1ST INFANTRY ARMY TROOPS TO DIE IN AFRICA FOR OIL

OCT. 19, 2013  NEW YORK TIMES.  PAGE A-5

 Article says that in the Kansas planes, thousands of First Infantry army troops[Big Red] are gearing up to fight terrorism in Africa.   Training sites have also been established in Africa, for example Niger.

The  article states. "But with the United States military out of Iraq and pulling out of Afghanistan, the Army is looking for new missions around the world."  [sic]

The article further states that, "The American's credibility with their counterparts in Niger were cemented just as the training began. ......suicide bombers attacked a French-operated unranium company in the country's north, far from the training site."

According to the book Rigged, The Struggle For Africa's Minerals, Natural Gas, and Oil:

     "The intensifying competition for intensifying competition for sommercial access to the world's                      remaining deposits of oil, gas and minerals brings with it a serious risk of exacerbating corruption and violent conflict.

     "Such corruption can prop up autocratic governments that keep their people in poverty while enriching elites and the international companies that are willing to do business with them.

Since, Big Red is already engaged with "terrorists" on the ground they can die for oil  ( gas and minerals in Africa) as well as for corrupt governments as their brothers did in Iraq.  There will be more "fallen heroes" who "paid the ultimate price" for our freedom for the media to prattle about.

Here is what Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of CENTCOM with responsibility for Iraq, had to say about that war:  "Of course it's about oil, we can't deny that."