U.S. volunteer charged with terrorism in Uganda

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. volunteer charged with terrorism in Uganda
Fri 1 Dec 2006 12:39:02 GMT

By Tim Cocks

KAMPALA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - An American volunteer worker appeared in a Ugandan court on Friday charged with terrorism after being caught with a submachinegun, a pistol and 38 rounds of ammunition, according to the charge sheet.

Christopher John Boehlke, 26, who works for a local charity helping old people in east Uganda, was arrested in Gulu, in the war-torn north of the country on Nov. 15.

"On him we found an SMG (submachinegun), a pistol, rounds of ammunition and some military uniforms," police spokesman Edward Ochon told Reuters, adding that Boehlke had failed to explain how he got the weapons.

Boehlke, whom the charge sheet described as an "American cattle keeper" from New York State, appeared for a few minutes in a Kampala court. He came with his father, brother and a U.S. embassy official, a Reuters witness saw.

As Boehlke was led away from court to prison, he grabbed a journalist's camera and tried to push him away, while covering his face with a newspaper.
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http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=L01898081

[Judi Lynn]

1. Here's his photo, and a small item from New Vision, Ugandan newspaper.

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/533493

[Judi Lynn]

2. Sorry, double post. n/t

http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/533493

[OKthatsIT]

3. Hiding his face, is he? Uganda authorities may have thwarted a plot

interesting, huh?

[LynnTheDem]

4. Has he been water-boarded yet?

That'll get the confession outta him. America supports that kind of treatment for persons accused of terrorism.

[MrPrax]

5. He sounds spooky...

Suppose to be in the East, found in a conflict zone in the North...
Doesn't want his picture taken...

from the posted link:

His case came after Uganda in March deported an American evangelist also charged with terrorism after police said they found assault rifles hidden in his bedroom days before a February presidential election.

Ever since President Yoweri Museveni came to power 20 years ago his government has been fighting several rebel groups it brands "terrorists", such as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels notorious for brutal attacks on civilians in the north.

Ah yes...the Lord's Resistance Army. No doubt the fellow was simply inspired by the Voice of God and followed it to Joseph Kony. Perhaps the fellow was visiting LRA camps in south Sudan...or hanging with Kony in LRA camps in the Congo

Uganda: LRA Suspend Talks

Nov. 29/06

The LRA yesterday suspended participation in peace talks with the government to end a brutal two-decade conflict, claiming the army had killed three rebel fighters.

Rebel spokesman Obonyo Olweny said they withdrew from the peace process after the UPDF attacked a rebel unit headed to one of two neutral camps in southern Sudan, in line with the truce.

All-Africa

[jordi_fanclub]

7. Bible and Ten Commandments guerrilla...

"Ah yes...the Lord's Resistance Army.
No doubt the fellow was simply inspired by the Voice of God and followed it to Joseph Kony."

The link to Joseph Koby bio is interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kony
"... the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a guerrilla group that was until recently engaged in a violent campaign to establish a theocratic government in Uganda, reportedly based on the Bible and the Ten Commandments..."

Seems a kind of freeper armed branch... :)

[Judi Lynn]

8. Wonder what it is about that part of the world. Pat Robertson had a lot of business

connected to diamond mines in Zaire, just west of Uganda.

OFFICIALS MUM ON ROBERTSON DIAMOND MINE OPERATION PROBE

A yearlong investigation of televangelist Pat Robertson's activities in Africa is now over, but state officials are sitting on the final report pending a review by attorneys, reports the Virginian-Pilot newspaper. The probe focused on possible inappropriate activities involving Robertson's Operation Blessing outreach, and a private corporation he operated known as the African Development Co. Based in Zaire, the firm was established by Robertson during the rule of the late dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. The two men established close ties, and Mobutu wined and dined Robertson during one visit to the country; ADC also received vast forestry and mineral concessions, but the diamond mining operation eventually went bankrupt. Mobutu, after a quarter-century of iron fisted rule, died last year in exile from cancer. He left Zaire bankrupt and impoverished, and since 1994 had even been considered persona non grata in the United States.

In April, 1997 two pilots who worked for Operation Blessing charged that planes linked to Robertson and his ministry flew mostly to haul equipment for ADC's private diamond operation. Robert Hinkle, the chief pilot told reporter Bill Sizemore that of about 40 flights within Zaire during the half-year period he was there, "Only one or at most two" were related to the humanitarian mission of Operation Blessing. The rest were "mining-related."

"We got over there and we had 'Operation Blessing' painted on the tails of the airplanes, Hinkle told the Virginian-Pilot, "but we were doing no humanitarian relief at all. We were just supplying the miners and flying the dredges from Kinshasa out to Tdshikapa."

If so, that activity could jeopardize Operation Blessing's special tax exempt status. It also highlights Robertson's network of projects and corporations mixing religion, politics and private business.
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http://www.skeptictank.org/robem2.htm



It could be Robertson only ACTS like psychopath and an a-hole, while actually doing something quite different! While people thought they were looking the other way while Pat was up to no good in the diamond trade, he may have been moving other things in and out of Africa in his planes. Never know, do we?

[Finder]

6. Wonder if he is related to the guy involved...

with the Florida flight school--Richard Boehlke(pal of Dekkars)

tin foil time.