I have authorized a small number of combat-equipped U.S. forces to deploy to central Africa to provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward the removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield.
Letter to Congressional Leaders on Deployment of United States Armed Forces to Central Africa
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