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...force ourselves on these ranch areas. We're there because people ask us if we'd like to train there," said Colonel Neil Hutton, head of the British training program in Kenya. "As it turns out, it's a good deal for everybody. We don't come knocking on their doors, bullying them. It's very much a relationship." (Read "How a Biofuel 'Miracle' Ruined Kenyan Farmers...
...with more soldiers heading to this part of Kenya every year, it remains to be seen whether the tourism industry and the wildlife will begin to suffer. When exercises are under way, the gunfire can be heard for miles. In 2006 British troops on patrol got lost and shot and killed a white rhinoceros that was threatening them. Landowners protested when the army used helicopters to clear firing ranges of elephants and other animals...
...British Army takes liaison with local populations seriously ... and is careful to minimize any adverse effects arising from their presence," an army spokesperson in London told TIME. "Preserving the local environment is a priority. In addition, we have supported the local economy and infrastructure by funding new schools and employing local workers...
...Christian, too, has started to come around. "Certainly things have gotten a lot better," he says. "The British army has become a bit more sensitive in realizing that tourism is kind of touchy when it comes to big explosions...
...Police confirmed on Sunday that they would take a fresh look at the evidence in the bombing case after a British newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph, reported that family members had received an e-mail from the Crown Office, Scotland's prosecuting authority, saying police were looking into several possible new leads. The paper said authorities decided to look into the case again after al-Megrahi, who has terminal cancer, dropped his final appeal before the Scottish government released him in August. (See pictures of Lockerbie 20 years...