The Next Battlefront

[Nephissa]

The United States is planning a new strategic command to take the global War on Terror to the Horn of Africa.

 

Sept. 17, 2007 issue - America is quietly expanding its fight against terror on the African front. Two years ago the United States set up the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership with nine countries in central and western Africa. There is no permanent presence, but the hope is to generate support and suppress radicalism by both sharing U.S. weapons and tactics with friendly regimes and winning friends through a vast humanitarian program assembled by USAID, including well building and vocational training. In places like Chad, American Special Forces train and arm police or border guards using what it calls a "holistic approach to counterterrorism." Sgt. Chris Rourke, a U.S. Army reservist in a 12-man American Civil Affairs unit living in Dire Dawa, in eastern Ethiopia, says it comes down to this: "It's the Peace Corps with a weapon."

 

Newsweek

[Jacaylbaro]

whateva they try ,,,,,, US siyaasadoodu way fashilan tahay this time. Every habar and oday knows waxay rabaan iyo waxay u socdaan iyo weliba waxay yeeli doonaan.

[Jacaylbaro]

Sept. 17, 2007 issue

What is wrong with the date ???

[Paragon]

hmmm...

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Originally posted by SheekhaJacaylka:

quote: Sept. 17, 2007 issue

What is wrong with the date ???

It says "issue." Not referring to the current date. It is the upcoming publishing date, routinely used by the magazines and other periodic publications.

[Malika]

One wonders,what is there in Somalia that the neo-con would gain from...the Oil Myth? or something more sinister? e.g a war on whom would supply the mad men with better weapons? Now that Russia is making some noisy here and there...hmmm oh well!

[me]

^ How about dad aan fakarahayn oo laysku diri karo?

[Malika]

Iskudirkuu wexee timadaa,when those involved are weak,and what makes a man weak if not Greed and Power.

[NGONGE]

Much ado about nothing! At most it's but a footnote in world politics.

[me]

Weak indeed.