Uganda: America’s Pawn?
“The dangers of turning Africa into a front in the ‘war on terror’—much as it was a front in two world wars and a cold war that were not of its making—have been starkly revealed in Uganda following the 11 July bombings that killed 76 people watching the World Cup final in popular nightspots. That atrocity was attributed to Somali al-Shabaab extremists seeking to carry out retribution for the presence in Somalia of Ugandan ‘peacekeeping’ troops. … Bolstering the Somali peacekeeping forces may be good news for US contractors such as DynCorp International, who equip and train the peacekeepers in Somalia with US state department funding. But it is hard to see how it is good for anyone else.”