From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 1,600 German NATO Stormtroopers To Somalia HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Interesting terminology here - the German troops are going to be used against "suspected terrorists" Of course, George Bush and the NWO are the sole arbiters of who is and who isn't a "terrorist" and one only has to be a "suspected" terrorist! mart ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:11 AM Subject: 1,600 German NATO Stormtroopers To Somalia [ > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > AfricaOnline.com > > German troops headed for Somalia > Ken Opala > 31 December 2001 > Two German warships with 1,600 troops aboard arrive in > Djibouti next Wednesday to take part in operations > against suspected terrorists in Somalia. > Two German warships with 1,600 troops aboard arrive in > Djibouti next Wednesday to take part in operations > against suspected terrorists in Somalia. > Sources said the contingent, the biggest movement of > German troops outside its borders since the Second > World war, joins a allied forces that dismantled the > al Qaeda network in Afghanistan forced out the Taliban > regime. > Sources in Nairobi said the Germans would take part in > the second round of the war on terrorism which > analysts predict will target Somalia and possibly > neighbouring Sudan. > Somalia has been without a commonly accepted central > government since the overthrow of Mr Siad Barre in > 1991. > A transition government established with the support > of neighbouring countries recently has denied reports > that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network has > cells in the country, a view that American authorities > do not share. > The warships, from the German city of Hanover, are > expected off the coast of Djibouti on January 2. > Reports of Germany's participation in the new phase of > the war came amid calls by Somali warlords for > international military intervention in the country. > Three Somali factions said radical Islamic groups, al > Qaeda and al-Itihad, had several bases in the Horn of > Africa country. > Somalia's transitional government has strongly denied > the presence of terrorist cells, and diplomats have > warned that opposition warlords may use the US war on > terror to try and damage their opponents. > At a news conference in the Ethiopian capital Addis > Ababa, warlords Hassan Mohammed Nur Shatigudud, > General Abdullahi Nur Gabyow and Hussein Aideed said > foreign intervention was needed to stop extremist > groups going underground. > But diplomats have warned that militia chiefs, who > flourished in the chaos of civil war and control large > parts of Somalia, have seized on the US anti-terror > campaign as their own route back to power. > (Nation) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________