The United States is shopping for locations to put permanent U.S. bases on Africa. The operation will be called U.S. African Command. It’s been a concern that there hasn’t been a permanent base of operations for the United States on Africa.
Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister Mohamed Bedjaoui rejected a proposal from the United States.
Mohamed Bedjaoui, the Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister was yesterday reported in the People’s Daily Online as having strongly questioned the motive behind the military venture.
“He questioned why no one had ever proposed for any anti-terror co-operation with Algeria in the 1990s when terrorist violence went rampant and wrought havoc?”
Good question. Where was the United States when terrorists were running rampant in the 1990s?
April 14th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
i strongly condemn american involvement with the algerian nation. As Mohamed Bedjaoui, the Algerian Foreign Affairs Minister has rightly mentioned, no international help or involvement was proposed during continous period of terrorism of the 1990`s. nevertheless algeria, apparently a “third world” country had actually managed to banish the the terrorism and spread a sense of peace and security throught the country. this was all achived without any external madiators or peacekeepers. therfore why would america prove to be useful to algerians now?? they are obviously not interfeering for the algerians benifit, so we do not welcome a nation to put its foot in our country; especially a nation that has been sacrificing arab blood for hundreds of years.