The US has been there and more people have been deployed over there the past few weeks. I love that the article makes it sound as if it's only 3000 or a little more soliders.
Here's an article about a mission to safe guard Africa and it's assests. In other words USA wants your oil. For the life of me I cannot figure out what this has to do with homeland security... shouldn't they be worried about our borders, not theres?

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