The US and UK are running death squads in Kenya
August 30, 2020 1:35 AM Subscribe
Clandestine Kenyan team has been paid and assisted by the CIA to take down terror suspects since 2004. “We’re really hands-on. We don’t just hand them the money once a month”, one US official said.The CIA and MI6 run a paramilitary execution squad in Kenya (part 2), started under Bush and continuing under Obama and Trump.
“Unconstitutional killings” include a family man wrongly slain due to mistaken identity, and allegations a terror suspect was summarily executed.
Britain’s MI6 plays a key role in identifying suspects for a ‘kill or capture’ list and finding and fixing their location.
It explains so much.
posted by infini at 6:21 AM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by infini at 6:21 AM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
I wish we lived in a world where this was surprising.
One more branch of shittiest timeline ever...
If only us plebs would understand that it is in our best interest that all these ill-defined enemies are extrajudicially executed. And they would have got away with it if not for these meddling liberal journalists...
posted by Meatbomb at 9:29 AM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
One more branch of shittiest timeline ever...
If only us plebs would understand that it is in our best interest that all these ill-defined enemies are extrajudicially executed. And they would have got away with it if not for these meddling liberal journalists...
posted by Meatbomb at 9:29 AM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
It's as if every agent from Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatamala were never punished for any of those death squads.
I'm dumbfounded it's still going on 🍔
posted by j_curiouser at 9:46 AM on August 30, 2020 [3 favorites]
I'm dumbfounded it's still going on 🍔
posted by j_curiouser at 9:46 AM on August 30, 2020 [3 favorites]
I'd imagine most Great Powers are doing this everywhere, just more 'competently'. We have a recent case of 2 GP dissidents who died in a car crash - fine conditions; straight road; etc, police very reluctant to treat as anything other than an accident.
posted by unearthed at 11:00 AM on August 30, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by unearthed at 11:00 AM on August 30, 2020 [4 favorites]
I truly wish I was surprised by this.
The fact that it started under Junior but Obama kept it going, and under Obama the focus changed from capture to murder is also unsurprising and entirely in keeping with the entire Obama administration approach to international affairs. Obama did what Junior did, but did it worse, and got very little criticism for it because he was a Democrat.
That America has decided to do that colonial era Great Game crap in Africa is also utterly unsurprising. Black lives don't matter, and the entire Eurocentric world views Africa as a giant playground where they can just do whatever they please.
We've never yet had any real accountability for the people involved in America's many programs of genocide in south and central America, so of course they'd extend those programs worldwide.
posted by sotonohito at 1:24 PM on August 30, 2020 [9 favorites]
The fact that it started under Junior but Obama kept it going, and under Obama the focus changed from capture to murder is also unsurprising and entirely in keeping with the entire Obama administration approach to international affairs. Obama did what Junior did, but did it worse, and got very little criticism for it because he was a Democrat.
That America has decided to do that colonial era Great Game crap in Africa is also utterly unsurprising. Black lives don't matter, and the entire Eurocentric world views Africa as a giant playground where they can just do whatever they please.
We've never yet had any real accountability for the people involved in America's many programs of genocide in south and central America, so of course they'd extend those programs worldwide.
posted by sotonohito at 1:24 PM on August 30, 2020 [9 favorites]
They will keep doing it till we stop them.
posted by Sheydem-tants at 3:48 PM on August 30, 2020
posted by Sheydem-tants at 3:48 PM on August 30, 2020
Searching that site for the keyword "Putin" finds only critical articles, so it passes that particular smell test.
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:11 PM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by CynicalKnight at 4:11 PM on August 30, 2020 [2 favorites]
If you're not already bummed out enough and would like to read further, Nick Turse has been covering the presence of the United States military in Africa for a long time. He is part of team that released a whole slew of articles on the subject recently that are worth reading.
posted by GalaxieFiveHundred at 9:14 PM on August 30, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by GalaxieFiveHundred at 9:14 PM on August 30, 2020 [4 favorites]
The fact that it started under Junior but Obama kept it going
Obama's great sin, for me, is that he took so many of the Global War on Terror excesses and formally enshrined them as bipartisan policies. Once he kept them going, he ensured they'd be around forever.
posted by The Notorious SRD at 5:40 AM on August 31, 2020 [9 favorites]
Obama's great sin, for me, is that he took so many of the Global War on Terror excesses and formally enshrined them as bipartisan policies. Once he kept them going, he ensured they'd be around forever.
posted by The Notorious SRD at 5:40 AM on August 31, 2020 [9 favorites]
Searching that site for the keyword "Putin" finds only critical articles, so it passes that particular smell test.
Its an established South African voice. I have always found it credible. And I have been publically curating African news sources for almost 10 years now.
posted by infini at 12:05 PM on August 31, 2020 [5 favorites]
Its an established South African voice. I have always found it credible. And I have been publically curating African news sources for almost 10 years now.
posted by infini at 12:05 PM on August 31, 2020 [5 favorites]
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