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2013-03-05 Africa North

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1 "The defense ministry and the army have always had a defensive take on communication, of which they only see those aspects that are negative, disruptive and need to be restricted," he added.

And the positive aspects are : " ? ".

Posted by Willy 2013-03-05 07:07|| 2013-03-05 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 portray itself in a good light, the military is keeping the public in the dark and rubbing the media up the wrong way, say observers and industry commentators.

It's all about how we the elite media perceive you. You don't count. Real accomplishments don't count. Real failure doesn't count (see Zero).

The only thing that counts is how the elite, as buffered by the MSM, perceive you and how that perception can increase the elites power & money.

If I get any more cynical I may just implode 8^(

Posted by Alanc 2013-03-05 07:38|| 2013-03-05 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 From the nuus you've read time and time again section:

Red Arsenals Arm The Simbas
Russian and Chinese weapons airlifted to the Congo Rebels.

These warriors are Congolese rebels, the dreaded Simbas. Not long ago they and thousands like them were rag-tag renegades who ranged over countless square miles, making a sport of butchering and pillaging. Now they are bcomeing a coordinated fighting force - with the full and open backing of the Soviet Union and Communist China.

Massively, and competitively, the two Communist countries are supplying the Simbas with guns and ammunition. The new weapons - plainly marked by the manufacturers - come chiefly from stockpiles to Communist-oriented Algeria and the United Arab Republic, and are flown into areas in countries bordering the Congo.

From there the consignments are carted overland to Simba strongholds. The best efforts of the Congo's army and its tiny hired air force to halt the traffic are of little avail, and even the recent expulsion of the Red Chinese from neighboring Burundi made scarcely a dent.

To document this menace, Life sent a team of four correspondents into areas where the build-up is taking place. Their eyewitness accounts, whjich appear on the following pages, underscore the dilemma facing the U.S. and her allies: whether to go openly to the aid of the Congo's Premier Tshombe and further alienate the African nations which regard him as a white man's puppet, or see the Congo go to default.

For the entire article and lekker fotos see: Vol 58, No. 6 'LIFE' February 12, 1965

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-05 07:47|| 2013-03-05 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess the French figured out not to permit ~~camp followers~~ reporters by the droves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-05 08:41|| 2013-03-05 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 they are fighting a vicious barbarian horde. Nobody needs a bunch of p[anty-waist hand-wringers mewling about ROE and tactics and giving away Ops/Tactics to the enemy

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-05 09:31|| 2013-03-05 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Fuck the media, we're fighting a war.

Good for the French and good for the French Military. Dang they really hitched up their britches and became hard headed about all of this. The Moslem dickheads that started all of those riots are going to regret that action. The riots were a wake up call and the French have answered it.

Geez, the Fucking French are now the tough guys of the Western World while we have a guy hiding under his desk wanting to fight a war with drones and tersely written letters.

AND oh please don't forget the ROE. We suffered terrible casualties in Nam because of those obscene ROE and we did the same damn thing to ourselves in Afghanistan.

Can we keep the press out of one war just long enough to finish one without whining and sniveling over casualties, civilians, puppies, bunnies, and collateral damage?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-05 10:27|| 2013-03-05 10:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey Jacques ... tighten the thumbscrews - he's not talking yet. And pass the cognac.

Posted by Raider 2013-03-05 14:10|| 2013-03-05 14:10|| Front Page Top

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