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| U.S. to open Special Operations Forces base in Albania |
| 2022-01-07 |
| TIRANA, Jan 6 (Reuters) - The United States Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR) will open a forward-based headquarters in Albania on a rotational basis, Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Thursday. SOCEUR, based in Stuttgart, Germany, said on its website that the base in Albania would provide increased coordination with Albanian allies, important access to transportation hubs in the Balkans and greater logistical flexibility. "This is a fantastic news ... it is an expression of a very high credibility and a very close cooperation," Rama said in a video message in which he read out the SOCEUR announcement. Albania became a member of the NATO military alliance in 2009. Highly trained and equipped with advanced communications equipment and weapons, special forces are often used in counterterrorism or reconnaissance operations. They can infiltrate enemy lines to tie down much larger numbers of opposition troops. It was not clear what the role of these U.S. forces in Albania would be. SOCEUR said its role is to "rapidly respond to emerging threats and if necessary, defeat aggression" together with its allies. In the decade after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks U.S. special forces numbers more than doubled, their budget tripled and their deployments quadrupled. The United States already has 600 troops based in Serbia's former province of Kosovo to maintain the fragile peace more than two decades after the end of the Kosovo War in 1999. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #7 Some big guy need the flesh & drugs trade to remain stable? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-01-07 13:41 |
| #6 https://youtu.be/cedoBlUvBlI |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2022-01-07 10:02 |
| #5 Is it close to Benghazi? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-01-07 09:55 |
| #4 !Holy shiite! is there no place we wont meddle in? |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2022-01-07 09:18 |
| #3 |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-01-07 09:07 |
| #2 Some of the girls are pretty though. See Era Istrefi. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2022-01-07 07:06 |
| #1 "This is a fantastic news ... it is an expression of a very high credibility and a very close cooperation," Bullshi*! Albania already has Special Forces units. They assisted the US effort in AFG, but were NOT integrated into the SOF effort. They were used as mechanized infantry in Kandahar Province. We need to stay out of that Eastern Euro mess. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-01-07 06:02 |