Butchers of MOGADISHU in deep trouble

[rudy-Diiriye]

War on Terror Spawns War Crimes Charges in Somalia

 

by Chris Floyd

When a Bush-backed "regime change" is in high gear, you can bet that war crimes are not far behind.When a Bush-backed "regime change" is in high gear, you can bet that war crimes are not far behind. And so it has proved in Somalia, where a senior European Union security official has told the organization that the American-trained and American-funded Ethiopian invaders and their Somali allies "may have committed war crimes and that donor countries could be considered complicit if they do nothing to stop them," the Independent reports.

 

The official's message to the EU's Somalia delegation detailed:

"the exact statutes that were violated. They included intentionally directing attacks against civilians and ordering the displacement of civilians for reasons related to the conflict," the Independent notes. "'In regard to the abovementioned potential violations of international law there arise urgent questions of responsibility and potential complicity in the commission of war crimes by the European Commission and its partners,' the e-mail said. The European Commission has been a major financial backer of the Somali government and the African Union peacekeeping mission, which is currently made up of only Ugandan troops...The United States is also a major financial supporter of the Somali government and the peacekeepers, pledging more than $120 million."

That figure dwarfs the $20 million that the EU is laying out for bankrolling the new government installed by Bush and the Ethiopian dictatorship. And of course, the $120 million for "peacekeeping" doled out by Washington does not include the untold millions in secret dosh to supply the Ethiopian military with training, equipment and intelligence support. Nor does it cover the cost of the U.S. Special Ops forces that have been operating in Somalia and surrounding states in the wake of the invasion. Nor the cost of the many bombing raids that Bush has ordered in support of the Ethiopian dictatorship's assault, raids which have killed scores of civilians in supposed attempts to assassinate alleged al Qaeda allies from thousands of feet in the air.

Nor does this $120 million "peacekeeping" largess cover the cost of the rendition operation that the Bush gang has been running, grabbing Somalians fleeing for their lives from Bush's regime change operation and "rendering" them back to Ethiopia's notorious dungeons, where they are beaten, starved and abused – while CIA and FBI officials drop by the hellholes for "interrogation sessions" with the captives, as the Associated Press reported this week in an almost universally ignored in-depth investigation: U.S. Agents Visit Secret Ethiopian Jails:

 

CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.

Human rights groups, lawyers and several Western diplomats assert hundreds of prisoners, who include women and children, have been transferred secretly and illegally in recent months from Kenya and Somalia to Ethiopia, where they are kept without charge or access to lawyers and families...

 

One Western diplomat in Nairobi, who agreed to speak to AP only if not quoted to avoid angering U.S. officials, said he sees the United States as playing a guiding role in the operation. John Sifton, a Human Rights Watch expert on counter-terrorism, went further. He said in an e-mail that the United States has acted as "ringleader" in what he labeled a "decentralized, outsourced Guantanamo."

 

We wrote here recently about a U.S. citizen who was "rendered" to the Ethiopians for the crime of refusing to confess to American agents that he was an al Qaeda agent. Amir Mohamed Meshal, 24, remains in Ethiopian custody, while Bush officials claim they are powerless to get him out. It appears they have no leverage at all with the Ethiopian government, despite providing the dictatorship with millions in military aid, shielding it from international heat over its draconian abuses – and even allowing it to score $20 million in military equipment from North Korea, despite the Bush Administration's supposedly "zero-tolerance" sanctions against the Korean regime, as the New York Times reports. (It seems killing darkie Muslims in Africa takes priority over nuclear non-proliferation for the Bushists.) No, the Bush Administration has no influence whatsoever over Ethiopia; there's just no way in hell they could convince Addis Ababa to hand over an American citizen with no criminal charges against him.

So while Bush's "War on Terror" proxies go about the Master's business by shooting and forcibly uprooting civilians, the mass exodous of refugees continues, with more than 124,000 people fleeing Mogadishu alone since February, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees reports. Some 11,000 have been forced from their homes since the beginning of this month. These are refugees not from the invasion itself – which was another quickie "mission accomplished" job – but from the "peace" that Bush and his proxies have visited upon the land, an occupation that is bidding fair to become a smaller-scale version of the four-alarm FUBAR that Bush has wrought in Iraq.

 

The attack overturned Somalia's "Islamic Courts" government, which had brought a measure of security and stability to the ravaged nation after 15 years of murderous anarchy. But because the Horn of Africa is considered a linchpin of the Bush gang's "New American Century" plans for military and economic domination of the region's oil supplies and distribution, Somalia became a target of "the path of action," the Mussolinian tag that Bush has given to America's official national security strategy.

 

Also -- and this is perhaps the most important thing for the lily-livered bullies of the Bush Faction -- Somalia was "doable." This, as you recall, was the battle cry of chickenhawk Paul Wolfowitz immediately after the 9/11 attacks, when he urged his master to hit Iraq right away. As Bob Woodward relates in his hagiographic Bush at War (Woodward had not yet bitten the royal hand that fed him), Wolfowitz told the Bush inner circle that while "attacking Afghanistan would be uncertain ... Iraq was a brittle oppressive regime that might break easily. It was doable." That is to say, Howlin' Wolf, George the Deserter and Dick "Other Priorities" Cheney all knew that Iraq was a broken-backed country that was no threat to anyone and could not strike back, as a state, with a standing army, if attacked. You could go to war against Iraq -- even fight a long "counterinsurgency" struggle if you had to -- and still keep the malls full, the corporate welfare flowing, the rubes gulled with reality shows and propaganda pageants, and "the base" stoked with bloody-eyed hatred of "Islmaofascists" and their "dhimmicrat" allies, etc. etc. Like Iraq, Somalia was "doable;" so it's been "done."

 

But also like Iraq, the aftermath of this latest Terror War rape is unlikely to follow the Bushist script. As we noted last week, yet another whirlwind of blowback will be reaped from these rotten seeds. Yet another generation will be raised in violence and despair, will be taught – by the "guiding lights of world civilization" – that the true meaning of life is the power that flows from the barrel of a gun, from a bomb, from the blood of innocent people. This is the lesson that the "War on Terror" is teaching and confirming around the world, day after day after day. This is the real "New American Century" that Bush and his cohorts – and his simpering apologists –are trying to construct.

 

http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2007/040907Floyd.shtml

[Wisdom_Seeker]

They are in no trouble.

 

The people I hate the most are the damn supporters. The followers are worse than the leaders themselves, for they feed the brutal leader.

 

I hope they experience the worse death possible.

[EboniQue]

^ I agree with you 100%.

 

Waa markaan idhaahdo ciil aanan laheyn ayaa idili. :mad:

[Tahliil]

I like Chris Floyd...What a writer...Yeeye the Vampire is on the edge. He is 99.53 years old, he can be around so long... but those who stay behind should b rounded up, and Sadamanized...if u know what I mean...

[Che -Guevara]

^^^Who is gonna round them up?

 

Surely not Tahliil all the way from the good old USA.

[Tahliil]

The New Darwiishes......are on the hunt for the traitors and like the rangers they are man, am so confident...and they need nothing from nobody...Lay back and wait till you see the thugs on real tribunal courts in Mogadishu...

 

Remember "Time Is On Our Side"...Sadam terrorized toddlers for yrs until he got caught up... Yeeye the Vampire and his 101 wives will soon be on the Most Wanted Somali playin cards...Time Is On Our Side...

[Che -Guevara]

Lets be realistic Tahliil. You have Somali Qabiils siding with the Ethios wanting to annihilate a particular Somali clan. Even if the Ethios are gone today, Somalia will fall back to anarchy. You can hunt all you want, but the only person you will kill is Somali, and you too will be eventually killed by another Maryooley.

[Alle-ubaahne]

^^And that is only your poor predictions that are in line with gaalo's views towards Somalia!

 

I am interested your original views, without the voluntary dilution you made by agreeing with the Gaalo!

 

Say it, that anarchy was always the product of western wishes for somalia, and that Somalia was never under any form of anarchy, only a fitnah that was gone with the horrible mentalities of the past decade.

[rudy-Diiriye]

How soon we forget the 7 months of peace!! between all somalis that we witnessed...! i guess short term memory is not our strong point.

 

I believe thats what broke the Amxaars back!! they just couldnt stand somalis enjoy peace.

[Tahliil]

That was the whole mission and achievement of His Excellency Mr. Zenawi...to set whatever he deems a Somali progress back into Jaahiliya...in which AdeerKEEN Yeeye the vampire and his supporters (mainly us) couldn’t see and like the Mangaab we lately became bought his gimmick. But am so glad that u see it exactly that way today...the withdrawal of Ethiopia if it ever and ever and ever comes (unless of course we resist) is meant to set the o’clock back to annihilation times and create more Somali on Somali violence...

 

Nonetheless, what we don't need now is this giant, hateful Scorpion called Ethiopia in our living rooms and its stooges and traitors who want to deprive us (me and you) ….the young ones of this nations from their future….occupying literally in our living rooms!!!...

 

If Somalis are left alone, am so certain walaal about this, No Matter how Long it Takes they will figure things out on their own, they will put the pieces back together and am so optimistic about that... Nothing is constant in this world…our only problem is the rate of change but we will get there… And because of that notion, that belief only we are all hopeful that one day we will see the traitors, the dabodhilif raac brought to justice and be punished for the crimes of treason and genocide they perpetrated on toddlers in their baby cribs and wives and mothers in their homes