Don't forget Yemen!

RE earnest at tallynet.com
Thu Feb 20 07:36:24 PST 2003


Bordering on irrelevancy, but Claire Denis' film about Legionnaires, "Bon Travail," was shot around Djibouti. Good film, wonderful final scene. Randy

At an old Foreign Legion base in the former French colony
> there are now nearly 2,000 US troops, preparing to go on counter-terrorist
> missions. Armoured Humvee jeeps burst periodically from the gates,
> probing into the surrounding bush. Blackened helicopters with encrypted
> communications for special operations clatter above the camp then sweep
> low over the white-washed walls of Djibouti city and vanish towards the
> mountains.
>



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