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{UAH} WHEN YOU ALLOW ALLAN BARIGYE A FORUM BULLY TO BE A FREE RANGE YOU END UP WITH TRUMP IN COURTS THAN BARRACK OBAMA -> Part one

Drones may predate Obama, but his resolute use of them is unmatched

Alice Ross

Civilians have been killed and officials warn it will ‘weaken the rule of law’, yet the president’s actions indicate drone warfare won’t be going away anytime soon

Wed 18 Nov 2015 17.47 GMT

The first drone strike took place within weeks of the September 11 attacks, but the unmanned aerial weapons system came of age under Barack Obama.

It was Obama who stepped up the most controversial use of drones, using them beyond internationally recognised war zones to conduct hundreds of strikes in the lawless regions of Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia.

Unlike conventional aircraft, drones can linger for hours above their targets, watching and hoovering up data such as cellphone signals. This makes them uniquely well-suited for pursuing suspected senior terrorists – “high-value targets”, in military jargon – or providing surveillance on suspect sites or groups.

Obama and his team seized on these capabilities: in 2009, his first year in the White House, Obama carried out more such strikes in Pakistan than Bush had during his entire presidency. The following year, strikes hit Pakistan’s tribal regions at a rate of more than two a week.

Concrete details on all aspects of these secretive campaigns, waged by the CIA and Joint Special Operaitons Command (JSOC), are elusive – Obama himself did not even mention drone strikes publicly until 2012. But independent monitoring groups such as the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the New America Foundation estimate that the US has conducted almost 400 such strikes since Obama entered the White House.

This is not an arm’s-length project for the president. Senior officials have described on condition of anonymity how Obama, who holds the 2009 Nobel peace prize, personally signs off on the “kill list” and is often briefed on individual strikes.

These strikes have claimed high-profile scalps; figures such as Nassir al-Wuhayshi, leader of al-Qaida’s Yemeni affiliate, who died in a drone strike in June. Meanwhile, letters from Osama bin Laden reveal the considerable disruption caused by the persistent presence of drones to al-Qaida’s senior leadership in Pakistan.

But the strikes have provoked sustained criticism from international lawyers and civil rights groups, who question the administration’s claim that after 9/11 the US is legally justified in targeting al-Qaida and its “affiliates”, wherever they may be. Christof Heyns, the UN’s special rapporteur on extrajudicial killing, said in 2012 that the practice threatened to “weaken the rule of law”.

The strikes have also been dogged by claims of civilian casualties. The administration has sought to play these down: John Brennan, at the time Obama’s counter-terrorism adviser and now the head of the CIA, portrayed drones as an “exceptionally precise and surgical” weapon causing next to no collateral damage.

The New America Foundation estimates that at least 342 civilians have died, while the Bureau of Investigative Journalism puts the figure at 488 or more. Well-documented disasters such as the 2013 bombing of a wedding convoy in Yemen have led Human Rights Watch and others to call for the US to launch official investigations into particular strikes. No such investigations have been published.

Worryingly, the drone pilots who spoke with the Guardian say they often had little idea who was being killed – a view echoed by CIA documents leaked to McClatchy, which found hundreds of the dead recorded simply as “other”.

The controversy of the “secret” drone wars has distracted attention from the situation where the vast majority of drone strikes are conducted alongside traditional forces in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Here too unmanned aircraft have helped to shape the conflict, supporting troops on the ground and pinpointing targets for other aircraft to attack as well as conducting strikes of their own.

As the US struggles to extricate itself from its long and unpopular ground war in Afghanistan, Obama is increasingly relying on aerial warfare. The Pentagon announced this summer that it is increasing its drone fleet by 50% to help meet the “steady demand signal” from across the globe. Meanwhile in Iraq and Syria, the US is conducting its fight against Isis almost exclusively from above, using drones and conventional aircraft to launch more than 8,000 airstrikes in the past year.

Speaking at the G20 meeting on Syria in Geneva on Monday, the president angrily rejected renewed calls for boots on the ground. “It is not just my view, but the view of my closest military and civilian advisers, that that would be a mistake.”

Instead, he vowed an “intensification” of the current activity. Aerial warfare is set to remain the cornerstone of Obama’s military strategy.

Alice Ross formerly led the drones team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism

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{UAH} FOUR MILLION PILGRIMS AT NAMUGONGO CATHOLIC SHRINE ( 2023 )

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{UAH} Trump indictment details plot to hide sensitive documents

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{UAH} ALLAN BARIGYE THE FORUM BULLY USED THE FORUM TO ATTACK MY DEAD DAUGHTER ->I will use UAH to post the facts Part five

Fresh evidence Justice is sweeping Biden family crimes under the rug

By Post Editorial Board

Fresh whistleblower revelations sure make the Justice Department look to be in the tank for Hunter Biden, and indeed the whole clan.

A new informant charges that top Justice officials have worked to protect the first son amid a probe of his tax returns, including by retaliating against IRS staff who complained.

This whistleblower, a veteran special agent in the agency’s international tax and financial crimes group, emerged after the IRS yanked the entire Biden-probe team in reaction to the first whistleblower, the group’s supervisor.

Both think the case is being squelched to protect the president’s son.

And all this after the case has dragged on ridiculously long.

“I was removed . . . after nearly 5 years of work,” the new whistleblower fumed in an email.

He said he spent “thousands of hours on the case, worked to complete 95% of the investigation” and “sacrificed sleep/vacations/gray hairs etc.” Plus, he and his “husband were publicly outed,” “ridiculed on social media due to our sexual orientation.”

An IRS whistleblower claimed that Justice Department officials attempted to protect Hunter Biden during an investigation.AP Photo/Patrick Semansky

He feels he was “removed for always trying to do the right thing.”

The team chief wrote, “For over a year I have had trouble sleeping; awake all hours of the night thinking about this,” adding that “my choice was to turn a blind eye to their malfeasance, and not sleep, or to put myself in the crosshairs by doing the right thing.”

The supervisor reportedly gave Congress information to “contradict sworn testimony” by “a senior political appointee” — who The Post later reported is Attorney General Merrick Garland.

And it was the Justice Department that ordered the team’s removal, say the supervisor’s attorneys.

Officially, it’s the Delaware US attorney (who answers to Garland) who’s been looking into Hunter Biden’s possible money-laundering and various other crimes.

Now it seems obvious: Justice under Garland (who answers to Biden) is doing everything it can to avoid prosecuting Hunter.

The whistleblower reportedly gave Congress information to “contradict sworn testimony” by Attorney General Merrick Garland.Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images

It all echoes the corrupt FBI and Justice shenanigans detailed in the Durham report: Agents protected Hillary Clinton yet probed Trump-Russia “collusion” based on based on no credible evidence whatsoever, while ignoring exculpatory information.

They also colluded to squash The Post’s 2020 exposés off Hunter’s laptop.

Happily, it seems you can only pile so many coverups on top of coverups on top of coverups before the whole corrupt heap collapses.

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{UAH} ALLAN BARIGYE THE FORUM BULLY USED THE FORUM TO ATTACK MY DEAD DAUGHTER ->I will use UAH to post the facts Part four

Farewell, FBI: The bureau I once knew and loved is gone

By James A. Gagliano

 

The Durham report revealed senior FBI leaders either manufactured evidence or purposely ignored established protocols to pursue the solely political Crossfire Hurricane farce probe.AP

The FBI that agents like me were once so proud to be a part of is gone. It’s been destroyed by wokeness and outright politicization.

This week’s release of the Durham report shows senior leaders either manufactured evidence or purposely ignored established protocols to pursue the solely political Crossfire Hurricane farce probe into Trump-Russia “collusion.”

Then on Thursday three FBI whistleblowers, including a combat vet and a decorated Marine FBI professional-support employee, testified before the House, laying bare the bureau’s retaliation against them after they came forward to describe politically partisan decision-making and the weaponization of a once rigidly apolitical agency.

No surprise, then, that recent polling reveals that only 40% of Americans believe FBI agents are fair.

It comes down to this: The drift away from core FBI tenets and its embrace of wokeness and politics has compromised its mission and sacrificed public trust.

Think about it: Tradition in the FBI has always been one of its hallmarks.

The mythologized image of the “G-Man” had nothing to do with skin tone or gender but reflected the single standard of excellence and adherence to our enduring motto: Fidelity, Bravery and Integrity.

In his 2018 book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” James Comey describes how he met with FBI headquarters employees on his first day as director.Getty Images

Those tenets have been sidelined — pushed aside in favor of identity and a focus on our differences, rather than on what once made us all proud Feds.

James Comey’s tenure as FBI director, in particular, saw a noticeable abandonment of tradition.

In his 2018 book, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” Comey describes how he met with FBI headquarters employees on his first day as director.

SEE

He was seated on a stool, wearing a tie, blue shirt and no jacket. Why mention that? Because the man who Comey succeeded, Robert S. Mueller III, proudly wore a white shirt, tie and jacket to work every day — as did his five predecessors dating back to Hoover. Tradition.

Per Comey, “I thought that shirt color was one early, small way to set a different tone.”    

We see this change-the-culture fever across our entire great nation, whose motto once drew scores of immigrants captivated by the notion of e pluribus unum — “out of many, one.”

Assimilation is no longer the goal; it’s now focusing on one’s perceived identity that counts most.

Once a fairly conservative agency, the bureau now competes to align itself with activists for wokeness. And division.

Comey’s blue shirt is emblematic of what’s seemingly become most important to the FBI.

Special Counsel John Durham’s final report on Russiagate showed an FBI operating outside the rules in pursuit of Trump.AP

Don’t believe me? Check out the 2023 FBI edition’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion webpage.

The bureau once attracted eager, qualified applicants to hunt down terrorists, dismantle violent street gangs and stymie China’s spying.

Now FBI 2.0 lures aspiring crimefighters with its Diversity Advisory Committee and Employee Resource Group.

Long gone are the days of special agents being instructed at Quantico that they were but a small, unified bunch striving to do right at the premier law-enforcement agency in the world.

You didn’t own an “identity.” You were part of the FBI, and blessed for it.

The Durham report revealed senior FBI leaders either manufactured evidence or purposely ignored established protocols to pursue the solely political Crossfire Hurricane farce probe.AP

Now the DAC highlights all the distribution lists where you can align with causes to divide up as employees: American Indian and Alaska Native Advisory Committee, Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee, Black Affairs Diversity Committee, Bureau Equality, Hispanic Advisory Board, Near and Middle East Advisory Committee, Persons with Disabilities Advisory Committee, Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee and the Women’s Advisory Committee.

The ERG adds more fissures to the workforce; groups tied to it include: Blacks in Government, FBI African American Millennials, FBI Family, FBI Jewish Americans, FBI Latinos for Empowerment Advancement and Development, FBI Pride, Federal Asian Pacific American Counsel, Federally Employed Women, From Boots to Suits and the Toastmasters Club (where the jokes write themselves).

For so many retired FBI agents, these gratuitous DEI efforts are beyond shameful — contributing to the pedestal-toppling of an FBI we sweated for and bled to honor.

As the bureau reels under its now oh-so-tarnished reputation, maybe we’ll be invited back for its upcoming “Happiness Seminar” sponsored by its newest, coolest diversity groups, Save the Earth from A to Z and We Are One Family, on May 30.

There we’ll relax, lament the melting polar ice caps and find our inner peace — as terrorists, gangbangers and hostile nation-states enjoy the demise of a once-proud agency.

James A. Gagliano is a retired FBI supervisory special agent and doctoral candidate in homeland security at St. John’s University. He serves on the board of directors for the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.

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On the 49th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko 

 

{UAH} ALLAN BARIGYE THE FORUM BULLY USED THE FORUM TO ATTACK MY DEAD DAUGHTER ->I will use UAH to post the facts Part three

How Obama officials and the FBI squashed any investigation into Hillary Clinton

By Andrew C. McCarthy

When Andrew McCabe, former deputy director of the FBI, was fired in disgrace in 2018, it was commonly assumed it was because of the “Russiagate” investigation.

After all, he essentially ran that fiasco, which Special Counsel John Durham definitively noted this week was a baseless farce.

But no. McCabe was fired because he serially lied to investigators that he wasn’t leaking investigative information to the media.

More telling was what he was lying about: an FBI investigation of foreign efforts to influence a presidential campaign.

Not Donald Trump’s campaign. Hillary Clinton’s.

It’s just part of the many ways the FBI went easy on Clinton, as Durham reveals the agency dropped at least four criminal investigations related to her.

The Clinton Foundation was understandably suspected by FBI agents in three different field offices — Little Rock, Washington, and New York — as a dodgy vehicle enabling donors, very much including foreign regimes and their operatives, to give goo-gobs of money to Hillary and Bill Clinton without appearing to violate the campaign finance laws.

Andrew McCabe was reportedly fired for leaking investigative information to the media.AP

But McCabe was infuriated, during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, when the Wall Street Journal reported that he had tied the hands of investigators on the Clinton Foundation case.

Because McCabe’s wife, in her run for state office in Virginia, had received a hefty contribution from a fund tied to Clinton crony Terry McAuliffe, there was a strong suggestion of partisanship on McCabe’s part.

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To push back against that, McCabe had his subordinates leak that the Obama Justice Department had pressured him to shutter the Clinton Foundation probe.

This was true. In fact, it is substantiated by Durham. He found that the bureau had meetings with top Obama DOJ officials who were hostile to the investigation.

One of them played down as “de minimis” evidence the FBI’s New York office’ obtained from an informant about the amounts of money involved.

Without making any finding of criminality, Durham found that the transactions in question actually “totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The Obama DOJ, including its appointed U.S. attorneys in Manhattan and Brooklyn, made clear to the FBI that they had no interest in a Clinton Foundation case.

McCabe may not have been especially interested either, but it was a lot easier for him to direct his subordinates to stand down when he knew the prosecutors wouldn’t touch it.

Durham found that the bureau had meetings with top Obama DOJ officials who were hostile to the investigation.AP

This was a pattern. As Durham found, even when there may have been evidence that foreign powers were trying to cultivate Clinton and possibly try to bring her under their influence, the same FBI that couldn’t open a case on Trump fast enough became paralyzed.

Durham noted that in 2014 — i.e., before Clinton even formally announced her candidacy — the bureau got information about a foreign government’s effort to have one of its operatives contribute to Clinton’s campaign.

But when agents in one of field office sought to conduct FISA counterintelligence surveillance, their request sat at FBI headquarters for months with no action taken.

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One unidentified agent told Durham that the bureau was “super more careful” and “scared with the big name [Clinton] involved.”

FBI officials, a supervisor recalled, “were pretty tippy-toeing around HRC because there was a chance she would be the next president.”

They wanted to avoid any possibility that Clinton could be caught on tape — after all, she was a presidential candidate!

The bureau’s priority with Clinton was to protect her from malign foreign powers.

After 11 months of bureau handwringing, her aides were given a “defensive briefing” about the foreign approach, and the matter was quietly closed. Unlike in Russiagate, the FBI was unconcerned that by bringing the Clinton campaign into the loop, their investigation would be compromised.

In a second case of a foreign government seeking to donate to Clinton, the FBI warned one of its informants, who had made an illegal contribution, to cease and desist attending Clinton-related events.

The informant’s handling agent did even not document the illegal contribution in the bureau’s files.

In late July 2016, the FBI’s then-director, James Comey, was briefed that U.S. spy agencies had intercepted a Russian intelligence analysis that Clinton had approved a plan by her campaign to smear Trump as an asset of the Kremlin.

Durham provides no reason to believe the FBI investigated the Russian analysis; indeed, he finds that the bureau essentially ignored it.

James Comey was briefed that U.S. spy agencies had intercepted a Russian intelligence analysis that Clinton had approved a plan by her campaign to smear Trump as an asset of the Kremlin.Getty Images

Of course, regardless of whether the Russian analysis was authentic, we now know the Clinton campaign had exactly such a strategy, and that the campaign managed to get the FBI to do its bidding in framing Trump as Putin’s puppet.

Just days after being briefed on the Russian intelligence, the FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane — on the basis of a sketchy hearsay “kind of suggestion” made in a London bar to Australian diplomats by young, unpaid Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, to the effect that Russia might have unflattering information on the Clintons that it could disclose to harm her campaign.

The Durham report revealed the FBI dropped at least four criminal investigations related to Hillary Clinton.Getty Images

The Aussies thought little of the statement or of Papadopoulos, but the FBI rushed to open a full-field investigation of Trump’s campaign without taking any of the usual preliminary steps and without interviewing a single witness.

Quite a contrast.

Andrew C. McCarthy is the author of “Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.”

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On the 49th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko 

 

 

{UAH} ALLAN BARIGYE THE FORUM BULLY USED THE FORUM TO ATTACK MY DEAD DAUGHTER ->I will use UAH to post the facts Part two

The FBI Agents Association rewarded agents who took a knee in front of BLM, proving the rot isn’t just at the top

By James A. Gagliano

October 19, 2022 9:27pm 

 

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents take a knee with demonstrators as they march on Pennsylvania Avenue June 4, 2020.Jose Luis Magana/AP

·        The FBI Agents Association bills itself as “dedicated to advancing and safeguarding the careers, economic interests, conditions of employment and welfare of FBI agents and retired FBI agents.” Founded in 1981, the nonprofit boasts 14,000 members — including 90% of the current agent workforce — and once enjoyed almost universal appeal and respect among them. Once.

With outrageous, political decisions by its board, it has sullied itself just as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page and Kevin Clinesmith annihilated the top law-enforcement agency’s reputation during the 2016 Russiagate hoax.

FBI executive management lauded on-duty agents who knelt before Black Lives Matter protesters at the height of the George Floyd unrest and riots for their “de-escalation” efforts, The Washington Times recently reported. A whistleblower said the counterterrorism special agent in charge of the Washington, DC, field office even hugged each of them after the June 4, 2020, incident. While not all the “presence patrol” agents assigned to the scene — which included the Supreme Court and the National Archives — “took a knee” in a show of solidarity or an act of cowardice and capitulation, at least seven did.

And what was the FBI Agents Association’s response to this embarrassing gesture? Well, as the paper reported and FBI insiders confirmed to me, the organization rewarded the kneelers with a $100 “attaboy” — or what it describes as gift cards of “modest value.”

Shocking and appalling on its face, looked at in a larger context, this disgusting decision proves the rot and decay at the FBI is not singularly the domain of some senior officials.

During my 25-year career, I was privileged and honored to work alongside FBI agents who killed or captured Top Ten fugitives and violent, dangerous, murderous felons. To my knowledge, not one of these actual heroes received an FBIAA gift card of “modest value.”

The FBI agents were applauded for their “de-escalation efforts.”manicode/Twitter

A number of rightly incensed retired FBI agents described in detail to me their unsatisfying email and telephone exchanges with FBIAA President Brian O’Hare. I do not know him personally, and we never served alongside one another. John Wilson, a trusted, widely respected former colleague and retired FBI unit chief who served as one of the attorney general’s handpicked protection-detail members between 2001 and 2007, says O’Hare advised him he fully supported this reward-the-kneelers idea his vice president, Wes Wheeler, proposed.

Wilson shared with me his on-the-record disdain for this defies-credulity action by the FBIAA, an organization that represents all of us within the FBI — both active and retired. The FBI, he says, “has not only circled the drain, it is already in the grease trap by the curb.” The kneelers not only shouldn’t have been rewarded by the FBIAA: They “put themselves and those few agents who knew not to kneel at a severe tactical disadvantage and should have at least been suspended without pay.”

The FBIAA had to realize the two possible, equally repugnant purposes behind the kneelers’ actions. The symbolic genuflection in the face of protesters (and the movement’s rioters who destroyed businesses and government buildings and claimed lives) was either an expression of unity with BLM, or these armed agents were blatant cowards and spinelessly acquiesced to the demands of a threatening mob. Whichever the reason, it is fully nauseating to career agents like Wilson.

It’s further dishonor for an FBI now fully distrusted by half the country. Only 44% of Gallup respondents in 2021 felt the agency was doing an “excellent” or “good” job.

The agents kneeled alongside protesters following the death of George Floyd.manicode/Twitter

Yet this shameful incident isn’t even the FBIAA’s only self-inflicted black eye. Its first “jump the shark” moment occurred in January 2019. That is when then-FBIAA President Thomas O’Connor posted an open letter decrying the partial federal government shutdown that paused FBI paychecks. Capitol Hill Democrats and their mainstream-media lapdogs of course blamed President Donald Trump. I recall reminding O’Connor that the FBIAA is apolitical and this public pronouncement smacked of partisanship. It was not lost on many of us that the FBIAA never uttered a peep during the Oct. 2013 partial government shutdown — but Barack Obama was president then.

It’s this type of blatant hypocrisy that infuriates many current and retired FBI agents. But we live in troubled times: Hillary Clinton’s home in Chappaqua could be outfitted with a private server containing classified information, with the Justice Department taking her at her word that the destruction of some 33,000 under-subpoena emails only related to yoga routines and Chelsea’s wedding planning. Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence was subject to an invasive search warrant, meanwhile, even as his attorneys were negotiating with the National Archives about potentially mishandled documents.

The Biden administration and its attack dog — Attorney General Merrick Garland — have been relentless in pursuit of Trump supporters who breached the Capitol and paraded around its hallways like buffoons while Democrats have held no congressional hearings about the anarchy, chaos and insurrectionism of the “summer of love” of 2020: Seattle and Minneapolis police precincts were occupied and immolated, a federal courthouse was firebombed while federal agents were trapped inside and deadly “autonomous zones” were established in Democrat-led cities.

The agents were rewarded with a $100 gift card.Jose Luis Magana/AP

I have come to grips with the fact that my beloved FBI has been irreparably broken by woke activists serving amongst its senior ranks. And with the Justice Department appearing to do this president’s bidding by targeting his political adversaries, it will take a monumental house-cleaning and seismic shift in culture at both DOJ and the FBI to begin to restore America’s trust and confidence.

As for FBIAA leadership, how about some soul-searching and a committed course-correction on which FBI “heroes” you choose to deify and reward with 30 pieces of silver? The kneelers didn’t deserve your pathetic gift cards of “modest value.”

James A. Gagliano is a retired FBI supervisory special agent and doctoral candidate in homeland security at St. John’s University. He also serves on the board of directors for the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund.

EM         -> {   Gap   at   46  } – {Allan Barigye is a Rwandan predator}

On the 49th Parallel          

                 Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in anarchy"
                    Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni katika machafuko 

 

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