Ward and Houssein also discussed "other ways to increase support in building partner capacity in the Horn of Africa through the U.S. Defense Department's 1206 program [to train and equip foreign militaries for "counterterrorism or stability operations"] and the U.S. State Department's Partnership Regional East African Counter-Terrorism program," especially in regard to Ugandan-Burundian AMISOM operations in Somalia. [15]
Air strikes, drone and cruise missile attacks, special forces operations, helicopter gunship raids, counterinsurgency campaigns, multinational armed interventions, cluster bomb and depleted uranium weapons use, and the entire panoply of military actions associated with the Afghanistan-Pakistan war are already being conducted in Africa and will only be increased.
1) Arabian Sea: Center Of West's 21st Century War
Stop NATO, October 25, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/arabian-sea-center-of-wests-21st-century-war
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U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean
Stop NATO, January 8, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/u-s-nato-expand-afghan-war-to-horn-of-africa-and-indian-ocean-2
2) Yemen rebels say 120 killed in US airstrikes
Russia Today, December 16, 2009
http://rt.com/usa/news/us-airstrike-rebels-yemen
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Yemen: Pentagon's War On The Arabian Peninsula
Stop NATO, December 15, 2009
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/yemen-pentagons-war-on-the-arabian-peninsula
3) All Headline News, January 1, 2011
4) Daily Monitor, December 15, 2010
5) Agence France-Presse, September 12, 2007
6) Xinhua News Agency, May 28, 2007
7) NATO: AFRICOM's Partner In Military Penetration Of Africa
Stop NATO, March 20, 2010
http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/nato-africoms-partner-in-military-penetration-of-africa
8) North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe
February 24, 2010
9) New Times, December 2, 2010
10) Xinhua News Agency, December 29, 2010
11) U.S. Africa Command, December 21, 2010
12) 17th Air Force, November 17, 2010
13) U.S. Army Africa, December 28, 2010
14) Combined Joint Task Force -" Horn of Africa, December 27, 2010
15) U.S. Africa Command, December 29, 2010
http://www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=5784&lang=0
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