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<p>CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti — Three high-definition television screens, a bank of green military radios and detailed maps line the walls. Laptop computers cover three rows of tables. And military officers, among them Lt. Cmdr. Victor Cooper, keep 24-hour vigil, tracking terrorists from afar.</p>

INTRO: Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers has wrapped up his travels to meet with the troops. His last stop was Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, where the hunt is on for al Qaeda operatives. Fox News Pentagon correspondent Bret Baier accompanied General Myers on that journey and has this report. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a dusty base along the coastline of Djibouti sits the Camp Lemonier, home to 1400 U.S. troops. Combined Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa. While the focus in the wars on terrorism over the past two years...

NAIROBI: At least 40 people were injured in violent riots by hundreds of Muslims in a northeastern Kenyan town protesting the presence of US marines on a humanitarian mission, police and press reports said on Sunday. “Several hundred people demonstrated on Friday against the presence of US marines, who were here to offer free medical and veterinary services,” Garissa district police chief Remmy Ngugi said. “Placard-waving protestors burnt tyres on main roads and torched American flags and an effigy of US President George Bush at a Garissa playground before accosting the marines, but we managed to bring the situation under...

CAMP LEMONIER, Djibouti(November 20, 2003) -- Paint brushes took the place of rifles in the hands of more than 40 Battalion Landing Team 1/1 Marines and Sailors who participated in civic assistance projects in two Djiboutian towns recently. The 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) ground combat element Marines ashore in Djibouti worked with Djiboutian locals and Army personnel from Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's Charlie Company, 478th Civil Affairs (Special Operations) in the towns of Tadjoura, a coastal town about 150 kilometers from here, and Obock, more than 200 kilometers away, to paint a regional hospital and...

CAMP LEMONIER, DJIBOUTI -- U.S. forces have disrupted several planned terrorist attacks against Western and other targets in the Horn of Africa and local authorities have killed or captured more than two dozen militants, said the U.S. general in command of an anti-terrorism task force. Of the hundreds of foreign fighters detained by U.S. troops in Iraq, approximately 25 percent come from the seven countries that fall under the purview of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, Marine Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson said in his first interview since taking command in May 2003.

My Son-in-Law is being deployed to Djibouti for up to a year. About all I can find as far as information about the place is some scary info from the US State Department: http://travel.state.gov/djibouti_announce.htmlhttp://travel.state.gov/djibouti.html And some generic information: http://www.fecamp-normandie.com/travel/djibouti/desert1.htmlhttp://www.worldrover.com/vital/djibouti.html Just wondering if any Freepers out there have other information or experiences. Regardless, we'll be keeping him (as all of our troops) in our prayers. Thanks in advance!

Army medical teams are investigating why some service members who became infected with pneumonia in Southwest Asia had signs of Eosinophilla and others didn’t. Of the 19 serious cases diagnosed since March 1, 17 were soldiers. One Marine and sailor have also been diagnosed. Only one woman has been diagnosed with serious pneumonia. Eosinophils are white blood cells known to fight certain infections, especially hay fever and allergies, a press release from the U.S. Army Surgeon General's office said. Concerned about the number of cases, the surgeon general sent two Epidemiological Consultation teams to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, and...

DJIBOUTI, Sep 30, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Several dozen American soldiers raise a big green tent and shuffle it across the sand, making room for yet more equipment at a new U.S. military base that is growing larger by the day in this small but strategically located country in the Horn of Africa. While their colleagues rearrange their living quarters, other soldiers in sunglasses and floppy hats keep watch at the entrance to Camp Le Monier from a machine gun-mounted Humvee. The five-month-old U.S. base in this former French colony just miles across the Red Sea from...

Some see haven for drug running, terrorist training camps and al-qaeda Traditional violence and instability in region could prove sticky, entangling US in mesh of bloody rivalries BEIRUT: Not too long ago a man named Issa al-Hayatt carrying a South African passport was lying in the Kaysaney Hospital in downtown Mogadishu, the lawless capital of Somalia, a constant battleground between clan-based warlords. Around about March 11 or 12, he’d been shot in what appeared to be an attempt by militiamen to kidnap him. On March 18, six armed men, identified as Americans by witnesses, swept into the ward with several...

By a Concerned Officer I am writing to DefenseWatch because the U.S. Marines serving in Djibouti need help. Here's the situation: I am currently serving with the Combined Joint Task Force/Horn of Africa. The majority of the task force is currently embarked on the command ship USS Mount Whitney but the rest of us are based at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti, located on the Horn of Africa at the southern end of the Red Sea. Camp Lemonier is horribly defended. The front gate has nothing higher than a 5.56mm covering it, and is only yards away from the base operations center....

Clean machine: troops on laundry duty at Camp Lemonier, Djibouti headquartersfor the US surveillance operation America beefs up its prescence in a region seen as a terror havenA PORTRAIT of Osama bin Laden, a bull’s eye marked in the middle of his forehead, is pasted on an upturned oil drum outside the commanding colonel’s offices at the new US support base here for anti-terrorist operations. Camp Lemonier has been quietly established over the past few months at the end of a dusty road on the outskirts of Djibouti city. Surrounded by coiled barbed wire fences, watchtowers and huge sand-filled...

NAIROBI: US forces, including Special Forces, bombers and a Navy destroyer, would begin a two-day live-fire exercise in Djibouti on Sunday, a US military spokesman said. The day and night exercise is the largest of its kind conducted in the small but strategically important Horn of Africa nation, which the US is using as a regional base for its war on terrorism. About 50 troops, mainly Americans but also some from coalition partners, would be involved, Maj Steve Cox, spokesman for US Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa, said on Saturday. The destroyer USS Briscoe will fire 5-inch, 54-caliber naval guns...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/20/02 - Aghala Khan, Lahore, Karachi, Cairo, Djibouti, Guessabo, Hawara checkpoint, Kabul, Meck Island, Le Bourget, Taji BREAKING: Lahore - Aghala Khan arrersted BREAKING: Karachi - Asif Ramzi grounded Aghala Khan, Lahore, Karachi, Cairo, Djibouti, Guessabo, Hawara checkpoint, Kabul, Meck Island, Le Bourget, Taji ========= Aghala Khan ========= In Aghala Khan, Afghanistan, villagers watch a film about the 911 Atrocities caused by the Taliban and al Qaeda. ========= Kabul ========= In Kabul, family outing. In Kabul, Afghan women are free, FREED BY THE USA, and here enjoy laughter and tea. ========= Lahore...

SOUDA BAY, Crete - Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Monday left open the possibility of expanding the new U.S. military presence in the Horn of Africa, where hundreds of American troops are based as part of a land, sea and air campaign to root out al-Qaida terrorists. In an interview en route to his first visit to the Horn of Africa since taking office, Rumsfeld said some countries in that unstable region had offered the use of military facilities, but that so far the United States had only agreed to use Camp Le Monier in the desert hinterland of...

U.S. Warns of Possible Terror Strike in Djibouti, Tells Americans to Beware William C. Mann AP Writer Nov 30, 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - The State Department on Saturday warned Americans in the East African nation of Djibouti, where U.S. troops are posted, that terrorists may be planning attacks similar to those last week in Kenya. The government had not confirmed the credibility of information concerning the threats, which also were thought to cover other countries in the region, according to a State Department statement. "Due to the preponderance of threat information, the department believes it prudent to share this information...

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTU.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman East Africa November 30, 2002 This Public Announcement is being issued to alert Americans to the potential for terrorist actions against U.S. citizens in east Africa. This Public Announcement expires on March 3, 2003.On November 28, there was a car bomb attack on a hotel near Mombasa, Kenya, in which at least 11 people died, and an unsuccessful attempt to shoot down an Israeli charter plane departing Mombasa on the same day. The U.S. Government has received information, the credibility of which has not yet been confirmed, that similar attacks...

The Voice of America has learned U.S. troops and equipment have been transiting through Djibouti on their way to Kuwait, where they could be used in a new war with Iraq. The move appears to violate Djibouti's stated policy on U.S. use of its territory. Until now, defense officials have maintained U.S. military personnel deployed in Djibouti are engaged in operations and training related to the war on terrorism. That is in line with the publicly-stated position of authorities in Djibouti, who have said the Americans do not have permission to use their territory for a possible attack on Iraq....

Pentagon sources are hinting that U.S. forces in and around the tiny but strategically-positioned Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti may soon be moving on. The troops were originally deployed to Djibouti for possible anti-terrorist operations in nearby Yemen as well as Somalia. It was only this past week that the Pentagon finally confirmed that U.S. forces were being allowed to use a base in Djibouti and that a U.S. amphibious assault ship was stationed in the Red Sea off the coast of the small country. But a senior Defense official now hints those forces - some 800 Special Operations...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/20/02 BREAKING: Tel Aviv homocidal bombing BREAKING: RESPONSE in Ramallah BREAKING: RESPONSE Zaitoon, Gaza, bomb-making factory deleted BREAKING: Karachi more arms recovered Djibouti Buffalo, New York, Lackawanna Yemeni six, POW and MIA Day ===================== Tel Aviv, Israel =================== BREAKING: TERROR STIMULUS In Tel Aviv, the lastest perverted homocidal bombing, with at least five people murdered, and more than 40 wounded. In Tel Aviv, CSI forensic experts take evidence, from homocidal murders funded by the UN, EU, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. ===================== Umm el-Fahm =================== In Umm el-Fahm, Israel, another perverted homocidal bombing,...

<p>DJIBOUTI (AP) --  As an American helicopter hovered overhead, several young men said Thursday they welcomed U.S. forces in Djibouti a day after the Pentagon said it had sent 800 troops to the tiny but strategically important nation in the Horn of Africa.</p>