AmeriKan MSM Censoring Somalia Slaughter
Yeah, it is pretty obvious given the news choices and one-day wonders of the Boston Globe.
"UN halts food aid for up to 1 million in south Somalia; Attacks on staff in lawless nation highlight dangers" by Mohamed Olad Hassan and Tom Maliti, Associated Press | January 6, 2010
HARGEISA, Somalia - The UN food agency yesterday suspended the distribution of desperately needed aid in southern Somalia because of attacks on its staff, a decision affecting up to 1 million people that highlights the dangers of humanitarian work there.
The lawless Horn of Africa nation is one of the most dangerous places in the world to live, but few can remember a time when aid workers have faced so many attacks.
First I've heard about -- at least, in a long, long time. And likely the LAST I will be seeing of it in the BG for some time. Already 6 days and counting.
At least 43 aid workers were killed between January 2008 and fall 2009, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Four humanitarian workers remain in the hands of their captors. The UN decision is the latest setback for Somalia, which has not had an effective central government for two decades and sees near-daily violence in its capital.
But I RARELY SEE a "report" in my Boston Globe!
I do get a LOT of AGENDA-PUSHING PIRATE stories and TERRORISTS, of course!
In the southwestern Somali town of Jilib, Abdullahi Awnur blamed Islamic militants for interrupting the food aid distribution, saying it was an “indirect killing.’’
And WHO would THEY BE?
"The video showed the Shabab militia in training, leaping over piles of sandbags, crawling on the ground, and shooting at targets. Bearded trainers, who were white, could be seen moving among the Somalis"
Oh!!!
"Al-CIA-Duh," huh?
“We have been forced to flee from our houses and depend on food aid and now that it is finished, that means the armed group here does not want us to live,’’ said Awnur, who lives with his eight children in a camp in Jilib - one of the towns where WFP suspended operations.
Further exacerbating the situation is the flight of hundreds of thousands of Mogadishu residents into rural Somalia, where drought has ravaged farms and life-sustaining livestock herds. Aid agencies estimate 3.6 million of the country’s 8 million people now need food and other aid. CARE International and Doctors Without Borders are among the agencies that already have pulled out of southern Somalia because of attacks and kidnappings. The World Food Program, or WFP, said yesterday it, too, is stopping aid distribution because armed groups also had demanded that aid agencies remove women from their teams....
Well, you KNOW WHO is BEHIND the TROUBLE, readers!!
"General Wesley Clark, who commanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign in the Kosovo war, recalls in his 2003 book Winning Modern Wars being told by a friend in the Pentagon in November 2001 that the list of states that Rumsfeld and deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz wanted to take down included Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan and Somalia [and Lebanon]."
And CUI BONO?
NEVER let a GOOD WAR go to WASTE, 'eh?
CARE International’s Somalia director, David Gilmour, said that despite the enormous suffering ordinary Somalis have experienced the past two years, agencies are not able to reach those who need aid.
Remember the GOOD OLD DAYS, Somalis?
“Right now aid agencies are delivering where they can and not necessarily where it’s needed most because of all the blockages, issues, incidents, and threats which occur,’’ Gilmour told the Associated Press. “There’s never been this spate [of violence] directed towards aid agencies and their programs as has happened in the last two years in southern Somalia.’’
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The agency is moving staff and supplies to northern and central Somalia from six areas in the south that are largely controlled by the al-Shabab Islamist group, said Emilia Casella, a WFP spokeswoman. The State Department says al-Shabab has links to Al Qaeda....
Uh-huh!!!!
--more--"And the agenda-pushing reason this appeared at all?
Bridging the Gulf of Aden
You making the connection, Amurkn newspaper reader?
