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June 16, 10,000 people demonstrate against a proposed peacekeeping mission to Somalia.. Photo: AP
[author: Colonial powers can always resort to using the UN which it created, to enforce colonialism.] Africa News described the Alliance (of warlords) as disappearing, their regions over-run by the Islamic Courts Union.
July 20, The ICU organize a clean-up campaign for the streets of Mogadishu. This was the first time litter and rubbish is collected in the entire city since it collapsed into chaos over a decade earlier.
On August 24, 2006, the ICU capture Harardhere, some 500 km northeast of Mogadishu, which had become a safe haven for pirates, who had forced shipping firms and international organizations to pay large ransoms for the release of vessels and crews.
On August 25, 2006 the Islamic Courts reopen historic Mogadishu seaport, which had been one of the busiest in East Africa, shut down for ten years. These successes of the Islamic Courts government were achieved in spite of the US crimes against humanity described even by as Wall Street loyal a source as the New York Times owned Washington Post:
When the popular Islamic Courts Union government forces finally defeated the warlords despite foreign troops and US helping the warlords, the US trained Ethiopian Army and Air Force invaded and murderously temporarily defeated the Somalian Islamic Courts in turn. [6]
December 22, 2006: 20 T-55 Ethiopian tanks, four attack helicopters in Baidoa.
December 23, Ethiopian tanks and further reinforcements arrived in Daynuunay, 30 kilometres east of Baidoa; prompting ICU forces to vow all-out war despite a commitment to an EU-brokered peace. [author: Sending in the Ethiopian Army is the white imperial way of brokering peace.
December, 2006, Open, conventional warfare breaks out between the Islamic Courts and Ethiopian forces seeking to reinstate the TFG towards the end of December. Fighting is intense, with hundreds of casualties on both sides. After several days of deadlock around Baidoa, Ethiopian armored columns, backed by air and artillery support, punch through and take Mogadishu, The Ethiopians then pivot their columns and headed south. By New Years Day, the Islamic Courts abandoned Kismayo, the strategic southern port city and final stronghold of the ICU. The Ethiopians are reported to have executed foreign prisoners in the field and the ICU is said to have taken thousands of casualties. Stripped of almost all their territory, the ICU will pursue guerrilla-style warfare against the government.
Warlords return to fight against the ICU, resuming their places in Mogadishu following its fall to the and Ethiopian forces in December 2006. Wikipedia
On
December 31, 2006, Sharif Sheik Ahmed, chairman of the Islamic Courts
Union, along with other senior ICU officials in the port city of Kismayu
about 500 km (310 mi) south of Mogadishu, urge Islamist supporters
across the country to initiate an insurgency, to wage guerrilla war,
against the Ethiopian troops. Ahmed issued the statement after the
Muslim Eid prayers on Saturday: "I call on the Islamic Courts fighters,
supporters and every true Muslim to start an insurgency against the
Ethiopian troops in Somalia. We are telling the Ethiopians in Somalia
that they will never succeed in their mission. By Allah, they will
fail... We will not allow the Ethiopian troops to stay peacefully in
Somalia."
January 2007, The Islamic Courts indicate they will conduct
an insurgency, and many of their fighters and all of their leaders are
still unaccounted for. Kenya has closed the southern border, the United
States Navy is blockading the Somali coast and Ethiopian forces are
conducting operations along the Kenyan border. Al Shabaab militant youth
wing of the Islamic Courts rises to leadership role. Besides al
Shabaab, other hardline Islamists broke ranks with the ICU and formed
other militant groups like Hizbul Islam, to continue the war against the
the Ethiopian reinstalled government of warlords amenable to US
investment interests. Wikipedia
The
dis and misinforming ploy used in investor owned media coverage up to
now is that the Islamic Courts Union government would hide Islamists
wanted by US for questioning about US Embassy attacks will be hyped up
to justify the next round of carnage by intervention organized and
militarily supported by the US.
January
3, 2007 - Ethiopian, U.S. airstrikes force ICU withdrawal from Kismayo.
Jan. 4, Ethiopian aircraft and attack helicopters struck the town of
Doble near the Kenyan border. January 5--12, 2007 CNN; even six Kenyan
herders killed by Ethiopian aircraft. US airstrike hits Badmadow
Island; series of Ethiopian airstrikes January 10, chief of staff to the
Somali president: "US airstrikes killed 31 civilians." More AC-130 airstrikes were hit Ras Kamboni. CNN . US warplanes from aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in strikes ( AP ); AC-130 plane rained gunfire down on the southern village of Hayo - "many dead bodies and animals."
January 15, British SAS team at the Kenyan border reportedly looking for the fleeing Al Qaeda suspects. Reuters [or anyone opposing invasion]
2007,
January 19, The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is created by
the African Union's Peace and Security Council upon urging by the UN
Security Council on US initiative to support the Federal Government of
Somalia's (Warlord dominated) forces in their battle against Al-Shabaab
militants. January 22, Christianized Malawi agrees to send 400 to 1,200
troops
January 24, U.S. airstrike; Nigeria pledges 770 to 1,100 troops. Reuteres
On
January 31, Popular Resistance Movement releases a video warning
African Union peacekeepers to avoid coming to Somalia, claiming "Somalia
is not a place where you will earn a salary - it is a place where you
will die." AP
February 1, Burundi pledges 1,000 troops BBC
On
February 9, 800 Somali demonstrators in Mogadishu, burn U.S.,
Ethiopian, and Ugandan flags. Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Burundi
had committed troops to the "peacekeeping mission',Uganda had pledged
1,400 troops and some armored vehicles for a mission. BBC
By the end of March, 2007,the fighting intensified in Mogadishu - more than a thousand people, mostly civilians killed.
Ethiopian
helicopters attack rebel positions, while the insurgents were calling
on the people of the city over the mosque loudspeakers to resist the
Ethiopians. 15 Ethiopian soldiers and civilians killed.
March 30, 2007, Islamic insurgents shoot down Ethiopian Mi-24 military helicopter.
April 4, 2007, ["evenhandedly fair' as all colonial based organizations] Amnesty International demands
Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister
Meles Zenawi, ensure their forces abide by international humanitarian
law [both the invaded defenders and the invaders that is]
September
2007, The Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) created, when
members of the Islamic Courts Union and Somali opposition leaders met
in Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, and united to oppose Somalia's
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its Ethiopian allies.
On
March 3, 2008, the United States air strike on Dhoble kills the leader
of Al-Shabab Aden Hashi Eyrow; does nothing to slow down the Insurgency.
April
20, 2008, Al-Hidaya Mosque massacre: Ethiopian soldiers storm a mosque,
11 bodies found, some with their throat slit, others shot to death. Of
the 11 dead victims, nine were regular congregants. Tabliiq official,
"Ethiopians "slaughtered" clerics. Sheikh Said Yahya, Imam, killed as he
opened the mosque door after soldiers knocked.
April 25, 2007, FOX. Missile hits hospital ward packed with civilians;
May
1, 2008, BBC American plane drops three large bombs on a house in the
Dhuusamarreeb region in central Somalia. kills up 30 people.
On
9 June 2008. Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia split into two
between those based in Eritrea, aligned with former ICU leader Sheikh
Hassan Dahir Aweys, who are adamantly opposed to cooperation with the
TFG or Ethiopia, and those who were based in Djibouti, aligned with
former ICU leader Sharif Sheik Ahmed, who were open to reconciliation in
spite of the Ethiopian and UN sponsored African Union invasions.
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