Posted on 07/12/2003 12:38:18 AM PDT by zarf
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"We've been in a more aggressive posture for over a month," Marine Brig. Gen. Mastin Robeson, commander of the Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview from Djibouti on Friday.
The Horn of Africa sits across the Gulf of Aden from Yemen, which is the homeland of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
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