Operation Kitona - 2024 ARGOS

Question

News of this operation's initial success had to be delivered from an oil rig in Banana after its commanders forgot that their satellite phone's password was 123456. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this operation masterminded by James Kabarebe. This operation involved a surprise attack on a namesake airbase in order to quickly take Kinshasa, beginning the Second Congo War.

ANSWER: Operation Kitona [or Kitona Airlift]

[10m] Operation Kitona aimed to overthrow this leader in favor of one more favorable to Rwanda. This leader conscripted many kadogo child soldiers, one of whom assassinated him in 2001.

ANSWER: Laurent-Désiré Kabila [or Laurent Kabila; prompt on Kabila]

[10e] Operation Kitona ultimately failed after a leader of this neighboring country, Eduardo Dos Santos, retook Kitona from the west. This country earlier experienced a civil war between the MPLA and UNITA.

ANSWER: Angola [or the Republic of Angola; accept the Angolan Civil War]

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Summary


2024 ARGOS @ Brandeis	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago	11/23/2024	Y	6	11.67	83%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College	12/14/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia	11/23/2024	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster	11/17/2024	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
2024 ARGOS @ Stanford	02/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2024 ARGOS Online	03/22/2025	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


\|madam\|	Banned from ARGOS	0	0	10	10
Pahkin' the Ahgo	Hu up Jinning they Tao	0	10	10	20
Import Pandas	"Powers a question on Stancyzk" that's a clown question bro	0	0	10	10
BHSU Rebirth	Who is the Colleen Hoover of the Zulus?	0	10	10	20
Clown Squad	hawk two of	0	0	10	10
Music to Help You Stop Smoking	BHSU ReFantazio	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame	That Feeling When Knee Surgery Is in Five Days	0	0	10	10
The Love Song of J Alfred PrufRock and Roll All Nite (and Party Every Day)	WashU	0	0	10	10
Northeast by Northwestern	Clown Senpais	0	0	0	0
Limp Franceskit	Cambridge	0	0	10	10
Cien Años de Quizboledad	Simple Vibes	0	10	10	20
Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz	Defying Suavity	0	0	10	10
Walston et. al.	Cope is the thing with feathers	0	10	10	20
jeff mcneil #1 morningside heights fan club	12 Litres of Green Tea	0	10	10	20
just one more half-dot bro	NJ TRANSit (and anwen i guess)	0	10	10	20
Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country	Simpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut	0	10	10	20
The Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange	Moderator Can't Neg me While in Alpha	0	10	10	20
I'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up	Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers	0	0	10	10
Tensei Shitara Flashcard Data Ken	She Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere	0	0	10	10
You cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit	as rational as the square root of two power bottoms	10	10	10	30
Stanford+	Cry of the Common Loon	0	0	10	10
Where are the ACF Nationals recordings?	A is for Amy Robsart who fell down the stairs	0	10	10	20
Berkeley	number of tang poems = 75 times number of lines in a shi = 100 times number of lines in a haiku	0	0	10	10
I wish it were possible to freeze time so I would never have to watch you retire	throw away your cards, rally in the streets	0	0	10	10
Thompson et al.	CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!	0	0	10	10
Aw we're so sorry to hear that maman died today, she gets five big booms	UBC	0	10	10	20