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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