That office, Mr. Cho said, is a one-executive outpost left behind to watch over millions of dollars worth of construction equipment stranded in the country since 1991.
Call me a Luddite if you like, but I keep wondering if it might not make some sense to have at least one outpost left in our over-wired world that just says no to glittering disks and glowing screens.
However, AFRICOM'S commander, General David Rodriguez, now proudly insists that the 11 bare-bones outposts will leave U.S. forces "within four hours of all the high-risk, high-threat [diplomatic] posts" on the continent.
Fosca is living with her cousin Colonel Ricci Stephen Bogarduss) in an Army camp near a small country town, when a handsome young officer named Giorgio (Ryan Silverman) is transferred to this dull outpost, leaving behind his lover, Clara (Melissa Errico), in Milan.
Captain Giorgio Bachetti is relocated to an Italian outpost, leaving behind his beloved Clara.
The group was relatively inactive for some time afterward, but in recent months a series of brazen raids on checkpoints and security outposts have left at least 50 police officers and soldiers dead, mostly in southern Yemen.
These diplomatic messages are still known as cables, even though, as the Guardian explains, our foreign outposts have left behind transoceanic telegraph cables for the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, or SIPRNet, which the military uses for command and control.
Mr. Obama drew a direct link between leaks of national security information and the safety of Americans working in dangerous places like Benghazi, where the deadly assault on a diplomatic outpost last fall left a murky trail of questions in its wake.
The attack on Sergeant Hissong's company, on March 1 at Combat Outpost Sangesar, left two Americans dead along with two Afghan assailants, but it was not the first time that Afghan solders had attacked forces from the American-led coalitionornor would it be the last of what the military calls "green on blue" attacks.
In the case of Palestine, Mr Abbas and his new prime minister have to show not only that they can govern cleanly but also that they can get Israel to start dismantling outposts and leaving the West Bank.
