reality that Africa still belongs to 'americans'.
'Americans' have reached that stage in their expansion process when they no longer step in to acquire more but step in to prevent previously acquired loot from being taken from them.
As 'Americans' have from the start, designed to build their empire of liberty as they say out of debt, it is somehow bad news because there will be less and less of new loot inputs, and more and more securing of previously added loot.
Here the Chinese are the threat that could withdraw from 'americans'
Very hard to counter balance the debt stuff when there is no longer future gains from loot.
The beauty of 'americanism' to the world.
Hey...the retard is back....welcome to the Snake...enjoy the ride....Gong Xi Fa Cai...????
Actually, the only thing that belongs to china is YOU. cHiNeese steal Tibet. cHiNee peoples are steal from people all over the world. cHiNee peoples are steal oil and gold from Africa, not there to help local people. cHiNee people steal oil and coal from North America even. Payment with yuan is not real money, just cheap poor quality paper. Now, Shut up and get me an egg roll!
The Gambia - is that like The Ohio State University.
It's called that because the whole country is the banks of the Gambia River
That's because there are several Ohio Universities, and only one Ohio State!
Except for the corn and soybeans, Ohio isn't good for shit. The Ohio State University could get blasted by an asteroid, and nobody would care outside of Ohio.
Let it be known that 8 of the most corrupt presidents have come from Ohio. No other state has been able to provide so many corrupt presidents! And the doomer above claims "Ohio ainT good for shit!"
It's like The Bernank
Tyler must be mistaken. This is the most transparent administration in all of history. I don't know about everyone else, but I know I can see right through them.
We have to execute the attack plan.....so we can see what's in it.
Is Obama going to drone his friends that grew up in the same huts as him? They knew him as the skinny little brown kid growing up in the small town of Niger!
Get your facts straight, Eireann. Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not Niger! Doofus.
(/sarc)
Whatever. Kenyans, Nigerans, they all look the same to me.
maybe some of the people from Niger can move here???
We can always use more Niger Americans here!
I wish they would just come out and say it: "We have the finest military in the world and we fight for oil."
Americans could rally around winning the oil.
Hmm, "rout Islamist forces" and re-route Nigerian oil.
FORWARD SOVIET!
Rumor has it they are converting old AFB's in the US to drone bases. They've been seen flying out of old bases in AZ, MI, & CA.
Who makes these drones? Got a stock symbol? The correction is over, I feel like buying.
Northrup & General Atomics
You are quite correct about this. The former George AFB in Victorville, CA, is now used as a drone airfield for a CAANG unit based in Riverside, CA. This base is also used for urban operations training by the US Marine Corps and Navy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_California_Logistics_Airport
Currency was followed by real war. As in the last century.
So our 1/2 Niger Prez is helping out the 100% Niger Prez?
Hey! Kenya is nearby... I think.
Free Timbuktu!
We're stretched a little thin at the moment Amigo....we'll see if we can fit it in tomorrow.
The progressives realized make love not war wasn't getting the job done....so they took it 180.
al-Qaeda's 22 tips for dodging drones
http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_international/_pdfs/al-qaida-papers-drones.pdf
Wow, just wow!
3 - Spreading the reflective pieces of glass on a car or on the roof of the building.
To achieve extra efficiency this should also be combined with a gigantic "HERE WE ARE M***FUCKERS" neon-sign shaped as a finger pointing down towards the relevant vehicle and/or building
re AP report on 22 tips
the cost of 1,000 drones equals the price of an F15 Eagle jet. If we talk
about the latest models, like the Predator, it costs $10 million while the cost of an F16 is $350 million and the fuel for 200 flights of a drone equals the fuel consumed by one flight of F4 Phantom jet. The training of a pilot of a Tornedo costs 1 million Pound Sterling while training a drone operator costs nothing and it takes only three months. Therefore, theAmericans have chosen a comfortable war
WTF? An F16 costs more like 18 million Bennybux. You can get a fleet of 'em for $350 million.
The price can vary depending on features and who the buyer is:
The Iraqis got suckered for $165 Mil each.
Price for Iraq included liberation tax.
Arnold "Dutch" Schwarzenegger learned to cover himself in mud to thwart the predator's infra red spectrum. Just sayin...
How long before those "unarmed"Predator Drones are "Armed"?
unarmed - yea sure...
Last week.
"Rainbow coalition" bitchez~
guy is such a niger lover.
Soon to be Niger rich.
The Generalz told him. Soon they wont need him or congress to "act" any more.
Mission creepy.
THAT OIL WAS MISTAKENLY PLACED THERE. IT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO FAT FAWK AMERICAN DRIVERS.
Beats putting a pipeline on American soil. If we did that Uncle Warren wouldn't have anything to do with his trains.
This is Uncle Sam protecting the French corner of Africa. I guess the French were how do you say, outnumbered?
They only operate between 10:00 am and 11:30..., and sometimes put in a little overtime between 1:30 and 2:30 pm.
Is that before or after the paid 6 weeks vacation?
This is Uncle Sam protecting the French corner of Africa.
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Huh no. The ganglord, the US, is probably about snatching that turf from one of his 'american' trustees.
So far, in order to save the 'american' middle class, no other solution but to push some of it under the train.
And what better places to find 'american' middle class than in 'american' nations?
The loot installments will now be transfered from the french middle class to the US american middle class.
The way it works in an 'american' world.
Kinda like cHiNee peoples pooping in street because not enough toilets in cHiNee city that work? Or is it because cHiNee people afraid of being bitten by snake in year of toilet? How you doing with those north korean vacation deals? Quality peoples in cHiNee orbit.
America abandoned the principles of property rights when they started their taxation of real property and income. It now belongs to the "leadership" and we pay tribute, so why shouldn't the rest of the world?
America abandoned the principles of property rights when they started their taxation of real property and income.
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'America' never abandoned the principles of property. They simply suspended them to perform the biggest land grab ever as they transfered the land from the Indians.
Free Tibet! cHiNee people are thieves. You should know about property as You are property of cHiNa.
The land was taken piecemeal from those poor Indians.
The "biggest land grab ever" was the 14th Amendment (.pdf).
surely he deserves another Nobel peace prize...
Isn`t it wonderful to now see African maps being rewritten in Arabic.
Read any book on the history of Cartography and you'll learn that this is been going on for hundreds of years. The Arabs (historically) have been a stabilizing influence on Africa, not a destabilizing one.
If it weren't for Arabs Africa's history (outside of Egypt and North Africa of course) would quite literally begin circa 1415 when the Portugese began sailing south of what is today Morocco. They simply had no means of recording anything and the weather and climate south of the Sahara is/was not conducive to preserving artifacts.
Granted the Arabs took a lot of gold, and quite possibly more slaves than ever went along the Western trade routes ((who were (wisely) made into eunuchs)), but at least they brought stability to markets along the coasts and oasis caravan routes.
And other conclusions an 'american' could have reached?
When you run an extortion of the weak, farming of the poor business, stabilization of the extortion and farming processes matter much.
As long as it goes.
Well, we are at war. So, I suppose we have to support the president.
I never got tired of hearing that back in the heydays of the Afghanistan/Iraq invasions.
Then again, I like to lie a lot, and I am incredibly sarcastic.
Any map of military action in Africa should include Libya, the source Islamist arms. Anyone remember why NATO intervened on one side of the Libya civil war? Oh yea, to bail out Sarkozy.
Actually, 'americans' had probably in mind the contamination of the Libyan conflict to surrounding areas.
This immediate effect is much more valuable for 'americans' as it provided them with pretexts to jump in and secure their loot.
If 'Americans' can keep going down to the cape Alguhas trough contagion, they will.
I hope they napalm all the cocoa trees.
Theyre cacoa trees,. which becomes cocoa. You either like roasted instead of raw cocoa or youre long cocoa?
Now i'm long cocoa. Thanx for the tip!
any gold etc found will be secured to keep from funding terrorist
So, based on the letter... This was planned in advance...they lied again... And we invade another country.. More freedom house rules
And we wonder why they hate us for aour freedoms...
Relax Niger, you're gonna get a new dictator of our choice. You're gonna get a new bank, with a slew of technocrats. So you see, Niger, all is well...now on your knees!
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subsequently thought better of the reply comment I had in mind.
... never mind the light sweet Nigerian crude and the gold.
For the French this is likely more about the Uranium from Niger (and in the future Mali), as they generate most of their electricity from nuclear power plants.
See here, e.g.: http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-war-on-mali-what-you-should-know/5319093
globalresearch.ca is an excellent site
If they can't attack you due to the drones, I'm affraid they will bring the war to you. watch out!
We shouldn't forget there's still a fair few glitzy diamonds in that region too. I wonder who'll get to them first?
Looks like Obama will be heading for another proxy confrontation. This time with China...
Troops = Spineless Remote Videographers? How about the warmongers start waving those patriotic 'Support Our Drones' flags in their requisite Harley Davidson regalia?
Fuck you and your patriotism, Neo-con Leftists..
With their marketing art, 'americans' are the ones to be trusted to sell such a campaign.
"Support our drones, it helps jobs at home"
Speaking of drones, what brought you back to posting here? Did they let you out with a kidney and an eyeball? Are you one of those drones in that building in Shanghai hacking and stealing from us? Maybe instead of posting here, you could put your talents to work building your own country instead of copying everything that we make. Oh, also, shut up and get me an egg roll already!
They hate us for ou freedom?
how far can we go b/4 we take a direct hit in retaliation?
can i leave now?
day by day
sometin gonna back fire.
Gosh, why does it matter where he is born or what his National allegiences are? How many Hollywood fultards have said that? Never go full.
President of US, Son of Kenya?
Lets see, if I were "the enemy" where would I locate?
Kenya, maybe? Nanner, nanner, can't bomb here! You'd be blowing up the homeland.
Why would any sensible young person join this military, knowing that your leadership is going to horribly mismanage you? And then, when they put you in a horrific situation they will either let you die or prosecute you for shooting your way out....blaming you for heinous acts. You can only win by not playing.
Nutz
The next phase of Skynet is deployed. Soon there will be drones covering the entire planet. Where is John Connor when we need him?
It seems like WW3 is here already.
Man, them Demcrayats sher do love them some wars!
Nobel Peace prize winner.It should be laughable,except it isn`t.
Quite hard for 'americans' to run for a peace prize.
On the other hand, if a Nobel prize was awarded for 'Americanism', 'americans' wont run out of quality candidates.
http://www.wan-press.org/china/articles.php?id=14
This is about having troops and resources in position on both sides of the Meditteranean once the Iran (Russia/China) war begins.
The oil, gold and outside-the-U.S. drone bases are just bonuses.
For the GLORY OF ROME!
We cannot allow the sequester to threaten this mission.
It is sad that most reporting and subsequent discussion of drones is as misinformed as that of gun control. Actual use of Predator drones is limited to areas where target packages have already been assembled. The vast majority of drones are not Predators and are incapable of carrying any weapon, let alone Hellfires. Most drones are used in place of manned surveillance. They are cheaper to fly by the hour and don't put U.S. lives at risk. If you wouldn't mind a helo, U-2 or AirScan flying somewhere, why would you mind having a cheaper, safer unmanned flight instead? I'd love to have our borders covered this way, if we would just enforce the friggin law.
Incapable, sir? Incapable! You surely jest. Given the proper motivation, surely I could make my Studebaker carry a hellfire missle. 'Twould surely have an effect on the resale value, but if I were in Africa, among the natives, 'twould seem like a fair trade.
and here we go...
While the story is that these US troops are there to keep an eye on Mali I'm betting that at least a few of those drones in Niger are going to be heading south to keep an eye on Northern Nigeria. As well they should.
You forgot to mention "world's leading source of Tantalum".
And don't forget blood diamonds....
Truth is stranger than fiction. Anyone here read the Archdruid Report series of posts on the decline of the American Empire? Good read. Starts out with the US obstensibly 'helping' some African sh!thole militarily, only to have their nuts sprung in a Chinese bear trap, Highly recommended read
"No animals were hurt during the filming of this drone strike."
double-tap
Looks like O'bummer is aiming for another nOBEL pIECE pRIZE!!
At this point I think it would be easier to list which countries the US doesn't have any troops, special forces, drones, or Provocateurs in. Russia, China, North Korea.
SHouldn't it be called "Nyjer"?
Boko Haram can kiss their asses goodbye. Goodbye, terrorists. If you see him, tell Allah he's a loser. Just between us, I'd turn down the volume on that obnoxious call to prayer you blast across the fence on your western speakers. You never know what it will attract...