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Pentagon Struggles To Defend America’s Secret War In Niger

The Pentagon, already struggling to manage growing concern about the US military operations ongoing in Africa, is now facing a second problem. Last week, it was revealed that the Pentagon had kept a number of recent clashes in Niger a secret.

Pentagon officials are now trying to defend not just the war effort, but the idea of keeping most of the details of the war effort in Niger from the public. Unsurprisingly, they’re trying to present this chiefly as keeping the details secret from the enemy.

 

“They learn a great deal from information he put out. They don’t deserve a report card,” insisted Pentagon spokesperson Dana White. Other officials insisted all the fighting and all the secrecy about the fighting were totally appropriate.

Yet none of these incidents involved any US casualties, and surely the assorted enemies know about their own losses. Keeping these clashes out of the papers in America seems clearly to be designed to keep Americans in the dark about military operations that were never debated in the first place.

 

Sources: www.theantimedia.org, www.antiwar.com

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2 Replies to “Pentagon Struggles To Defend America’s Secret War In Niger

  1. America`s Wars against Iraq,Libya,Afghanistan and Syia are all about Oil and Oil Pipelines.US Wars in Africa are all about Gold,Uranium,Cobalt and Oil.Protecting Globalized Companies with American Soldiers.

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