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...American military power is extraordinary. At the end of 2001, the U.S. had 255,000 active-duty troops overseas based in 148 nations. Since then, some 60,000 troops have been prepositioned for a possible invasion of Iraq, and the U.S. has developed major new bases in Qatar, Djibouti, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The worldwide military machine does not come cheap. The war in Afghanistan has so far cost an estimated $15 billion, and respectable guesses at the cost of a campaign in Iraq range from $100 billion to $200 billion. But the military's precise role in support...
Pentagon officials hint that the Predator, controlled and operated by the CIA, flew from Djibouti, the new home of the U.S. military command--Joint Task Force Horn of Africa--charged with hunting terrorists in the region. The armed version of the Predator had proved itself in the war in Afghanistan last year, but the attack in Yemen marked the first known use of the drone to kill a terrorist leader outside an acknowledged field of combat--a tactic human-rights advocates liken to assassination. The strike owed its success to a tip from Yemeni authorities on the whereabouts...
...terror has made some progress lately--partly because there are just more terrorist hunters than there used to be. In addition to the 8,000 members of the armed forces in Afghanistan, there are now nearly 800 U.S. forces based in the East African nation of Djibouti, across the Red Sea from Yemen, and a Marine Corps amphibious assault ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia...
...special forces have trained and equipped Yemeni counterparts in the arts of counterterrorism. But last week Yemeni officials felt compelled to loudly deny press reports that the 800 U.S. troops amassed in nearby Djibouti might eventually be deployed in Yemen. Saleh's campaign is popular with many Yemenis, but they draw the line at the presence of foreign troops. At the Wadi Dhahr wedding ceremony, Ahmed Saeed, a retired army officer who carried his 8-month-old grandson on his shoulders, was pleased when the police took away the reveler who had opened fire. "We have the greatest President...
...Djibouti and a few Arab states helped underwrite the peace conference and provided four-wheel drives for the President and Prime Minister, and a few thousand police uniforms. But big money from Western governments will be harder to come by. During the cold war, Somalia attracted more aid per capita than any other African state, first from the Soviets and then from the U.S. "It's true that we had a dependency," says Mahamoud Mohamed Uluso, a minister in the Barre government. But once the cold war ended, the money dried up. What followed made many donor nations wary...