"Killings of aid workers in Somalia imperil relief " by Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times News Service | July 20, 2008
NAIROBI - At a time of drought, rising food prices, crippling inflation, and intensifying street fighting, many of the aid workers on whom millions of Somalis depend for survival are fleeing their posts - or in some cases the country.
They are being driven out by what appears to be an organized terror campaign. Ominous leaflets recently surfaced on the bullet-pocked streets of Mogadishu, Somalia's ruin of a capital, calling aid workers "infidels" and warning them that they will be methodically hunted down.
Yeah, this is STINKING ALREADY!!!!!
Since January, at least 20 aid workers have been killed, more than in any year in recent memory. Others have been abducted.
The deliberate targeting of aid workers is a chilling new dimension to the crisis in Somalia that has unfolded over the past 17 years but has grown increasingly violent as outside forces, including the American military, have turned a civil war into a more international conflict.
And CUI BONO?
UN officials are especially worried by the recent attacks because they say Somalia is heading toward another famine. Without professional workers to distribute food or tend to the sick, the country could sink into a catastrophe reminiscent of the early 1990s, when hundreds of thousands of people starved.
And the MSM press has hardly covered it -- which tells you a little about who is really responsible, doesn't it?
The leaflets were tacked onto walls and scattered on streets in Mogadishu about 10 days ago. They could not have made the threat any clearer.
"We know all the so-called aid workers," they read. "We promise to kill them, wherever they are."
Abductions are also increasing. Seventeen aid workers have been kidnapped this year, with 13 still in captivity. It is not clear who is behind the terror campaign or if it is connected to previous assassinations of journalists and intellectuals.
The leaflets and accompanying e-mail messages sent to several aid organizations seem to signify a new degree of organization. Some of the warnings were signed by a little-known group called the Martyrs of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, which takes its name from the Jordanian terrorist killed by US forces in Iraq in 2006.
Now I KNOW this is AMERICAN BULLSHIT!!!!!!
Readers, it is probably the Somali warlords the CIA backed vbefore the Islamists drove them out that is responsible for this shit!!!!
The group said the aid workers were conspiring with "infidels," and Western diplomats said the killings were intended to make Somalia seem so chaotic that Western countries would abandon it. But several factions of Somalia's Islamist movement, which is fighting an intense guerrilla war against the government, have condemned the killings.
Sheik Muktar Robow Abu Monsur, who is a leader of the Shebab insurgent group, said that Islamic militants were actually guarding food convoys.
Yeah, we KNOW WHAT ALL THIS IS!!!
So WHEN will you STOP SHOVELING SHIT PROPAGANDA, NYT?!
You guys FUCKING SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!
UN officials have mixed feelings about the Shebab, saying that some factions are violently anti-Western while others recently helped free two kidnapped aid workers."
Yeah, I am really sick of the bullshit AmeriKan MSM and its crockshit of lies every fucking day!!
Can ya tell?!
