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=== News Update ===
Instead of “al-Qaeda,” U.S. Kills Nomads in Somalia
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire
January 13, 2006
As usual, it takes a few days for the truth to emerge, not that the
corporate media here in America notices.
Instead of killing Fazul Abdullah Moham-med, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and
Abu Taha al-Sudani, supposedly "al-Qaeda" operatives responsible for the
1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the Pentagon
killed "herdsmen … gathered with their animals around large fires at
night to ward off mosquitoes" in Somalia, according to the Independent.
"Oxfam yesterday confirmed at least 70 nomads in the Afmadow district
near the border with Kenya had been killed. The nomads were bombed at
night and during the day while searching for water sources. Meanwhile,
the US ambassador to Kenya has acknowledged that the onslaught on
Islamist fighters failed to kill any of the three prime targets,"
described as "backfir[ing] spectacularly" by the British newspaper.
All of this runs counter to the assertions of U.S. ambassador, Michael
Ranneberger, who said "that no civilians had been killed or injured and
that only one attack had taken place. The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR,
reported that an estimated 100 people were wounded in Monday’s air
strikes on the small fishing village of Ras Kamboni launched from the US
military base in Djibouti after a mobile phone intercept." It is not
explained why impoverished nomads, in search of water, would be in
possession of cell phones (or, for that matter, why there are cell phone
towers in a remote area of one of the world’s poorest countries).
As should be expected, the operations against innocent Somalis serve but
one purpose only, that is beyond satiating the blood lust of Muslim
hating neocons—it was an excuse to get "boots on the ground for the
first time since a 1993 mission backfired and led to a humiliating
withdrawal from Somalia," a mission mythologized in violent Hollywood
fashion in the film Black Hawk Down.
"Under international law, there is a duty to distinguish between
military and civilian targets," said Paul Smith-Lomas, Oxfam’s regional
director. "We are deeply concerned that this principle is not being
adhered to, and that innocent people in Somalia are paying the price,"
as innocent people have since the neocons captured the Oval Office and
large swaths of the Pentagon.
It is of no concern to the Pentagon that above mentioned "terrorists"
were not killed and innocent nomads suffered instead. In fact, such
reckless behavior will serve as a "blueprint" for future operations
against Muslim enemies.
"U.S. commandos’ military operations in Somalia and the use of the
Ethiopian army as a surrogate force to root out al Qaeda operatives
there provide a blueprint for counterterrorism missions across the
globe, Pentagon strategists say," reports the neocon propaganda
syndicate, the New York Times. "U.S. officials said the recent military
efforts in Somalia have been led by the Pentagon’s joint Special
Operations Command, which directs the military’s most secretive and
elite units, including the Army’s Delta Force."
The Pentagon’s Special Operations Command runs P2OG, or the Proactive
and Preemptive Operations Group, a black budgeted psyop designed to
"stimulate reactions" among "terrorists," or maybe that should be
nomadic animal herding Muslims careless enough to light fires as AC-130
gunships roam the night skies.
Unfortunately, many Somalis live in the Pentagon’s "battlespace" where
we are told "al-Qaeda" operates, thus putting "their sovereignty … at
risk," as an August 16, 2002, Power Point presentation held at the
Defense Science Board made abundantly clear.
"Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told members of
Congress on Friday that a U.S. airstrike by an AC-130 gunship early this
week in Somalia was executed under the Pentagon’s authority to hunt down
and kill terrorism suspects around the world, a power given to it by the
White House shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks."
Bush and crew believe the non-declaration of war against Iraq—that is to
say, a "war" not declared by Congress, as required by Article One,
Section Eight of the Constitution—gives them the right to attack
anybody, anywhere, without regard to Article 51 of the First Protocol to
the Geneva Conventions, stating that parties "shall at all times
distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and
accordingly shall direct their operations only against military
objectives."
But then neocons don’t do the Geneva Conventions—or the Constitution for
that matter.
Democrat members of Congress complained, if slightly, that the Pentagon
is "using U.S. forces outside declared combat zones," thus giving "the
Pentagon too much authority in sovereign nations," not that such, again,
matters to neocons, hell-bent on killing Muslims, no matter where they
live.
In response, the Pentagon said it had sent "onesies and twosies" into
Somalia "with the advancing Ethiopian army that helped Somalia’s weak
transitional government oust a strong Muslim militia that had been in
control of Mogadishu, the capital, and most of southern Somalia."
In other words, it was a classic CIA assisted military coup, with
Pentagon ops replacing those of the CIA.
It should be noted that this coup was arranged to get rid of the Islamic
Courts Union, a rival administration to the Transitional Federal
Government, supported by the United States. The ICU enjoyed the support
of a majority of Somalis because they resisted the endemic chaos of
armed warlord thugs and provided education and health care to the
impoverished populace.
Of course, we can’t have that, especially in a Muslim country.
source:
http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=719
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