By Jeremy Keenan
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Release date: March 26, 2013 | ISBN-10: 0745329616 | ISBN-13: 978-0745329611
In The darkish Sahara (Pluto, 2009), Jeremy Keenan uncovered the collusion among the united states and Algeria in fabricating terrorism to justify a brand new ‘Saharan front’ in Washington’s warfare on Terror. Now, within the death Sahara, he finds how the designation of the sector as a ‘Terror Zone’ has destroyed the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of blameless humans. starting in 2004, with what local community known as the USA ‘invasion’ of the Sahel, The loss of life Sahara exhibits how repressive, authoritarian regimes - making the most of US terrorism ‘rents’ - provoked Tuareg rebellions in either Niger and Mali. additional, he argues that US job has unleashed a brand new, narco-trafficking department of Al-Qaeda. Keenan's chillingly exact study exhibits that the united states and its new combatant African command (AFRICOM) have created instability in a sector the dimensions of western Europe.
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About the Author
Jeremy Keenan is a Professorial learn affiliate on the institution of Oriental and African experiences. He has written many books together with The darkish Sahara (Pluto, 2009). He acts as a specialist to varied foreign organizations at the Sahara and the Sahel, together with the United international locations, the eu fee and lots of others.
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Paperback: 288 pages
writer: Pluto Press (March 26, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0745329616
ISBN-13: 978-0745329611
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It is too easy to ascribe all the blame to Washington. Other actors have played their part. Not only has Algeria been much more than a submissive partner, but Western European countries, notably the UK and France, have increasingly shown their willingness to play supportive roles, with their policies towards the region, as this volume explains, and as the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has admitted, being based knowingly and in a calculated manner on myth. That myth was based on El Para’s operation and it justified the subsequent Saharan-Sahelian front in the GWOT.
Until Bowman’s evidence, the US intelligence community was anxious about working too closely with their Algerian counterparts for fear that they would pass sensitive information to Palestinian organisations. However, Bowman’s statement, in which he presented the background and nature of what the FBI called the ‘International Jihad Movement’, dispelled many of the anxieties in Washington about collaborating with the Algerians by showing how close Algeria was to the US in its fight against al-Qaeda and terrorism.
Operation Flintlock was not welcomed by local people for a number of reasons. The first and most obvious reason was that by 2005, anti-American sentiment was widespread across Muslim countries. Even in the remote corners of the Sahara, local people were not only fully aware of and angered by the chaos, disruptions, torture and other atrocities that accompanied the US invasion and occupation of Iraq, but they had already experienced 18 months of the PSI, during which their own lands had been turned into a new front in the GWOT.