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Captain Amadou Sanogo: Power is his Middle Name
Think Africa Press, 29 March 2012
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Captain Sanogo, 39 (or 40 by some accounts), was working as an army English instructor prior to the coup. He had earlier served on the training staff at the Ecole Militaire Inter-Armes in Koulikoro, Mali's officer training school, but was dismissed last October along with the rest of the staff after a hazing incident that left five officer candidates dead. (Sanongo himself was not present on the day of the incident.)
In an interview with a Malian newspaper, Sanogo said he began his army career as an enlisted man, attending training at the US Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, before receiving infantry and English language training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He subsequently was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and attended further US-based training.
As described in both the New York Times and the Washington Post, Sanogo attended the Defense Language Institute (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas) and gained intelligence training at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Sanogo also claims to have undergone US-sponsored counterterrorism and crisis response training in Morocco and elsewhere on the African continent.
Sanogo's experience in the US appears to have left its mark on him. Since the coup, Sanogo has appeared with a US Marine Corps 'eagle, globe and anchor' pinned prominently above the right breast pocket of his fatigues, as shown in the image below from March 22, the day after the coup, on Africable TV.
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Comment: Was the "Innocence of Muslims" a combined MOSSAD/CIA/MI5 PSYOPS film?