.Topics
- Al Qaeda
- Ali Mohamed (triple Al Qaeda agent infiltrated US army, early 9/11 planner) , a Special Forces Middle East expert at Fort Bragg ...in addition to training al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan...he was in Somalia
- Islamic Courts Union ICU " was the only government that brought stability in somalia since the blackhawk down episode" backed by Jeremy Scahill
- Osama Bin Laden sent his people to Mogadishu to shoot down Blackhawk helicopters
- Transitional Federal Government fought ICU
Backing West
- Ethiopia
- George Bush
- Transitional Federal Government
Backing Islamists
- Al Qaeda
- Alex Jones: Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia led to the complete breakdown of government, Somalia was mostly under the loose control of the Union of Islamic Courts, a relatively moderate Islamic group which was slowly bringing some semblance of stability and security
- Ali Mohammed U.S Army Al Qaeda double agent
- Globalresearch.ca
- Ian Welsh "Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia Caused the Nairobi Mall Attack"
- Islamic Courts Union
- Jeremy Scahill the [U.S. partnered with the ethiopian military and staged an invasion of somalia, dismantling the the islamic courts union, which was the only government that brought stability in somalia]
- Mohammed Farrah Aidid warlord
- Osama bin Laden
- Pambazuka Islamic Courts Union had created the basis for a peaceful life, led to mall attack
- Pan African News Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts had created a sense of stability in that nation after many years of war (pro-Iran)
- PressTV documents government soldiers killing civilians and children
- Rense
- Shoah
- Socialist Worker
- World Socialist Web Site (links to Iran's PressTV)
.Timeline
2013
September
Jihad apologists blame Kenya mall massacre on invasion which drove out the Islamic Courts Union
Innocent Kenyan Blood Drips from Imperial Hands | Global Research
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Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia Caused the Nairobi ...
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Sep 27, 2013 - Look, years ago, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the ... I was watching when the US manipulated Kenya into invading Somalia.
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Sep 24, 2013 - A youth wing of the Islamic Courts arose known as Al-Shabaab ...Beginning in 2007, the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) was ...
2012
- Sep 29, 2012 · NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan forces claimed on Friday to have captured Kismayu, the last major stronghold of the Shabab militant group in Somalia, which, if ...
June 2011
Tue Jun 14, 2011 Somali government troops have attacked the northern parts of the African country's capital, Mogadishu, leaving over 14 civilians dead and many more wounded. Somali government forces backed by the African Union have been pounding three districts of Mogadishu with heavy artillery, a Press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday. Four children are said to be among the victims. The attacks have forced hundreds of local residents to escape their homes. -
March 2008
On March 3, 2008, the United States launched an air strike on Dhoble, a Somali town. U.S. officials claimed the town was held by Islamic extremists, but gave few details to the press.[66] It was reported that Hassan Turki was in the area. The same area was targeted by U.S. bombers one year earlier.[67] A successful air strike occurred on May 1 in Dhusamareb. It killed the leader of Al-Shabab Aden Hashi Eyrow along with another senior commander and several civilians; however, the attack did nothing to slow down the Insurgency.[68]
January 2007in January 2007 focused on the southern section of Somalia, primarily the withdrawal of ICU forces from Kismayo, and their pursuit using Ethiopian air strikes in Afmadow district concurrent to the Battle of Ras Kamboni. During this battle, the U.S. launched an airstrike conducted by an AC-130 gunship against suspected Al-Qaeda operatives. A second airstrike was made after the battle later in January 2007.[57]https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/01/soma-j10.html
Air strikes on Somalia: A new stage in Washington’s illegal “terror” war
By Chris Marsden
10 January 2007 US air strikes against targets in the south of Somalia have claimed a substantial number of civilian lives. The bombing campaign, begun Sunday night and continued on Monday, mark a major escalation in the Bush administration’s lawless use of violence to achieve Washington’s strategic aims under the auspices of its “global war on terrorism.” The attacks mark the first direct US military intervention in Somalia since 1994, when President Clinton ordered US troops withdrawn following the “Blackhawk Down” episode that led to the deaths of 18 Army commandos during street fighting in Mogadishu. The recent attacks, part of an intensified attempt to establish American hegemony over the entire Horn of Africa, have heightened the threat that the conflict in Somalia will ignite a regional war with unforeseeable consequences.The attacks on Hayi, 30 miles from Afmadow, and on a remote island 155 miles away, involved a US Air Force AC-130 gunship launched from a base in Djibouti. A Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) spokesman said, “So many dead people were lying in the area. We do not know who is who, but the raid was a success.”2006
December 8, 2006
After the Fall of Mogadishu to the Ethiopian and government forces on December 28, fighting continued in the Juba River valley, where the UIC retreated, establishing a new headquarters in the city of Kismayo. Intense fighting was reported on December 31 in the Battle of Jilib and the ICU frontlines collapsed during the night to artillery fire, causing the ICU to once again go into retreat,abandoning Kismayo, without a fight and retreating towards the Kenyan border.[74]
Ethiopian troops moved into Somalian territory on July 20, 2006.[39]
Timeline: Somalia's historic highlights - Africa - Al Jazeera English
www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/08/2012816144651334617.html
The Bush administration is openly backing Ethiopia’s invasion of its neighbour Somalia. Ethiopia is waging a proxy war on behalf of the United States. In the space ...
Jeremy Scahill (jihad apologist) the u.s. partnered with the ethiopian military in 2006 - 2007 and staged an invasion of somalia , and they dismantled this government of the islamic courts union , which was the only government that brought stability in somalia since the blackhawk down episode. so, what happened as a result of that is that the shabab became the vanguard of what was viewed as a movement to fight off a crusading force backed by the united states
May 2006
The Advance of the Islamic Courts Union is the period in the Somali Civil War that began on May 2006 with the Islamic Courts Union's (ICU)conquest of Mogadishu from the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) and continued with further ICU expansion in the country. Following the outbreak of the 2006 Somali Waron December 21, 2006, by December 24, direct Ethiopian intervention in the conflict in support of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was no longer denied by the Ethiopian government.[1] The Eritreangovernment denied any involvement despite Ethiopian claims to the contrary.[11]
PressTV: Al-Shabab was formerly the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), which controlled much of central and southern Somalia in late 2006, until the Ethiopian invasion.
1997
GlobalReserach: The US had since 1977 supported the military dictator Barre against the Soviet-backed Ethiopian regime. In 1991, Washington abandoned Barre and his regime collapsed. No stable government has existed in Somalia since.
1994
Clingon was forced to pull US troops out of Somalia in 1994 after an American Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Mogadishu and the bodies of crew members were displayed before the television cameras.
October 1993 "Battle of Blackhawk Down"
The street battles that ensued on Oct. 3 and 4, 1993, involved U.S. Army Rangers and commandos from the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, known as "Delta Force." During a successful mission to capture lieutenants of Somali warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed, hundreds of Somali gunmen engaged the U.S. teams and killed 18 soldiers, wounded 73 others and shot down two Army Black Hawk choppers...
"You left [Somalia] carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you," bin Laden taunted in his 1996 fatwa against America.
What bin Laden didn't say in 1996 was that his henchmen had a hand in training and equipping the Somali militiamen who inflicted the worst day of casualties in the history of U.S. Special Operations Forces. Deadly al Qaeda attacks in the Horn of Africa against U.S. targets in 1996, 1998 and 2000 followed, leading up to 9/11.
"It is true that al Qaeda was emboldened by 1993 – it was their first successful attack on us and we were unaware of bin Laden's involvement until later," former Sen. Bob Kerrey, who served on the 9/11 Commission, told ABC News on Thursday.
"They coached the [Somali militia] rocket-propelled grenade guys to aim for the tail rotors of U.S. Black Hawks," Mark Bowden, author of the best-selling book "Black Hawk Down," told ABC News.
Al Qaeda agent Ali Mohammed - Army Sgt. ..knew bin Laden's people were responsible for the killing of United States soldiers in Somalia," "A small group of Afghanistan [mujahideen] veterans undertook a number of skillful operations against the Americans in Somalia," an al Qaeda internal history published a decade ago stated. "When the valiant soldiers of Islam came to them with the rod of Moses and the mujahideen poured their fire on them, the Americans withdrew from Somalia in an unexpected haste."
"members of al Qaeda participated with Somali tribesmen in an attack on United States military personnel serving in Somalia." "We can't be certain that he killed those 18 Rangers in the battle of Mogadishu on October 3rd and 4th," Fitzgerald later testified at a 9/11 Commission hearing, "but he celebrated it afterwards, and he sent trainers down there, and he sent weapons down there."
wikipedia Aidid's faction and some of the other Mogadishu-based militias that were then competing for power interpreted the UN troops' presence as a threat to their hegemony. Consequently, several gun battles took place in the capital between local gunmen and peacekeepers. In 1993, Aidid's fighters attacked Pakistani UN forces, resulting in 24 dead. The US authorities subsequently put a $25,000 bounty on the faction leader's head and attempted to arrest and try him for war crimes. On October 3, 1993, by the order of President Bill Clinton, a force of United States Army Rangers and Delta Force operators set out to capture several officials of Aidid's militia in an area of Mogadishu controlled by him. Although technically successful, with the capture of several "tier-one personalities", the operation did not completely go as planned. Between 500 and 1,500 Somalis, as well as 18 American soldiers and 1 Malaysian soldiers, died in the ensuing Battle of Mogadishu (1993). As a result of a downed Blackhawk air assault helicopter, Warrant Officer-Pilot Michael J. Durant from 160th SOAR was also held captive by militants for 11 days. He recalls in his book, In the Company of Heroes, that he believed that he may have seen General Aidid behind the cameraman as he was being filmed briefly by film reporters during his captivity. The United States withdrew its forces soon afterwards, with the United Nations eventually following suit in 1995.
Unified Task Force (UNITAF) was an American-led, United Nations-sanctioned multinational force which operated in Somalia between 5 December 1992 – 4 May 1993. A United States initiative (code-named Operation Restore Hope), UNITAF was charged with carrying out United Nations Security Council Resolution 794 to create a protected environment for conducting humanitarian operations in the southern half of the country. After the killing of several Pakistani peacekeepers, the Security Council changed UNITAF's mandate issuing the Resolution 837 that establishes that UNITAF troops could use "all necessary measures" to guarantee the delivery of humanitarian aid in accordance to Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter,[3] and is regarded as a success.[4]
The operation began on 6 December 1992, when U.S. Navy SEALs and Special Boat crewmen from Naval Special Warfare Task Unit TRIPOLI began conducting reconnaissance operations in the vicinity of the airport and harbor. These operations lasted three days. In the early hours of 8 December 1992 elements of the Army's 4th Psychological Operations Group (Airborne) attached to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted leaflet drops over the capital city of Mogadishu.[16][17] Early on 9 December, the MEU performed an unopposedamphibious assault into the city of Mogadishu from USS Tripoli (LPH-10), USS Juneau (LPD-10) andUSS Rushmore (LSD-47).[18][19]:16
The MEU's ground combat element, 2nd Battalion 9th Marines (2/9), performed simultaneous raids on the Port of Mogadishu and Mogadishu International Airport, establishing a foothold for additional incoming troops. Echo and Golf Company assaulted the airport by helicopter and Amphibious Assault Vehicles, while Fox Company secured the port with an economy of force rubber boat raid. The 1st Marine Division's Air Contingency Battalion (ACB), 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, arrived soon after the airport was secured. Elements of BLT 3/9 India Co, 3rd Battalion 9th Marines and 1/7 went on to secure the airport in Baidoa, the port city of Kismayo, and the city of Bardera. Air support was provided by the combined helicopter units of HMLA-267, HMH-361, HMM-164 and HC-11 DET.10.
Concurrently, various Somali factions returned to the negotiating table in an attempt to end the civil war. This effort was known as the Conference on National Reconciliation in Somalia and it resulted in the Addis Ababa Agreement signed on 27 March 1993.[citation needed] The conference, however had little result as the civil war continued afterwards.
anti-imperialist view;
World Socialist Web Site: Operation Restore Hope represented a new phase of colonial aggression. The US Workers League, the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, condemned the supposed “humanitarian intervention at the time. It wrote: “The unleashing of tens of thousands of troops, backed by warships, jet fighters and attack helicopters, is a brutal violation of the sovereignty of the Somali people. It signals a return to the naked colonial enslavement of the oppressed peoples not only of Africa, but throughout the world.” - See more at:
- Apr 14, 2011 · The U.S.-led invasion of Somalia in 1992 came cloaked in statements about peace and altruism--but Somalis were left decidedly worse off.
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This is classic!! On December 4, 1992 President George H. W. Bush spoke to the nation giving his reasons why it was necessary to send troops into Somalia ...International Socialist Review
Making Somalia's nightmare worse
“Operation Restore Hope,” 1992-1994THE U.S./NATO military intervention in Libya has revived an important question for the left: Can U.S. forces be deployed for humanitarian ends? The U.S.-led invasion of Somalia in 1992 offers critical lessons. As with Libya today, some on the left were tripped up by the question posed by Somalia—namely, whether to support Western military intervention when it was cloaked in statements about peace and altruism.In continuing George Bush Sr.’s “Operation Restore Hope” in Somalia, Bill Clinton declared the U.S. military to be a “force for good”—and this approach for using American forces framed much of U.S. foreign policy in the era following the demise of the USSR, from Somalia to Haiti to the war in Bosnia and Kosovo. Under the cover of “humanitarian intervention,” politicians shored up progressive support and disguised their true motives—to push through a neoliberal economic agenda, crush resistance to the empire, and build a network of compliant regimes. ...was intended to bury for good the Vietnam War syndrome—the legacy of the U.S. government’s defeat in Vietnam that hamstrung its ability to intervene at will around the globe.1992anti-imperialists: In the wake of Barre’s ouster, the U.S. conveniently donned the cloak of humanitarianism, citing the famine as justification for military intervention. Significantly, the most severe period of the famine had passed several monthsbefore the U.S. declared its commitment to ending hunger in Somalia. In 1992—on the eve of the invasion—the death rate had fallen by 90 percent, according to Africa Watch. George Bush set the stage for the invasion by claiming that donated food supplies were being stolen by “warlords,” and that Somalis needed U.S. military protection to make sure food was distributed. In late 1992, the UN Security Council passed a resolution authorizing a U.S.-led coalition of troops, known as UNITAF, to provide “humanitarian relief.” Troops landed in Somalia early the following year in an intervention called “Operation Restore Hope.”But “Operation Restore Hope” was anything but. As Rakiya Omaar and Alex de Waal wrote in 1993: If we turned back the clock a few weeks, we would see a Somalia lit up with many signs of hope. Throughout the country, ordinary Somalis were taking the initiative to bring the future of their country under control.… A series of local agreements were making it possible for emergency relief to be delivered in a way unprecedented in the last year.wikipedia: In 1992, Aidid challenged the presence of United Nations and United States troops in the nation. He was one of the main targets of Operation Restore Hope, the UN and US joint humanitarian operation that sought to break the military siege.
1991By 1991, Somalia was in the grips of a horrible famine that had taken 300,000 lives. By late 1991, UN officials estimated that 4.5 million Somalis faced grave food shortages. Up to 25 percent of Somalia’s children under five had diedPressTV: Somalia has not had an effective central government since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991. The country has been struggling with violence since then -
January 1991
Many Somalis were becoming disillusioned with life under military dictatorship. The regime was further weakened in the 1980s as the Cold War drew to a close and Somalia's strategic importance was diminished. The government became increasingly totalitarian, and resistance movements, supported by Ethiopia's communist Derg administration, sprang up across the country. This eventually led in 1991 to the outbreak of the civil war, the toppling of Barre's regime and the disbandment of the Somali National Army (SNA). Among the militia groups that led the rebellion were the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF), United Somali Congress (USC), Somali National Movement (SNM) and the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), together with the non-violent political oppositions of the Somali Democratic Movement(SDM), the Somali Democratic Alliance (SDA) and the Somali Manifesto Group (SMG). Many of the opposition groups subsequently began competing for influence in the power vacuum that followed the ouster of Barre's regime. In the south, armed factions led by USC commanders General Mohamed Farah Aidid and Ali Mahdi Mohamed, in particular, clashed as each sought to exert authority over the capital.[36] After leaving Mogadishu in January 1991, Barre temporarily remained in the southwestern Gedo region of the country,
1980By 1980, Carter—the supposed “human rights” president—had signed an agreement with Barre’s Somalia that gave the U.S. use of military bases and access to the port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden, in return for millions in military aid to the Somali government. The U.S. was “eager for a strategic outpost near the Arabian oil fields,” wrote Time magazine. “[F]or the next 10 years, the U.S. poured hundreds of millions of dollars into arming the country.”1977Somali invasion of eastern Ethiopia in 1977 to gain control of the Somali-speaking Ogaden region. In response, the Soviet Union airlifted 20,000 Cuban troops to Ethiopia to fend off the attack, providing an opportunity for the U.S. to tilt toward Somalia and shore up a new client in the region.1974Somalia was a longtime recipient of U.S. aid, especially military funding, during the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early years of the Cold War, Somalia had been a client state of the USSR, while the U.S. supported the regime of King Haile Selassie in rival Ethiopia. But following Selassie’s overthrow in 1974, the superpowers switched sides, and the U.S. shifted its backing to Somalia’s dictator Siad Barre..Issues
- Alex Jones
- World Socialist Web Site (pro-Iran) 2006 The Bush administration is openly backing Ethiopia’s invasion of its neighbour Somalia. Ethiopia is waging a proxy war on behalf of the United States
.Al Shabab was formerly the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union ..
The African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia . ... Al-Shabab was formerly the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union ..
Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia led to the complete breakdown of government, Somalia was mostly under the loose control of the Union of Islamic Courts, a relatively moderate Islamic group which was slowly bringing some semblance of stability and security
- Nov 23, 2011 · Ethiopia’s first invasion of Somalia was the major contributing factor in causing the complete breakdown of government in ... The Alex Jones Show.In the early 2000s, Somalia was mostly – but not completely – under the loose control of the Union of Islamic Courts, a relatively moderate Islamic group which was slowly bringing some semblance of stability and security to a country that hadn’t known peace for decades. But the Islamic Courts soon earned the wrath of the United States, which saw in its emphasis on Islamic law a strong link with terrorism. This was near the beginning of the War on Terror, and the United States still had not made the distinction between the moderate if conservative Islam of groups like the Islamic Courts and, to an extent, Hamas in Palestine, and the militant, almost anarchic fundamentalism of Al Qaeda..Colonial Aggression
World Socialist Web Site: Operation Restore Hope represented a new phase of colonial aggression.
http://www.ianwelsh.net/destroying-the-islamic-courts-union-in-somalia-caused-the-nairobi-mall-attack/
Destroying the Islamic Courts Union in Somalia Caused the Nairobi Mall Attack
2013 SEPTEMBER 27
Look, years ago, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) destroyed the warlords who ran Somalia’s capital. These warlords, to give some context, would drag teenaged girls, by which I mean 14 years old, out of their parents shanty, take them away, and gang rape them.
The ICU were Islamic, to be sure, but they weren’t particularly radical as such folks go, and they brought law and order. They were willing to make nice without the outside world, wanted to be the government and were willing to negotiate. Sure, they would have imposed some variation of Sharia, but it would have been an improvement on the Warlords. A massive improvement.
The West wouldn’t have it, it got African neighbors to invade (and don’t pretend it would have happened if the US, in particular, hadn’t wanted it to). The ICU splintered, and as often happens, the people who replaced them were far nastier, were straight up Islamists.
An Al Shabaab spokesman as far back as in October 2011 had threatened Kenya with retaliation if it did not get its soldiers off Somali soil.Ali Mohamud Rage said: ‘‘We, the Mujahideen, say to the Kenyan government: have you thought of the repercussions of the war against us? We are far more experienced in combat than you.’‘
http://rense.com/general18/blackhawk.htm
.Pambazuka Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union, a coalition of a dozen groups, had created the basis for a peaceful life
The Somalia’s Islamic Courts Union, a coalition of a dozen groups, had created the basis for a peaceful life and had isolated the military entrepreneurs who the West called warlords. We now know that the violence and destruction of the past seven years could have been avoided if the arguments of Samatar and other peace activists in and outside Somalia had been heeded. The Ethiopians and the Bush Administration could not tolerate peace breaking out in Somalia because instability in Somalia and Eastern Africa served the geo-strategic interests of war planners in Washington. Along with its allies in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and Yemen the networks for violent extremism were tolerated while the United States rolled out the Africa Command to fight terrorism in Africa. That fight against terror has now been complicated by the intense competition between the differing states of Europe over the future oil and gas mining in Somalia.
The heavy fighting to remove Al Shabaab from Mogadishu had been undertaken by Ugandans and Burundians but in September/October 2011, the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) invaded Somalia under the banner of Linda Nchi (Kiswahili for defend the Nation). At the time of the Kenyan incursion in 2011, I had written in Pambazuka that the intended remilitarization of Africa will fail. I had written,
‘The government of Kenya has declared that it will end its military campaign against Al-Shabaab in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack across the border. If one goes by the experience of the past 18 years, then this statement can be read that Kenya will be in for a long-term deployment to Somalia.
‘The government of Kenya has declared that it will end its military campaign against Al-Shabaab in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack across the border. If one goes by the experience of the past 18 years, then this statement can be read that Kenya will be in for a long-term deployment to Somalia.
SALAFISTS AND WAHABISTS [claims the Saudi side, not Iranians are backing Al Shabab]
We now know from the information provided by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency (NSA) of the USA has a massive information gathering apparatus all around the world. Hence, it would be incredible to believe that the US does not have the information about the foundations and organizations in the Gulf that finance the violent extremists that are labelled as Al Shabaab. The spoilers for the Kenyan bourgeoisie in their manipulation of the war on terror are the conservative fronts from the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. They finance the religious extremists in Somalia who have links to the militarists. These spoilers finance extremists all over East Africa. It is here important that these extremists act in the name of Islam but their activities have been most unislamic. As Samir Amin rightly observed, ‘The Islam proposed by political Islam in all its diverse organizations (‘extremist’ or even ‘terrorist’ and so-called ‘moderate’) is definitely an obscurantist Islam, unable to help understand the nature of contemporary world challenges.
We now know from the information provided by Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency (NSA) of the USA has a massive information gathering apparatus all around the world. Hence, it would be incredible to believe that the US does not have the information about the foundations and organizations in the Gulf that finance the violent extremists that are labelled as Al Shabaab. The spoilers for the Kenyan bourgeoisie in their manipulation of the war on terror are the conservative fronts from the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. They finance the religious extremists in Somalia who have links to the militarists. These spoilers finance extremists all over East Africa. It is here important that these extremists act in the name of Islam but their activities have been most unislamic. As Samir Amin rightly observed, ‘The Islam proposed by political Islam in all its diverse organizations (‘extremist’ or even ‘terrorist’ and so-called ‘moderate’) is definitely an obscurantist Islam, unable to help understand the nature of contemporary world challenges.
- Jan 18, 2007 · Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts had created a sense of stability in that nation after many years of war. The role of the US illustrates its desire for ...
- Even according to America's own intelligence, the al Qaeda cells found in Somalia are far less active or cohesive than those in Italy, Brussels and Britain
- KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) - The president of Somalia's transitional government said Friday that his people had been "terrorized" by a U.S. propaganda campaign ...
- Rense.com 'Black Hawk Down' - Hollywood Drags Bloody Corpse Of Truth ... Somalianclan leaders made claims of more than 1,000 deaths.By Larry Chin
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1-8-2- True to its post-9/11 government-sanctioned role as US war propaganda headquarters, Hollywood has released "Black Hawk Down," a fictionalized account of the tragic 1993 US raid in Somalia. The Pentagon assisted with the production, pleased for an opportunity to "set the record straight." The film is a lie that compounds the original lie that was the operation itself. Somalia: the facts
- According to the myth, the Somalia operation of 1993 was a humanitarian mission, and a shining example of New World Order morality and altruism. In fact, US and UN troops waged an undeclared war against an Islamic African populace that was hostile to foreign interests.
- British Aid Couple Killed At Somali School By Adrian Blomfield in Nairobi and Sandra Laville The Telegraph - UK 10-22-3
- Two German warships with 1,600 troops aboard arrive in Djibouti next Wednesday to take part in operations against suspected terrorists in Somalia.
- (NAIROBI) -- A United Nations' report released this week says nuclear and hazardous wastes dumped on Somalia's shores had been scattered by the recent Asian ...
- MOGADISHU March 26 ( Sh.M.Network) -- A mysterious device looking like a satellite or UFO has landed and spotted near buulo burde town in south Somalia.
- May 23, 2010 · Letter from Sweden: Migrants, Chemtrails, Somalia . May 23, 2010 from "Jens" Money is getting tighter in Sweden too, despite all the nonsense about green ....Shoah
- Most major industries, farms and banks were nationalised, ... In Somalia imperialismhas never flinched at stirring up internecine wars, ...NOVANEWSprogressive developments as these began to unravel in 1977 when unresolved border disputes between Somalia and Ethiopia were manipulated by imperialism into a war in the Ogaden. Somalia’s mistaken policy of annexation weakened her armed forces, wrecked her economy and lost her the support of the Soviet Union. With its gaze fixed on Somalia’s strategic importance at the mouth of the Red Sea, the US naturally posed as Somalia’s friend and saviour, over the next decade pumping in about $100 million a year in economic and military aid. The rest followed a familiar pattern: IMF loans accompanied by “structural adjustment”, other shotgun “agreements” with the Paris Club and the International Development Agency, culminating in an economic collapse in 1990 which set the scene for Barre’s overthrow the following year.With the central authority gone, Somalia descended into a civil war fought out between rival clans. When in 1993 Clinton tried to shape the outcome of the feuding in a manner favourable to the US, sending US Army Rangers in to settle accounts with General Aidid, the relatively poorly equipped Somalis took heavy losses but were able to inflict humiliating reverses on the imperialist forces, most famously downing a Black Hawk helicopter gunship. The US withdrew with burned fingers from a conflagration it had helped to stoke up, for the moment restricting its meddling to covert CIA operations backing this or that warlord.Impotent to establish a stable proxy regime to serve its interests, Washington understandably took no comfort when Somalis seemed to be on the way to achieving a stable government of their own. A number of groups coalesced to form the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) and took Mogadishu, defeating the CIA’s pet warlords and bringing a degree of stability and order to the war-ravaged country. Enraged by this display of independence, in 2006 imperialism again set Somalis and Ethiopians at each other’s throats, prevailing upon its pliant regime in Addis to inflict bloody war on its neighbour and tip Somalia back into the nightmare of civil war. In place of the ICU, the “international community” (imperialism) attempted to impose its own rootless “Transitional Federal Government” (TSG).Yet all that imperialism has achieved by paying Ethiopia to smash the ICU alliance is to drive into new prominence one strand of it, Al Shabaab, which reportedly now controls all of Mogadishu bar the roughly 30 square miles of territory clung onto by the TSG. Al Shabaab is commonly recognised as the real government and would rapidly take power were African Union forces (9,000 strong) to be withdrawn. (see interview with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill posted on 13th July on Democracy Now website, www. democracynow.org)
.World Socialist Web Site
- The Bush administration is openly backing Ethiopia’s invasion of its neighbour Somalia. Ethiopia is waging a proxy war on behalf of the United States. In the space ...
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