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2004-Feline Exercises: Pentagon Officers Attend Manoeuvres

Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
NEWS
October 26, 2004
Posted to the web October 26, 2004
Luanda
Two officers with the US Secretariat of Defence (Pentagnon) attended the
military exercises code-named "2004-Feline" which for 12 days joined about 600
special troops from the Portuguese Speaking Community (CPLP) in Cabo Ledo
region, Angola's northern Bengo province, Angop learned.
They were col. Kelly Langdorf who until 2003 had been the US military attaché
to Angola and the head of the US military mission to Portugal, Rodney Sisson.
Col. Langford explained that their participation aims at assessing the
organising capacity of Angola in manoeuvres of certain level, and studying the
possibilities of co-operation with attending countries.
He informed that the intention is of establishing multilateral connections with
Portuguese speaking countries (Angola, Brazil, Portugal, Cape Verde,
Mozambique, São Tomé and Princípe, Guinea Bissau and East Timor), armies with a
view to a future reinforcement of military ties.
Kelly Langdorf, a US Army paratrooper, works currently in Pentagon's African
Issues Department, attending to 11 Central African countries, including Angola.
Last September, the chief of Staff Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), gen. Agostinho
Nelumba "Sanjar" visited the US, where, with local officials, discussed the
reinforcement of bilateral military co-operation.

   

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