As terror threat evolves, U.S. forces begin focusing on west &north Africa

[UpInArms]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/076/wash/As_terror_threat_evolves_U_S_f:.shtml

WASHINGTON (AP) Opening a new front in the war on terrorism, the United States has begun training and equipping armies in parts of Africa that U.S. officials see as an inviting refuge for terrorists as well as a long-term source of oil.

Soldiers of the Army's 10th Special Forces Group are training troops in Mali and Mauritania, on the fringes of the Sahara Desert. And Marines are preparing for missions in Niger and Chad.

The effort, which began last November in Mali with almost no public notice, is an extension of the Bush administration's anti-terror campaigns in Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa, where U.S. troops are operating with local forces and conducting aerial and maritime surveillance.

But the new focus on Africa also marks a shift for the United States, which had been reluctant to become involved militarily in a continent beset with instability. Now there are plans to rotate U.S. troops regularly into certain bases and airfields, although they would not establish large bases.

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:nuke: more oily wars in the offing :nuke:

[mr_hat]

1. Because the Afganistan/Mujahideen model worked so well.

[Malva Zebrina]

2. I am so weary of war, war war

It is so degrading to have a president who concentrates solely on empire, killing and murdering small countries and their citizens on lies and other treasons against his own people.

How convenient to an evil fascist like the little boy George Bush that people have bought his "war on terror" lock stock and barrel. That gives him free reign to invade anywhere, as long as he can present the "terrorism" factor. He loves it, you can be certain of that, for never before in his entire life has he had such control over people, money and the military machine that kills.

This is a burden that all Americans must shoulder--an evil fascist man who had to coup the election process in order to become president is now sending troops all over the world to kill and conquor.

I am weary of this war all the time. I am weary of the fake man who manipulates stupid people who are probably racist and violent to beging with and who do believe that we, the United States have the right to take what we need and covet and want from other defenseless countries at will--and at the will of a less than intelligent man.

If there is to be a backlash to this agressive pre emptive Straussian approach, I would hope it be that all Americans refuse to let their children become soldiers for this country. Soldiers are for defending their country--they are not for satisfying the greed of an evil fascist man , his ego and his business buddies who make a fortune off of every war and the deaths of our children.

There is NO ONE in the world who can invade and occupy our country. NO ONE. All wars entered into by the United States, are and will be wars of aggression, invasion, conquest and empire.

[Toby109]

3. Yea, I guess it's just a coincidence

that major oil deposits have been found recently in that very region. Wow, imagine the odds!

:grr: