The US is planning on placing a drone base in northwest Africa so they can spy on oncoming Al Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups that pose a possible threat to the United States. They have been checking over to make sure they have found a safe place to put the camp. The US has tried to stay out of Africa, having only one base in a town about 3,000 miles away from Mali. If the base is approved, it will most likely be along the Niger River and could have at least 300 troops there, but they would start with fewer.
I think that this is not a good idea, because if we set up base, we could make it obvious that we are spying on them. Al Qaeda could also attack the base and we would lose up to 300 lives for no reason.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/us/us-plans-base-for-surveillance-drones-in-northwest-africa.html?_r=0
I agree that this probably isn't a good idea. I think the United States really needs to think about how important setting up a base is.
ReplyDeleteYeah sooner or later someone is going to find the base.
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