somewhere we don't know they don't know but they fear he's being held at camp in djibouti and a tourist u.s. anti terrorist base where he may be the victim of an american rendition program in which suspects are unlawfully taken to third party states to be illegally detained and tortured the hashi family want on says to simple questions like what the allegations are against maddie where he is located and whether he's even alive but when it comes to matters of intelligence they're faced with a wall of silence lawyers acting on behalf of the hashi family have received just this response from the government. has been successive governments nizer to confirm nor deny speaker lation allegations or assertion in respect of intelligence matters this policy is maintained into could only disagree. denies the allegations made on behalf of your client. these cases a classic case of where profiling and kind of almost ludicrous policies within this war on terror have resulted in an innocent individual helpless young effectively having their life ruined campaigners say that by stripping maddie hashi of

it's it's almost invisible there's a small number of logistical and support people in a facility in djibouti and other than that there are a couple of very small training missions in east africa and there are one or two very very small surveillance support groups and in the west after that it's marine guards and embassies for the most part we're not after all a thing about a country that had don't think the u.s. i mean it's on its a lot of people to know i'm not a literary activity i am going to you back to london here i know i it's i mean it's been you know there they have set up a home command for africa ok i mean it's more than a few embassy guards that i have go ahead jump in. well africom clearly is around it's here to stay and he's going nowhere and was like this only confirm its existence the question is why is africa not be the umbrella organization going in after the rebels in mali and i think african has its own problems about think it has no one in the world psychologically it hasn't won it to convince a lot of people on the african continent that it's required but when you have o

and as this has spread throughout the -- well, starting actually more in the horn of africa, djibouti and then moving down into the continent, this is the type of terrorism that -- that comes from this. so i consider this as a part of that war. but i do want to emphasize that the -- the accusation that -- that rwanda and their leadership and specifically paul kagami the president, let's remember what happened with paul kagami. he was the one back during the genocide of 1994 was able to come in and pull everybody together. a lot of the rebels went -- went to the west out of rwanda and went into the eastern part of congo. we know that's right. but they've been rejected by this. and there's no accusation that even -- there's even a relationship there. but i would just hope that people realize that we do have some really great presidents throughout the continent of africa. that is one of them. it's a difficult situation the there. it's one that we need to have our attention. and by the way, i would say that i don't believe that has been cleared on our side. it would be with me, but it has

so, we develop also and nurture places and you will notice places like diego garcia and djibouti and the camp in spain. these are places they are not our bases they are allies that allow us to go and refresh to resupply to increase our logistics, and you look around, these are important places for us to continue our mission as we look out there in the future. and in my view, they are very important to our ability to continue to execute the defense strategic guidance. you will notice last that there's a little box on the lower left and it lays out how long it takes to get from the east coast or west coast to the suez canal to the strait of hormuz and in fact in some cases it is true delete to two or three weeks. if we are not ready to get the job done menendez went to take some time so again, operating forward is important. now i mentioned recently that i published a position report. in the navy when you are out at sea once a day you provide what we call the 8:00 report that's usually done in the morning were the 12:00 report at noon. it's the position report. it says here is where we

places, and you will notice a little square, places like diego garcia, singapore, the coast of japan, djibouti, spain, these are places, not our bases of their places where allies allow us to go and refreshed and resupply, to increased our logistics', and if you look around there, these are important places for us to continue our mission as we look up today in the future. in my view they are important to our ability to continue to execute the defense to chic guides. you will notice lastly there is a little box on the left, and it lays out how long it takes to get from the east or west coast to the suez canal, to the strait of hormuz, and it is several days straight in some cases is two or three weeks. if we a not ready, it will take some time. again, operating for work is important. i mentioned that recently i published a position report. in the navy, when you are out at sea, once a day you prepare for the captain what we call it 8:00 report. usually done in the morning, where the 12:00 report at noon. it is the position report. it is a fixed and says here is our voice today, captain, where we