Pentagon doesn’t know if it trained Burkina Faso coup leader
Capt. Ibrahim Traore deposed the last guy who overthrew the government — Lt. Col. Sandaogo Damiba — who did extensive training with the Americans.
Capt. Ibrahim Traore deposed the last guy who overthrew the government — Lt. Col. Sandaogo Damiba — who did extensive training with the Americans.
These operations have been going on for 15 years straight — so long that mainstream media barely finds the energy to report on it.
AFRICOM says it promotes human rights and rule of law but doesn’t know why trainees are overthrowing their own governments.
The White House is being cagey, but despite ‘withdrawal’ the military has been operating non-stop on the ground there for 20 years.
A sudden shift in casualty information provided by AFRICOM after US attacks in Somalia should be cause for concern.
The House passed a bill that sounds good superficially, but doesn’t end the useless militarized approach or get to root problems.