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Biggest Problem in Hunt for Kony: It Hasn't Begun

Just 2.5K troops when 5K were planned

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 25, 2012 10:56 AM CDT

(Newser) – The African Union’s hunt for Joseph Kony hasn’t started yet, because it’s missing some very important resources: troops and equipment. Ugandan Col. Dick Olum, who is heading up the hunt for the warlord, tells the AP there are only 2,000 Ugandan soldiers and 500 South Sudanese soldiers signed on, when the force is supposed to be comprised of at least 5,000 troops. The US has sent 100 troops to help in the effort to capture Kony and take down his Lord’s Resistance Army.

In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland in southern Sudan.
In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland in southern Sudan.   (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)
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Plato
Jul 25, 2012 8:48 PM CDT
It can be accomplished for $1,000.00.  Just put up a few posters with his picture on them and offer $1,000.00 for his head, [ no body parts please ].
HANKHILL
Jul 25, 2012 4:11 PM CDT
i saw kony yesterday he is driving a cab in brooklyn!
carbonated_turtle
Jul 25, 2012 1:46 PM CDT
Just wait, "Kony" is going to attack a civilian ship full of Americans, and the U.S. military will have the support they need for an invasion so they can steal all of those African resour...... I mean......find Kony.
 

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