    Sentence 1: LatMpst-year , for example , more than  1800 US sokdiers were. placed in Djibouti to conduct    sounter-terroriem operations in tha Horn of Africa.         Sentence 2: Since late last. year , for example , more  than 1,800 members of the American military have  been placed in Djibouti to conduct counterterrorism  ‘operations in the Horn of Africa .    *