US counterterrorism operations reached even remote aid missions in the Horn of Africa.

Evidence

Chapter 1 maps the margins of the journey that birthed this book, starting in Wajir, Kenya, on a mission trip aiding Somali nomads stricken with blindness. There, seemingly off the grid in a nondescript corner of the Horn of Africa, my path converged with that of agents of the American War on Terror enlisted in the mission of advancing empire in the name of preventing terrorism. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 72