‘Massive Expansion’ in US Covert Operations in Africa

Daniel Estulin

Great article in the Intelnews on the aggressive expansion of the USG covert operations in Africa. Logical. Today, 35 out of the 53 African countries hace some sort of a military partnership with the US: be it training, arming, supplying, defending or fighting along with these African nations. The obvious questions is why is the US sointerested in Africa? and are they truly trying to bring democracy to this God forsaken and forgotten continent. No, they are not. The geopolitical reason for the USG interest is two fold: Russia and China. China has been setting up shop and working for over two decades on building infrastructure projects all across the continent, especially inplaces such as Sudan(Darfur), the Horn of Africa and pushing into Uganda and Kenya. Russia is back, after a tumultuous 90s when the dastardly drunk, Yeltsin and his ofrefahter, the traitor Gorbachev did everything in their power to declaw the Soviet Union/Russia thus leaving most of the continent to their own devises. Theremoval of US troops from the Middle Eastern theater of operations, does not mean that the se soldiers are going home. Their are going to Africa, to bring a more efficient experience of death administered through high tech. Up to now, Africans were only hacked to death. But now, they will get to experience first hand the wonders of America’s technological might.

The United States administration of President Barack Obama is implementing a near-unprecedented expansion of covert operations by American military forces throughout Africa, aimed at a host of armed groups deemed extremist by Washington. A lead article published yesterday in The Washington Post quotes over a dozen unnamed American and African officials, as well as military contractors, who refer to the US military-led effort as Project CREEKSAND. It allegedly involves secret operations in several African countries, conducted out of a large network of small air bases located in strategic locations around the continent.

According to The Post, most of the airplanes used in Project CREEKSAND are small, unarmed, disguised to look like private aircraft, and bear no military markings or government insignia. In reality, however, they carry sophisticated electronic equipment designed to collect signals intelligence, while some are used to transport US Special Forces troops during capture or kill missions. The paper quotes an unnamed “former senior US commander [...] involved in setting up the [air bases] network”, who alleges that the US government has built about a dozen such bases throughout Africa since 2007.

These secret air bases are located in countries such as Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda, South Sudan, Kenya, and Seychelles. Most of the US personnel involved in Project CREEKSAND consists of Special Operations forces tasked with “training foreign security forces [and] performing aid missions”. However, The Post alleges that there are also small teams of US operatives who are “dedicated to tracking and killing suspected terrorists”. Their targets include groups such as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab in Somalia, Nigeria’s Boko Haram, as well as Azawad, the newly established state in northern Mali, whose independence was declared recently by Islamist separatists.

Some US forces are also involved in gathering intelligence on Joseph Kony, the elusive Ugandan leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army. Interestingly, the article mentions skepticism by some critics, who wonder why the US military, rather than the Central Intelligence Agency, is in charge of Project CREEKSAND. Others warn that the groups targeted by the Obama administration in Africa are local in scope and fight for regional goals, not global, and thus do not pose any direct threat to the US. Thus, by interfering in their local religious or nationalist struggles, Washington risks creating unwanted backlash. The Post says that it sent an email with several questions about Project CREEKSAND to the US Pentagon’s Africa Command, which refused to provide “specific operational details”. 

http://intelnews.org/2012/06/14/01-1012/

America’s War on Africa, Containing China by “Fighting Al-Qaeda”

Hidden Agenda behind America’s War on Africa: Containing China by “Fighting Al-Qaeda”

By Ben Schreiner

Harnessing Asia’s growth and dynamism is central to American economic and strategic interests. 

Hillary Clinton

France’s military intervention into Mali may at first glance appear to have little to do with the U.S. “pivot” to Asia. But as a French mission supposedly meant to bolster a U.N. sanctioned and African-led intervention has gone from “a question of weeks” to “the total re-conquest of Mali,” what may have begun as a French affair has now become a Western intervention. And this in turn has drawn wider strategic interests into the conflict. Strategic interests, it is becoming clearer, shaped by the imperatives of the U.S. Asia pivot.

Continue reading:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/hidden-agenda-behind-americas-war-on-africa-containing-china-by-fighting-al-qaeda/5320939

 

 

French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria

Las guerras en África han iniciado con los pretextos de siempre, continua la barbarie mundial, mientras los seres humanos estamos atontados en minucias que los poderosos nos las ponen en bandeja de plata.

By Design: French Mali Invasion Spills into Algeria

By Tony Cartalucci

Exactly as predicted, the ongoing French “intervention” in the North African nation of Mali has spilled into Algeria – the next most likely objective of Western geopolitical interests in the region since the successful destabilization of Libya in 2011.

In last week’s “France Displays Unhinged Hypocrisy as Bombs Fall on Mali” report, it was stated specifically that:

“As far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote “Algeria will be next to fall,” where he gleefully predicted success in Libya would embolden radical elements in Algeria, in particular AQIM. Between extremist violence and the prospect of French airstrikes, Riedel hoped to see the fall of the Algerian government. Ironically Riedel noted:

Algeria has expressed particular concern that the unrest in Libya could lead to the development of a major safe haven and sanctuary for al-Qaeda and other extremist jihadis.

And thanks to NATO, that is exactly what Libya has become – a Western sponsored sanctuary for Al-Qaeda. AQIM’s headway in northern Mali and now French involvement will see the conflict inevitably spill over into Algeria. It should be noted that Riedel is a co-author of “Which Path to Persia?” which openly conspires to arm yet another US State Department-listed terrorist organization (list as #28), the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) to wreak havoc across Iran and help collapse the government there – illustrating a pattern of using clearly terroristic organizations, even those listed as so by the US State Department, to carry out US foreign policy.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/by-design-french-mali-invasion-spills-into-algeria/5319313

US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, France “Comes to the Rescue”

Entradas Relacionadas con el nuevo ataque al continente africano:

http://obligatoriorecordar.blogspot.com/2012/12/desde-la-sombra-e13-el-corazon.html

http://obligatoriorecordar.blogspot.com/2013/01/mali-and-scramble-for-africa.html

The Geopolitical Reordering of Africa: 

US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Northern Mali, France “Comes to the Rescue”

NATO funding, arming, while simultaneously fighting Al Qaeda from Mali to Syria

By Tony Cartalucci

A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War on Terror” narrative.TIME claims the intervention seeks to stop “Islamist” terrorists from overrunning both Africa and all of Europe. Specifically, the article states:

“…there is a (probably well-founded) fear in France that a radical Islamist Mali threatens France most of all, since most of the Islamists are French speakers and many have relatives in France. (Intelligence sources in Paris have told TIME that they’ve identified aspiring jihadis leaving France for northern Mali to train and fight.) Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), one of the three groups that make up the Malian Islamist alliance and which provides much of the leadership, has also designated France — the representative of Western power in the region — as a prime target for attack.”

What TIME elects not to tell readers is that Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is closely allied to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG whom France intervened on behalf of during NATO’s 2011 proxy-invasion of Libya – providing weapons, training, special forces and even aircraft to support them in the overthrow of Libya’s government.

As far back as August of 2011, Bruce Riedel out of the corporate-financier funded think-tank, the Brookings Institution, wrote “Algeria will be next to fall,” where he gleefully predicted success in Libya would embolden radical elements in Algeria, in particular AQIM. Between extremist violence and the prospect of French airstrikes, Riedel hoped to see the fall of the Algerian government. Ironically Riedel noted:

Algeria has expressed particular concern that the unrest in Libya could lead to the development of a major safe haven and sanctuary for al-Qaeda and other extremist jihadis.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/geopolitical-reordering-and-dirty-tricks-us-covert-support-to-al-qaeda-in-northern-mali-france-comes-to-the-rescue/5318614

EEUU enviará misiones militares a más de 35 países africanos en 2013

RT

Tras la decisión de la ONU de enviar una misión militar africana a Malí, el Pentágono ha anunciado que enviará “pequeños equipos” militares a más de 35 países africanos en 2013.

Los objetivos de los equipos estadounidenses se limitarán en principio al entrenamiento y equipamiento de militares locales. Sin embargo, podrían participar en “operaciones militares” aunque se necesitará una orden especial de la Secretaría de Defensa, de acuerdo con el general David Rodriguez, comandante en jefe del Comando del Ejército de EE.UU.

La misión de la Segunda Brigada de Combate empezará en la primavera de 2013 y realizará cerca de un centenar de ejercicios por todo el continente africano, en primer lugar en Libia, Sudán, Argelia, Níger, Kenia y Uganda, donde el Pentágono reporta la mayor presencia de grupos armados relacionados con Al Qaeda.

Sin embargo, los planes de EE.UU. pueden ser rechazados por muchos países de la región por temor a la extensión de bases militares estadounidenses y al aumento de la influencia de Washington, señala AP.

Además, según parece, “los recursos naturales de África son otro elemento importante porque se trata de petróleo, diamantes, cobre, oro, hierro, cobalto, uranio, plata, madera y frutas tropicales”, destaca el portal Infowars.com.

El pasado 21 de diciembre el Gobierno de EE.UU. ya dio la bienvenida a la resolución del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, impulsada por Francia, que autoriza el envío de una misión militar africana a Malí, país afectado actualmente por violentos combates protagonizados por guerrilleros islamistas.

America Invades Africa

America Invades Africa: The Resource War and the Conquest of Mali

The Role of AFRICOM

By Timothy Alexander Guzman

The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa.  They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa to maintain the peace and security it desires that is deemed beneficial for US interests.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-invades-africa-the-resource-war-and-the-invasion-of-mali/5315477