Column: Dispatches From The Edge: Desert Faux: The Sahara’s Mirage of Terrorism By Conn Hallinan
When two U.S. Marine helicopters recently went down off Djibouti, a tiny slice of desert at the entrance to the Red Sea, they exposed a low-profile program that has poured money and troops into a broad swath of northern Africa from the Indian to the Atlantic oceans, which encompasses some nine nations in the region. -more-