US opens new war front in North Africa
Asia Times
by Jason Motlagh
06/14/06
Despite a setback in Somalia, where anti-Islamist warlords recently lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, to a jihadist militia, the United States is plunging into a far vaster set of commitments, stretching across the 'Wild West' of Saharan Africa. Over the next five years, Washington is expected to spend US$500 million on an overt counter-terror program to secure what it has dubbed the latest front in its 'global war on terror.' Detractors insist the move could backfire and have the same unintended consequences as in the Horn of Africa, albeit on a much larger scale with even more at stake...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF14Aa01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Jason Motlagh
06/14/06
Despite a setback in Somalia, where anti-Islamist warlords recently lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, to a jihadist militia, the United States is plunging into a far vaster set of commitments, stretching across the 'Wild West' of Saharan Africa. Over the next five years, Washington is expected to spend US$500 million on an overt counter-terror program to secure what it has dubbed the latest front in its 'global war on terror.' Detractors insist the move could backfire and have the same unintended consequences as in the Horn of Africa, albeit on a much larger scale with even more at stake...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HF14Aa01.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Jun, 14:44
