By Nick Turse
What keeps U.S. Africa Command chief Gen. Thomas Waldhauser up
at night? That remains unknown, but the analysts under his command are
worried about terrorist organizations like the Islamic State, Al Qaeda,
and Boko Haram combining forces and destabilizing large swaths of the
African continent.
Planning documents issued in October 2017 and classified by
Waldhauser detail the worst-case scenarios imagined by the command. The
forecasts, which are an update to AFRICOM’s Theater Campaign Plan and
were obtained by The Intercept via a Freedom of Information Act request,
center around potential gains by terrorist organizations in the north
and west of the continent, specifically Libya, the Sahel, and the Lake
Chad basin. They offer a nightmare vision of a destabilized,
crisis-ridden region that could – if the worst happens — fall
increasingly under the control of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Boko Haram.
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Source: The Intercept_
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