ALGERIAN SPECIAL forces stormed a natural gas plant in the Sahara Desert Sunday, ending a hostage situation that reportedly claimed over 80 lives, including those of the 32 militants who attacked the plant last week. It is unclear if any of the hostages survived.
The group claiming responsibility claimed the attack was a response to military action against comrades in neighboring Mali, where French troops (with British support) and a pan-African force (with American support) are moving against Islamist militants. Although the attack was apparently planned long before the French military was deployed in Mali, the question remains: Who is telling the whole truth about Western military involvement?
Also: President Obama sworn in for the third and fourth times; horse meat in the burgers at Tesco; Senator Kirk sees angels; parallels between Rome and the U.S.; and the contentious year ahead in bioethics according to Wesley J. Smith.
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ALMOST LOST in the news cycle already was the announcement last week that the U.S. is sending military advisers–Special Forces soldiers–to Uganda to help chase down the Lord’s Resistance Army, a militaristic cult headed by Joseph Kony. Why now, when Kony has been active in Uganda, Sudan, and the Congo for over 20 years? (See the LRA Crisis Tracker and Derek’s new interview with researcher Tony Kail for details.)
Is there any connection to recent discoveries of oil in the region, or to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s link to the powerful and secretive American “Christian” group The Family? (For more on The Family, see Derek’s interview with journalist Jeff Sharlet.)
Also: Leaving Iraq; Kenya’s military says the US may be bombing militants in neighboring Somalia; DARPA building robotic cheetahs to hunt down baddies; first national EAS test set for 11/9/11; possible vote on Palestinian statehood on 11/11/11; Occupy Wall Street protesters complain about their own bankers; and Hillary on Qaddafi: “We came, we saw, he died.”
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