Alqaeda in Africa, the excuse for 21st colonialism...

[Fabregas]

quote:Setting the Context of the New Engagement

 

I beg the Subcommittee’s indulgence to observe that we as a nation have indeed all come a very long way in recent years in our perceptions of Africa—some of us perhaps more than others. With the anniversary on March 6 of this year of the independence of Ghana, we also mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the wave of national sovereignty that swept across Sub-Saharan Africa in the wake of the Second World War. At that time, however, no part of the region was included in any U.S. military command’s Area of Responsibility (AOR) except for several North African countries which five years earlier had been tacked onto the U.S. European Command (EUCOM). The rest of the continent was left unaccounted for the rest of the decade until 1960 when, following then-Vice President Richard Nixon’s extensive tour of the continent, President Dwight D. Eisenhower put then-Atlantic Command (LANTCOM) in charge of security planning for Sub-Saharan Africa just as he had previously created the Africa Bureau within the State Department to coordinate diplomatic initiatives. Two years later, President John F. Kennedy transferred Sub-Saharan Africa into the Strike Command (STRICOM) AOR. From that time until the present, responsibility for defense planning affecting the continent has shifted a number of times as administrations came and went and geopolitical perceptions evolved over the course of the Cold War and its aftermath.

 

 

Africa: Testimony of Dr. J. Peter Pham - U.S. House Africom Hearing

 

http://allafrica.com/stories/200708031072.html

[xiinfaniin]

^^What did Somalia do to this man? He can’t conceal the hatred he harbors against that poor society. He’s truly a sick character. Allow caafi oo hanuuni!

[Fabregas]

Somalia hasnt done nothing to him, rather its what him and his friends can potentially get their hands on in Somalia and the rest of Africa.