No wonder the Africans prefer the Chinese approach.
"US trains drug police in Africa" by Charlie Savage and Thom Shanker | New York Times, July 22, 2012
WASHINGTON — In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American trafficking organizations that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.
Gee, all three countries either loaded with oil or located along key global shipping routes. Funny how the "terrorists," oh, I mean the "drug dealers" always seem to pop up... oh, never mind.
The growing US involvement in Africa follows an earlier escalation of anti-drug efforts in Central America, according to documents, congressional testimony, and interviews with a range of officials at the State Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Pentagon.
Whatever excuse works to expand the empire (and serve banks).
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And the "drug war" just skates along.
In both regions, US officials are responding to fears that crackdowns in more direct staging points for smuggling — like Mexico and Spain — have prompted traffickers to move into smaller and weakly governed states, further corrupting and destabilizing them.
The aggressive response by the United States is also a sign of how greater attention and resources have turned to efforts to fight drugs as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have wound down.
Yup, the AmeriKan Empire will ALWAYS FIND a WAR TO FIGHT -- even if they have to PLAY BOTH SIDES!!
Time to END THIS MADNE$$ and LEGALIZE!! I know it SOUNDS HORRIBLE, but CON$IDER the $HIT ALTERNATIVE and $TATU$ QUO THAT NEVER CHANGES!
“We see Africa as the new frontier in terms of counterterrorism and counternarcotics issues,” said Jeffrey P. Breeden, chief of DEA’s Europe, Asia, and Africa section. “It’s a place that we need to get ahead of — we’re already behind the curve in some ways, and we need to catch up.”
I don't think sending in batches of commandos to kick down doors and such is the answer, especially when one considers the Chinese approach. No wonder the neo-con Jew World Order plan is failing so miserably. And they think ramping up more force is going to hold it together?
The initiatives come amid a surge in successful interdictions in Honduras since May — but also as US officials have been forced to defend their new tactics after a commando-style team of DEA agents participated in at least three lethal interdiction operations alongside a squad of Honduran police officers. In one of those operations, in May, the Honduran police killed four people near the village of Ahuas; and in two others in the past month, US agents have shot and killed smuggling suspects.
Related: One Day Honduran Wonder: DEA Denial
Yes, dear readers of the world, the Jew York Times says the killing of innocent people is a success.
Also see: U.S. Makes Its Move in South America
And now into Africa.
To date, officials say, the DEA commando team has not been deployed to work with the newly created elite police squads in Africa, where the effort to counter the drug traffickers is said to be about three years behind the one in Central America.
Translation: they are already there on the ground and working with them -- unless you want to believe some US officials and the mouthpiece media whose metamorphosis into a covert intelligence operation is designed to obscure and obfuscate.
The officials said that if Western security forces did come to play a more direct operational role in Africa, for historical reasons they might be European and not American.
That's why they PREFER the CHINESE!
That's a REALLY BAD IDEA given the EUROPEAN HISTORY down below!!!
In May, William R. Brownfield, assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, a leading architect of the strategy on display in Honduras, traveled to Ghana and Liberia to put the finishing touches on a West Africa Cooperative Security Initiative, which will try to replicate across 15 nations the steps taken in battling trafficking groups operating in Central America and Mexico.
Meanwhile, the article has already led us to believe they are beh.... never f***ing mind upon this Sunday, readers. Sorry.
Brownfield said the vision for both regions was to improve the ability of nations to deal with drug trafficking, by building up their own institutions and getting them to cooperate with one another, sharing intelligence, and running regional law enforcement training centers.
Yeah, WE KNOW what the PLAN IS, dammit!!!!!!!!
But because drug traffickers have already moved into Africa, he said, there is also a need for the immediate elite police units that have been trained and vetted.
Of course.
Some specialists have expressed skepticism about the approach.
Oh, look, a controlled-opposition critic gets one whole paragraph at the tail end of this slop.
Bruce Bagley, a professor at the University of Miami who focuses on Latin America and counternarcotics, said that what had happened in West Africa over the past few years was the latest example of the “Whac-A-Mole” problem, in which making trafficking more difficult in one place simply shifts it to another.
Well, when the same agencies allegedly fighting the thing are setting up shop and running the stuff.... SIGH!
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Also see: Sunday Globe Special: The New York Times Smokes Opium
Seems to be a pattern with them, doesn't it?
Different kinds of drugs, although $till the $ame (if you know what I mean):
"African AIDS effort at critical moment" by Rodney Muhumuza | Associated Press, July 22, 2012
KAMPALA, Uganda — ‘‘Turning the tide,’’ is the goal as described by the International AIDS Conference that begins Sunday in Washington. More than 20,000 scientists, activists, and people living with HIV from around the globe will gather to begin figuring out how to do that....
How ironic seeing as many of them may have created it.
I know, I know, that is such an unpopular view and it couldn't be possible with a government that really cares more about us than, well, you know.
Forget about the prescription drugs in the drinking water, the nuclear radiation in the Pacific, the oil-spoiled seafood of the Gulf, just worry about global warming this lying government tells us. That's the "real threat."
Well, we have come to find out here at the MSM Monitor that the ONLY THREATS the GOVERNMENT can respond to are the CONTRIVED THREAT$ that it has CREATED!
That is NOT TO SAY the HOLOCAUST -- with all due respect to the tribe -- in Africa due to AIDS is fake!
A new report from the United Nations shows that 8 million people in low- and middle-income countries got that treatment last year, with 6.2 million of them living in Africa....
Gee, they passed the Germans a bit there, didn't they?
And talk about blatant racism. How come the world of global elites, billions-per-quarter in bank and oil profits, and big pharmaceutical$ has left Africa in such a state?
PEPFAR, which President George W. Bush launched in 2003....
Yes, I remember my college history professor asking about it from his SotU speech, and not one of us "kids" picked up on it.
Related: Obama Abandons Africa to AIDS
I guess they did okay anyway.
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For my part, and I know this doesn't go over well with some of you, is this is simply another eradication and extermination plan by the globalist eugenicists and elite if it comes to that.
You can now go back to believing your agenda-pushing mouthpiece and your imperial overlords really do mean you well. I mean, haven't they proved themselves all these years with the distortions, obfuscations, omissions, and lies?
Oh, right, I forgot. All for our own good.
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