Exclusive preview: U.S. special forces train troops in Western Africa to fight war on terror

U.S. special forces are training troops in Western Africa to fight the main terrorist organization in the region. In an NBC News exclusive, Correspondent Courtney Kube reports from inside the training mission in Niger.
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[@B86432]

Last time we did this the CIA sold cocaine to fund the contras

[@al28854]

and a little before that, it was normal to see Afghan women out in public wearing mini skirts enjoying live with the Royal family as their govt. in the 60s and early 70s until the king got a lil less favorable with the US foreign policy and then his religious critics got a huge supply of guns curtesy of the US govt.

[@pharaohmedjaylawofmedjay2680]

I’m Happy The United States Is Training The Nigerian Special Forces At least Yes Nigeria Special Forces There History an Story’s Will Be Told There Doing Great Thing This Means A lot To Me An Every African Country Protecting The People

[@billythekidder7182]

We train ppl so later on they can attack us. Brilliant strategy!

[@United-States-of-Africa]

They're not training them to be as good as them. It's a game to unstabilize the region. They use it as a reason to be there.

[@billythekidder7182]

@@United-States-of-Africa the region is already unstable. That’s why we are there.

[@kevinjenner9502]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inKml4SKaLmbac0 CIA regime change, proxy war in Syria. (CIA Operation Timber Sycamore 2012-2017) The CIA training and arming insurgents and rebels in Jordan and inserting them into the Syrian Civil War to topple the Assad government…Credited with introducing Isis into Syria, drawing Russia in at Syria’s request, and responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths.

[@United-States-of-Africa]

@billythekidder7182 no. What we want you can't afford it. Go home.

[@TmanRock9]

@@billythekidder7182shh this doesn’t fit into his anti western propaganda.

[@kevinjenner9502]

Since 2008 US trained officers have attempted at least 9 Coups, and succeeded in at least 8 in 5 West African countries alone…3 times in Burkina Faso, 3 times in Mali, and once each in Guinea, Mauritania, and the Gambia.

[@TmanRock9]

You mean those violent militarist in west African armies? Are you suggest the us stop helping democratic countries fight against terrorist who are murdering civilians in mass?

[@dennistay687]

weapon for peace is the way to world peace

[@JK-br1mu]

Probably a lie, but coups are attempted all the time in Africa and elsewhere, so 9 isn't a large number over that time period.

[@365handle]

@@TmanRock9Sound like NBC News.

[@TmanRock9]

@@365handle sounds like sympathy for authoritarianism.

[@gumaming]

The US of A never learns. Does Afghanistan ring a bell? The generals in this country are really a part of a “special force”, “special” people.

[@katzgar]

you need a nap

[@d0235]

Hey. I need a new smart cell phone man. So slow your roll @gumaming. Rare metals don't grow on trees.

[@TmanRock9]

It sure does ring a bell, this savage terrorist low life’s were beaten back into their caves for two decades and then came crawling out once big daddy USA left just to claim they “won” or something.

[@JK-br1mu]

No comparison between the two. You're not very bright, are you. Training people to fight terror around the world in their own countries is a good thing......or US troops might have to instead.

[@rosetheis1403]

This is 😎

[@The_Quaalude]

No.

[@mekiasbiru3599]

Us national security in Africa

[@TOROG13]

They've been there since 07

[@mimpiMQ]

Narrated from Anas (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until there is no one left on earth who says, ‘Allaah, Allaah.’” Muhammad Qasim is Mahdi

[@chrisg9840]

How did Al Jazeera know you were planning this 7 years ago? “Wait til you see what they have planned for Africa.” They said.

[@williedee947]

Our special forces need to come back to the USA and conduct operations here in the major cities we need to take care of the country and stop policing and interfering with the rest of the world and be suckered like TRUMP said

[@user-uo9yb2qx8z]

laaaaaaame. we wouldnt have won ww2 like that dummy

[@crand20033]

So you would rather Al Qaeda attacks us because they want to destroy us? To date, the threat of terror remains a constant, and Americans and others throughout the world fear possible attacks. Social scientists have said that the Islamic terrorists are religious zealots seeking a holy war, that they hate us for our freedom, and that they are psychotic sociopaths that are recklessly determined to see the destruction of western society. It is agreed that they pose a real threat to westerners, and are responsible for significant death and destruction.

[@birdman1843]

About time

[@iradorsey4771]

Globable warfare

[@LawrenceJohn-rc5zr]

Wagner is in charge now 😂😂😂

[@anonymousplug]

Nothing wrong with training them to defend themselves. They are so far behind the USA in protection they couldn’t pose a big enough threat right now. It’s being a good human to help train them. They are literally using gloves found on the ground, like chill.

[@Larkinchance]

Really? These people live below the poverty line because France and the US are extracting the wealth of these countries in the form of uranium, oil and gold.

[@CHL41993]

2:11 So this is just an ad to ask for more funding.

[@crand20033]

Would you rather fight them over there or over here?

[@williamshaw5388]

It’s time to bring all these corrupt missions to an end. I am sick and tired of these wars in my tax dollars go into them while we have people here with no food, clothing, or healthcare. It’s time to slash the military budget, maybe till there’s not even a Military anymore.

[@mexicofcmexicanito3206]

Lol awesome joke 😂

[@TmanRock9]

Yeah let’s get rid of the military and watch all American interest collapse as well as the country from invasions. You won’t have to worry about healthcare when you are dead. Brilliant.

[@ILovePizzaAndKFC99502]

@@mexicofcmexicanito3206he thinks there’s no military when there is all over the world.

[@crand20033]

So you would rather Al Qaeda attacks us because they want to destroy us? To date, the threat of terror remains a constant, and Americans and others throughout the world fear possible attacks. Social scientists have said that the Islamic terrorists are religious zealots seeking a holy war, that they hate us for our freedom, and that they are psychotic sociopaths that are recklessly determined to see the destruction of western society. It is agreed that they pose a real threat to westerners, and are responsible for significant death and destruction.

[@xijinbling2373]

Rise Africa Rise.The West needs to stay out.

[@deebee4575]

When are you moving to Africa?

[@komradekobra]

So this why Africa is about to be in all out war, another Afghanistan?

[@quietude1002]

They don’t even have any plastic gloves… just sad!

[@StimpacksRequired]

Didnt they just coup?

[@geminihoover9724]

More like training for coups smh

[@dogtownoon9791]

Those african forces are some tough sob and dont care , black hawk down

[@JK-br1mu]

No, they're cannon fodder, as shown in the film.

[@jeffperteet2327]

Win yuuuhh

[@volcanicsour]

I had a dream where a Marine told that 9 or 13 Marines "were killed in the Congo." their dog tags ess braided

[@unitedafricancommunitydcau1333]

We don't need war in Africa, we already have been fighting internal war Boka Haram,Al-shabaab,Al-tahad,Raskamboni,Damaljadiid,Hezbu lslamISIS terrorist for a long time and yet our leaders could not handle it,therefore l did not see any reason why we should go into fighting our own African brothers.please l call on all well meaning America to SAY No to any form of War, Its better we dialogue and save our beloved continent.There are some African leaders who are willing tools.Are they fighting for the interest of one person or the interest of Russia,France or the interest of the African people?️!?️🤔

[@frankdiscussion2069]

what a waste if time and resources

[@xBloodXGusherx]

Because its BLACK people... We get it bro, you HATE brown skin.

[@hankhill6469]

Y'all should have been in the special Olympics

[@jepsongombedza7257]

Americans again 😢😢😢

[@nickpaz8890]

i like the west but i dont know why they do this too much

[@user-rw5jb2on5y]

We are controlled by laws of nature. There is a general force of nature, and two opposite forces-bestowal and reception-extend from it. We exist between these forces, and both of these qualities affect us. Then, the question arises: How do we develop under the influence of these forces? Where do we act? Where are we free? How do we accumulate and correlate these two forces within ourselves? How can we build ourselves out of them? These are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in: how we receive these two forces in an optimal balance, and with their help, shape ourselves so as to resemble the very laws of nature, to arise and reach equivalence of form with the force of bestowal in nature. These very laws gave us the opportunity to control the pace of our progress in accepting them upon ourselves. That is the point of our freewill. How could we act if we do not have freewill? Who would we be? Would we just be like robots, always under control? Until now, we have always been under control. What does it mean? Nature as if injects a drop of egoism-the desire to enjoy at others’ expense-into us, and then it does so a little more, and a little more again, and we then get the impetus to move toward all kinds of egoistic goals. The more our egoism inflates, the more we become willing to move to increasingly gain at the expense of others. Nature constantly squeezes the syringe into us until it eventually infuses us with the full amount of egoism. Our era is characterized by the syringe of egoism having become completely injected into us, with no more egoism left to inject. That is why we have nowhere left to run. Where do we head from here? What do we do? Moreover, egoism has become global and integral. In the beginning, we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. However, when such connections started depending on everyone, we turned out to be nature’s opposite. At this juncture, we find ourselves with a major dilemma, and we need to work out what we do about it. Where our fully-inflated egoism coupled with our tightening global connections brings us to increasing problems around the world, today we require a new form of connection-enriching education that would have the ability to guide us on how to change our egoistic connections to altruistic ones. That is the key to a shift to a harmonious and peaceful world.

[@NehemieMomo]

To anyone planning to read that ^ , read with caution.

[@alooga555]

Doesn't Ukraine already generate enough business for the military-industrial complex?

[@Jenvlogs404]

Only if capitalism wasn’t indirectly feeding them with its monopoly it would help, we have to deal with the mess and loosing our trust too, who fed its home by finding oil in the guIf and continuously supplies arms to nations guiIty, when will understand have the same agenda so no point in picking and choosing same groups.

[@ivanacevedo9404]

bs news

[@blacksheepdog6969]

Let’s do it! Africa is ripe for American influence in the region. We can hopefully turn it into a second Latin America in terms of how it serves the US economically.

[@CypressENZO39]

I was #1 Comment

[@B86432]

😂😂😂

[@stealthhumor]

That's what we need-another war.

[@ILovePizzaAndKFC99502]

You gonna get drafted

[@LawrenceJohn-rc5zr]

Wagner is in charge now 😂😂😂