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United States America Inc. in Somalia

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Liza Persson

After basic training in the summer of 1987, he skipped active service and went straight into the reserves. He was assigned as a corporal to Battery B, 14th Marine Regiment, in Pico Rivera, Calif.

Around the same time, he began taking courses at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif. Three years later, he also started studying civil engineering at the University of California at Long Beach. He has not earned a degree from either school.

On Dec. 12 1992, Farrah was sitting in an engineering class when two Marine officers knocked on the door, interrupting the lecture, and said he was urgently needed in Somalia. The United States had just sent 28,000 troops to safeguard U.N. shipments of food to the starving country. The Marines needed translators.

For three weeks, Farrah served as an interpreter and a liaison between the American forces and his father. But the relationship between the United Nations and Aidid quickly soured, and the Marines sent Farrah home on Jan. 5. http://www.dictatorforhire.com/hussein-farrah-aydiid.shtml

But the story doesn't end there.

In July of 1995, shortly after doing his two-week summer stint as a Marine at Fort Sill, Okla., Hussein suddenly returned to Somalia with his wife and small son. He notified his commanders that he would miss drills for three months because he would be traveling outside USA.

He did not return to school in the fall. Instead, Hussein went AWOL from the military and dropped out of school to stay with his father, who took him under his wing and began grooming him for a top spot in the clan's military organization, diplomats and U.N. officials said. But when his father died Hussein did not stay in Somalia's violent struggle for power but instead moved to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia was then as it is now, a close ally and regional proxy for USA Inc. Where Hussein is now and whether he plays a part in the current events-perhaps tucked up the someone's sleeve to be put in some power position when the time seems right - is unknown.

The interest in holding talks with Mohammed Farrah Aydiid is also part of USA Inc's play to maintain beneficial terms and links to the geo-strategic and natural resources of the region. It becomes more clear when one knows that Mohammed Farrah Aydiid was the man who took hold of the main power after the former president Barre- U.S ally and friend of the oil companies but sadly with a very poor humanitarian record - was toppled. The talks interpreted by Muhammeds son aimed at establishing how best to create beneficial terms for USA Inc's interests with this new regime.

As laid bare in the January 1993 report by Mark Fineman of the Los Angeles Times, "The Oil Factor in Somalia(9)," U.S oil companies, including Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips were positioned to exploit Somalia's rich oil reserves during the reign of pro-U.S President Mohammed Siad Barre. These companies had secured billion-dollar concessions to explore and drill in large portions of the Somali countryside prior to the coup led by warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid that toppled Barre. The U.S Somalia envoy at the time was CIA operative Robert Oakley, a chief "counter-terrorism" officer during the George H.W. Bush presidency, and veteran of the Afghanistan and Iran-Contra operations of the 1980s. Conoco's Mogadishu office housed the U.S embassy and military headquarters. http://www.globalresearch.ca/PrintArticle.php?articleId=2524

When Muhammed refused to go along sufficiently, USA determined he was to be put on the hit-list and sent in troops to capture him.

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