AFRICOM launches blog so anyone can sound off

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AFRICOM launches blog so anyone can sound off
By Charlie Coon, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Saturday, January 12, 2008

STUTTGART, Germany — With all due respect, AFRICOM is not needed whatsoever in Nigeria or anywhere else in the West African sub-Sahara.

That is according to “Olaopin in Unspecified,” and it says so on the recently launched blog on the U.S. Africa Command’s Web site.

The blog began Dec. 21 with a posting by Gen. William E. Ward, the AFRICOM commander. As of Friday afternoon, “African Dialogue” had received just 15 postings.

But like AFRICOM, it’s a work in progress, according to command spokesman Vince Crawley.

“We’re consulting with people at the diplomatic level and at the military-to-military level, and this is a way to hear from the public level,” Crawley said.


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uhc comment: The blog is at --> http://www.africom.mil/