[A-List] Horn Of Africa Counterinsurgency, Proxy Wars: AFRICOM Prototype

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From: Rick Rozoff
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Subject: [stopnato] Horn Of Africa Counterinsurgency, Proxy Wars: AFRICOM 
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http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-25-voa55.cfm

Voice of America News
January 25, 2008

New US Commander Prepares for Africa Assignment
By Al Pessin

[Edited]

-General Holman says the Djbouti base facilitates some
other military activities he won't talk about.
There have been reports of U.S. special operations
forces working from the base on counter-terrorism
missions in Somalia and elsewhere....[T]hat approach
is the model for the new United States Africa
Command...."There is, I think, great synergy between
what CJTF-Horn of Africa does now and what we're about
and what AFRICOM will represent as a combatant
command."
Admiral Greene will take command of the five-year-old
Task Force, made up of nearly two thousand troops and
civilians from the United States and several coalition
countries.
-[H]e will also be watching some of the region's hot
spots for potential seeds of instability...[T]hose
include the situations in Kenya, Somalia and Sudan's
Darfur region, as well as tension on the
Ethiopia-Eritrea border....

Pentagon - The U.S. military hosted an international
exercise last week to help prepare the new commander
of a coalition task force in East Africa for his
deployment.

The commander says his main goal is to help East
African countries solve their own problems. VOA's Al
Pessin reports from the Pentagon.

The exercise, involving hundreds of U.S. troops and
several African liaison officers, was designed to help
Rear Admiral Philip Greene and his staff prepare for
their new assignment.
....
Admiral Greene will head the Combined Joint Task Force
Horn of Africa, based in Djibouti, providing training
for African military forces and conducting...missions
in 13 nearby countries.
....
The current deputy commander of the U.S.-led Horn of
Africa Task Force, Brigadier General Sanford Holman,
says Admiral Greene's plans coincide with what the
task force is already doing.
....
General Holman says the Djbouti base facilitates some
other military activities he won't talk about.

There have been reports of U.S. special operations
forces working from the base on counter-terrorism
missions in Somalia and elsewhere. But the general
says those activities are not the base's main purpose.

Admiral Greene says main goal is to develop
partnerships and forge relationships, and he says that
approach is the model for the new United States Africa
Command.

The command, which was established in October, is
spending a year preparing to take responsibility for
all U.S. military engagement throughout the continent.

"There is, I think, great synergy between what
CJTF-Horn of Africa does now and what we're about and
what AFRICOM will represent as a combatant command,"
said the commander.
....
Within a few weeks, Admiral Greene will take command
of the five-year-old Task Force, made up of nearly two
thousand troops and civilians from the United States
and several coalition countries.
....
[H]e says he will also be watching some of the
region's hot spots for potential seeds of instability.

He says those include the situations in Kenya, Somalia
and Sudan's Darfur region, as well as tension on the
Ethiopia-Eritrea border and piracy along the Indian
Ocean coastline.

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