Okay so, in October of 2011 the US committee 100 special forces training advisors to Uganda to help the Uganda Army train to go after the LRA. Yes, the LRA sounds like a bad group, and that would be about right, the acronym stands for Lord's Resistance Army, which at one time claimed some sort of political cause, today, it is just a group of murdering thugs playing guerilla warfare in African Villages along the border region of the Republic of Congo, Uganda, South Sudan, and Kenya.
Now then, do you ever wonder where all those weapons went after the weapons caches of Libya's Army were plundered? Well, we know that many in the Libyan Army were hired from other neighboring African nations on its Southern Borders. As of Qaddafi's demise the NTC - National Transitional Council was busy trying to round up all these hired helpers of the former Libyan Army.
So, where did all those weapons go? Look South I say, and that doesn't play well for those in the border region of the new divide between North and South Sudan, or any of the other hot spots in Sub-Sahara Africa. More weapons in the wrong hands mean more bloodshed, civil wars, terrorist like attacks, and the whole nine-yards. Worse, there are many who rather liked Libya's Qaddafi, due to the fact he was opening more and more trade with these other nations in a little trading block.
Those economic ties, made Qaddafi a lot of loyal friends and supporters, and it created jobs and thus a good bit of public support. No not everyone, but enough to cause a problem for us, people of the region, and as far South as the area where the LRA resides, not to mention many of the oil rich, currently anyway, African nations across Africa's lower-upper center.
There was an interesting article recently in the New York Times titled; "Many in Sub-Saharan Africa Mourn Qaddafi's Death," written by Josh Kron and published: October 22, 2011. The article stated;
"Many sub-Saharan Africans are mourning the death of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, celebrated for standing up to the West. To them, his violent death was another sad chapter in a long-running narrative of Western powers meddling in Africa's affairs. About 30,000 people packed the mosque to pay tribute to the slain leader, according to local news media in Uganda."
Okay so, are you beginning to see the point here? We have US advisors now helping the Uganda Army, and a large number of former Gaddafi supporters in country who have reason to be angered with US involvement on the African Continent. That's not good, more of the same, and we are certainly there stirring up another hornet's nest. Please consider all this.
