African nations fear that AFRICOM and its headquarters will attract the attention of terrorists and other enemies of the United States.
Magazine Jeune Afrique wrote in September that locating AFRICOM's headquarters in Africa would create a situation similar to that in the Middle East, to which the United States brought fire and bloodshed, allegedly in a desire to spread democracy. Instead of protecting the continent from terrorism, AFRICOM will attract terrorists to Africa like a magnet attracts metal, > the same as the invasion of Iraq by the Anglo-American armies attracted terrorists to Mesopotamia, the magazine writes.
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