These include Guam, in the Pacific Ocean, and Diego Garcia, in the Indian Ocean.
The islanders have accepted that they cannot live on Diego Garcia because of its use as a military base.
The Ilois hope either to share Diego Garcia or at least to be allowed back to some of the other islands.
It has an air force base in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia, from which strikes against Afghanistan could easily be launched.
The indigenous population of Diego Garcia was effectively expelled in order to allow the island to become a very large American air base.
Richard Gifford, the islanders' London lawyer, said that the judgment stated that the US needed only the main island Diego Garcia for a base.
Of the islands, only Diego Garcia has piped water and electricity.
In December 2001, a B-1 crashed while returning from a bombing run over Afghanistan to a British base on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.
The group outside West Sussex council offices in Crawley want the government to let them return to Diego Garcia, which became a US airbase in the 1970s.
The Army and the Air Force both have pre-positioned equipment in the Indian Ocean at Diego Garcia, ready to respond to a crisis in the Persian Gulf region.
The sale includes all operations in the Maldives, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Seychelles, Diego Garcia and South Atlantic islands, as well as part of its holdings in Monaco.
Reprieve is to bring a case on behalf of a man who says he was tortured in Egypt after being flown there via the British territory of Diego Garcia.
Mr Madni, who was arrested on 11 January 2002 in Jakarta, Indonesia, believes his journey to Cairo took in a refuelling stop at a US facility in Diego Garcia.
He believes he was rendered from Bangkok to Libya by the CIA and the flight refuelled on the island of Diego Garcia, the British overseas territory in the Indian Ocean.
Another possible point of resistance in London and Washington may have been strategic: the desire not to recapitulate the problems of Diego Garcia, part of the British Indian Ocean territory.
Families were exiled from Diego Garcia, in the Chagos Islands, in the 1960s and 70s to make way for a US Indian Ocean airbase, and had to leave for Mauritius.
Last year, Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted Diego Garcia had been used for rendition flights, but the UK government has so far refused to reveal what else it knew about the flights.
It includes Diego Garcia, whose people, all removed in the 1970s so that the island could be used as an American base, last year lost a legal appeal to be allowed home.
However, shelters especially designed for the B-2 have been set up at Diego Garcia in the central Indian Ocean, which is used by the U.S. military as a stopping-off point for its bombers.
It is noteworthy that the Indian company trying to buy the Tyco infrastructure, VSNL, several years ago refused to allow a fiber optic connection to be made to the U.S. base at Diego Garcia.
This was because of an agreement between the UK and the US that the islands, of which Diego Garcia was the principal atoll, should be available to the US government for defence and communication purposes.
Britain has also helped with air-to-air refuelling, thus extending the effective range of America's carrier-based bombers, and agreed to the use of Diego Garcia, a British island in the Indian Ocean, as a base for heavy bombers.
On the other hand, with roughly 60 B-2s, the U.S. could station 20 at three bases around the world (Guam, Whiteman AFB and Diego Garcia) and be able to reach any target anywhere on the planet within hours.
But they have lost credibility with the public and their junior officers, and have little scope for resisting the new government, argues Diego Garcia Sayan, an adviser to Alejandro Toledo, Mr Fujimori's chief opponent in this year's election.
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