There is only One cast,the cast of humanity.

There is only One religion,the religion of love

There is only One language, the language of the heart.

There is only One God and He is omnipresent.

Baba

Υπαρχει μονο Μια φυλη,η φυλη της ανθρωποτητας.

Υπαρχει μονο Μια θρησκεια,η θρησκεια της αγαπης.

Υπαρχει μονο Μια γλωσσα,η γλωσσα της καρδιας.

Υπαρχει μονο Ενας Θεος και ειναι πανταχου παρων.

Μπαμπα


Let it be light between us,brothers and sisters from the Earth.Let it be love between all living beings on this

Galaxy.Let it be peace between all various races and species.We love you infinitely.

I am SaLuSa from Sirius

Channel:Laura/Multidimensional Ocean

Ειθε να υπαρχει φως αναμεσα μας, αδελφοι και αδελφες μας απο την Γη .Ειθε να υπαρχει αγαπη

αναμεσα σε ολες τις υπαρξεις στον Γαλαξια.Ειθε να υπαρχει ειρηνη αναμεσα σε ολες τις διαφο-

ρετικες φυλες και ειδη.Η αγαπη μας για σας ειναι απειρη.

Ειμαι ο ΣαΛουΣα απο τον Σειριο.

Καναλι:Laura/Multidimensional Ocean

SANAT KUMARA REGENT LORD OF THE WORLD

SANAT KUMARA

REGENT LORD OF THE WORLD

The Ascended Master SANAT KUMARA is a Hierarch of VENUS.

Since then SANAT KUMARA has visited PLANET EARTH and SHAMBALLA often.SANAT KUMARA is sanskrit and it means"always a youth". 2.5 million years ago during earth's darkest hour, SANAT KUMARA came here to keep the threefold flame of Life on behalf of earth's people. After Sanat Kumara made his commitment to come to earth 144.000 souls from Venus volunteered to come with him to support his mission.Four hundred were sent ahead to build the magnificent retreat of SHAMBALLA on an island in the Gobi Sea.Taj Mahal - Shamballa in a smaller scaleSanat Kumara resided in this physical retreat, but he did not take on a physical body such as the bodies we wear today. Later Shamballa was withdrawn to the etheric octave, and the area became a desert.Gobi DesertSANAT KUMARA is THE ANCIENT OF DAYS in The Book of DANIEL.DANIEL wrote (19, 20):"I beheld till the thrones were set in place, and THE ANCIENT OF DAYS did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool. His throne Always like the fiery flame and is wheels as burning fire. [His chakras.]"A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him.Thousand and thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times and ten thousand stood before him."I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like THE SON OF MAN came with the clouds of heaven, and came to THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, and they brought him near before him."And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him.His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." The supreme God of Zoroastrianism, AHURA MAZDA is also SANAT KUMARA.In Buddhism, there is a great god known as BRAHMA SANAM-KUMARA, yet another name for SANAT KUMARA.SANAT KUMARA is one of the SEVEN HOLY KUMARAS.The twinflame of SANT KUMARA is VENUS, the goddess of LOVE and BEAUTY.In 1956, SANAT KUMARA returned to Venus, and GAUTAMA BUDDHA is now LORD OF THE WORLD and SANAT KUMARA is REGENT LORD OF THE WORLD.SANAT KUMARA`s keynote is the main theme of Finlandia by SIBELIUS.


The Ascended Master Hilarion Healing and Truth

The Ascended Master Hilarion - Healing and Truth

The Ascended Master of the Healing Ray

The ascended master Hilarion, the Chohan,1 or Lord, of the Fifth Ray of Science, Healing and Truth, holds a world balance for truth from his etheric retreat, known as the Temple of Truth, over the island of Crete. The island was an historic focal point for the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece.We know few of this master’s incarnations, but the three most prominent are as the High Priest of the Temple of Truth on Atlantis; then as Paul, beloved apostle of Jesus; and as Hilarion, the great saint and healer, performer of miracles, who founded monasticism in Palestine. Embodied as Saul of Tarsus during the rise of Jesus’ popularity, Saul became a determined persecutor of Christians, originally seeing them as a rebellious faction and a danger to the government and society. Saul consented to the stoning of Stephen, a disciple of Jesus, failing to recognize the light in this saint and in the Christian movement.jesus had already resurrected and ascended2 when he met Saul on the road to Damascus. And what an electrifying meeting that was! “It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks,”3 Jesus uttered to an awestruck Saul. Blinded by the light that surrounded the form of Jesus, Saul crumpled to the ground. Not only his body but his pride was taken down a few notches that day.This was the most famous of Christian conversions, whereupon Saul became the mightiest of the apostles. Saul took the name Paul and resolved to spread the word of truth throughout the Mediterranean and the Middle East. Paul had inwardly remembered his vow to serve the light of Christ—a vow that he had taken before his current incarnation. Three years after conversion, Paul spent another three years in seclusion in the Arabian Desert where he was taken up into Jesus’ etheric retreat. Paul did not ascend in that life due to his torturing of Christians earlier in that embodiment. In his very next lifetime, Paul was born to pagan parents in 290 A.D. They resided in the same geographical region in which he had lived as Paul in his previous lifetime. As a young boy, Hilarion was sent to Alexandria to study. During this time of study, he heard the gospel and was converted to Christianity.His greatest desire was to be a hermit—to spend his time fasting and praying to God in seclusion. So he divided his fortune among the poor and set out for the desert near Gaza. He spent twenty years in prayer in the desert before he performed his first miracle. God, through him, cured a woman of barrenness. And his healing ministry began.Soon Hilarion was sought out by hundreds who had heard of his miraculous cures and ability to exorcise demons. In 329 A.D., with a growing number of disciples assembling around him, he fled to Egypt to escape the constant flow of people seeking to be healed from all manner of diseases. His travels brought him to Alexandria again, to the Libyan Desert and to Sicily.But his miracles did not only include healings. Once when a seacoast town in which he was staying was threatened with a violent storm, he etched three signs of the cross into the sand at his feet then stood with hands raised toward the oncoming waves and held the sea at bay.Hilarion spent his last years in a lonely cave on Cyprus. He was canonized by the Catholic Church and is today known as the founder of the anchorite life, having originated in Palestine. To this day, those known as anchorites devote themselves to lives of seclusion and prayer. Hilarion ascended at the close of that embodiment. Hilarion, as an ascended master, speaks to us today of the power of truth to heal the souls of men, delivering his word through The Hearts Center’s Messenger, David Christopher Lewis. Current teachings released from Hilarion include the following:

· On the power of healing: Hilarion teaches his students that “[t]he power of healing is within your Solar Source.” He gives his students “an impetus, a spiral of light that you may fulfill your mission…” and exhorts them to “use this spiral of light for the benefit of sentient beings”. —July 2008

· On the power of joy: Hilarion encourages us to “experience the pulsation of joy” and shows each of us the joyous outcome of our life, which is “a life lived in joy.” He assures us, “I will always lead you to your freedom to be joy”. —June 2008

· On the love of truth: Hilarion teaches that the love of truth will enable us to see clearly the light that is within us. He teaches that instead of criticizing, we must go within and eliminate the particles of untruth within ourselves. —February 2008

· On the action of solar light: Hilarion delivers a greater action of solar light to help release all past awareness of lives lived outside divine awareness. He explains his ongoing mission over many lifetimes—to heal by the power of each soul’s recognition of the truth of her own divinity—and pronounces, “I am the messenger of healing and joy to all. May your life as a God-realized solar being be bright-shining ever with the aura of the truth who you are in my heart.” —March 14, 2008

1. “Chohan” is a Sanskrit word for “chief” or “lord.” A chohan is the spiritual leader of great attainment who works with mankind from the ascended state. There are seven chohans for the earth—El Morya, Lanto, Paul the Venetian, Serapis Bey, Hilarion, Nada and Saint Germain.back to Chohan…

2. The ascension is complete liberation from the rounds of karma and rebirth. In the ascension process, the soul becomes merged with her Solar Presence, experiencing freedom from the gravitational, or karmic, pull of the Earth and entering God’s eternal Presence of divine love. Students of the ascended masters work toward their ascension by studying and internalizing the teachings, serving life, and invoking the light of God into their lives. Their goal as they walk the earth is the cultivation of a relationship with God that becomes more real, more vital with each passing day.back to ascended…

3. Acts 9:5 back to kick against the pricks…

The Ascended Master Saint Germain

The Ascended Master Saint Germain

I have stood in the Great Hall in the Great Central Sun. I have petitioned the Lords of Karma to release Dispensation after Dispensation for the Sons and Daughters of God and, yes, for the Torch Bearers of The Temple. Countless times I have come to your assistance with a release of Violet Flame sufficient to clear all debris from your consciousness. Numberless times I have engaged the Love of my Heart to embrace you, to comfort you, to assist you when you have not known which way to turn.

"I merely ask you to keep the watch, to hold fast to the Heart Flame of your own God Presence, to understand that your first allegiance is to the Mighty I AM. That you have no other Gods before the I AM THAT I AM.

through the Anointed Representative®, Carolyn Louise Shearer, February 14, 2007, Tucson, Arizona U.S.A. (10)

Δευτέρα 2 Ιουνίου 2014

Souda Bay Base ( Chania-Crete-Greece) will be the ''bridge''for the NATO-AMERICAN operations in Africa.

So , it seems , the Souda Bay Base ( Chania-Crete-Greece) will be the ''bridge''for the NATO-AMERICAN operations in Africa. So , I suppose, my co-Hellenes' and mine target-dream should be : Prospering through  ''Military Tourism Operations! ''  Through Africans and Middle-Easterners killing each other and their families in well trained , well taught, well implemented , high tech methods and means. Our chief life  goal and purpose being , for myself and my fellow countrymen , to become  ''Vultures in Survival''.
 Creepy!!!
I am sure to my heart  core ,mind and soul , that had we been asked , via referendum for example, we would have never had agreed upon such an  ''agenda'' . I am sure that we would have never had accepted the caitiff , cringer ,vile,  role of the  'vulture'  for ourselves. Or any  such kind of a role.  This is not who we are.
I do indeed believe and know that we can secure our bread and butter by implementing peaceful, mild and healthy economic, tourist, agricultural and other activities .Yet I also perceive and know that in our majority we are mind-controlled ,brain-washed , subjugated by fear and kept in spiritual and actual darkness by the main stream media and other powers , sometimes at their unawares of such a fact about themselves too. Therefore I wish it to be known throughout the Globe and in all Universes
that it is not through our free will that such agreements are signed and such permissions for the use of our Land are given.
m.l.p.

Η Σούδα “γέφυρα” των ΗΠΑ για επιχειρήσεις στην Αφρική

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aeroplanoforoΕνδιαφέρον και για τηνit Ελλάδα και ειδικότερα την Σούδα έχει η αποκάλυψη των ”The New York Times”  ότι οι ΗΠΑ συγκροτούν εγχώριες επίλεκτες αντιτρομοκρατικές μονάδες  σε 4 χώρες της Αφρικής - Λιβύη, Νίγηρα, Μαυριτανία και Μάλι – που θεωρούνται κρίσιμες για την ανάσχεση της επιρροής της Αλ Κάιντα στην αφρικανική ήπειρο.
Πρόκειται για ένα άκρως απόρρητο πρόγραμμα εκπαίδευσης υπό την επιχειρησιακή αιγίδα μελών των αμερικανικών ειδικών δυνάμεων και αφορά την εκπαίδευση ντόπιων στρατιωτών για σκληρές επιχειρήσεις σε διάφορα μέτωπα.
Το όλο πρόγραμμα εστίασης των ΗΠΑ και στην Αφρική – όπως έχει αναφέρει το ΟnAlert.gr στο παρελθόν- ξεκινά με την οργάνωση της Διοίκησης Αφρικής το 2007 και σχεδιασμούς, από το 2012 και μετά, για σημαντική στρατιωτική παρουσία των ΗΠΑ στην αφρικανική ήπειρο, με μικρές αρχικά μονάδες να μεταβαίνουν, σταδιακά,  σε 35 κράτη της Αφρικής από το 2013.Οι ομάδες των Αμερικανών κομάντος είναι – θεωρητικά – αποκλειστικά υπεύθυνες για την εκπαίδευση και τον εξοπλισμό τοπικών δυνάμεων και δεν έχουν, λέγεται,  τη δυνατότητα να επιχειρούν οι ίδιες χωρίς άδεια του υπουργείου Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ.
Η Σούδα στο σύστημα άμυνας ΗΠΑ-ΝΑΤΟ 
Η αποστολή,στελεχώνεται από προσωπικό της  1ης μεραρχίας του αμερικανικού στρατού,και πέραν των προαναφερθέντων, στοχεύει χώρες όπως η Λιβύη, το Σουδάν, η Αλγερία το Καμερούν και ο Νίγηρας, όπου ομάδες προσκείμενες στην Αλ Κάιντα έχουν δρουν καταλυτικά. Οι Αμερικανοί κομάντος έχουν στα σχέδιά τους – μόνο;-   να εκπαιδεύσουν και τις ειδικές δυνάμεις κρατών όπως η Κένυα και η Ουγκάντα, που πολεμούν στις πρώτες γραμμές του εμφυλίου στη Σομαλία εναντίον των ισλαμιστών της οργάνωσης Αλ Σαμπάμπ.
Όλα αυτά , λένε αναλυτές, αναβαθμίζουν την έτσι και αλλιώς  τεράστια επιχειρησιακή και υποστηρικτική σημασία της βάσης της Σούδας στο ΝΑΤΟικο και Αμερικανικό σύστημα άμυνας. Η σημασία αυτή καταγράφεται  ειδικά για την Αφρική  και είναι ανεξάρτητη αυτής για το κομμάτι του συστήματος άμυνας των ΗΠΑ σε Μεσόγειο, Νότια Ευρώπη  και Μέση Ανατολή ως το κέντρο πολλών στρατηγικών οδών. Αποτελεί, λένε , την βάση – αιγίδα για εποπτεία της Αφρικής σε πολλές δυνητικές επιχειρησιακές αποστολές ιδίως στο βόρειο, το κεντρικό και το δυτικό μέρος, αλλά και βασικό κέντρο υποστήριξης αποστολών που κινούνται από άλλα σημεία.
Και UAV;
Η σημασία αυτή  επιβεβαιώνει και μια σειρά συχνών επισκέψεων στρατιωτικών αξιωματούχων των ΗΠΑ που σχετίζονται με την Αφρική  τα τελευταία χρόνια. Μάλιστα οι επισκέψεις δείχνουν ότι και το επιχειρησιακό εύρος της βάσης επεκτείνεται και προς νότον, παράλληλα με τα αντίστοιχα ενδιαφέροντα των ΗΠΑ- κάτι που καταγράφτηκε καθαρά στην επιχείρηση κατά του καθεστώτος Καντάφι στην Λιβύη- αλλά και νωρίτερα, σε άλλες πιο ”λεπτές” αποστολές των Αμερικανών, Βρετανών κ.α.
Επιπλέον έχει ήδη αρχίσει συζήτηση και για διεύρυνση της χρήσης της βάσης και για άλλα οπλικά συστήματα, όπως πχ τα κατασκοπευτικά UAV.
 Το άρθρο των New York Times για την Αφρική
Aς δούμε εδώ ολόκληρο το άρθρο του Eric Schmitt στους The New York Times , με τίτλο ”Επίλεκτα μέλη των ενόπλων δυνάμεων των ΗΠΑ εκπαιδεύουν Αφρικανούς”:
<<Επίλεκτες αντιτρομοκρατικές μονάδες συγκροτούν οι ΗΠΑ σε τέσσερις χώρες της Βόρειας και της Δυτικής Αφρικής, που θεωρούνται κρίσιμες για την ανάσχεση της επιρροής της Αλ Κάιντα και των παραφυάδων της στην αφρικανική ήπειρο.
Το άκρως απόρρητο πρόγραμμα, που χρηματοδοτείται εν μέρει από μυστικά κονδύλια του Πενταγώνου, βρίσκεται υπό την επιχειρησιακή αιγίδα μελών των αμερικανικών ειδικών δυνάμεων και αφορά την εκπαίδευση στρατιωτών σε Λιβύη, Νίγηρα, Μαυριτανία και Μάλι.

Στόχος της Ουάσιγκτον είναι η δημιουργία εγχώριων επίλεκτων αντιτρομοκρατικών μονάδων, ικανών να αντιμετωπίσουν τη δράση οργανώσεων όπως είναι η Μπόκο Χαράμ σε Νιγηρία και Καμερούν.

Το εκπαιδευτικό αυτό πρόγραμμα εντάσσεται σε μακροχρόνια στρατηγική επέκτασης των αμερικανικών αντιτρομοκρατικών επιχειρήσεων στην Αφρική, που χρονολογείται από τον Σεπτέμβριο του 2001. Στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος αυτού, οι ΗΠΑ έχουν πραγματοποιήσει πλήγματα με μη επανδρωμένα αεροσκάφη στη Σομαλία, από τη βάση του Τζιμπουτί, έχουν υποστηρίξει αφρικανικές και γαλλικές δυνάμεις στις επιχειρήσεις τους σε Σομαλία και Μάλι και έχουν ενισχύσει σημαντικά τις διμερείς συμφωνίες αμυντικής συνεργασίας με αφρικανικά κράτη.

Τα νέα σχέδια για την Αφρική προβλέπουν τη δαπάνη 70 εκατ. δολαρίων σε εκπαίδευση, εξοπλισμό διαβιβάσεων και άλλα μέσα, με στόχο τη δημιουργία αντιτρομοκρατικού τάγματος στον Νίγηρα και αντίστοιχης ειδικευμένης μονάδας στη γειτονική Μαυριτανία. Τις φιλοδοξίες του καλείται, όμως, να μετριάσει το Πεντάγωνο, εξαιτίας των ενδημικών οργανωτικών προβλημάτων που πλήττουν τα αφρικανικά κράτη, όπως έδειξε και η πρώτη εμπειρία στη Λιβύη.

Η απόπειρα δημιουργίας αντιτρομοκρατικής μονάδας στη Λιβύη απέτυχε οικτρά τον περασμένο Αύγουστο, όταν μέλη πολιτοφυλακής κατέλαβαν το κέντρο εκπαίδευσης και έκλεψαν το σύνολο του οπλισμού της νεοσύστατης μονάδας.

Πρώην αξιωματικός των ειδικών δυνάμεων των ΗΠΑ εκτιμά ότι η Λιβύη πρέπει να λειτουργήσει ως δίδαγμα για κάθε μελλοντική εκπαιδευτική αποστολή στην Αφρική: «Το μάθημα είναι ότι απαιτείται πολύ μεγαλύτερη επιτήρηση, ώστε να βεβαιωθούμε ότι τα αναγκαία μέτρα ασφαλείας τηρούνται κατά γράμμα. Μόνο έτσι θα μπορεί μια τέτοια μονάδα να μην κινδυνεύει από κάθε πολιτοφυλακή».

Σύμφωνα με την έρευνα των αμερικανικών αρχών, η επίθεση εναντίον του κέντρου εκπαίδευσης στη Λιβύη είχε ως κίνητρό της την κλοπή υλικού, ενώ οι επιτιθέμενοι διέθεταν βοήθεια «εκ των έσω»>>.
Πηγή: onalert.gr

USA thanks Greece for naval base in Souda

Ministers of National Defense discussed recent developments and extending bilateral ties and cooperation

Ministry of National Defense,Avramopoulos,Hagel,Souda,cooperation

Wednesday, July 31, 2013
USA thanks Greece for naval base in Souda
The developments in the Southeast Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa dominated in the 45-minute discussion between Greek Minister of National Defense Dimitris Avramopoulos and US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel at the Pentagon.
Both men expressed their concern about the developing situation in Syria, with Mr. Avramopoulos insisting that a political solution is preferable to a military intervention, which could have unforeseen consequences.
What became clear during the discussion was the American interest in developing bilateral cooperation, within a NATO framework, with an emphasis on protecting the Mediterranean Sea. This could be achieved through joint military exercises (particularly Special Forces and counter-terrorism efforts), in light of the NATO reforms in 2014.
As part of the development of relations, the USA is prepared to donate to Greece surplus military equipment, such as Chinook helicopters and other weapons systems. The details on this deal will be determined when the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey visits Greece in mid September.
Mr. Hagel recognized the vital role of the naval base of Souda in Crete and other American military bases and installations in Greece, such as the upgraded American Air Force base in Kalamata.
As these bases were used by the American and allied forces in the recent operations in Libya, there is an interest in further expanding and developing them. This is evident by the Pentagon’s press release, where the importance of the Souda base during Operation: Unified Protector was highlighted.
The American Secretary of Defense praised the courage and determination of the Greek people, as well as the important role Greece can play as a stabilization factor in the region

U.S. Training Elite Antiterror Troops in Four African Nations

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A United States Army Special Forces captain with leaders in Amaloul, Niger, one of the nations in an antiterrorism program. Credit Peter Tinti
WASHINGTON — United States Special Operations troops are forming elite counterterrorism units in four countries in North and West Africa that American officials say are pivotal in the widening war against Al Qaeda’s affiliates and associates on the continent, even as they acknowledge the difficulties of working with weak allies.
The secretive program, financed in part with millions of dollars in classified Pentagon spending and carried out by trainers, including members of the Army’s Green Berets and Delta Force, was begun last year to instruct and equip hundreds of handpicked commandos in Libya, Niger, Mauritania and Mali.
The goal over the next few years is to build homegrown African counterterrorism teams capable of combating fighters like those in Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that abducted nearly 300 Nigerian schoolgirls last month. American military specialists are helping Nigerian officers in their efforts to rescue the girls.
“Training indigenous forces to go after threats in their own country is what we need to be doing,” said Michael A. Sheehan, who advocated the counterterrorism program last year when he was the senior Pentagon official in charge of Special Operations policy. Mr. Sheehan now holds the distinguished chair at the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
As the United States military seeks to extend its counterterrorism reach in Africa, President Obama is expected to appear at West Point on Wednesday to emphasize a foreign policy that would avoid large land wars, like those in Afghanistan and Iraq, and instead stress the training of allied and partner nations to battle militants on their own soil.
Since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has slowly built a multipronged counterterrorism strategy in Africa: It has carried out armed drone strikes in Somalia from its only permanent base on the continent, in Djibouti; backed African proxies and French commandos fighting Islamist extremists in Somalia and Mali; and increasingly trained African troops to combat insurgents.
Under the new Africa plan, the Pentagon is spending nearly $70 million on training, intelligence-gathering equipment and other support to build a counterterrorism battalion in Niger and a similar unit in nearby Mauritania that are in their “formative stages,” a senior Defense Department official said.
In a cautionary note about operating in that part of Africa, troubled by a chronic shortage of resources and weak regional partners, the effort in Mali has yet to get off the ground as a new civilian government recovers from a military coup last year. In Libya, the most ambitious initial training ended ignominiously last August after a group of armed militia fighters overpowered a small Libyan guard force at a training base outside Tripoli and stole hundreds of American-supplied automatic weapons, night-vision goggles, vehicles and other equipment.
As a result, the training was halted and the American instructors were sent home. Libyan and American officials have been searching for a more secure training site in Libya to restart the program. But last summer’s debacle and the political upheaval in Libya since then have caused American officials to rethink how they select local personnel.

“You have to make sure of who you’re training,” said Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Donahue II, the commander of United States Army soldiers operating in Africa. “It can’t be the standard, ‘Has this guy been a terrorist or some sort of criminal?’ but also, ‘What are his allegiances? Is he true to the country, or is he still bound to his militia?’ ”
The American military uses conventional troops and elite Special Operations forces to train foreign armies all over the world. The tasks range from teaching basic marksmanship to more advanced counterterrorism tactics and techniques.
In the past decade, the Bush and Obama administrations put a premium on training and equipping foreign troops to combat terrorists and other Islamist extremists and persuaded Congress to approve funding for those programs.
The new program to train small counterterrorism forces in Africa resembles larger efforts by American Special Operations troops carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pentagon officials declined to comment publicly on the new program, but budget documents reveal some details.
In Libya, the Pentagon has allotted just over $16 million from a train-and-equip fund to develop two companies of elite troops and their support elements “to counter terrorist and extremist threats in Libya,” according to budget documents. For the aborted training outside Tripoli, the Defense Department also tapped into a classified spending account called Section 1208, devised to aid foreign troops assisting American forces conducting counterterrorism missions.
For Mauritania, about $29 million has been set aside for logistics and surveillance equipment in support of the specialized unit.
For Niger, where the United States launches unarmed surveillance drones to fly over Mali in support of French and United Nations troops, the Pentagon is spending nearly $15 million on the country’s new counterterrorism unit. The funds are part of $39.5 million this year to train and equip the West Africa nation’s army as it struggles to stem a flow of insurgents across Niger’s lightly guarded borders with Mali, Nigeria and Libya.
Maman S. Sidikou, Niger’s ambassador to the United States, said he could not comment on the counterterrorism unit, but he added in an email, “Training remains a critical part of our needs to further increase our men’s readiness to face the many challenges of our regional environment.”
Mr. Sheehan, the former Pentagon official, said a 12-member Army Special Forces team could train about 50 soldiers initially, and expand after that. “It can be done,” said Mr. Sheehan, who conducted similar training in Latin America in the 1980s as a Special Forces commander.
J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center of the Atlantic Council, a policy research group in Washington, said the United States must make tough political judgments before investing in ambitious counterterrorism training programs. Mr. Pham cited the lessons of Mali, where American-trained commanders of elite army units defected to Islamic insurgents that seized the north last year.least neutrally by a country’s population.”
American counterterrorism officials also warn that without a commitment to support the specialized units, training can stall. “It’s very difficult, very challenging dealing with African forces,” said Rudy Atallah, the former director of African counterterrorism policy for the Pentagon. “You train them to a certain level, and then they can run short on gear, communications, even tires for their vehicles.”

American officials say trainees must be carefully screened and monitored for possible human rights violations or shifting allegiances. “Any unit we train could be used to go after political opponents rather than Al Qaeda,” said Frederic Wehrey, a senior policy analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who has visited Libya frequently.
No episode is a more sobering reminder of these risks than the collapse of the American counterterrorism training mission last August at Base 27, also called Camp Younis, a Libyan military installation about 15 miles from Tripoli, the capital.
The American trainers issued the Libyans M4 automatic rifles, night-vision goggles, Glock pistols and armored vehicles. The Libyans took custody of the weapons and equipment and were responsible for safeguarding them in a warehouse at the camp, American military officials said.
In a predawn raid on Aug. 4, gunmen believed to be from one of the local militias overpowered the Libyan guards and seized the weapons and equipment in the storage area, American officials said.
The American trainers were not at the training camp when the raid occurred because they regularly stayed at a nearby villa that served as a safe house at night, American officials said.
American military officials briefed on the raid suspect that the theft was an inside job in which a Libyan officer or soldier tipped off some local Tripoli militia members about the matériel stored at the base. Much of the stolen equipment was later recovered, but not before news reports indicated that some of the pilfered weapons had showed up online for sale on the black market.
The episode abruptly ended a weekslong training course that American and Libyan officials had hoped would restart broader training efforts that were suspended after the attack on the American Mission in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012.
A former American Special Operations officer said there was a broader lesson for any future Libya training mission: “The take-away here is they’re going to take a lot more adult supervision to make sure the checks and balances are in place, so you don’t have outside militia taking over.''