The OIL Factor in Somalia

[LynnTheDem]

PDF;
http://www.rangeresources.com.au/docs/News%20Article%2018%20January%201993.pdf

Somalia welcomes oil interest
http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nta53713.htm


Funny thang how them al Qaieda terraists keep suddenly showing up in our oilfield.

:sarcasm:

[ShortnFiery]

1. Yes, Molly Hatchet's artwork would leave more pieces of

the *suspected* terrorists' bodies than the handiwork of Our Helicopter Gunships.

As a Nation, we are are figuratively knee-deep in hate and blood lust. :puke:

[stillcool]

2. isn't it such a coincidence?

Maybe the next time the inherited nobility want something, they could ask...? Oh..wait..than they couldn't use all those bombs. Too bad.
US Accused of Covert Operations in Somalia
By Antony Barnett and Patrick Smith
Observer
September 10, 2006

Emails suggest that the CIA knew of plans by private military companies to breach UN rules.

Dramatic evidence that America is involved in illegal mercenary operations in east Africa has emerged in a string of confidential emails seen by The Observer. The leaked communications between US private military companies suggest the CIA had knowledge of the plans to run covert military operations inside Somalia - against UN rulings - and they hint at involvement of British security firms.

The emails, dated June this year, reveal how US firms have been planning undercover missions in support of President Abdullahi Yusuf's transitional federal government - founded with UN backing in 2004 - against the Supreme Islamic Courts Council - a radical Muslim militia which took control of Mogadishu, the country's capital, also in June promising national unity under Sharia law.
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/intervention/2007/01...
Somalia: New Hotbed of Anti-Americanism
By Nicola Nasser*
Global Research
January 3, 2007

The U.S. foreign policy blundering has created a new violent hotbed of anti-Americanism in the turbulent Horn of Africa by orchestrating the Ethiopian invasion of another Muslim capital of the Arab League, in a clear American message that no Arab or Muslim metropolitan has impunity unless it falls into step with the U.S. vital regional interests.

The U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Dec. 28 is closely interlinked in motivation, methods, goals and results to the U.S. bogged down regional blunders in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Sudan as well as in Iran and Afghanistan, but mainly in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

Mogadishu is the third Arab metropolitan after Jerusalem and Baghdad to fall to the U.S. imperial drive, either directly or indirectly through Israeli, Ethiopian or other proxies, and the fourth if the temporary Israeli occupation of Beirut in 1982 is remembered; the U.S. endeavor to redraw the map of the Middle East is reminiscent of the British-French Sykes-Pico colonial dismembering of the region and is similarly certain to give rise to grassroots Pan-Arab rejection and awaking with the Pan-Islamic unifying force as a major component.

[nealmhughes]

3. Amy Goodman had this on Democracy Now this morning.