Sand Castles in the Sahara: US Military Basing in Algeria
| Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 30 No. 98 Sand Castles in the Sahara: US Military Basing in Algeria |
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| Abstract of Briefing |
| Title: | Sand Castles in the Sahara: US Military Basing in Algeria |
| Author: | Mustafa Barth |
| Location: | Vol.30 No.98 (December 2003), pp679-685 |
| Two years on from 9/11 and the nature of American military involvement in the vast Saharan expanse of North-West Africa, especially in Algeria, is finally taking shape. The construction by Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root, of what is billed as a NASA base (believed by locals to be doubling as a US military/CIA listening post) alongside the main airport of Algeria's southern garrison and administrative capital of Tamanrasset, has been in progress for about a year. |
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