I tend too US involvement as always interceding on behalf of the wrong guy. Here I found an arrow that would suggest that line of reasoning. http://spookterror.blogspot.com/2008/02/cia-plot-to-topple-kenyas-leader.html Except that - at least in the beginning - the US (and the one they pick) always wins ... and Odinga supposedly did, but if he did and the US does want Kibaki out of the way - I see little effort by the US to get Kibaki out, which is out of tune with Condolezza Rice (flashing legs in miniskirt and Colgate smile and all!) and her ... legwork ... for Bush's Africom!
Rui On 15/12/2007, Leigh Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No joke. War is Peace... Love is hate > > Peace & Stability is continuing socio-cultural destabilization. > > 'Disaster Capitalism' at it's "finest". > > America watched as we installed a CIA operative as president after he > was chased out of the country and picked up by a U.S. Navy sub off the > coast, attempted to place him in Kenya, but they wanted to "Question > him", so Ethiopia ended up being the U.S. proxy army in the Horn of > Africa. > > ...and that information WAS IN the mainstream media. > > Sheep. > > McClatchy > Somalia descends into Africa's worst crisis > > AFGOYE, Somalia — A year after the U.S.-backed Ethiopian army toppled > a hard-line Islamist regime in Somalia, the country has become > Africa's worst humanitarian catastrophe. > > Some 200,000 refugees, mostly women and children, have fled from a > pro-government offensive to makeshift camps along a 10-mile stretch of > sun-baked asphalt that leads from the seaside capital of Mogadishu > toward the inland town of Afgoye. > > The crisis is brutal on young people. > > One night last month, Fatima Sheikh Ali awoke to the deafening crash > of mortar rounds on her neighbor's roof. Shrapnel blasted through > Ali's tin-walled home in Mogadishu, and sent her 13-year-old daughter, > Muna, into her arms, quaking. > > Sometime in the chaos of that night, Muna stopped speaking. In an > overcrowded encampment of sand and scrub a few miles from the capital, > where the family now lives among thousands made homeless by the war, > Muna silently collects firewood and looks after her siblings, a > worried gaze fixed in her almond eyes. > > "She is traumatized," her mother said, and a warren of women who'd > gathered around her murmured sympathetically. A nurse with the Somali > Red Crescent Society said, "There is nothing to be done. It is a very > sad story." > > The conflicts in Sudan's Darfur region and in eastern Congo may have > displaced more people, but international relief efforts in Somalia > have faltered in the face of violence that's emptied entire > neighborhoods in Mogadishu. > > Most displaced Somalis, such as Muna's family, live in dome-shaped > huts fashioned out of spindly tree branches and covered with tattered > swatches of fabric or plastic. They sprout from the sand like > multicolored mushrooms along the road from the capital. > > The United Nations Children's Fund said last week that one-quarter of > the refugees around Afgoye were younger than 5. Both sides are using > older boys as combatants, and girls who venture out of the camps risk > being raped by freelance militias, the agency said. > > In full: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/23076.html >
