Saturday, 8 August 2009

Jeremy Keenan on "The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa"

British Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan on "The Dark Sahara: America's War on Terror in Africa": "Dark-sahara-web

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues her seven-nation tour of Africa, we hear from British anthropologist Jeremy Keenan. He traces AFRICOM, the US military command in Africa, to a 2003 kidnapping of European tourists. The hostage taking was widely blamed on Islamic militants thought to be affiliated with al-Qaeda, but Keenan argues that the Bush administration and the Algerian government were the ones responsible. [includes rush transcript]

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