{"id":6467,"date":"2009-02-10T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6467"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T15:36:40","slug":"jeffrey-gettleman-and-eric-schmitt-us-backed-raid-fails-and-congo-rebels-run-wild-or-us-africa-command-human-terrain-system-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6467","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Gettleman and Eric Schmitt: U.S.-backed raid fails, and Congo rebels run wild or US Africa Command &#8211; Human Terrain System gone wild?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>U.S.-backed raid fails, and Congo rebels run wild<br \/>\nBy Jeffrey Gettleman and Eric Schmitt, <em>IHT<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=19998370\">6 February 2009<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DUNGU, Congo<\/strong>: The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The United States has been training Ugandan troops in counterterrorism for several years, but its role in the operation has not been widely known. It is the first time the United States has helped plan such a specific military offensive with that country, according to senior American military officials. They described a team of 17 advisers and analysts from the Pentagon&#8217;s new Africa Command working closely with Ugandan officers on the mission, providing them with satellite phones, prized intelligence and $1 million in fuel. <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We provided insights and alternatives for them to consider, but their choices were their choices,&#8221; said one American military official who was briefed on the operation, referring to the African forces on the ground. &#8220;In the end, it was not our operation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>This used to be a tranquil, bountiful spot where villagers grew corn, beans and peanuts, more or less untouched by the violence that has plagued the eastern part of this country. But thousands have recently fled, and the town is now crawling with soldiers, aid workers and United Nations personnel, the movable cast that marks the advent of a serious problem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=19998370\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-backed raid fails, and Congo rebels run wild By Jeffrey Gettleman and Eric Schmitt, IHT, 6 February 2009 DUNGU, Congo: The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6467\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1Gj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6467"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6528,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6467\/revisions\/6528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}