If they do the evacuation is it just because there is word or signs of something brawling? Or is it because shots have been fired towards the embassy?

coup, riots and such. Google embassy evacuations and you'll get back 816,000 hits on this topic.

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Speaking of Iraq, I am to the point where I think that we should assume command of their military. It might scare the hell out of their government.

We did that several times already didn't we?

Yeah I thought we already were a couple of times. I can guarantee most of the Iraqi troops don't want to be helping us but what choice do they have when we tell them they have to. Taking control of their military would be wise. Didn't we do that to Japan after WW2? And then we gave them back control after September 11. Or something like that happened. But yes, taking Iraqs military would be good.

It may come to pass---

Military focuses on development in Africa
In Djibouti, US forces combat terrorism with civil affairs work. Will this be a model for a future US military command in Africa?
By Ginny Hill | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor

Djibouti - When Petty Officer Samson James Hathaway and his US naval construction team arrived in the village of Hol-Hol three months ago, they stood in the 100-degree heat and looked at the camels padding through the boulders and dust.

"We've got our work cut out for us here," thought Petty Officer Hathaway.

The marines and sailors set up home on a makeshift soccer field beside the Djibouti-to-Ethiopia railroad line, close to a Somali refugee encampment. The 26-man team from Gulfport, Miss., is tasked with reroofing the local school, installing new latrines, and building a meeting room. They will remain in Hol-Hol, a two hour off-road drive from the US military base at Camp Lemonier, until the job is completed in September.

This small group is part of a larger US military mission that aims to tackle the root causes of terrorism by focusing on diplomacy and development. Chiefly based at Camp Lemonier, the Combined Joint Task Force for the Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) works to project power into a region that's loaded with tension – most prominently, the civil war in Somalia. They're creating a model that could influence the formation of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM), a new, combined US military umbrella group that will become operational in 16 months.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0622/p07s02-woaf.html


Then there is this statement made later in the article:

"In the beginning, we were suspicious but now we've seen that they are good people and they're doing good things for our village," says Abdul-Rahman Bossis, an unemployed Hol-Hol resident.

EXACTLY what residents said in Mogadishu in 1992. By 1993 there was a much different attitude. I predict that either an actual terrorist attack or the threat of one will require increasing force protection measures and forces to the point that some faction will eventually see the US military presence as a threat. Then it will begin.....Apologize if I appear overly pessimistic, but I've spent time there and know how the culture works. They will eventually turn on the US. The people are easily dissuaded by rumors and innuendo and do not trust outsiders-- of course, look at the history of the continent and they have good reason for this distrust.

So we have the command team(AFRICOM) over in Africa right now that will be operational in 16 months. I'm not saying what you're saying about them turning is a lie but wouldn't the team be aware of what could possibly happen and have plans to diverge the problem? Most likely they have thought of everything that could possible jeopardize the command team. But who knows, things happen. At least we're trying. By the way these smiley's are kick ass so I here mine is -