Any chance Bush. Cheney and Torqueberto will be visiting Senegal soon?
Well, if he’s guilty of what they say, then … bye, bye, dude.
Torture being used as a agent of mass social control? Quick, get the School of the Americas on the phone!
Another fine mess Ollie. HT Charles Pierce.
"The CIA, knowing little about Habre and his history, helped him take over Chad in 1982. It supported him because he was Qaddafi’s enemy. CIA supply planes flew the weapons into North Africa in shipments coordinated by the National Security Council. This was the first major covert operation in which a young lieutenant colonel named Oliver North caught Bill Casey’s eye. David Blakemore, a military aide in the Chad operation, took an urgent call from North on a Friday night in late 1981. “He asked what the delay was in getting the equipment out to Chad. He wanted to see it move immediately. I said, 'Well, Colonel North, that is fine. We have notified the Congress and we have to wait so many days and then we will get it moving. We understand the urgency.”
“North’s reply was, ‘Fuck the Congress. Send the stuff now.’ Which we did.”
I’m surprised he wasn’t granted emergency asylum by one of his big fans — the US and France.