Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Obama’s Not-So-Secret Terror War In Somalia


Obama’s Not-So-Secret Terror War -- Eli Lake, Daily Beast

The U.S. is breaking a 20-year arms embargo on Somalia by training the country’s intelligence agency and deploying special forces without notifying the United Nations, according to a new report.

The United States is breaking a 20-year arms embargo on Somalia by providing unauthorized intelligence training to regional governments and special-forces missions, according to a forthcoming United Nations report that discloses new details of the U.S. war against al Qaeda in the war-torn African nation.

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My Comment: The problem of Somalia has always been the same .... a failed state that is ruled by very violent extremist groups who have made Somalia a staging ground to launch terror attacks into other countries and/or disrupt shipping in the region. Throw in a massive refugee crisis, and you put the entire Horn of Africa into a tailspin of human suffering and misery.

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