Jul.12, 2011, CNN, CIA aiding Somalia suspect interrogations
Jul.20, U.N. declares famine in southern Somalia
August
2011, the United Nations, African Union's AMISOM ,United States, and
the TFG battling Al Shabaab claim control of Mogadishu.
Aug. 3, Somalia's famine reaches into Mogadishu , three more regions. UN
Aug.12, U.N .: Not enough money to fight famine
Aug.17, UK minister visits Mogadishu
Oct.17, Somali militants al-Shabab threaten Kenya retaliation, BBC
January
13, 2012 (CNN) -- Distribution of food, seed and medical relief
intended for drought victims suspended, International Red Cross
announces. Aid for up to 1.1 million people held up because local
authorities block distribution of ICRC food and seed relief in the
Middle Shabelle and Galgaduud regions in central and southern Somalia,
according to Red Cross.
7 January 2012, BBC Kenyan troops, air strikes, 'kill 60 al-Shabab fighters' in Somalia
January 20, African Union forces launch offensive against Al-Shabaab positions on the northern outskirts of Mogadishu.[2]
January 24, Al-Shabaab suicide attack against an Ethiopian military base in Beledweyne.
10 March 2012, Somalia Islamists, al-Shabab ambush Ethiopia troops
Al-Shabab claimed to have killed 73 Ethiopians, most intense fighting since Ethiopian troops entered Somalia last November.
May 29, Kenyan naval forces shell Kismayo. Al-Shabaab insurgents open fire on Kenyan patrol vessels off Somalian coast. Garowa on line
July 24 Christian Science Monitor " corrupt TFG had foreigners defeat Islamic Courts [8]
August
16, Kenyan Forces stationed in Southern Somalia engage in combat with
as many as a thousand Al-Shabaab militants attempting to assault Kenyan
garrison in Fafadhun.
September 4, offensive by AMISOM, the Kenyan navy shells the Islamist stronghold of Kismayo. Kenyan fighter jets bomb city. Aljazeera
January
11, 2013, Al-Shabaab fighters kill French soldiers trying to rescue
agent Allex, taken hostage in 2009 while training Somali government
troops. In exchange for his release, Al-Shabaab had demanded cessation
of French involvement and complete withdrawal of AMISOM forces.
June
19, The UN's Development Program offices in Mogadishu attacked by
Islamist militants. Four from Great Britain and South Africa dead.
July
4, UN WHO reports massive clashes in Kismayo. Raskamboni movement and
Barre Adan Shire Hiiraale militia battling for control of city. Somali
government blames Kenyan troops for covertly supporting rival militias
opposed to the government
UN Security Council votes to increase the
AU force. Kenyan soldiers fighting al-Shabab in Somalia to be integrated
into the Amisom force.
Decent people everywhere are not on the
side of US imperialism, but when Somalian and foreign al Qaeda praised
the Islamic Courts when it was attacked by the US and began fighting
alongside al Shabaab facing down the Ethiopians, Western war mongering
media could easily bolster the pretext of fighting al Qaeda, the pretext
the US uses elsewhere to prevent independent governments from existing
in the Arab world. And as elsewhere this US use of "legalized' terror
has brought "illegal' terror blowback. In Somalia's case, because an
American genocidal foreign policy of destroying Somalia's popular
conservative Islamic Courts Union government with continuous warfare
since 2000, which brought quite naturally its more radical Youth Wing al
Shabaab lead the fight against Western genocidal neo-colonialism. [9]
[10]
Al-Shabaab with other militants had taken back cities
conquered by the Ethiopians and the hard pressed Ethiopians withdrew
when more the UN authorized African Union Force troops arrived. When
again the forces of colonialism were on the verge of defeat, US proxy
Kenyan Armed Forces were added into the soup of death, to accomplish
what the Ethiopians had begun.
Kenyan
armed forces entered Somalia two years ago, with US attack aircraft
support, to combat al-Shabaab ("Youths' in Arabic language), who had
taken up leading the fight against US supported warlords, when the
popular conservative Islamic Courts Union government of their elders was
overthrown by the deadly and brutal US proxy Ethiopian Army and Air
Force invasion, which brought back those defeated US backed warlords.
RESULT: More death, maiming, destruction and more importantly creating
STARVATION [Between 2010 and 2012, more than a quarter of a million people died in the famine in Somalia" " Famines are not natural phenomena, they are catastrophic political failures" Oxfam .
[11] In Somalia's case, because the US of genocide destroyed
Somalia's chosen government, which is normal colonial procedure. During
all these above decades famine relief has taken second priority to
Western exploitive business interests in Somalia with genocidal
consequences. [12]
al-Qaeda has entered the fight against the US
with more suicide bombings and in the last week of September came the
Kenya Shopping Mall terror massacre. The reader is invited to check his
or her possible involvement in the horrific neo-colonial events that
have surely produced this shopping mall massacre.
The adolescent
Great White Father, now quite globalized, has let the Somalian people
know over and over again, through merciless gunfire, missiles and drone
assassinations, that they are prohibited from choosing their own
government. This of course is, again, is standard operating procedure
for predatory speculative investment US imperialism: Greeks, Koreans,
Guatemalans, Iranians, Congolese, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians,
Dominicans, Salvadorians, Panamanians, Nicaraguans, Haitians and at one
time or another, almost every other nation in Latin America, Iraqis
Libyans, Afghanis have though calculated genocide, not been allowed to
choose their own government. (An in depth investigation would show that
Americans are also not allowed to choose their own government.) The
Nazis did the same, but then its Wehrmacht was built by a crash
investment and joint venture with America's top fifty corporations which
all made a killing during WW II and the Holocaust, and made the United
States the single super Colonial Power, capable of dictating a lot more
than just who governs where.
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