Why?
"Somalia: U.S. Warships Disembark at Coast"
"United states war vessels have reached at Lower Jubba region coastline and started to patrol around Kismayu Town's entire shorelines later on Saturday witnesses said.
The US marines on the ships have as well initiated to make more searches with the fishing boats and business material transportation ships heading to Somalia" fishermen said.
One of the commercial goods ship workers told Shabelle English section that the American naval forces have been warily examining the boats including small fishing boats and ships to Somalia to foil the pirates habitually kidnap the commercial and aid ships arrive on Somalia's unsafe coasts although its unknown the real point behind the arrival of American marine forces docked at Somali coast.In addition to that it's also unidentified the motive that US marine ships are patrolling the coast of Kismayu town the provincial capital of lower Jubba region although it comes as Lower Jubba region authorities have declared on Saturday that some of the former ousted Islamic courts leaders have intimidated them that there will be an offensive on the way to Kimayu town from the Islamic courts fighters."
"What are US naval forces doing off the coast of Somalia?" -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
"Somalia: The World's forgotten catastrophe"
".... By 2006 the US no longer cared whether the warlords ran Somalia or not. What they cared about was al-Qa'ida.
The CIA's desperation to root out the men on their list saw them turn to some old enemies for help. CIA agents landed at tiny airstrips outside Mogadishu and handed briefcases full of crisp new $100 notes over to the same warlords who had chased the US out of Somalia in 1993. The warlords took the money and used it to take on the Courts. They formed themselves into the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism – before proceeding to do very little to find the supposed terrorists the CIA wanted caught.
The strategy backfired. The leaders of the courts united their militias and defeated the US-backed warlords. With the warlords finally gone, Mogadishu experienced something it hadn't had in a very long time – some semblance of peace and security.
"The streets in Mogadishu were full of women and kids," says Eric Laroche, the head of the UN's humanitarian operations in Somalia. "The kids were playing soccer."
.... In November 2006 General John Abizaid, then the commander of the US Central Command, visited Addis Ababa in November and met Zenawi. Abizaid was known to have concerns, warning Zenawi that Somalia could become "Ethiopia's Iraq". But the deal had already been done. US military officials were already discussing plans for the invasion with their Ethiopian counterparts.The US provided key intelligence from spy satellites detailing the positions of the Courts' militias. Ethiopia would invade, drive out the Courts, install the TFG in Mogadishu, then help the US kill or arrest their key targets....
Mogadishu has been rocked by almost daily violence. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the crossfire, thousands injured. Ethiopia's original plan, drafted with the US, foresaw a two-month-long military operation. By the beginning of March last year Ethiopian troops would begin to withdraw. That hasn't happened. Instead, frustrated by the growing insurgency, Ethiopia has been forced to increase its numbers.
Ethiopia's "surge" began in October 2007. Ethiopia refuses to say how many troops it has inside Somalia but it was believed to be around 15,000. Since the surge, the numbers have almost doubled....
Somalia is now experiencing its worst period of violence in two decades. The daily battles between Ethiopian-backed government forces and the insurgents have had a devastating impact on the population.
More than 600,000 people fled Mogadishu last year. Around 200,000 are now living in squalid impromptu refugee camps along a 15km-stretch of road outside the capital. According to UN officials it is the largest concentration of displaced people anywhere in the world. Those same officials now consider Somalia to be the worst humanitarian catastrophe in Africa, eclipsing even Darfur in its sheer horror....
How come the AmeriKan MSM and society are not awash in Somalia stories?
Because THEY CAUSED this one?
Notice how Somalia rarely makes the AmeriKan MSM, readers?
It therefore begs the question, why is it there when it is there, right?
"What interests the US and the West in Somalia is who controls its uranium deposits, coupled with largely untouched reserves of tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, natural gas, and oil." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
Divisions within the TFG have also hampered reconciliation efforts. President Yusuf and his prime minister, Ali Mohammed Gedi, never really got on. The final straw was a row over a donation of $32m Saudi Arabia made to the government for a national reconciliation conference. Gedi kept most of the money for himself. Frustrated by the impasse, the Americans took control. Gedi was summoned to Addis Ababa where he spent two days locked in meetings with US and Ethiopian officials.In return for stepping down, Gedi was given asylum in the United States and was allowed to keep the remains of the Saudi money. He has bought a house in Los Angeles and US officials have negotiated a position for him at the University of California in Los Angeles....
You gotta be fucking shitting me?
And what of the Somalis?
Dr Hawa Abdi, a Soviet-trained Somali doctor who has lived and worked here through every one of Somalia's past 17 years of hell:
"Of all the situations in Somalia, today is the worst. There is no food, no medicine, no education, no jobs, no hope. People are dying every day. It is a slow genocide. We are hopeless now. Hopeless."
Hey, Bush liberated you from the Islamists so shaddup!You'll take your Anti-Christ liberation and like it, dammit!
Oh, reader, I am DISGUSTED at U.S. policy in Somalia?
How come the only things AmeriKa brings with it are death, destruction and suffering, readers?
