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The building belonged to the town of Obo’s doctor until he was murdered last year by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) while transporting medicines by road. Now it serves as an operational centre in one of America’s latest military ventures in Africa.

The mission’s goal is clear.

“(The) focus is the removal of Joseph Kony and senior Lord’s Resistance Army leadership from the battlefield,” said Captain Ken Wright, a navy SEAL in command of the roughly 100-strong force which deployed in October.

Kony has evaded the region’s militaries for nearly three decades, kidnapping tens of thousands of children to fill his militia’s ranks and serve as sex slaves as he moves through the bush. Thousands more have died in the wake of his brutal army.

The deployment of elite American forces to help track Kony and his senior commanders in the dense equatorial jungle across a region that spans several countries has raised hopes the sadistic warlord’s days are numbered.

The troops are armed but do not patrol the surrounding forests and are allowed to engage the LRA only in self-defense.

Instead, their focus is on improving intelligence on LRA positions gathered both electronically and from tip-offs.

“You look at patterns to see where LRA might be moving, historic areas where they might operate, so we can predict where they’re going and try and head them off and most effectively use the forces on the ground,” Captain Gregory, a 29-year-old Texan hidden behind sunglasses and a wide brimmed hat told Reuters.

For many of the U.S. troops who have recently served in Afghanistan and Iraq, the humid jungles of central Africa are unfamiliar territory.

Their deployment raised expectations locally that U.S. drones would be unearthing Kony. They are not, and this hostile environment is throwing up unforeseen challenges.

“Some of the gear we have here is affected by the vegetation … and acts differently from in the desert. “Vegetation absorbs signals and sounds,” said Gregory.

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Kony, a self-styled mystic leader who at one time was bent on ruling Uganda by the ten commandments, fled his native northern Uganda in 2005, roaming first the lawless expanses of South Sudan and then the isolated northeastern tip of Congo.

In December 2008, after last-ditch peace talks failed, Ugandan paratroopers and fighter jets struck the LRA’s Congo hideouts. Kony slipped through the net, raising suspicions he had been tipped off. He and many of his combatants moved north into CAR.

Kony was thrust back into the spotlight earlier this year when a video Buy windows 7 key, “Kony 2012″, highlighting the chilling mutilations, rapes and murders carried out by his spell-bound fighters went viral on the Internet.

Bruce Wharton, deputy assistant secretary in the Department of State’s Africa bureau said the deployment of special forces was in part a response to legislation in 2010 calling on the Obama administration to do more to tackle Kony.

“I think Kony, for lack of an ideology, for lack of a political agenda, for lack of an intellectually identifiable cause, and for the brutality with which he operates, is at the top of the list of international bad guys,” Wharton said.

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Facing war crimes charges, Kony has transformed himself from a one-time altar boy to a master of jungle survival and evasion. His fighters have become increasingly savvy in concealing their movements, wading through crocodile-infested rivers and walking backwards and in loops to disguise their tracks.

The vicious and often drugged rebels first struck Obo in the early hours of March 6, 2009. They targeted the town’s Catholic mission, abducting 76 people.

“We were told they were coming but we didn’t believe they would attack the town,” said Obo resident Ricardo Dimanche who runs a community radio project urging LRA fighters to give up their weapons.

“The next year they started attacking the small villages around us. Displaced people started flooding in,” said Dimanche.

Underscoring the challenge facing the American and regional troops, the LRA launched almost as many attacks in the first three months of this year in CAR as in all of last year, according to U.N. data.

“Nobody has peace of mind now,” said Dimanche.

U.S. military officials are reluctant to bet on if and when they might snare Kony.

“The global effort to try to find Osama bin Laden took 10 years with an extraordinary level of effort … the highest priority for the international intelligence community, and it still took 10 years to find him,” General Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) told a media briefing in Germany ahead of the tightly controlled trip.

“So this is a tough mission.”

Alabama native Lucas Black will play Pee Wee Reese in ‘42,’ the story of Jackie Robinson. (The Associated Press)

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Alabama native Lucas Black of “Sling Blade” and “Friday Night Lights” also has been cast to play Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese, who famously put an arm around Robinson’s shoulder after fans heckled his new teammate on a road trip to Cincinnati that season.

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Christopher Meloni of “‘Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” plays Dodgers manager Leo Durocher, and Nicole Beharie of “Shame” plays Rachel Isum, who became Robinson’s wife.

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GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE Top Tattoo Machines, Cuba, May 5, 2012 (Reuters) — The arraignment of five Guantanamo prisoners accused of plotting the September 11 attacks got off to a rocky start on Saturday when the defendants removed their earphones and refused to listen to a translation of the judge’s questions.

Star defendant Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Tattoo Machine Coils, the confessed mastermind of the September 11 hijacked plane attacks, refused to respond to the judge’s questions about whether he was satisfied with his U.S. military and civilian lawyers.

“I believe Mr. Mohammed will decline to address the court. I believe he’s deeply concerned about the fairness of the proceeding,” said his civilian lawyer, David Nevin.

Mohammed looked haggard and his full Kuro Sumi Tattoo Ink, scraggly beard had a reddish tinge. He wore a round white turban and white tunic.

Defendant Ramzi Binalshibh stood up, then knelt on the courtroom floor and prayed as a row of burly guards in camouflage uniforms kept a close watch but did not interfere.

Defendant Walid bin Attash was tightly strapped into a restraining chair after refusing to come to court voluntarily. The judge freed him after he promised to behave inside the courtroom.

When all the defendants refused to wear the earphones that allowed them to listen to the Arabic-English translations of the judge’s questions, the judge recessed the hearing briefly and then resumed it with an interpreter providing translation that was audible to the whole court.

Mohammed and his co-defendants, who could all be subjected to the death penalty, face seven charges stemming from the 2001 attacks that killed 2,976 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania and propelled the United States into a deadly, costly and ongoing global war against al Qaeda and its supporters.

The defendants last appeared in court in December 2008 when Mohammed tried to confess and plead guilty.

Cheryl Borman, a civilian attorney for defendant Walid bin Attash, wore a black hijab and long black robe and told the court that the treatment of her client at Guantanamo had interfered with his ability to participate in the proceedings.

“These men have been mistreated,” Borman said.

The judge said that until the question of the men’s legal representation was settled, the attorneys had no standing to make motions concerning the defendants’ treatment. But the defendants still refused to answer the judge’s questions.

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