Somali Anarchist Forecasts:

[gavin]

edit: Ok, I'm ******. Didn't realize the OP was satirical

[Fabregas]

No comment!

[Nur]

Anarchy is back!

 

Now What is next?

 

 

Nur

[Nur]

Torturers: The Next Generation

 

Psycho politicians pledge to continue Bush's crimes

 

By Ted Rall

 

11/09/07 "ICH" -- - -- NEW YORK—George W. Bush has shoved American politics into the dark realm of the lunatic right, zipping past Joe McCarthy into territory previously covered by historical accounts of Germany in the 1940s.

 

We've lost our right to see an attorney, to confront our accusers, even to get a fair trial. Government agents have kidnapped thousands of people, many of whom have never been heard from again. Bush even signed an edict claiming the right to assassinate anyone, including you and me, based solely on his whims. Torture, the ultimate sign that civilized society has been replaced by a police state, was repeatedly authorized by government officials who smirked the few times reporters had the temerity to ask them about it.

 

The 2000, 2004 and 2008 presidential elections have been and will prove to be decisive moments in American history. In each case, the American people were offered a stark choice between a future of freedom and one under tyranny.

 

In 2000, the American people chose dictatorship, watching passively as a rogue Supreme Court violated the Constitution and handed Bush the keys to the White House. We had a chance to restore the vision of the original Framers in 2004. Instead, we sat on our asses while Bush stole yet another election. The 2008 race could mark our last chance to get back the system of government we enjoyed before the Dec. 20, 2000, coup.

 

We must elect—by an overwhelming, theft-proof majority—a candidate who promises to renounce Bush and all his works. A reform-minded president's first act should be to sign a law that reads as follows: "The federal government of the United States having been illegitimate and illegal since January 20, 2001, all laws, regulations, executive orders, and acts of commission or omission enacted between that infamous day and 12 noon Eastern Standard Time on Jan. 20, 2009, are hereby declared invalid and without effect." Guantanamo, secret prisons, extraordinary rendition, spying on Americans' phone calls and e-mails, and "legal" torture would be erased. Our troops should immediately pull out of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Somalia; we should apologize to our victims and offer to compensate them and their survivors. Bush should never appear on any list of American presidents. When he dies, his carcass shouldn't receive a state funeral. It ought to be thrown in the trash.

 

Unfortunately, no one like that is running for president. To the contrary, most of the major presidential candidates want to accelerate America's slide into outright moral bankruptcy. Inspired by what good people find appalling, America's Mayor has turned into America's Maniac. Torture, says Rudy Giuliani, is smart. He endorses the medieval practice of waterboarding, revived in CIA torture chambers after 9/11, in which a person is strapped to a board, tipped back and forced to inhale water to induce the sensation of drowning.

 

"It depends on how it's done," Giuliani said when asked about waterboarding and whether it is torture. "It depends on the circumstances. It depends on who does it." Giuliani used to be a federal prosecutor. Would he have used similar logic in the prosecution of an accused torturer?

 

The mayor-turned-monster even used a campaign stop in Iowa to mock the victims of sleep deprivation, long acknowledged by international law as one of the severest forms of torture. "They talk about sleep deprivation," he said. "I mean, on that theory, I'm getting tortured running for president of the United States. That's plain silly. That's silly."

 

Waterboarding causes pain, brain damage and broken bones (from the restraints used on struggling victims), and death. Survivors are psychologically scarred. "Some victims were still traumatized years later," Dr. Allen Keller, director of the Bellevue/New York University Program for Survivors of Torture, told The New Yorker. "One patient couldn't take showers, and panicked when it rained."

 

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin described the sleep deprivation he suffered as a captive of the Soviet KGB: "In the head of the interrogated prisoner, a haze begins to form. His spirit is wearied to death, his legs are unsteady, and he has one sole desire: to sleep ... Anyone who has experienced this desire knows that not even hunger and thirst are comparable with it."

 

Giuliani isn't the only wanna-be Torturer-in-Chief. Congressman Tom Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, offered this Lincolnesque rhetorical gem at one of the debates: "What do we do in the response to a nuclear—or the fact that a nuclear device or some bombs have gone off in the United States? We know that there are—we have captured people who have information that could lead us to the next one that's going to go off and it's the big one ... I would do—certainly, waterboard—I don't believe that that is, quote, 'torture.'"

 

In an appearance on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes, Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said the United States does and should torture: "We have received good solid information from [torture], and have saved American lives because of it."

 

Duncan Hunter made fun of the concentration camp at Guantanamo: "You got guys like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [a detainee victim of U.S. waterboarding], "who said that he planned the attack on 9/11. You got Osama bin Laden's bodyguards. Those guys get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs. They have prayer five times a day. They've all gained weight. The last time I looked at the menu, they had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf on Friday. That's how we treat the terrorists. They've got health care that's better than most HMOs ... They live in a place called Guantanamo, where not one person has ever been murdered."

 

Three inmates have been found dead at Gitmo. (The military claimed they were suicides.) As of August 2003, at least 29 POWs had attempted suicide. Scores of hunger strikers are being force-fed. Fred Thompson says he won't authorize waterboarding "as a matter of course" but likes to keep his options open. Mitt Romney punts questions about waterboarding: "I don't think as a presidential candidate it is appropriate for me to weigh in on specific forms of interrogation that our CIA would employ. In circumstances of extreme threat to the nation, where we employ what is known as enhanced interrogation techniques, we don't describe those techniques."

 

At a Democratic debate in New Hampshire, Barack Obama refused to rule out torture. "Now, I will do whatever it takes to keep America safe. And there are going to be all sorts of hypotheticals [presumably, Tancredo's hoary ticking time bomb fantasy] and emergency situations, and I will make that judgment at that time." Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden said they agree with Obama. Democrats Bill Richardson, John Edwards and Chris Dodd have offered unequivocal stances against torture. On the Republican side, only John McCain and Ron Paul have done so. Even McCain, himself a victim of torture in Vietnam, refuses to rule out voting to confirm Bush's attorney general nominee, Michael Mukasey. "If it amounts to torture," Mukasey said of waterboarding, "then it is not constitutional."

 

"If"?

 

Ted Rall is the author of the new book Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?, an in-depth prose and graphic novel analysis of America's next big foreign policy challenge. Visit his website www.tedrall.com

[Fabregas]

Ban Ki Moon,The leader of the United Imperial Nations, recently admitted that no United(imperial) peacekeepers would be sent to Somalia. The reason being? Well,.. ehm ehm Somalia is to " dangerous", too many guns iyo bombs ma fahanteen? Well, switch back to this time last year and something extraordinary happened. The United States through the United Imperial Nations passed a resolution lifting the arms embargo under the pretext that it would be needed to bring peacekeepers to Somalia. Thus a 6 month peace was shattered when the Ethiopians tanks rolled into Somalia blessed by the international imperial community. Even more extraordinary is that the United Imperial Nations actually broke their own resolution which declared that "no Neighbouring" countries in IGAD could send troops into Somalia. In short, the United Imperial Nations sponsored the invasion of Somalia, broke their own rules and called for more guns into a chaotic poor country.

 

 

A year later after the illegal invasion, after thousands of Somalis have been uprooted from their homes, killed and detained; the leader of the United Imperial Nations calls for a "robust" force consisting of a "coalition of the willing.

 

 

It is ironic that he should use such words, after all it was the coalition of the willing that prayed to Jesus(Blair and Bush), lied to the world and caused the never ending violence in Iraq. I wonder if God told Bush to send the Ethiopians to Somalia and bring them their "democracy"? What about the International media and the so called International community? They seem more concerned about Benazir Bhuto's daily movements or a few protestors being shot in Burma. Those are the martyrs of democracy, freedom and human rights. But when innoncent Somalis are rounded up and slaughtered it was only a missile or bullet that hit a "suspected Islamist hideout". It seems all the rules are thrown out of the window when one is "suspected(not convicted)" of being and Islamist. I wonder if the young lad who executed in Muqdisho whilst he was reciting Quran in a Masjid is a legtimate target and a "suspected" Islamist?

 

The surah from the Quran concerning the companions of the ditch comes to mind:

 

7. And they witnessed (all) that they were doing against the Believers.

 

8. And they ill-treated them for no other reason than that they believed in Allah, Exalted in Power, Worthy of all Praise!-

 

9. Him to Whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth! And Allah is Witness to all things.

 

10. Those who persecute (or draw into temptation) the Believers, men and women, and do not turn in repentance, will have the Penalty of Hell: They will have the Penalty of the Burning Fire.

 

11. For those who believe and do righteous deeds, will be Gardens; beneath which rivers flow: That is the great Salvation, (the fulfilment of all desires),

[Nur]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Very Deep, Indeed!

 

The Anarchist.

 

 

Geel Jire Bro.

 

Three years ago, 2004, eNuri predicted the American Invasion (Ethiopian Proxies) to Somalia. Let us reflect on that Satirical Write-Up.

 

 

Banana Terrorism ( 2004)

 

Nurtel (eNuri) News Analyses

 

 

Not Quite The News!

 

 

The US Administration is weighing the possibility of declaring war on Somalia after reports that Somali refugees have thrown bananas on Park Avenue in New York, causing many American pedestrians to slip and fall, some with injuries. The banana samples used in these attacks were traced to a small town in Somalia called Afgoi which presents a fresh evidence of complicity of Somalis to commit Banana terrorism to hurt innocent pedestrians along Park Avenue and in affect creating a new weapon of MOSS destruction ( Moss is Somali means Banana) which among other things can cause loss of balance and a lot of laughter for the onlookers, which in turn can endanger their intelligence, the Administration has equated this threat to that of Iraq, and the threat is being taken too seriously by the white House staff as the president ordered bananas for lunch today.

 

 

The administration is taking the case to the UN to get an approval to declare war on Somalia and rid the country of the war lords who have caused a lot of destruction the past 12 years. The administration is looking for the funniest guy in Somalia to lead this nation to happiness after years of pain and sorrow. The White House report shows clear evidence that all the Somali leaders went bananas, and if they are not stopped, the whole world can follow suit. The USA is sharing this report with many countries and specially China the most populous nation in the world, which is worried that if the banana threat comes to china, it will be the most important historical event since the construction of the Great Wall of China.

 

The administration will appoint a commission of advisors for the Somali American banana wars led by the CEO of Dole fruit company who will oversee the dibananaization of Somalis so that Somalia will never be used as launching pad for banana terror aimed at making fun at American citizens walking down American streets. The Banana war will be led by Dole and other fruit companies in Florida citrus belt, California Fruit growers, McDonalds Restaurants and Red Lobster Restaurants. Red Lobster Restaurants have shown interest in the giant Somali Lobsters that are threatening the Dubai markets and destabilizing the Lobster prices which can cause Lobster wars for the unknown kind.

 

As a response to the American possible invasion, the spokesman for the 15 Banana Warlord Governments in Somalia is threatening to use a secret banana formula that will make Americans laugh too much and loose control of their guns during landing, which will make them ineffective to control the Banana farms in Afgoi, The white House meanwhile, is taking this news as a new threat which is sending shockwaves across the Banana complex in Guatamala and Equador.

 

 

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No Noose, is A Good News

[Fabregas]

quote Abdullahi Yusuf:

 

Wadaadada ayaa haysta Masaajidda, Waxbarashada, Arrimaha Bulshada, ganacsiga, isgaarsiinta....

 

Tan kale, TACLIINTA YAA INOO HAYA? Tacliinta ma wadaadada xakuma mase Wasaaradda? Wasaaradda ayaa xukunta (miyaad leedihiin)? Manhaj-kee ayaa laga dhigaa Iskuulada, yaa leh Ducaaloow?.

 

Malcaamadaha Qur'aanka, Dugsiyada Hoose iyo Kuwa Dhexe, Dugsiyada Sare, Jaamacadaha, waxaa haysta Al-Islaax iyo Al-Itixaad iyo Alfatuud iyo magaciisii ayaa haysta oo wasaaraddii meel ay haysato ma leh.

 

Wadaadadu waxay haystaan Masjiddadii, waxay haystaan Waxbarashadii iyo arrimihii bulshada, waxay haystaan xataa Caafimaadkii, waxay haystaan ganacsigii, waxay haystaan Isgaarsiintii ( Telecommunication), waxay haystaan Xawaaladahii. Wax Alla wax aan haynaa ma jirto'e, wadaadada sidii laga yeeli lahaa saakay halaga taliyo. Ma wadaadada ayaa dalka u dawlad ah mase inaga dalka u dawlad ah. Qorshaha maku soo darteen sidii nimankaas loogala wareegi lahaa waxaas oo adduun ah, HAA (ayey ku jawaabeen kuwii fadhiyey goobta), maku soo darteen (HAA.. mar labaad)... Waayahay'e anigu nin ayaan ahay gacan ayaan idinka siinayaaye, nimanka col ayaan nahay'e, ma i maqleysaan, nimanka aan iska celino, nimanku waxay wax ku yihiin wax allaale wixii dalku lahaa, ama tacliin, ama diin, ama masjid, ama Xawaalad, ama dhaqaale, ama isgaarsiin ( Telecommunication), ama ganacsi, ama fatuud, ayey gacanta ku haystaane aan gacantooda ka wareejino, haddaad rabtaan in ay Soomaaliya noqoto Soomaaliya.

[Fabregas]

Originally posted by Geel_Jire12:

quote:Originally posted by Geel_Jire12:

The unofficial madaxweynad of Somalia, Jeenday Frazer", has pleged a further $60 million to the Trojan Fedh-ruled Government in Baidoa. We suspect this money is for "reconstructing", that is, after the "destruction" phase.

 

Geel Jire12!

Our friend Jenday Frazer is back in East Africa. Why? Because this time as one U.N observer claimed today, " a genocice is taking place in Kenya". 400 or more people have been killed, after Mr Odinga, a man who promised to investigate the rendition and arrest of innocent Muslims, allegedly won the elections. However, Kibaki declared himself the winner and it has now been admitted by the electoral commision that they were pressured into declaring Kibaki( war on terror mecenary) as the winner. Interestingly enough, the U.S was one of the first to congratulate him on his success, whilst the European Union reported that the election process was deeply flawed and suspicious. Hundreds of people were slayed and cleansed in the city of Eldoret, perhap the ghosts and deeds of the Somali warlords are haunting that place?

[Nur]

Privatising War

 

As quelling foreign populations becomes a staple of warfare, private mercenary forces are increasingly relied upon as a tool of foreign policy

 

By Galal Nassar

 

31/05/08 "Al-Ahram" --- It is not just government forces, the resistance and sectarian strife that have wrought chaos in Iraq. The US invasion of Iraq and subsequent policies were what triggered the security breakdown and unleashed the chaos. To make matters worse, on the heels of the occupying forces followed thousands of personnel from private firms that offer military services for hire. The corporate mercenary business is a relatively recent phenomenon and this article attempts to probe what function it plays and how it operates in Iraq and elsewhere.

There are now more than 50 private security firms currently operating in Iraq and their number is likely to increase, according to recent reports. Officially their function is to protect vital facilities (from government buildings to oil wells) and important persons (the US ambassador, for example). Some of these companies have special information gathering and analysis departments whose staff has access to state-of-the-art military and security technologies. Global Risks is one such company. Charged with protecting Baghdad International Airport, it has hired for this purpose 500 Nepalese and 500 Fijian soldiers who are apparently the cheapest of the 30 nationalities of mercenaries currently in Iraq.

 

The existence of these types of firms in Iraq was first brought to public attention by the London Times, which reported in May 2004 that the number of British employees such firms posted to Iraq had doubled to 1,500 since the previous year. Among these employees were former British police, navy and paratrooper officers and soldiers. Iraqi officials at the time admitted to having no idea of how many mercenaries were operating in the country. A year later, former US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld stated that they were by then in the neighbourhood of 100,000 and that they were needed because coalition forces were unable to supply the number of forces necessary to protect foreign diplomats and businessmen. He added that about ¨1 billion was paid out annually to such private security firms.

 

It has apparently become Pentagon policy to hire mercenaries in American wars, despite official denials. According to Peter Singer, a security analyst at the Brookings Institution and author of Corporate Warriors, private companies offering specialised military services for hire played a major support role in most of the wars in which the US was involved in the 1990s, including Somalia, Haiti, Rwanda, the Balkans and East Timor. But this role has increased exponentially in America's wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 

A certain kind of murkiness surrounds these companies. It is often difficult to pin down exactly what functions their personnel are supposed to perform in their overseas postings. The titles and job descriptions given to them by their companies only compound the mystery. There have also been growing concerns over their lack of restraint. Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw, for example, expressed his dismay over the mounting brutality of mercenaries whose status and activities are not covered by the laws and conventions governing the presence of conventional armed forces. The practice of importing foreign mercenaries to perform special military tasks is undoubtedly a factor that has aggravated strife and turmoil in Iraq. Indeed, there is mounting suspicion that mercenaries may be involved in the kidnappings, killings, assaults on international agencies, and other such terrorist activities that taint the images of Iraq and Islam. One thing is clear: mercenaries earn much, much more than their counterparts in the armed forces.

 

BANKING ON WAR: The firms themselves, the majority of which are American or British owned, offer services ranging from guarding important persons and facilities, and supplying equipment and provisions, to intelligence gathering and actual field combat. The growth of this phenomenon has added a new term to the late 20th century military lexicon. On top of "remote control warfare", "proxy wars" and "pre-emptive war", we now have "privatised war", or war fought or supported by forces and personnel subcontracted from private military firms and who are not subordinate to the official military hierarchy.

 

In October 2006, The Independent reported that the British government had been accused of promoting the privatisation of the war on Iraq as a part of its exit strategy. The newspaper quoted John Hillary, director of the charity organisation War on Want, as saying "there are genuine worries that the government is trying to privatise the Iraq conflict. The occupation of Iraq has allowed British mercenaries to reap huge profits. But the government has failed to enact laws to punish their human rights abuses, including firing on Iraqi civilians."

 

What initially prompted the British and American government to turn to private security forces was their ability to recruit sufficient traditional troops to meet the unanticipated force of the Iraqi resistance. Soon, as the resistance escalated, coalition forces were overstretched and morale deteriorated -- mercenaries were needed to plug the gaps of growing numbers of conscripts gone AWOL or refusing double or sometimes triple tours of duty. Officials in Washington and London quickly perceived another advantage to mercenaries. Their dead and wounded are not included in official military casualty figures, which enables officials to project to the public an incomplete picture of the actual losses incurred by the occupation.

 

Soldiers of fortune could also come in handy for operations that fall outside the pale of international law because recourse to them would spare members of official occupation forces from being brought before international courts on charges of crimes against humanity or violating international humanitarian law governing occupation. If Washington continues the pursuit of the American global enterprise, one could well envision an increasing reliance on privatised military forces, or PMFs -- a term that certainly has a more respectable ring than "mercenaries", reflecting a business that has become a legal and increasingly lucrative industry.

 

PMFs in Iraq are equipped with or have access to the most sophisticated military equipment (armoured four-wheel vehicles, helicopters, super computers and various satellite surveillance, positioning and guidance services). They offer very attractive incentives, more than enough to tempt individuals into quitting their jobs at home as truck drivers, prison wardens or private security guards and seeking employment in a PMF that will send them to the world's most violent hotspots. Pay ranges from $500 to $1,500 a day, whereas an ordinary career army soldier earns around $3,000 a month and an Iraqi policeman earns less than $400 per month. Such figures cast new light on ways Iraq is being drained of its national resources. Consider, too, that private security firms represent $100 billion worth of contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan and that one of these companies -- a British one -- increased its revolving capital from ¨554,000 in 2003, before the war on Iraq, to ¨62 million in 2005.

 

Not all personnel are British or American; they could just as well be from South Africa, Nepal, Chile, Columbia, San Salvador, Honduras, Ireland, Spain, Poland, Brazil, Israel and, more recently, Russia and Lebanon. Private security personnel undertake a broader range of tasks than ever in military history and the history of the mercenary profession. They guard Iraqi reconstruction projects, VIPs such as former civil administrator Paul Bremer and the US ambassadors to Iraq that followed him, supply convoys that pass through areas controlled by resistance forces, key buildings in Baghdad and sensitive government agencies, and the headquarters of the occupation in the so-called Green Zone.

 

A former Russian paratrooper recently told a Russian newspaper that a PMF had approached him with an offer of employment as a guard for humanitarian aid convoys, visiting foreign delegations and American petroleum facilities. The officer maintained that such offers did not detail all the job requirements that security personnel would be required to undertake, such as combing residential quarters for resistance fighters, reconnaissance missions and conducting searches at roadblocks. He said that private security firms preferred to hire Russians because of the combat expertise they acquired in Afghanistan and Chechnya.

 

Not a few Arabs have signed up with mercenary outfits, which have been linked to some of the most atrocious crimes against Iraqi civilians, and for less money than their fellow mercenaries from other countries. The Lebanese Al-Nahar newspaper writes, "Many Lebanese have joined the ranks of the mercenaries in Iraq at salaries ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 a month, which is relatively low compared to the salaries received by their French, American and even Croatian counterparts. Experienced experts from these nationalities make anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 a day."

 

FARMING OUT KILLING: Contrary to the impression Washington has tried to convey to the world, reports on massacres perpetrated against Iraqi civilians reveal that the US army has farmed out more than just security functions to PMF personnel. As though the American invasion and occupation of Iraq outside the framework of international law was not already a crime by all international legal and humanitarian standards, the importation of thousands of mercenaries can only be regarded as a flagrant violation of human rights and a crime against Iraqi civilians. Baghdad has become the international capital of PMFs and hired killers. Of the thousands of PMFs in the world, more than 50 now exist in Iraq. Although most of these are British or American owned, some are Israeli and South African.

 

It appears, too, that mercenaries have begun to fill the ranks of the US army itself. So desperate has the US military become that it has recruited more than 35,000 soldiers who are not US citizens. Instead, these recruits possess or have been awarded the much-coveted "Green Card" and the promise of naturalisation if they should be fortunate enough to live out their tour of duty in Iraq. Most of these recruits are originally from Spanish speaking countries, but many were in for disappointment. As the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, "US nationality does not come automatically after military service. Of the 13,500 non-American soldiers who applied for naturalisation in 2002, only 8,000 were granted citizenship."

 

Some in Iraq believe that mercenaries are much more widespread in various official and unofficial capacities than authorities are willing to recognise. They also suspect that official guard duties are only a cover for more questionable assignments, especially in view of the fact that many mercenaries have criminal records or are even wanted by Interpol. They further hold that such mercenaries form the backbone of organised crime gangs which are used by occupation forces, foreign intelligence agencies or political forces inside Iraq for carrying out vendettas, assassinations and other acts of violence intended to achieve certain political or economic ends.

 

With the US-British occupation of Baghdad, all existing controls over border crossings collapsed, allowing the infiltration of various elements from neighbouring countries, notably Iran and Kuwait. Among the most important groups to walk into Iraq at the time were some 1,000 Iraqi officers and soldiers who had been trained in the US or Hungary and who had been captured during the 1991 Gulf War, along with some Iraqi criminal types who had been arrested in Gulf countries and released several months before the 2003 invasion. At the same time, from the Iranian side arrived several thousands of Shia Islamist militants who had been trained in Iran and who came to form the backbone of the Badr militia. Many of these included Iraqis who had been captured in the Iraq-Iran war and later released. Not only do many of these continue to regularly receive their monthly salaries from Iran, several of them are members of the current Iraqi parliament, as was revealed by the Iranian Mujahedin-e-Khalq organisation in 2007.

 

MERCENARIES IN HISTORY: The mercenary business will remain if, in the wake of major wars when armies are demobilised, discharged soldiers continue to find a lucrative market for their combat skills. Many military analysts believed that the end of the Cold War would bring an end to the phenomenon of soldiers for hire. What happened was the reverse. Mercenaries have proliferated, under new guises and godfathers, many of who call themselves "military consultants".

 

On 30 January 1968, the UN General Assembly issued a resolution condemning mercenary activities. Mercenaries were condemned again in the Geneva Diplomatic Conferences of 1974 and 1977.

 

In the latter year, the term was given a comprehensive definition in Article 47 of the first Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. It states that a mercenary is any person who: "Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; Does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities; Is motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a Party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or paid to combatants of similar ranks and functions in the armed forces of that Party; Is neither a national of a Party to the conflict nor a resident of territory controlled by a Party to the conflict; Is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict; and Has not been sent by a State which is not a Party to the conflict on official duty as a member of its armed forces."

 

To be sure, there has always been a connection between "making money" and "making war". The soldier of fortune is one of the oldest professions in history. In ancient Middle Eastern texts from Pharaonic Egypt to Mesopotamia, there are frequent mentions of "Hebrews" (Habiru or Hapiru) which referred variously to stateless peoples or marauding tribes or brigands that voluntarily entered into the service of kings as slave-armies, and to bands of mercenaries willing to attach themselves to an army in exchange for pay or a share in the booty. Wherever there has been combat there have been fighters solely on the lookout for profit, even if their forms of recruitment have changed, their methods have become more sophisticated and their functions have grown increasingly specialised and diversified.

 

The 20th century world was a crucible of global wars, regional conflicts and civil strife, and a period of alarming advancements in military technology that sapped developing nations of their wealth and exacerbated their poverty. Since the Americans dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world has seen at least 172 wars. In most of these wars, mercenaries not only took part but also contributed to aggravating and prolonging them. After all, they are in business not to defend a nation, humanitarian principles or the oppressed, but to make money -- lots of it. The longer a war lasts, the more money they make. Camouflage describes more than just the type of uniforms they might wear. Like chameleons they change colour in order to appeal to the highest bidder for their services, and their services are to spread death, terror and destruction. They are entirely without compunction and they suffer no pangs of conscience, traits which apply as much to the companies that have made the mercenary business their stock in trade as it does to the individuals themselves.

 

Whether we call them mercenaries, private security firms or the neat and fashionable PMF, they are a taint on the military profession and blight on the history of human progress.

 

GLOBAL PROFITEERING: The fact that some wars erupt for ethnic or religious reasons, as in Kosovo, or over the struggle for power, as in Uganda and Congo, or due to organised crime and the drug trade, as in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Columbia, suggests that in many of today's wars profiteering is a fundamental ingredient -- all the more so in countries rich in natural resources and rife with government corruption. Warfare in such countries offers incentives to criminal elements, if not into participating in actual conflict in exchange for pay, then at least indirectly by offering the necessary cover of violence for smuggling and other illegal operations, which in turn require their own private guards and militias.

 

Africa is the world's most politically unstable region. Its countries seem embroiled in virtually uninterrupted ethnic strife and civil wars that have wrought massive human carnage and genocide. Some of these countries have deteriorated into total chaos after their governments brought in mercenaries in order to help them reassert control over their respective countries. The mercenary industry boomed in Africa in part because the traditional notion, still widely held in certain areas, that power should go to the party that possesses the most money and buy the most supporters encourages a mercenary culture. In part, too, because the collapse of the apartheid regime in South Africa gave rise to a surplus of military and intelligence experts with extensive knowledge of neighbouring countries in which they have fought before. These fighters, no longer welcome in South Africa due to their ignominious record and their unwillingness to adjust to civilian life, find many lucrative opportunities elsewhere in the continent.

 

As for the worldwide boom in the mercenary business, it dates to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and Washington's drive to fill the gap resulting from the withdrawal of the great powers from Africa. In this regard, the US fostered strategic relations in Africa via NGOs and transnational companies, instead of by means of state-state relations as had prevailed in the previous era. Also the end of the Cold War all but turned off the taps on the flow of free weapons -- to the governments of sub-Saharan Africa in particular. This combined with the relatively poor military resources at their disposal, a weakness inherited from the colonialist era when colonial powers deliberately kept local armies as minimally equipped and trained as possible, diminished their ability to maintain control over their respective countries.

 

The end of the US-Soviet rivalry over spheres of influence did not alleviate explosive conditions in Africa. It merely reduced the strategic importance of this continent. Now that Moscow was out of the picture, the US had no more need to solicit the friendship of African governments in order to win more strategic friends and allies. At the same time, European nations, whether out of deference to custom or due to a lack of sufficient will, were reluctant to intervene in Africa outside the NATO framework. As the largest former coloniser of Africa, France's position was particularly significant. In the 1990s, Paris began to turn its attention closer to home and concentrate on matters connected to European unity. In addition, since the French parliament's vote to abolish obligatory military service, France has begun to reduce the levels of its forces in six African countries: Senegal, Gabon, Central Africa, Ivory Coast, Djibouti and Chad. It is expected that by the end of another four years France will have no more than 5,000 troops left on the continent, compared to 30,000 in the 1960s.

 

In addition, the victory of capitalism over communism unleashed the competitive commercial spirit, even in the domain of security. Up-and-coming mercenary firms were quick to perceive the opportunities, and in Africa where tensions bred by the Cold War were no longer restrained the opportunities were rife, especially in Congo, Zaire and Sierra Leone. This said, outside of Africa the mercenary business found abundant offerings in trouble spots in Asia, parts of Europe and Latin America.

 

HIDING BEHIND MASKS: One of the earliest best-known modern mercenary firms was the South African-based Executive Outcomes. The pioneering private military company specialised in covert warfare and aerial combat patrols. With thousands of recruits on its rosters, it won hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contracts with various African countries. According to the contracts, the firm was paid for its "security" services in the form of mining concessions in gold, diamonds or other valuable mineral resources.

 

Executive Outcomes officials, drawn primarily from former South African police and army officers, claimed that they only worked with governments or with the approval of the governments concerned. Other key personnel included Ukrainian pilots, being capable of flying the company's MIG-27 fighters and Russian-made M-24 helicopters. (Executive Outcomes was dissolved in 1999 when South Africa moved to stop mercenary activities.)

 

Another major mercenary firm is the US-based Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI). Also staffed by former military or quasi-military personnel, the company has a website on which it promotes itself as an organisation that offers helicopter piloting training services. MPRI officials maintain that they abide by US law and policy, that they are licensed to operate by the State Department, and that they are not mercenaries.

 

In Britain, a number of mercenary outfits were discovered. Operating out of luxurious headquarters, they hire out arms and forces to such countries as Sierra Leone, in defiance of UN prohibitions. One of the most important British firms in this field is Defence Systems Limited (DSL), which rents out the "special air force services" of former RAF officers. DSL has provided counter-insurgency training programmes to the governments of New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Mozambique and Columbia.

 

Definitive Results, registered in both the UK and South Africa, boasts an army of 5,000 fighters and a fleet of civilian and military aircraft, including reconnaissance and espionage planes and several MIG-24 assault helicopters. It also operates a commercial airline company that offers flights to destinations in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. So successful has this company been that it has managed to buy up several rival firms, as well as a company that manages the petroleum and mining concessions in Angola, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique. In 1996, it won the contract from the Sierra Leone government to repel the anti-government Revolutionary United Front (RUF) forces led by Fodaj Sankoh, a task in which it achieved remarkable results.

 

According to Definitive Results' director, his company's strategy is "to enter into dialogue with the UN and the African Union in order to let them know who we are, what services we provide and how important these services are. We want to explain to them why we can perform the operations they need better and yet at only 10 per cent of what they currently cost them."

 

A more modest operation is Africa Security. Founded by former French army officer Patrick Tourne in 1990 and staffed by about 2,500 recruits, it has helped put down anti-government opposition movements in Rwanda, Gabon and Cameroon. At the time, Africa Security paid its soldiers 20-30,000 francs a month plus living expenses. The South African-based company pays a monthly salary of $10,000 to its pilots and $2,000 to its non-commissioned officer equivalents. The salaries are four times higher than what their counterparts would earn in the South African army.

 

THE PR GAME: Yet the more their business thrived, the more the so-called PMFs had to work on their image and -- specifically -- to disassociate themselves from the concept of the mercenary. PMFs naturally find supporters. They are of the opinion that it is important to distinguish between so-called private security firms and internationally proscribed mercenaries. But they also have their detractors who argue that there is little difference between what mercenaries and PMF operatives do. In all events, no one has yet brought charges against governments for violating humanitarian law by granting lucrative contracts to such firms. Yet some of the activities of such firms have prompted investigation by the US army itself. Investigations were triggered by a video circulating on the Internet depicting personnel belonging to a British-owned security firm opening fire on Iraqi civilians in cars. The investigative panel eventually recommended against bringing charges against the firm and its operatives.

 

In spite of such notorious black marks, PMF officials and employees insist that their companies aim to promote security and stability in weak nations. Their business, they claim, is to help equip and train these nations' armies so as to enable them safeguard their internal and national security. They adamantly refuse to be called mercenaries, preferring instead the term "contracted soldiers". Mercenary, they agree, conveys the pejorative connotation of ruthless and unbridled rampage, pillage and bloodshed. Contracted soldiers, by contrast, are respectable law-abiding citizens, operating out of proper offices and performing protection and training services clearly laid out in legal contracts.

 

As modern and professional as their offices may be and as tidily as their contracts are worded, it is obvious that much goes on behind the façade and that PMFs are willing to hire out their personnel to perform more than the contractually stipulated services. They engage in espionage, carry out assassinations, and engage in guerrilla warfare against countries near to the country that contracted them. They import and smuggle in weapons, train rebel forces, plan and execute propaganda campaigns, carry out surveillance and sabotage operations in "enemy" territory, protect the wealth and power of corrupt rulers, and otherwise help to spread poverty, destruction and chaos, for the simple reason that, uncontrolled by law as they are, they can -- and will -- so long as there is money to be made.

 

What is the Facilities Protection Service?

 

The Facilities Protection Service (FPS) was established on 4 October 2003, according to Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 27.

 

The order says that, "The FPS may also consist of employees of private security firms who are engaged to perform services for the ministries or governorates through contracts, provided such private security firms and employees are licensed and authorised by the Ministry of Interior as provided in Section 7 herein."

 

According to Global Security, "The FPS works for all ministries and governmental agencies, but its standards are set and enforced by the Ministry of Interior. It can also be privately hired. The FPS is tasked with the fixed site protection of ministerial, governmental, or private buildings, facilities and personnel. The FPS includes oil, electricity police and port security.

 

"The majority of the FPS staff consists of former service members and former security guards. The FPS will now secure public facilities such as hospitals, banks, and power stations within their district. Once trained, the guards work with US military forces protecting critical sites like schools, hospitals and power plants."

 

Which private security firms are operating in Iraq?

 

"According to a February 2006 Government Accountability Office report, there were approximately 48,000 private military contractors in Iraq, employed by 181 different companies. There may now be many more." As a former CIA agent, the author knows how mercenaries work: in the shadows. But how did a notorious former British officer, Tim Spicer, come to coordinate the second largest army in Iraq -- the tens of thousands of private security contractors (AEGIS)? The report also mentions Blackwater, Dyncorp, Hart Security, Erinys ... "Private military companies -- companies providing security in the field -- make up a $30-billion-a-year industry globally..."

 

In Iraq, there are about 50 known private security firms working. These include:

 

AEGIS PLC: (AEGIS Special Risk Management)

 

AEGIS is a British security firm, it has about 1,000 employees in Iraq, 250 of which are Iraqis. A film recently showed AEGIS members happily shooting Iraqi civilians.

 

Sourcewatch information on AEGIS: "AEGIS Defence Services was initially awarded a $300 million contract by the Pentagon in May 2004 to act as the 'coordination and management hub' for the 50-plus private security companies in Iraq. As of December 2005, that contract was worth in excess of $430 million. They also contributed 75 teams of eight armed civilians each to assist and protect the Project Management Office of the United States. They also provided protection for the Oil-for-Food Programme Enquiry."

 

According to The Washington Post (12 August 2007), the US military has paid $548 million over the past three years to two British security firms that protect the US Army Corps of Engineers on reconstruction projects, more than $200 million over the original budget, according to previously undisclosed data that shows how the cost of private security in Iraq has mushroomed. The two companies, AEGIS Defence Services and Erinys Iraq, signed their original Defence Department contracts in May 2004. By July of 2007, the contracts supported a private force that had grown to about 2,000 employees serving the Corps of Engineers. The force is about the size of three military battalions. The size of this force and its cost have never been documented. The Pentagon has said that about 20,000 security contractors operate in Iraq, although some estimates are considerably higher. AEGIS and Erinys work side-by-side in Baghdad's Green Zone.

 

Erinys Iraq Ltd:

 

According to Global Security, "Erinys Iraq Ltd is the private security company hired to protect Iraq's oil pipelines under a $40 million contract awarded in August 2003. Erinys Iraq, an affiliate of Erinys International formed in 2001, landed the Iraq contract to supply and train 6,500 armed guards charged with protecting 140 Iraqi petroleum wells, 7,000km of pipelines and refineries, as well as power plants and the water supply for the Iraqi Ministry of Petroleum. A majority of Erinys' workforce [15,000 Iraqi and 350 international staff] in Iraq are Kurdish peshmerga."

 

Sourcewatch information on Erinys: "Erinys Iraq Ltd, which won an $80 million contract from the Coalition Provisional Authority to provide security for the petroleum infrastructure in Iraq, has had some powerful alliances in Iraq."

 

Erinys set up a Joint Venture with Nour USA Ltd. Nour's founder is Abul-Huda Farouki, a wealthy Jordanian-American who lives in northern Virginia and whose companies have done extensive construction work for the Pentagon.

 

A founding partner and the director of Erinys Iraq is Faisal Dhaghistani. Faisal is the son of Tamara Dhaghistani, who played a major role in the development of Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress.

 

The firm's counsel in Baghdad has been Chalabi's nephew, Salem Chalabi.

 

"Many among the 14,000 guards recruited by Erinys to protect the petroleum infrastructure came directly from the Iraqi Free Forces, a militia that had been loyal to Chalabi's movement."

 

Blackwater USA:

 

Blackwater was the security firm hired to protect Paul Bremer in Iraq.

 

Sourcewatch information on Blackwater: "Blackwater is one of two companies which make up the Prince Group, the other being Prince Manufacturing... The Prince Group bought Aviation Worldwide Services [which] consists of STI Aviation, Inc, Air Quest, Inc, and Presidential Airways, Inc. These companies provide the logistical and air support for Blackwater operations. Blackwater itself consists of Blackwater Training Center, Blackwater Target Systems, Blackwater Security Consulting and Blackwater Canine."

 

Blackwater vs Falluja: The 1st Marine Expeditionary Force took over Falluja on 27 March 2004. During a demonstration on the following day, the US killed 18 Falluja civilians. The Iraqi response to this was the murder and hanging of four Blackwater employees on 31 March 2004. War crimes committed by the United States followed.

 

Najaf was also affected. Sourcewatch says: "According to Russel Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, a few days after the Falluja killings, "Blackwater Security Consulting engaged in full-scale battle in Najaf, with the company flying its own helicopters amidst an intense firefight to re-supply its own commandos... The increased scrutiny of security firms led Blackwater to hire the Alexander Strategy Group [now involved in three K Street scandals] for crisis management, public and media relations."

 

Armorgroup:

 

ArmorGroup operates in 40 countries worldwide and is a leading international risk management, security services, mine action, and information service provider.

 

ArmorGroup has bid for what is believed to be the largest US security contract in Iraq, worth about $475 million. ArmorGroup is already one of the largest security firms in Iraq, with more than 1,200 employees. It says it is the largest convoy escort contractor in Iraq -- accounting for about 30 per cent of convoys -- including about 1,200 missions last year. The potential bidders also include AEGIS Defence Services.

 

The list includes:

 

- Bearing point

 

- CACI

 

- Control risks group

 

- Crescent security group

 

- CTU security consulting inc

 

- DYNCORP International

 

- EODT

 

- Gardaworld

 

- GSI

 

- Halliburton/ KBR

 

- Northrop Grumman

 

- Parsons

 

- TITAN

 

- TOKAI

 

- Triple Canopy

 

- General

 

- AD Consultancy

 

- AKE Limited

 

- Baghdad Fire & Security

 

- CSS Global

 

- Custer Battles

 

- Dehdari General Trading & Contracting Est

 

- Diligence Middle East

 

- Genric

 

- Global Risk Strategies

 

- Group 4 Falck A/S

 

- Henderson Risk Limited

 

- Hill and Associates, Ltd

 

- ICP Group

 

- ISI

 

- Meteoric Tactical Solutions

 

- Meyer & Associates

 

- NSR (Nauthiz Strategic Resources)

 

- Olive Security (UK) Limited

 

- Optimal Solution Services

 

- Overseas Security & Strategic Information, Inc/Safenet -- Iraq

 

- RamOPS Risk Management Group

 

- SOC-SMG, Inc.

 

- Sumer International Security

 

- The Steele Foundation

 

- TOR International

 

- Triple Canopy Inc.

 

- Wade-Boyd & Associates LLC

 

- Unity Resources Group (Middle East) LLC

 

(source: www.globalsecurity.org,www.globalsecurity.org,www.brusselstribunal.org and www.sourcewatch.org)"]www.sourcewatch.org)www.sourcewatch.org)[/url]

 

Private security companies lack oversight and regulation -- UN working group

 

A growing number of private security and military companies are operating domestically and internationally without effective oversight or accountability, the United Nations working group on the use of mercenaries warned on 10 March 2008.

 

Presenting its report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, the working group said that private security companies in such conflict-wracked countries as Iraq, Colombia and Afghanistan are recruiting former policemen and members of the military from developing countries as "security guards" in their operations.

 

Once there, those guards in fact become "militarily armed private soldiers", which is essentially a new way to describe mercenaries, who are often responsible for serious human rights abuses, the working group stated.

 

War-torn states also frequently lack the capacity to control and regulate the private companies, the report noted, with national legislation granting immunity to the companies -- which are sometimes transnational -- in some cases. When this happens, the private guards are only accountable to their employers, and the working group said immunity can soon turn into impunity.

 

The working group, established in 2005 and composed of five independent experts serving in personal capacities, called for the wider ratification of the International Convention against the recruitment, use, financing and training of mercenaries.

 

It noted that as holders of the monopoly of the legitimate use of forces, states are and should be the main actors responsible for protecting and promoting human rights.

 

The working group's members are José Luis Gómez del Prado of Spain (chairperson-rapporteur), Libya's Najat Al-Hajjaji, Amada Benavides de Pérez of Colombia, Russia's Alexander Nikitin and Shaista Shameem of Fiji. (source: www.globalsecurity.org)"]www.globalsecurity.org)www.globalsecurity.org)[/url]

[Nur]

An Open Letter From Honorable Muse Sudi Yalaxow, Minister of Finance and Trade, Somali TFG (Transplant Foreigner Government )

 

 

To His Emperial Majesty, King George Dubya Bush II

 

 

Your Highness,

 

As one of your international allies in Somalia, I am disturbed to hear the bad news of the impending Financial meltdown of your nation. I understand that you want the foreign Sovereign funds to rescue your financial markets, unfortunatley, our Financial market, the Mogadishu Bakaara market, is being bombarded by our Ethiopian Allies and Friends, and the Ugandan UN Merceneries, so the best I can offer you is soft skills of how to raise funds our warlord way, let me share with you my own experience of financial planning and management in Somalia.

 

1. Remove monopoly of the US Mint money printing service, free market dictates that the American people should print their own money at home, just how your "Advisers" trained us here in Somalia, which is amazingly still working with success.

 

2. Legalize the drug business, just like how your "advisors" helped me finance my kidnapping operations of your wanted religious men in Somalia, as your allies of the free and civilized world. I think revenues from drug business alone can raise the 700 Billion you are seeking from Congress. The good thing about drug trade is it raises daily cash while its keeps the rest of your poeple hallucinated so they can not even understand your policies, let alone criticise it.

 

3. Divide the Americans into Catholics and Protestants, Blacks, whites and latinoes, just like how you've created our war here in Somalia between clans, thru your "Development advisory Sevices", and how you've brilliantly "developed" good relations in Iraq between Shia and Sunni, which is now your copy-paste of the same in Pakistan. To start a sustainable civil war, let your contractors hit one American Protestant church with a tomahowk missile, blame it on Catholics, then Hit a Catholic church with another cruise missile, blame it on Protestants, then get out of their way and watch the fire works from your balcony at the white house.

 

When the killing, rape and looting by blacks and latinoes begins, let your homeland security set up road blocks in every neighborhood to collect passage fees. From my financial experience, each control point aka ISBAARA, should generate one million per day, with potential 10,000 check points in your big USA country, ( Your people are now ready for security checks) , I think you can generate at least 10 Billion per day, which can offset your entire deficit, in addition you can make additional sale of weapons to civilians, since Americans have a right to carry arms. This American civil war should be fully privatized and managed by Blackwater, you should get rid of the wall street boys and hire gun totting illitrate kids from run down neigborhoods on pick up trucks.

 

 

Honorable Muse Sudi Yalaxow

Minister Of Trade and Finance

Somali Transplanted Foreigner Government ( TFG)

Baidoa, Ethiopian Army Baracks.

 

 

2008 eNuri Political Satire

Sharrul Baliyati Maa Yudxik!

[Sir-Qalbi-Adeyg]

Originally posted by Nur:

 

3. Divide the Americans into Catholics and Protestants, Blacks, whites and latinoes, just like how you've created our war here in Somalia between clans, thru your "Development advisory Sevices", and how you've brilliantly "developed" good relations in Iraq between Shia and Sunni, which is now your copy-paste of the same in Pakistan. To start a sustainable civil war, let your contractors hit one American Protestant church with a tomahowk missile, blame it on Catholics, then Hit a Catholic church with another cruise missile, blame it on Protestants, then get out of their way and watch the fire works from your balcony at the white house.

 

When the killing, rape and looting by blacks and latinoes begins, let your homeland security set up road blocks in every neighborhood to collect passage fees. From my financial experience, each control point aka ISBAARA, should generate one million per day, with potential 10,000 check points in your big USA country, ( Your people are now ready for security checks) , I think you can generate at least 10 Billion per day, which can offset your entire deficit, in addition you can make additional sale of weapons to civilians, since Americans have a right to carry arms. This American civil war should be fully privatized and managed by Blackwater, you should get rid of the wall street boys and hire gun totting illitrate kids from run down neigborhoods on pick up trucks.

 

 

Honorable Muse Sudi Yalaxow

Minister Of Trade and Finance

Somali Transpanted Foreign Government ( TFG)

Baidoa, Ethiopian Army Baracks.

 

 

2008 eNuri Satiricals

Sharrul Baliyati Maa Yudxik!

Lol. In this nonsense satire of yours, do the blacks/latino's represent ****** and the whites, catholic ******s?

[Nur]

Author writes:

 

"Instead, it once again went to war pumped up on our own propaganda -- especially the conjoined beliefs that the United States was the "indispensable nation," the "lone superpower," and the "victor" in the Cold War; and that it was a new Rome the likes of which the world had never seen"

 

 

Allah says in Quraan: ........ Allatii lam yukhlaq mithlahaa fil bilaad!" meaning ( the likes of which the world had never seen")

 

 

Nur

[Nur]

Nomads

 

As predicted by my above write up about Somali Banana Terrorism, a Satirical forecast in which I expected that the US will come back to Somalia to settle the 1993 Military intervention in the name of helping poor hungry people, new events are changing the course of that prediction:

 

 

1. I expected that the US will demonize the warlords who have committed heinous crimes against humanity as a pretext to come back for the Oil.

 

2. Instead, the US is in bed with the criminal warlords ( Birds of feather flock together i guess). Their common enemy, Islamis who want peace for their people and the world.

 

 

So, the new strategy of the US to come to somalia is to work closely with the warlords and the Pirates to create a pretext for re-occupation of Somalia.

 

Background of Rational :

 

The Ethiopians invaded Somalia with orders from their sponsors, subsequently, the ICU melted away unscathed without losing their strength to a well armed and financed Ethiopian army, The Shabaab Movement, a component of the ICU resistance movement regrouped to continue the struggle against the CIA sponsored Ethiopian Mercenaries, The Ethiopians couldnt take the heat by the resistance, to retaliate, they mericlessly bombarded civilians areas of Mogadishu causing thousands of fatalities and injuries, rape and destruction of the infrastructure that was built by the people in the absence of a government for the past 17 years. Their goal being, to install their Warlord Government as a slave of a slave of slave.

 

The Ethiopians in dire need of face saving exit out of somalia mess, asked their sponsors in Washington for help, but the best help they could get from a cash strapped Super Power was a US law to deligitimize the Shabaab resistance movement that gave the Ethiopians a run for their money ( Mercenery money ). The US subsequently listed the Shabaab Resistance Movement as a terrorsit organization ( affilated with non existent CIA created Al Qaeda ) Thus, Al Shabaab kids are suddenly declared to be a threat to American National Interest in Africa. ( Being in US Terror list is not a big deal, Nelson Mandela and his ANC Party Members were in the list as late as this year 2008 ).

 

After two years, the Ethiopians who initially won the battle of Mogadishu, lost the war to occupy all of Somalia on behalf of American Interest (The Land Of The Free who wants to enslave the rest of the world ).

 

America is fast losing its credibility worldwide in the UN and with its Eurppean allies, too many lies to swallow, so being broke after the financial meltdown of Wall Street, it can't rescue Its ailing auto industry let alone rescue Ethiopia which it taught its dummy lessons from the Iraq occupation, which in turn are also failing, we have a case of a bad teacher and a good loyal student here.

 

So now what? asks Meles

 

Well, we need the UN to allow American troops in to Somalia, answers his boss.

 

How? asks President Meles of Ethiopia

 

Well, we need to create an international problem emanating from Somalia, then we will ask the UN to allow our Marines to capture these culprits since no one believes the "terrorism" theory anymore.

 

You mean the drug trade which we created together? asks President Meles

 

Dont be silly Meles, the drug trade will continue in Somalia, we are broke, that is the only way we can finance our regional petty expenses from the Qat weed and other drug and weapon sales cashflows, and also from the " Oil Exploration Funds " of American Oil Companies who are willing to pay for our services, that way we get two revenue streams; one from drugs, and the other from Amercian oil companies with an investment stake in Somalia.

 

I still don't get it? wonders President Meles

 

We will have the warlords create an international outcry and anger to justify an American invasion of Somalia. We will create a new menace called Somali Pirates , we will give them all the technical and navigational support they need, including, but not limited to a complete cover to capture any ship along the 3200 Kilometer Somali coasts, we can even guide them to capture oil tankers as far as 4500 kilometer near Madacascar. This Piracy Business cover shall continue for six months to capture close to 150 ships of different flags which will force a UN Security council resolution allowing American troops into Somalia so we can set up a new Somali Government headed by Moderate Islamist to divide them like Iraq. Then we will have them sign the Oil law, once the Oil Law is signed, we will have the American Marines guard the Oil fields and other vital navigational strategic areas for US Navy.

 

Our immediate strategy is to allow the Somali Pirates hit the Russians and the Chinese interests too ( Security Council Memebers ) to bring them along, that way, we can use a unanimous UN Resolution to give us the legal cover, international funding to give us funding from Piracy affected nations, and American Marines to go into Somalia and capture the notorious Shabaab leaders to destroy their resistance so that we can install a new Moderate Islamist led government back, of course with your supervision.

 

 

OK, what is in for me? asks Meles

 

 

A lifetime protection against Crime Against humanity you committed in Somalia, a retirement in any country of your choice since there will be a rebellion in Ethiopia soon demaning Democracy and of course, a good commission from the drug money from the Warlords.

 

 

Inspired by:

 

Honorable Cag Bakeyle

 

Retired Somali warlord

Present Peace Maker

Born Again Wadaad!

[S.O.S]

Another Bush, another times.

[Nur]

SOS bro.

 

Very interesting document, it shows the history and depth of the Bush family's involvement in the illegal Somalia coastal oil fields explorations.

 

May be that is why Siad Barre was removed from power.

 

Nur