U.S. seeks to strengthen military relations with Angola



08:54, October 15, 2008



Visiting US navy vessel "USS ELROD" which moored at Lobito Port, central Benguela province, on Monday signaled further strengthened military relations between Angola and the United States, a senior Angolan navy officer said on Tuesday.

Vice Admiral Daniel Antonio, commander of Angola's Southern Navy Region, told reporters that world navies are prominent for the consolidation of diplomacies and reinforcement of friendship amongst countries.

Cynthia Thebaud, commander of the American navy vessel, echoed with Daniel Antonio, saying that the good relations between the United States and Angola have been easing the cooperation and sharing experiences in the military fields, with the highlight to the navy sector.

The U.S. military officer said the USS ELROD's visit to Angola aims at consolidating friendship ties between the two countries.

Cynthia Thebaud said the friendship ties mainly in the navy field might contribute to the fight against terrorism in Angola.

On Tuesday, the US navy crew donated various goods to the orphanage of a local Catholic Church.

"USS ELROD" will remain at the Lobito Port until Thursday and then will head to Togo.



Which terrorism in Angola? Al Queda jumping around in Angola? These foolish paranoid nation.:ohno:

PS: Does the Angolan government really suffer from short term memory loss or what?:bash: How can you make friends with the US? It is highly dangerous!!! Once the USA enters a country they leave behind torched soil, Angolans should know this, it was the USA (among others) that kept alive a three decade war in Angola THAT SHOULD NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!!!...All the US wants in Africa is oil and their NGO "HELP" , there are no banks, no real estate companies, no US retail in Africa that will come to Africa in order to look for real partnership (as opposed to other investors that have a more diversified look at african countries).

If you ask me, Angola should concentrate on intra-African, European, Latin American , Asian and Middle Eastern Trade...all this can be of much greater help that allowing the US to enter. Just give them some of the oil (by allowing their companies to enter joint ventures otherwise they will instigate another war) but keep a distance as far as the US involvement in Angola is concerned. They think that their terrorist argument will be a door-opener for everything.:ohno:

Kissinger’s Lies on Angola




An historian from Johns Hopkins named Piero Gleijeses, working with newly obtained documents, has exposed an official U.S. lie from the 1970s: that South African troops invaded Angola on their own, without our help, and only in response to a prior, Soviet-backed invasion by Cuba. Actually, according to the evidence turned up by Gleijeses, and published in his new book Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976, the truth was exactly the opposite: the U.S. helped plan and carry out the South African incursion, and the Cuban troops arrived only afterward, and without prior Soviet knowledge or assistance (though the Soviets did help later on). Kissinger, as Gerald Ford’s Secretary of State at the time, was the Administration’s point man on spreading the official version of reality, a lie to which he has never admitted, and probably won’t have to now.

PS: How does this nation dare to speak of fighting terrorism in Angola when the greatest terrorist of all are the the golorious USA themselves?:ohno:

THE USA drowned Angola in blood FOR DECADES!!!!!