About 150 U.S. Marines are poised to enter turbulent South Sudan to help evacuate Americans and provide security for the U.S. Embassy, two U.S. military officials said Monday.
The troops are moving from Spain to Africa, probably to the nation of Djibouti, the officials told CNN’s Barbara Starr on Monday.
An estimated 100 U.S. citizens are believed to be in the country, where steady violence is stoking fears of an all-out civil war in the world’s newest country.
Up to 40,000 civilians have taken refuge in U.N. bases in the country, the world body says. It estimates some 62,000 people have been displaced in total, with five of South Sudan’s 10 states affected by the violence.
Deployment here has escalated from the original 45 US troops on last Thursday, to an additional complement of 65 just yesterday, and now an additional 150 troops being deployed to South Sudan as of today: so from last Thursday to today, the US will have a total troop compliment of 260.
Look for these numbers to potentially escalate dramatically in the next week, between Christmas and New Year’s day, when the US government thinks no one is paying any attention.
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Californians are buying rifles like mad before the 1st of the year registration comes around.
Great time to buy more stock in arms manufacturing. Of course, it almost always is.
1000 people have already died and a million displaced, did they send Gengis Kahn's relatives ?
It has been on going and they are asking us for help.
Saw a headline in the past few days that violence has surfaced in Iraq and we are sending military assets over there. Wonder if that will stop the dinar reval.