"In Djibouti, an impoverished mini-state on the Gulf of Aden, America has
turned a former French Foreign Legion outpost, Camp Lemonnier, into the
most important base for drone operations outside the war zone of
Afghanistan. According to an investigation by the Washington Post,
Predator drones take off round the clock on missions over nearby
Somalia and Yemen. Their pilots are in Creech, an air force hub 8,000
miles away in Nevada. The Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command
(JSOC) runs Camp Lemonnier; the CIA is believed to have a more secret
site elsewhere in the Arabian Peninsula."