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Filename: A2-MAIN-AJCD0419-AJCD DateTime created: Apr 18 2012 Username: SPEEDDRIVER11 Magenta Black 2A AJCD Thursday, Apr 19, 2012 MAIN 2A A2 CREDIBLE. COMPELLING. COMPLETE. THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Isakson says Kony still a priority panding the State Department's 'rewards for justice" program to target Kony. The current operation -because of Kony's notoriety and the small amount of money and personnel -has proved uncontrover-sial, unlike most overseas military missions.

Isakson compared it to the early 1990s intervention in Somalia, which he argued did not go far enough. U.S. troops withdrew after 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in a 1993 battle in which two Black Hawk helicopters crashed. Somalia remains a largely chaotic place, with terrorists and pirates roaming free.

"You have to be very careful about deploying American personnel overseas," Isakson said. "But when you've got an internationally indicted mass murderer who's been on the loose for 26 years in a continent that's trying to move into the 21st century, you don't look the other way and not help." But senator warns that Uganda feels it's being defamed. By Daniel Malloy dmalloyajc.com WASHINGTON The first question to U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson during a recent video chat with students at Westside Middle School in Winder, was about a man halfway around the world from Barrow County.

"What are you doing to find Joseph Kony?" a student asked. "It shows you the power of the Internet," Isakson said this week, after returning from a trip to Uganda to inspect U.S. military efforts to apprehend the wanted warlord. Since the late 1980s, Kony's Lord's Resistance Army has engaged in mass murder, rape and abduction of children, according to a 2005 warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court. About 100 U.S.

troops arrived in Uganda in October to help African forc Invisible Children's "Kony 2012" that the country remained a land of refugee camps and fear. The once ravaged northern part of the country has returned to normal, Isakson said. As part of a congressional delegation with U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, a Savannah Republican, and U.S.

Rep. Barbara Lee, he journeyed to the northern city of Gulu, where he said stable communities have replaced camps for people displaced by the LRA's swath of destruction. "Ugandans are very sensitive to the fact that he hasn't been in Uganda for five or six years and they cleaned up the north and it's peaceful," Isakson said. "I can attest to that. We had unfettered access up there and no problem at all." The task now is to track down the elusive Kony in vast, heavily forested areas elsewhere in Central Africa.

Johnnie Carson, assistant secretary of state in the Bureau of African Affairs, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday that the 100 U.S. troops are acting as advisers and providing intelligence and other support for African military forces hunting Kony. Carson testified that the LRA is believed to be down to 150 to 200 members, split among four or five different groups, primarily in the Central African Republic. U.S. troops are handing out radios and cellphones and encouraging villagers to alert military forces if they spot Kony or his people, Carson said.

He added that the U.S. is starting to increase intelligence assets in the region. Congress recently approved about $35 million for the mission. "We have clearly helped to degrade the LRA, to disperse it, but we have not finished the mission of decapitating it," Carson said. "We hope we will be able to continue to work with the countries of the region to bring Joseph Kony to justice." At Wednesday's hearing, lawmakers signaled they will push for ex The hunt for Joseph Kony, a rebel turned alleged war criminal, has gained new attention recently.

But a key senator notes that Kony is long gone from Uganda, a country that dislikes being portrayed as war-torn and unstable, ap the group's website, have been viewed more than 100 million times. Isakson, the top Republican on the Foreign Affairs subcommittee overseeing Africa, met with Ugandan leaders and U.S. troops. Kony's wave of atrocities was centered in Uganda, but the LRA has not been active there since 2006. Ugandans, Isakson said, were troubled by the implication in Norway gunman asks for freedom or death jSMIil Flint iittiHiiifj SAVIN es seek Kony, who is believed to be in the Central African Republic, South Sudan or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Only last month did Kony become a viral Internet phenomenon -particularly for youths shocked by accounts of child soldiers and sex slaves thanks to videos produced by the activist group Invisible Children that, according to Jj Possible sentence in last year's attacks he says. ByKarlRitter Associated Press OSLO, Norway The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people says he wants freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, last used to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. In the third day of his terror trial, prosecutors grilled Anders Behring Breivik about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong to. He rejected their suggestions that the "Knights Templar" doesn't exist, but admitted he had embellished when describing it in a manifesto he published online before the bomb-and-shooting rampage July 22. "In principle it is not an organization in a conventional sense," he said, describing it as a leaderless network of "independent The Associated Press contributed to this article.

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