This is interesting.
"France has pulled special operations troops from Afghanistan to build up in Djibouti, so we can guess what they anticipate (US Special Forces also have a base in Djibouti)."
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Somalia, Ethiopia, Africans, Islam... When these four words appear together in a short passage, one can safely bet pretty much anything that there is war, was war, or will be war.
Posted at 2006-10-31 04:41:56 [PermaLink]Gapper; and it's been ever thus. The only unknowns about war and the human species are where and when.
Posted at 2006-10-31 12:28:36 [PermaLink]Mark:
Expect Kenya to get sucked in. I wonder if NATO under the guise of French and American instructors are secretly training the Ethopians to pummel the Somali 'taliban'? I'll speculate if the Americans, French and other interested parties haven't developed a grand strategy of forcing the islamojihadists to spread themselves thin with so many 'jihads' to choose from?
xavier