Source: Global Research
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-secret-war-in-africa/5307958
The U.S. secret warfare is alive and well. In
addition to its military command in Africa (AFRICOM), America has been
deploying special forces all over the continent according to an AP article from
October 2, 2012:
Small teams of special operations forces arrived
at American embassies throughout North Africa in the months before militants
launched the fiery attack that killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. The
soldiers’ mission: Set up a network that could quickly strike a terrorist
target or rescue a hostage. (Kimberly Dozier, White House widens covert ops presence in North Africa,
AP, October 2, 2012.)
The U.S. is spreading its clandestine army all
over Africa. As reported by Nile Bowie back in April, the goal is to balkanize
the African continent:
At an AFRICOM Conference held at Fort McNair on
February 18, 2008, Vice Admiral Robert T. Moeller openly declared the guiding
principle of AFRICOM is to protect “the free flow of natural resources
from Africa to the global market”, before citing China’s increasing
presence in the region as challenging to American interests [36].
In 2007, US State Department advisor Dr. J.
Peter Pham commented on AFRICOM’s strategic objectives of “protecting
access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources which Africa has in
abundance, a task which includes ensuring against the vulnerability of
those natural riches and ensuring that no other interested third parties, such
as China, India, Japan, or Russia, obtain monopolies or preferential
treatment.” (Nile Bowie, COVERT OPS IN NIGERIA: Fertile Ground for US Sponsored
Balkanization, Global Research, April 11, 2012.)
The “War on Terror” fraud serves to cover up the
destabilization of Africa with a view to taking control of its resources. The
Balkans were destabilized for the same purpose in the 1990’s:
In Liar’s Poker The Great Powers,
Yugoslavia and the Wars of the Future, Michel Collon explains how the
Balkans were destabilized “to control oil pipeline routes, dominate Eastern
Europe as well as weaken and get a hand over Russia” as well as” insure [the
establishment of US] military bases [in Eastern Europe and the Balkans].”
(Michel Collon, Liar’s Poker The Great Powers, Yugoslavia and the Wars
of the Future, Editions Aden, 1998, p. 129.)
A similar process, over a large geographic
region, is occurring in the Middle-East:
“Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an agreement for a
gas pipeline in July 2011, which plans to link the Iranian South Pars field –
the world’s largest – to Syria and therefore to the Mediterranean Sea. Another
important oil field was discovered near Homs in Syria, which could become an
alternative hub of energy corridors in opposition to those passing through
Turkey and other routes controlled by U.S. and European companies” (Manlio
Dinucci, L’art de la guerre. Syrie : l’Otan vise le gazoduc,
October9, 2012)
America’s clandestine army will resort to drone
warfare to assert control over the African resources. Although the U.S. and its
allies have financially and materially supported Al-Qaida-linked mercenaries to
topple the Libyan government and are operating in the same fashion in Syria, we
are told that the “counter terror effort indicates that the administration has
been worried for some time about a growing threat posed by Al Qaeda and its
offshoots in North Africa.” (Dozier, op.cit.)
Although the Pentagon assures that “[t]here are
no plans at this stage for unilateral U.S. military operations”, the article
states quite to the contrary that a unilateral drone warfare is what awaits
Africans:
Delta Force group will form the backbone of a
military task force responsible for combating al-Qaida and other terrorist
groups across the region with an arsenal that includes drones. But first, it
will work to win acceptance by helping North African nations build their own
special operations and counter terror units. (Ibid.)
The hypocritical discourse that follows
indicates in which African states the“free flow of natural resources to the
global market” and “access to hydrocarbons and other strategic resources” will
be protected under the “War on Terror” pretext:
The Obama administration has been concerned
about the growing power and influence of al-Qaida offshoots in Yemen,
Somalia, Iraq and North Africa.
Only the Yemeni branch has tried to attack American territory directly so far,
with a series of thwarted bomb plots aimed at U.S.-bound aircraft. A Navy SEAL
task force set up in 2009 has used a combination of raids and drone strikes to
fight militants in Yemen and Somalia, working together with the CIA and local
forces.
The new task force would work in much the same
way to combat al-Qaida’s North African affiliates, which are
growing in numbers and are awash in weapons from post-revolutionary Libya’s
looted stockpiles. They are well-funded by a criminal network trafficking in
drugs and hostages.
Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb or AQIM, and
Nigerian-based extremist sect Boko Haram are arguably the two largest and most
dangerous affiliates.
The top State Department official for African
affairs said Tuesday that the militants in Mali “must be dealt
with through security and military means.” (Ibid.)
And even though we are told there are “no plans
at this stage for unilateral U.S. military operations”, Johnnie Carson, the
U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs seems to contradict this
claim:
“any military action up there must indeed be well
planned, well organized, well resourced and well thought through” and, how
thoughtful, “be agreed upon by those who are going to be most affected by it.”
(Ibid.)
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