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ACAS Bulletin 77 ACAS Bulletin, No. 77, Summer 2007 Introduction: North Africa and the Horn in the Vortex of the US War on Terror Jesse Benjamin and Fouzi Slisli, Co-Editors This issue started as an attempt to explore the Bulletin, AFRICOM is now upon us, and with impacts of the US-declared global ‘War on it a growing US presence in Africa, closer ties Terror’ on the region of North Africa. We with oil and natural gas rich nations, were joined at ACAS for this purpose by Fouzi burgeoning US naval and military buildup and Slisli as a special guest co-editor who brought spending. As of October 2007, the global US considerable expertise of the region. We military operation officially declares a new wanted to be clear that it was a US conceived region to add to its existing five “commands,” war on terror, albeit with many ally and proxy a sixth region specific to Africa. Until now, nations drawn in, and we intended to focus on the Pentagon divided the Western Hemisphere North Africa as a region because of its into USNORTHCOM and USSOUTHCOM, connections to the Arab and Islamic worlds and the rest of the world into the US European that have been so much of the focus of this Command [EUCOM], US Central Command military engagement. The boundaries of North [CENTCOM], and the US Pacific Command Africa versus the Middle East, and between [PACOM]. Most of Africa was under North and Southern Africa, are themselves EUCOM, northeast Africa from Egypt to problematic and used here only loosely. Kenya was under CENTCOM, as though it Boundary issues are in fact indicative of were part of the extended Middle East, and colonial legacies that are themselves central to Madagascar, the Seychelles and portions of the the story told in this issue. It is in this context African Indian Ocean coasts were under that we received several interesting pieces on PACOM. With the new AFRICOM, or Somalia and the Horn of Africa, which are of African Command, the United States has course not in North Africa explicitly, but we restructured Africa as a region of vital US decided to include them here because of the strategic significance unto itself, with the parallel dynamics they are experiencing in the entire continent except for Egypt, which new post-9/11 US global order. As such, this remains in CENTCOM, under this new issue begins with two essays on Algeria, then command structure. moves to an update on Western Sahara and three pieces reflecting on Moroccan politics in Our focus in this issue on North Africa and the the current context, and concludes with three Horn therefore highlights aspects of a more essays on Somalia and the greater Horn of general trend in Africa. It is no accident that Africa. In each regional context, the new this new structure was ordered by Donald global milieu of post-Iraq invasion US global Rumsfeld while he was still Secretary of State, military projection is being felt in important and it reflects his neoconservative vision of new ways, while imperial politics as usual extending US hegemony into the future based continues unabated, if generally intensifying. on economic and political control of strategic fuel and geopolitical resources. New military In fact, the entire African continent is budgets, bureaucracies and bases will simply undergoing a renewed and newly restructured increase the imperial network of client and ally US military and political presence in the wake states the US has cultivated in Africa since the of the expanding Middle East conflict and the Second World War. From an oil point of view, increasingly desperate search for petroleum the Sudan/Chad nexus, and the Gulf of Guinea and other energy resources. As Daniel reaching to Angola in the south will be the key Volman warned in previous issue of the arenas of concentration, but the apparitional 1 ACAS Bulletin, No. 77, Summer 2007 War on Terror provides cover for almost infinite engagements, arms deals, base The after-effects of these policies in Algeria building, and interventions throughout and via are recounted in a short review, in the form of the continent. Africom starts out under the a press release, by Selima Mellah and François auspices of the European Command, and will Gèze of Algeria Watch, which was founded go independent in about a year, when it is ten years ago to monitor human rights issues in more fully established. So it is in a FAQ on the wake of state-sponsored violence against the EUCOM website that we see the question, the population. Reprinted here with special “Is this an effort by the United States to gain permission, ACAS Bulletin readers get to peer access to natural resources (e.g. petroleum)?” into the human rights struggle 15 years into the As the saying goes, “If you have to ask…” Generals coup d'Etat, which the authors here The pat official answer on the website follows compare to post-Allende Chile and the immediately, “No. Africa is growing in Argentina of Videla with the difference that military, strategic and economic importance in the Algerian Generals, supported by France global affairs. We are seeking more effective and other intelligence agencies, stayed in the ways to prevent and respond to humanitarian shadows as they wages a campaign of terror on crises, improve cooperative efforts to stem civil society. On the one hand, their grim transnational terrorism and sustain enduring appraisal foreshadows what we can expect in a efforts that contribute to African unity and decade or more in Iraq and surrounding areas, bolster security on the continent.” and on the other, explains the context in which the US currently finds such a willing ally in its The issue starts with Fouzi Slisli’s penetrating regional war on terror in the current Algerian analysis of Algeria as a model for regime. The question remains, at what pace do contemporary US politics and military movements of mothers and children and other intervention in the Middle East. He thus survivors of the disappeared, in the Latin establishes Northern Africa as both the American tradition, emerge from the rubble? progenitor and the recipient of military calculations in the critical theater of the greater Turning to Morocco, we find another staunch Persian Gulf region. Parallel with the incisive US-ally in the war on terror. We begin our historical analysis of Mahmood Mamdani, in discussion with Western Sahara, where his recent Good Muslims, Bad Muslims,1 Slisli Morocco has been acting as the regional and identifies current US strategy in Iraq [and imperially-sanctioned power against a staunch Afghanistan] as based on the Algerian model, national Sahrawi resistance that has been in which Islamic factions were used as proxies compared to the Israel/Palestine conflict by in a terrible civil war. The US is now arming numerous observers and participants alike. allies to fight Islamic rivals in a dizzying array Jacob Mundy, co-author of a forthcoming book of countries throughout the Middle East and length discussion on the topic, provides a northern Africa, in what Slisli tells us is being concise history of the conflict before called the ‘redirection.’ Perhaps the only non- explaining the manner in which Morocco has US exponent of this philosophy of modern shifted its imperial discourse from the rhetoric divide and conquer is Quaddafi, who used it to of the Cold War to that of 9/11 and the specter set some of the current Darfur conflict in of “terrorism.” Polisario rebels have been motion, but everywhere else, from Afghanistan branded as allies of Algeria, al-Qaeda, and and Iraq, to Algeria, Morocco and Somalia, the even Castro. And now, with Morocco an even US fingerprint is in direct evidence. What is closer ally in US global aspirations under the revealed is a kind of revere blowback in which umbrella of its war on whatever and whomever the Algerian model is imported to Iraq, it deems to be terrorist, the long stalled peace Afghanistan, Palestine and other parts of the negotiations in this refugee-laden conflict are Middle East, and then flow back into Africa at a low point – further bolstering the again as this war on terror rages increasingly inevitable comparisons with Palestine. out of control. 2 ACAS Bulletin, No. 77, Summer 2007 James Sater, writing from Morocco, explains such accusations make possible military that the stated US policy of fighting the global interventions and other gross circumventions spread of Islamic terrorism by supporting of international and local laws. As recounted democracy, while not always being fully and historicized in the review essay by truthful, is ironically creating conditions in Immanuel Wallerstein and reprinted here next, Morocco where civil society grows even the US went about its post-“Blackhawk Down” stronger and gains a foothold in which to invasion of Somalia via its newish regional challenge both the US and that of its ally, the proxy, Ethiopia. This was accomplished with Moroccan state. Mohammed Hirchi writes for covert US air support, Ethiopian ground us about situation within national politics of a troops, a newly installed Somali leader openly moderate Islamic group, the Islamic Party of professing civilian carpet bombing, and secret Justice and Development [PJD]. He too shows detention and torture prisons in the invading that, if US sponsored Moroccan state neighbor state. As a result, one more Islamic nationalism and its authoritarian policies organization which had stepped into the void continue unabated, this will ironically lend of the state to provide security and services for support within civil society for alternative citizens has been removed or displaced from regimes, such as that embodied by the PJD.
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