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Back in the jungle, the lieutenant says he's received word that LRA fighters are heading his way.

But he says the exercise has nothing to do with pursing the LRA or any other terrorist group in the region.

But the air raids failed to defeat the rebels, Ugandan ground troops never arrived, and Mr Kony and his closest LRA friends escaped.

Last December, the United States supported a military assault on the LRA by the armies of Uganda, Congo Kinshasa, and South Sudan.

A single LRA bullet, say aid workers, would be all it would take to send the resettled back to the camps.

The Ugandan government says that the main camp belonging to the LRA's commander, Joseph Kony, was "thoroughly thumped" .

The LRA has used the peace talks to depict itself as an army fighting for the rights of the north.

Most evidence indicates that the LRA is a sleazy faction that has sown terror and bloodshed throughout several portions of Central Africa.

Disarming the LRA today would mean sweeping thousands of miles of dense jungle with metal detectors.

He is still unpopular in the north, and the LRA gives him good reason to fill that once rebellious region with his troops.

The bodies were left to rot for three days, to "strengthen the spirit" of Joseph Kony, the leader of the LRA, who ordered the executions.

They believe that the spirits of the dead will anyway drive the LRA commanders demented.

Kampala accused Sudan's central government in Khartoum of providing support to the LRA, a charge Khartoum denies.

The LRA's bloody attacks also provide a rallying point for once-fractured Uganda, a common enemy that keeps everyone in line.

Still, the WFP reckons it can pull back in a couple of years if the LRA is disbanded.

The LRA is accused of human rights abuses during a 20-year campaign, in which tens of thousands of people have died.

South Sudan, newly independent and embattled, has little stomach for fighting the LRA.

A second Iron Fist campaign in 2004 pushed much of the LRA into Sudan and the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo but did little else.

Joseph Kony, the LRA's psychopathic leader, has eluded capture, as have his top commanders.

In 2002, the Ugandan military launched a U. S. -aided campaign called Iron Fist against LRA camps in Uganda's north and Sudan's south.

"It's a crooked war the Ugandans are fighting with the LRA, " he vents.

Congo is fed up with the LRA for raping and kidnapping its civilians, many of them children.

Under Kony, the LRA has displaced 2 million people and created the highest child abduction rate in the world.

The LRA, on the other hand, insists that Mr Otti is alive, just indisposed variously with fever, cholera and latterly house arrest.

Commercial enterprises offer LRA of operation site and storeroom or the copy of house property certificate