Horn of Africa place
also: Hornet region
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United States Central Command member_of
Horn of Africa host_asserted
“Horn of Africa was part of the CENTCOM AOR and then basically the rest of Africa. And that's area of responsibility, meaning that if crap goes down, it's CENTCOM's responsibility. And again, this was before they stood up the command, the co…”
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And most, like the Horn of Africa, which for our purposes includes like Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya. And I don't remember if Uganda, I want to say it was, but maybe not. But that whole...…
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is geographically designated to a U.S. combatant commander for responsibility of military to military funding, engagement, training, whatever. And there was a very unique relationship, I'm just going to say that, with the Horn of Africa.…
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As a matter of fact, after 9-11, of the areas that were considered for boots on the ground besides Afghanistan, two of the three that I know was considered was in the Horn of Africa. And we were told that that had a lot to do with drug traf…
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throughout U.S. Central Command to do too much operationally in Afghanistan. And almost immediately, they began looking for an alternative to what we were told, draw out the terrorists, kind of like a honeypot, if you will, to draw them in.…
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military to military engagement budget for Kenya. So I obviously heard a lot about that stuff. So when you're looking at Africa, what they consider the Horn of Africa is to the far east, the little tip that sticks out into the Indian Ocean …
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in this uprising. The U.S. main motive for encouraging the rebellion was to restore the TPLF to power in Ethiopia, which they had been installed in power from 1991 to 2018, and to use the TPLF to control the Strategic Horn of Africa region.…
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had told a journalist, Ann Garrison, that over the last three decades, the U.S. showered the TPLF minority regime with roughly $1 billion of UNI's tax money in aid under the guise of humanitarian assistance. In exchange, the TPLF served as …
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an Operation Gladio force called the TPLF to be the paramilitary enforcers to go throughout the Horn of, excuse me, the Horn of Africa, the Horn of Africa and all of Africa for that matter, enforcing the US's will. Hassan Ali said that in o…
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who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for his role in helping to broker a durable peace agreement with Eritrea, and for releasing political prisoners and establishing a free press after years of TPLF authoritarian rule. According to Hassan Al…
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checked all of the boxes of Western war propaganda. Western economic interest in geopolitical scheming in the Horde of Africa was obscured and the history of U.S. imperial intervention in the region was ignored, along with the history of th…
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of the entrance into that straight to go up to the Suez Canal. And that's why the Horn of Africa, and I'm going to be very open with you guys. When I got to CENTCOM, CENTCOM's AOR, which is Area of Responsibility, included all of the Middle…
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Why would any of Africa be in a military unified command that had the Middle East in it? Because the Middle East has its own issues. And why would you divide up Africa? Africa has its own issues. And when you're building a combatant command…
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And it would make much more sense for the Horn of Africa at the time to have been in all of Africa, which at that time fell under the European command. And that in and of itself is kind of ironic, right, because they're all European colonie…
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which, again, from a unified military perspective, as far as national security, makes a lot of sense. But they still left the Horn of Africa. And now I realize the reason they did that, because they want total control and a cohesive approac…
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which received an immense boost from the U.S. State Department. In late October 11, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a memo asking diplomats to promote the use of privately contracted armed security on merchant vessels to deter …