Hi Aan - I noticed a similarity with Iraq in late October 2002. Parallels with Cyrenaica perhaps?
23 October 2002 (UPI) - The CIA this week beefed up its presence in northern Iraq, establishing two formal field offices in the Kurdish-controlled territory protected by U.S. and British fighter jets, according to Iraqi opposition officials.
As of Monday, one CIA station was established in territory controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and the other was set up in territory controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party...