Algeria says won't host a U.S. base on its territory

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Algeria said on Saturday its cooperation with Washington's war on terrorism was "profitable" but it would never agree to host a U.S. military base on its territory.

The United States has conducted joint training exercises in countries around the Sahel as part of the "Trans-Saharan Counter Terrorism Initiative" to counter militancy in the region.

And it has reinforced military cooperation and intelligence sharing with Algeria, an OPEC member itself emerging from more than a decade of an Islamic uprising, igniting rumors in the Algerian media that Washington would like to set up a military base in the country.

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"The Algerian territory is absolutely not concerned by the implementation of the American African command ... To be clear, Algeria will never accept a foreign military base on its land."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070303/wl_nm/algeria_usa_dc_1

[kenny blankenship]

1. Why would the U.S. *need* a base on Algerian territory?

Oh right...that world domination thing. I forgot.

[EFerrari]

3. Oil seems to draw terra-ists. n/t

[rodeodance]

2. smart move.

[RC]

4. I think other countries need to demand equal space in this country

for their own military bases.

How many military bases would Iraq have over here? The Taliban?
Hell, even Russia and China would allow us, US to put bases on their soil in return for bases here.