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Keeping our Navy stationed near the Bab el Mandeb works twofold: we get to keep an eye on developments in Yemen AND disrupt Somali pirates.
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Mention is made of some strange, as yet unidentified, giant sea slugs "at the mouth of the Red Sea at Bab el-Mandeb" near Djibouti.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Mention is made of some strange, as yet unidentified, giant sea slugs "at the mouth of the Red Sea at Bab el-Mandeb" near Djibouti.
Giant Nudibranchs 2009
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More important is its strategic location near the Horn of Africa on Saudi Arabia's southern border, the Red Sea, its Bab el - Mandeb strait (a key chokepoint separating Yemen from Eritrea through which three million barrels of oil pass daily), and the Gulf of Aden connection to the Indian Ocean.
Obama's War on Yemen 2010
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More important is its strategic location near the Horn of Africa on Saudi Arabia's southern border, the Red Sea, its Bab el - Mandeb strait (a key chokepoint separating Yemen from Eritrea through which three million barrels of oil pass daily), and the Gulf of Aden connection to the Indian Ocean.
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Sharm al-Sheikh-Bab al-Mandeb: The strategic balance and Israel's southern approaches (Jerusalem papers on peace problems) by Mordechai Abir
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Israeli police arrest nuclear whistleblower Vanunu 2009
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It is strategically located on the "Horn of Africa" along southern approaches to Bab el Mandeb and the route through the Red Sea and Suez Canal.
Somalia 2009
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Because it sits on the entrance to Bab el Mandeb, a seventeen mile wide strip of water which leads to the Red Sea, commonly known as "Tanker Alley".
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Bab el-Mandeb was the site for of a naval blockade of Israel by Egypt in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Bab el-Mandeb 2008
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Any political upheaval could disrupt the flow of oil shipments through the strait, which would impact not just this region, but other countries that depend on the oil transported through Bab el-Mandeb.
Bab el-Mandeb 2008
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