AFRICOM’s Rough Start http://csis.org/blog/africom’s-rough-start
AFRICOM, which begins operations on October 1, has run into resistance from African countries reluctant to host U.S. personnel and suspicious of the motives behind the new command structure:But despite the promise of new development and security partnerships, many Africans concluded that Africom was primarily an extension of U.S. counterterrorism policy, intended to keep an eye on Africa's large Muslim population. "I think everyone thought it would be widely greeted as something positive," the Africom officer said. "But you suddenly have wide publics that have no idea what we're talking about. . . .


It was seen as a massive infusion of military might onto a continent that was quite proud of having removed foreign powers from its soil." The United States "equates terrorism with Islam," senior Kenyan diplomat Bethuel Kiplagat said, and few African governments wanted to be seen as inviting U.S. surveillance on their own people. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations African affairs subcommittee, thought Africom was "something that would show real respect for Africa." But there was no question, Feingold said, that the concept had "a neocolonialist feel to it."


[SO I'M COMBING THRU THINK TANKS,INSTITUTES,FOUNDATIONS AND I BUMPED INTO THIS PIECE AT ''Center for Strategic and International Studies''(SEE BELOW) THAT WAS INTERESTING...[FEINGOLD'' IT DOES HAVE A NEOCOLONIAL FEEL'' ...NO SHIT FEINGOLD ,THATS BECAUSE ''IT IS'' NEOCOLONIALISM.A US PROJECT AND EXTENSION OF THE MOST MILITARISTIC ,MORALLY BANKRUPT EMPIRE OF MODERN TIMES!
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THE UNITED STATES'' ,WICH HAS A LONG TRADITION OF DESTABILIZING AFRICA ,FROM SUPPORT OF THE APARTHEID REGIME IN SOUTH AFRICA http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/11/allied_with_apartheid_reagan_supported_racist TO GENOCIDE IN RWANDA http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/un-us-france-and-catholic-church-blamed-for-rwanda-genocide-707470.html ,CONGO http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8189 ITS PAST ROLE IN ANGOLA CIVIL WAR http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Blum/Angola_KH.html ,ITS BACKING OF MORROCAN,
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AND ALGERIAN TORTURE,POLICE STATE http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/04/bouteflika-us-official-discuss-counter.html BREAKING UP OF SUDAN http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/17-the-icc-facilitates-us-covert-war-in-sudan/ ,AND WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA http://allafrica.com/stories/200808290503.html ,JUST TO NAME A FEW...OF WICH MANY AFRICANS ARE QUITE FAMILIAR WITH,UNLIKE MAJORITY OF IDIOTS IN STATES ,WHO PROBABLY COULDNT POINT TO AFRICA ON A WORLD MAP...
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MORE ON ... AFRICOM...Africom Watch http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/Africom/ The Campaign to Resist AFRICOM - Concerned Africa Scholars http://concernedafricascholars.org/african-security-research-project/?p=5 AFRICOM: Imperialism, neo-colonialism and the fight for African resources http://mathaba.net/news/?x=572854 ---------------------

Obama's national security policy towards Africa www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/61614 Somalia: Manifestation of stealth trusteeship http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/04/somalia-manifestation-of-stealth.html US Military and Africom: Between the rocks and the crusaders http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/04/us-military-and-africom-between-rocks.html

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AFRICOM, the kleptocratic state and under-class militancy http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2010/07/africom-kleptocratic-state-and-under.html The West's selective condemnation of dictators only complicates things for Africans and peaceful resolution of their conflicts http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/potential-balkanisation-of-sudan-and.html AFRICOM Backs Bloodshed in Central Africa http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2010/04/africom-backs-bloodshed-in-central.html

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