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For several years the U.S. military has fought a covert war in Somalia, using gunships, drones and Special Forces to break up suspected terror networks — and enlisting Ethiopia’s aid in propping up a pro-U.S. “transitional” government. It’s a relatively unknown front in the “war on terror,” and one where the U.S. and its allies [...]

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by Mike Whitney
“The Ethiopian invasion, which was sanctioned by the US government, has destroyed virtually all the life-sustaining economic systems which the population has built for the last fifteen years.” Abdi Samatar, professor of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Democracy Now
Up until a month ago, no one in the Bush administration showed the [...]

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By Gregory Viscusi
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — International patrols at sea have done little to stop pirates from menacing ships off the coast of Somalia. Even less is being done to thwart them on land — and for that the brigands may want to thank an unintended consequence of the U.S.’s war on terror.

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from Huff Po by Eric Margolis
November 24, 2008
They are ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ and cute little Johnny Depps they are not. Somalia’s pirates tote AK-47’s and RPG rockets, chew the narcotic shrub qat, use satellite cell phones for their negotiations, and are just about the only people in strife-ravaged Somalia these days who have a [...]

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Global Research, November 23, 2008
Afrol News - 2008-11-21
The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement has blamed Washington’s alleged policy of “balkanising Somalia” for being the root cause behind piracy off the Somali coast, adding that breakaway Somaliland and Puntland must return to Somalia to create a forceful unit.

1. British National Party membership and contacts list, 2007-2008…
British National Party (BNP) membership and contacts list. The BNP is a “far right” party, whose members are banned by the UK civil service from a number of government occupations. 12,801 individuals are represented. Contains contact details of all or nearly all party members and some other [...]

1. Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker…
Pirates have seized a giant Saudi-owned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean off the Kenyan coast and are steering it towards Somalia, the US Navy reports.

2. CNN: Scooter Libby may have requested Bush pardon…
As President Bush gets closer to leaving the White House, expectations are mounting that he will follow [...]

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Danger Room - David Axe

Fifteen years ago, a botched Special Forces raid targeting warlords in Mogadishu resulted in the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen and hundreds of others. The battle, recounted in the book and film Black Hawk Down, cut short an ambitious peacekeeping plan for war-torn Somalia.

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What could possibly go wrong? AP:
Blackwater Worldwide and other private security firms — some with a reputation for being quick on the trigger in Iraq — are joining the battle against pirates plaguing one of the world’s most important shipping lanes off the coast of Somalia.
The growing interest among merchant fleets to hire their [...]

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We are fighting them over “there,” but where that “there” is, no one really knows. Al Qaeda’s power is in Pakistan and Afghanistan, funded by the Saudi regime. But we are not “there” (in Pakistan) and we are not there (in Saudi Arabia), and we have long since let Afgahnistan slide into chaos, so we [...]