Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News -
The United States African Command (AFRICOM) was created in 2007 under
then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the Bush Administration as a
Military Command center that covers the entire continent of Africa.
They wanted to create a permanent footprint in Africa to maintain the
peace and security it desires that is deemed beneficial for US
interests. In a White House Press Release on Feb 6, 2007 the Bush
Administration announced that a new centralized US command will be
present in the African Continent through AFRICOM:
“This new command will strengthen our security cooperation with
Africa and create new opportunities to bolster the capabilities of our
partners in Africa. Africa Command will enhance our efforts to bring
peace and security to the people of Africa and promote our common goals
of development, health, education, democracy, and economic growth in
Africa”.
The interesting words used in the press release are development and economic growth.
There are a number of elements that involves AFRICOM and its mission.
The first being the competition it will encounter with China and other
countries who deal with African states through diplomatic negotiations
and business deals concerns the United States, especially western powers
such as France and Great Britain who colonized Africa for centuries
whether by signing treaties with African leaders who saw it as a benefit
or by military force. The US and its Western Allies use military
force, whether by an invasion or by creating a coup d’état within the
country of interest. AFRICOM’s goal is to eliminate China and other
countries influence in the region. Africa’s natural resources is
another important element to consider because it includes oil, diamonds,
copper, gold, iron, cobalt, uranium, bauxite, silver, petroleum,
certain woods and tropical fruits. Just to get an idea what’s at stake
for US corporate interests, West Africa alone provides about 20 percent
of the US supply of hydrocarbons. The US corporate interest in Africa
needs natural resources to feed its appetite for profits, a fact that
should not be ignored. The US would create conflicts to justify their
presence in the resource rich continent by any means including a way to
generate a crisis within their targeted area of interest. As Rahm
Emanuel, the former Chief of Staff to US President Barack Obama once
said “no crisis should go to waste” is a motto that Washington is
obviously using.
In the beginning of 2012, the Tuareg Rebellion took place in the
northern Mali conflict that involved several wars of independence
against the Malian government in the Sahara desert region of Azawad.
The Malian government lost its northern region to the Tuareg
secessionists as a result. The Tuareg is a faction of nomadic people
that live in the northern part of the country along with a local
Islamist militant group called the the Ansar Dine. However, the Anser
Dine was aligned with Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) an element of Al Qaeda who
eventually displaced the Tuareg and imposed Sharia law. Mali’s Timbuktu
eventually became a ghost town as the Ansar Dine and the Islamic
Maghreb gained power. Ironically, both groups obtained weapons from
Libya after the US/NATO led invasion.
The crisis began when the democratically-elected government of Amadou
Toumani Touré of Mali was overthrown on in the southern capital on
March 21st due to his mismanagement of the crisis. The
leader of the military coup was Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo who was
trained by the United States on “several occasions” according to a
Washington Post article on March 23, 2012. It is obvious that
Washington was behind the action undertaken by Sanogo. Now the United
States wants an invasion for “Humanitarian intervention” purposes. But
as we all should know “Humanitarian Intervention” only means “Economic
Intervention” because the criteria for such an intervention will lead to
a vast of wealth including gold mining, oil and agricultural
commodities that the US and other Western powers would want to exploit. The
Western controlled United Nations (UN) wants sanctions imposed on
Northern Mali because of its ties to terrorism. That is the first step
of a coming intervention by the West. AFRICOM’s true purpose is to seek
and destroy African nations and install puppet regimes that are
obedient to Washington. How do they achieve such an outcome? Create
the crises and offer the remedy. AFRICOM will be the answer.
