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DEL.ICIO.USYoung climbs aboard AFRICOM effort
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Former Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young has lined up behind the lobbying effort to bring the U.S. military’s new Africa command center to a location near you.
Because Pentagon officials have been unable to secure a spot on the actual continent, Georgia has become one of several states trying to nab it — and the 1,300 or so employees it would bring.
This from Global Atlanta:
Military personnel “would love to come to Atlanta,” Mr. Young said. “Right now they’re in Stuttgart and they don’t speak the language. They’re strangers. They’d come here and they’d find friends, they’d be right at home.”
He does not view AFRICOM in the traditional military sense but rather as a coordinator of peacekeeping and trainer of urban law officers.
“We know how to train police officers to relate to the community,” Mr. Young said, relating his own experiences as mayor of Atlanta.
In a wide-ranging interview on Africa, Mr. Young said “17,000 United Nations forces just aren’t enough” to control the fighting between militia groups and government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“Congo is larger than Europe,” he said.
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