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In 2001, the State Department named it a terrorist organization. Since 2008, it's been called a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group.
US intervention also targets China's growing African influence to feed its insatiable resource needs, especially oil and gas. WikiLeaks disclosed a February 17, 2010 US cable, saying:
"China's economic ties to Uganda continue to accelerate on all fronts making it one of the country's top foreign investors."
It's also true in other African countries, including resource rich Congo.
"Greater Chinese investment and assistance in Uganda has generated some resentment due to local perceptions that Chinese investments favor their own businesses."
China, in fact, prefers partnership arrangements attractive to both sides in contrast to Washington's one-way deals.
In 1986, Yoweri Museveni seized power in a bloody conflict. Holding it ruthlessly, he remains Uganda's Western-supported dictator. He provides proxy military services and serves corporate interests at the expense of his own people.
Obama, in fact, deployed Special Forces assassins. Others like them perform death squad services in dozens of countries. More on that below.
Obama told Congress that US troops will "assist African forces in the removal of (LRA leader) Joseph Kony and the leadership of the LRA from the battlefield."
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