{"id":731,"date":"2011-10-14T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=731"},"modified":"2011-10-14T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T22:41:07","slug":"obama-sends-u-s-troops-to-central-africa-to-aid-campaign-against-rebel-group-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/10\/obama-sends-u-s-troops-to-central-africa-to-aid-campaign-against-rebel-group-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Sends U.S. Troops To Central Africa To Aid Campaign Against Rebel Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help local forces battle the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army, a rebel group that the administration says has waged a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said Friday the troops will act as advisers in efforts to hunt down rebel leader Joseph Kony but will not engage in combat except in self-defense, according to a letter to Congress that was obtained by Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says the first troops arrived in Uganda on Wednesday. Ultimately, they will also deploy in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Congo.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/10\/14\/obama-sends-us-troops-to-central-africa-to-aid-campaign-against-rebel-group\/?test=latestnews\">Obama Sends U.S. Troops To Central Africa To Aid Campaign Against Rebel Group | Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help local forces battle the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army, a rebel group that the administration says has waged a campaign of murder, rape and kidnapping for more than two decades. Obama said Friday the troops will act as advisers in efforts to hunt down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,20,18],"tags":[440,442,441,443,439,444,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}