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General Carter Ham

“I don't think it quite yet rises to that level, but it certainly is trending in that direction.”
— Army General Carter Ham, outgoing chief of U.S. Africa Command, when asked at a Senate hearing March 7 if Africa is becoming as central a haven for terrorists as U.S. Central Command – which oversees both Afghanistan and Iraq – has been in recent decades.
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