Legal documents, Pentagon reports and a host of FOIA requests reveal AFRICOM's widespread malfeasance
Six people lay lifeless in the filthy brown water.
It was 5:09 a.m. when their Toyota Land Cruiser plunged off a bridge in the West African country of Mali. For about two seconds, the SUV sailed through the air, pirouetting 180 degrees as it plunged 70 feet, crashing into the Niger River.
Three of the dead were American commandos. The driver, a captain nicknamed “Whiskey Dan,” was the leader of a shadowy team of operatives never profiled in the media and rarely mentioned even in government publications. One of the passengers was from an even more secretive unit whose work is often integral to Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), which conducts clandestine kill-and-capture missions overseas. Three of the others weren’t military personnel at all or even Americans. They were Moroccan women alternately described as barmaids or “prostitutes.”
Serious Discipline Problems Being Reported Among Personnel Deployed To U.S. Africa Command
Update #1: Report: Special Forces soldiers killed with prostitutes in Mali were on bar crawl -- Washington Post
Update #2: Book accuses AFRICOM of covering up sexual misconduct -- Politico
Update #3: The U.S. Military Behaving Badly in Africa -- Tom Engelhardt, Huffington Post/TomDispatch.com