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far into the future, even as violence appears to be abating and U.S. troops have begun drawing down."

Readers can look up the rest of this fascinating article online, by following this link:
http://www.washingtonpost .com/wp-dyn/content/article/20 08/10/02/AR2008100204223.html? wpisrc=newsletter&sub=AR.

A thorough search at Africom's own website, failed to reveal any such budget for its operations in Africa. Perhaps the question an Nrumaist and ultra-nationalist like me ought to ask is: is Africom engaged in the same kind of operations reported in The Washington Post article and paying huge sums to sections of the Ghanaian media for the same ends the US military seeks in Iraq in the war it is fighting in Iraq to protect US interests in the Middle East region?

Would that I was a fly on the wall at some of the meetings General Ward has held in Ghana with our political leaders and our security chiefs. I wonder too, whether the many newspapers sponsored by our own secret services have been beneficiaries of the munificence of the U.S. Defense Department as they seem to have a bottomless pit to draw their propaganda budget from!

Naturally, in a few decades hence, patriotic and discerning Ghanaians alive then will get to read the declassified US State Department and Defense Department documents on the subject. If I am in heaven by then, I'll read them avidly - to know who amongst our media sold their consciences: and worked for a foreign power against the national interest of our homeland Ghana.

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