Expect more of this:
A woman injured during a suicide bomb attack at the base for the African Union’s peacekeepers in Mogadishu was carried by a relative on the way to a hospital yesterday. Leaders of the Islamist group Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/Associated Press)
"US forces kill militant leader in Somalia" by New York Times | September 15, 2009
NAIROBI - US commandos killed one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa in a daylight raid in southern Somalia yesterday, according to US and Somali officials, an indication of the Obama administration’s willingness to use force against Al Qaeda’s growing influence in the region.
Yup, "Al-CIA-Duh," yup!
Related: Somalia Agenda Exposed: In Obama's Sights
Western intelligence agents have described the militant, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, as the ringleader of a Qaeda cell in Kenya responsible for the bombing of an Israeli hotel on the Kenyan coast in 2002. Nabhan might have also played a role in the attacks on two US embassies in East Africa in 1998.
US military forces have been hunting him for years, and around 1 p.m. yesterday, Somali villagers near the town of Baraawe said four military helicopters suddenly appeared over the horizon and shot at two trucks rumbling through the desert. The trucks were carrying leaders of the Shabab, an Islamist extremist group fighting to overthrow Somalia.
Did you know Al-Shabab IS "Al-CIA-Duh?"
The Shabab work hand-in-hand with foreign terrorists, according to Western and Somali intelligence agents, and in recent months, as the battle for control of Somalia has intensified, the group seems to be drawing close to Al Qaeda. US officials confirmed yesterday that Special Operations forces commandos, operating from a nearby US warship, participated in the helicopter raid.
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"Suicide bombings kill 9 in Somalia; Militants target African Union in truck blasts" by Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times | September 18, 2009
NAIROBI - In swift retaliation for the US killing this week of a suspected Al Qaeda fugitive in Somalia, insurgents attacked the main African Union peacekeeping base in Mogadishu with twin truck bombs yesterday, killing at least nine people, including four AU soldiers.
Suicide attackers attempted to infiltrate the heavily guarded seaside base by impersonating UN personnel, AU officials said.... Five of the dead appeared to be Somalis, but AU officials said they did not yet know whether they were civilians or suicide attackers....
Leaders of Somalia’s hard-line Islamist group Shabab claimed responsibility, calling the attack a response to the US assault earlier this week. On Monday, US helicopters carrying Special Forces commandos killed six Shabab operatives as they drove through a remote village in southern Somalia....
The nearly 5,000 AU troops in Somalia, mostly from Uganda and Burundi, are engaged in one of the most dangerous peacekeeping missions in the world. They are sorely understaffed and underfunded. Before yesterday’s attack, 33 peacekeepers had been killed in Somalia since the mission’s start in early 2007. Another 20 have succumbed to diseases and accidents, including six who died this summer from a malnutrition-linked disease.
Meanwhile, OVER 16,000 Somalis have died.
Since Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia at the beginning of the year, AU soldiers have borne the brunt of mortar and roadside bomb attacks by insurgents.
Except they didn't: Slow Saturday Special: Ethiopia Reinvades Somalia
I never heard of them withdrawing.
AU Special Representative for Somalia, Nicolas Bwakira, called yesterday’s attack “barbaric’’ but said in a statement that “the African Union remains resolute in its commitment to support the Somali people and the transitional federal government in their peace and reconciliation efforts.’’
AU officials said the suicide vehicles had “UN markings,’’ but could not confirm whether they were stolen UN vehicles or disguised sport utility vehicles.
Ready for the NEXT BIG BOOM, 'murka!!!? "Al-CIA-Duh" stole UN trucks!
According to some witness accounts, one of the vehicles did enter the compound. The base, which serves as the force headquarters, is one of the most heavily guarded places in Mogadishu.
Oh, STINKOLA!!!!!!!!!
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NAIROBI - Islamic insurgents vowed yesterday to launch more attacks after using stolen UN cars in an assault on an African Union peacekeeping base that killed 21 people. A Somali official said that six more UN vehicles were unaccounted for.
Thursday’s suicide car bombings were the deadliest single attack on AU peacekeepers since they arrived in the lawless African nation in 2007. The bombings also underscored links between Al Qaeda’s terror network and Somalia’s homegrown insurgency.
And CUI BONO, 'eh?
In a message posted yesterday on jihadist forums, the Global Islamic Media Front said it was speaking on behalf of Somali insurgent group al-Shabab and vowed more attacks.
Oh no.
Did you know that Al Qaeda doesn't even exist!?
See:
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh and the OSI
Prop 101: Al-CIA-Duh's Greatest Hits
Prop 101: The "Terrorism" Business
New York Times Admits War on Terror is U.S. Creation
“What is coming is worse and more bitter, with permission from Allah,’’ the group said, according to the Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group, a terrorist-monitoring firm.
Related: SITE First on "Al-CIA-Duh" Sighting Again
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Siad, state minister for defense in Somalia, said there were six more stolen UN vehicles unaccounted for and that authorities were monitoring the situation.
Al-Shabab, a powerful Islamist group with foreign fighters in its ranks, has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s violence and said it was to avenge a US commando raid on Monday that killed a key Al Qaeda operative, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, in southern Somalia....
An African Union envoy, meanwhile, pleaded for more international aid to stabilize Somalia, which many fear is becoming a haven for Al Qaeda - a place for terrorists to train and plan attacks elsewhere....
With "stolen" UN TRUCKS, no doubt!!!
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Here is the OPED CONFIRMATION:
"The US must help rebuild Somalia" by Robert I. Rotberg | September 19, 2009
THIS WEEK’S US raid in Somalia that killed Al Qaeda operatives removed dangers to the United States and its allies, but did little to bring progress to one of the least governed places in the world.
Eliminating Saleh Ali Nabhan, the alleged mastermind behind the 2002 attacks on Israelis in Kenya and possibly the US embassy bombings in 1998, is salutary. Nabhan was a leader of Al-Shabab, a fundamentalist Islamist youth movement of Somalis, which runs a large swath of southern Somalia and has ties to Al Qaeda.
Although the attack could deter new anti-American escapades in Somalia and East Africa, it did nothing to weaken al-Shabab’s hegemony in southern Somalia. Nor did it strengthen Somalia’s nominal overall government led by the American-backed Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed in Mogadishu.
The United States has been backing his beleaguered government with large shipments of arms and has been attempting to deter Eritrean and Gulf Arab funding for al-Shabab. But the struggle for Somalia is much more than a military one. In much of central and southern Somalia there has been no central government, only clan and sub-clan based warlords, since 1993. Al-Shabab, like the Union of Islamic Courts in 2006 and 2007, offers security and plausible forms of Islamist-inspired harsh governance in critical sectors of the country. For ordinary Somalis, however much they chafe at the Islamist restrictions, at least al-Shabab provides some kind of stability.
Sheik Ahmed’s government offers little security and governance, and itself depends on protection from an African peacekeeping force of Ugandans and Burundians. Sheik Ahmed only controls parts of Mogadishu and a few smaller centers. If the African Union and the UN, backed by US funding, could supply thousands of additional peacekeepers, perhaps the Sheik Ahmed administration could weaken al-Shabab’s hold. But more troops are not likely anytime soon. Without them, the United States. will achieve little in Somalia until it can help win popular support and legitimacy for Sheik Ahmed - a tall and improbable order.
What a LIE!
Read: Somali Peace Pleas Met With Silence
Diminishing Islamist and Al Qaeda franchise influence in Somalia will only come by growing the influence of secular, non-governmental (if Muslim) Somalis, by finding a way to restart a state school and health care system, and by assisting the drought-prone Somalis with their water (and agricultural and grazing) requirements.
And the CEASING of US MEDDLING would ALSO HELP!
In other countries, the United States would extend aid to a government and to NGOs. But Somalia does not work that way. The United States, operating from neighboring Kenya, will have to find clever ways to support new leadership initiatives - another tall order. To do so, it might have to break its connection to the weak current government. It certainly has to distance itself from Ethiopian aspirations in the region.
What a crock of shit! WE FORCED THEM to INVADE back in 2007.
The Obama administration would do well to begin thinking about Somalia as a post-conflict arena, needing reconstruction and new incentives, rather than an Al Qaeda outpost run from Pakistan by Osama bin Laden.
Especially since HE DEAD and it is "Al-CIA-Duh!"
It is not such as outpost, even though a handful of persons like Saleh Nabhan will continue to agitate in or pass through the badlands of Somalia and work closely with al-Shabab.
Yeah, the CIA-BACKED US WARLORDS!!!
One other bold diplomatic initiative would make a difference. To the north of the warlord- and al-Shabab-run zones of Somalia is Somaliland, which has run itself sensibly and mostly democratically since 1991. Its leadership is having problems, but for many years it delivered positive political goods to its citizens in a manner that has never occurred in the rest of Somalia. No nation recognizes Somaliland even though its neighbors do business there and the United States. has long kept an official eye on it. The United States, the West, and Africa should recognize Somaliland officially.
Oh, so HE wants to BREAK UP the COUNTRY COMPLETELY!!!
Yup, JUST ANOTHER AGENDA-PUSHING OP by a GLOBALIST in the Boston Glob.
Doing so would provide an incentive for the rest of Somalia to begin moving toward good rather than bad governance. The Somaliland example provides a path that could now entice Somalis to forsake their battles in favor of a peaceful future.
Robert I. Rotberg directs the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and is President of the World Peace Foundation. He edited “Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa.’’
Of course, he doesn't have a self-serving interest or anything.
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And did you NOTICE SOMETHING that went UNMENTIONED, readers?
"Somalia trains 500 in effort to thwart pirates" by Associated Press | September 9, 2009
Yeah, now that the AGENDA-PUSHING has gotten NATO and the West into those vital shipping lanes you NEVER HEAR ABOUT THEM anymore!
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Pirate-plagued Somalia took a step toward policing its own shores with the graduation of its first 500 naval recruits yesterday. Officials hope the men will form the backbone of the country’s first naval force for nearly two decades, but said they need international funding to make it a viable force.
Related: NATO Has No Limit on Pirate Catch
"It is foolishness to look at “militant Islamists” and the CIA Special Forces teams who are sent in to fight them as two separate entities, without realizing that they are one and the same. In Central Asia, the scary “Islamists” appear, as if by magic, wherever the oil companies have an interest."
Yeah, that's sure a hell of a coincidence.
Japan, America, Germany, China, Canada, and other nations have sent warships to the Gulf of Aden but there are not enough of them to cover the danger zone. The pirates have expanded their operations hundreds of miles offshore in the Indian Ocean.
Stop it with the weak excuses, huh?
Otherwise, their would be pirates everywhere, no?
Also see: Israel behind Russian ship hijacking
Putin slams Iran sanctions & Arctic Sea,Mossad Russia, Iran and Israel are embroiled in a dispute over the possible supply of S-300 missiles to Iran under a deal with Moscow, and an alleged secret visit to Russia last week by Israel's prime minister, Benyamin Netanyahu.
MSM never told me about that, either!
Last year pirates captured over 100 ships, and attacks have increased this year. Foreign navies are reluctant to tackle the pirates on land for fear of getting sucked into the bloodbath of Somalia’s 18-year-old civil war....
That appears to be easing, huh?
Each man will receive $175 a month and the force will be armed with tanks, machine guns, and rocket-propelled grenades. He said the navy will set up bases in the ports of Bosasso, Berbera, and Kismayo, and its headquarters in the capital of Mogadishu. The scheme is funded by the Somali government but Ahmed says members of the international community have also pledged funds. The new force faces several challenges. The force also has only a dozen boats so far - pirate gangs have used more in a single attack."
Pfffffttt!
Nothing about the STARVATION and SUFFERING either, huh?
See: Slow Saturday Special: Somali Thanksgiving
