US Says Militants Lurk in Horn of Africa

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Militant groups including al Qaeda are exploiting lawless areas in the seven-nation Horn of Africa region to hide, recruit and train members and possibly plan attacks, the head of the region's U.S.-led anti-terror force said Monday.

"We find the terrorist networks here using the fact that there is a lot of ungoverned space in the Horn of Africa," said Maj. Gen. Samuel Helland. "Because of (this) ... it's very easy for a terrorist organization to establish a presence ... It's very easy for them to train, equip, organize and use the facilities that are present to gain a foothold."

"And I suspect that if we look very hard at the area we'll see that there is some training going on for operations in other parts of the world," he said in a telephone interview from Djibouti, where he heads the Combined Joint Task Force overseeing counterterrorism activities in the Horn of Africa.

Since late 2002, Djibouti has hosted U.S. troops using the tiny state as a base to hunt down the kind of militants who attacked the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, killing 200 people.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=7186802&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

[prodigal_green]

1. A war on every continent!

Yay!

[clydefrand]

6. Even Antarctica? Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! I can see those

unarmored Humvees on that ice now!

Not to make light of your statement, I fully agree with you that Bush will go to war anywhere he damn well pleases and he doesn't give a shit how many people are killed and how much it will cost this country. He's done what his daddy couldn't do...get reselected!

Macho, macho man!

[politicaholic]

2. Welp...time to invade Africa I guess. Oh well, it was inevidable.

The terrorists should be easy to spot. They're the only ones in that area that aren't ethnically cleansing each other.

[Karenina]

8. What Sporadicus said below.

:think:

[Just Me]

13. Consistent with the imperialistic PNAC "venture".

They're PRO-LIFE so long as they can SPEND LIFE!!!

Churn those lives out for spending by our imperialists.

Oh,...by the way,...an interesting tid-bit that should be noted: at least ten million jobs should be open by our "boomers" by 2008 (which may create a faux economic showing by the "trickle on the masses" leadership).

[Sporadicus]

3. Some Oil Company Must Have Discovered a Large Reserve

In light of the neocons' past behavior, I believe my cynicism is justified.

[IndianaGreen]

4. I don't think the American people will go for Somalia II and Sudan I

Where are they going to find the troops for this new adventure?

[gratuitous]

5. Close that window!

It's getting drafty in here. Now, what were you saying about where the troops to fight all these wars would come from?

The problem with having only one tool at your disposal (for example, a hammer), every difficulty suddenly bears an irresistible resemblance to a nail. This corrupt administration doesn't have the brains to come up with any alternative plans that don't include going to war, so war is the plan they use: first, last and always.

[exploited]

11. And it's the "WAR on Terrorism" no less

When you hit a nail with a hammer you just drive it elsewhere. If the nail gets bent you need another nail to take it's place. A poor craftsperson is just as likely to hit himself/herself on the thumb as hit the nail. When that continually happens, the poor craftsperson will criticise the quality and/or quantity of tools, find a better supply source and order more tools.

What kind of fool would use a hammer to open a window? /rhetorical question

[Just Me]

14. Okay. Here's the overall chess move,...

Force economic depression (fear ever in the midst), know that boomers will create (by leaving the job market) at least ten million jobs justifying making the rich richer, profit off war and depression, sneak a federal police-state to suppress opposition, expand U.S. corporate power around the globe, CONTROL all energy sources by military might, spend billions in a psy-ops campaign (war of "ideas" bullshit thingy),...

,...destroy the earth, consume the people,...

,...and live happily ever after *smile*,...

In a nutshell. Worse than Hitler.

[alfredo]

15. You think the Iraqi's are tough, you get messing with the people of

East Africa, and you will have to redefine tough.

Let's see Rummy visit the troops here:

http://home.planet.nl/~hans.mebrat/eritrea-dankalia.htm
Scroll down for pictures.

[TahitiNut]

12. Yes, there IS oil in East Africa. (Good catch.)

http://www.hargeysa.org/As%20Oil%20prices%20soar%2C%20this%20time%2C%20it%20may%20be%20East-Africa%27s%20turn!!.htm
http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/publications/reports/africa/cooperation/east.asp

[CatholicEdHead]

7. Not new news

US troops have been their since after 9/11. Some Newsweek in late 2001 or early 2002 talked about it. It is rarely publisized.

[annabanana]

9. I remember this...

There might actually be some legitimate "targets" here. (NOT requiring blanket bombing or massive invasion)
Gawd we need good intelligence and clever operatives....

[Sara Beverley]

10. As I recall, the 9/11 attackers trained right here in good ol'e USA.

Hmmmmmm........

[TahitiNut]

16. (kick)

for duplicate avoidance :eyes: