It seems that there is no end to the killing of innocents for the sake of
Global Empire.
December 13, 2008
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Atrocity Unlimited: US Seeks to Turn Somalia into Global Free-Fire Zone
By Chris Floyd
December 11, 2008 "Uruknet" - -- Not content with
destroying the only vestige of stability that
Somalia had known for almost two decades by
arming, backing and participating in a brutal
"regime change" invasion by Ethiopia, the Bush
Administration now wants to turn the ravaged land
into an international "free fire zone," a giant
Fallujah where any powerful nation on earth can
launch armed incursions on Somali soil, wreaking
the usual "collateral damage" in the search for
pirates -- or for those arbitrarily designated as pirates.
The Bush Regime is drafting a UN Security Council
resolution that will give "the international
community" carte blanche to "hunt down" alleged
pirates on land in Somalia, the Guardian reports:
A draft resolution that would permit states
fighting piracy to "take all necessary measures
ashore in Somalia, including in its airspace" has
been circulated to members of the UN Security
Council. Prior consent for raids would be
required from Somalia's weak and fractured government...
As we noted here recently, the "Somali
government" is a rapidly collapsing coalition of
CIA-paid warlords and Ethiopian collaborators
which "controls" only a few city blocks of
territory in the entire country. It is
unfathomable that this near-fictitious entity
would or could oppose a "request" by a world
power to send armed forces into Somalia in a
noble quest to clamp down on pirates. And what
happens when these invading forces inevitably
clash with the various other armed groups now
waging a multi-sided, hydra-headed war in the
country? Why, the invaders will have to take
stern "force protection" measures, of course.
The story goes on to note that the locations of
the "pirate lairs are well-known":
Along Somalia's north-eastern coast, villages and
towns such as Eyl, Haradheere and Hobyo provide
sanctuary and logistical support for pirate gangs holding at least 14 ships.
And it is certainly not surprising that the
Western backers of the Somali "government" know
just where the pirates are: they provided mighty
assistance in their rise, as we noted here a few weeks ago:
For one thing, [the Times] notes something that
is almost never mentioned in any story about
Somalia, neither in the very rare stories about
the conflict itself or the rather more numerous
stories about piracy and its effects on
commercial shipping (an issue far more important
that the lives of 10,000 innocent human beings,
of course): the fact that the main backers and
bankrollers of the pirate gangs "are linked to the Western-backed
government."
The conservative UK paper then goes on to give an
accurate account of how these pirate-backing
factions came to power -- facts that are almost
universally ignored by the "liberal" American
media . (Not to mention the "progressive
blogosphere;" indeed, you can actually find more
references to the Somalia war in the corporate
press than among our internet "dissidents.") :
Years of violence, neglect and misguided policies
have left Somalia one of the most dangerous
countries and a breeding ground for the pirates
attacking one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
Today the northeast area of the country,
including Puntland, has been carved up by
warlords who finance themselves by drug and gun
running. This is also the heartland of the
pirates, whose main backers are linked to the
Western-backed government. Radical Islamists
control much of the south, including the key port
of Kismayo and the porous border area with Kenya, a staunch Western ally.
This has realised a Western nightmare, which was
supposed to have been destroyed by Ethiopia’s
American-backed invasion of Somalia two years ago
in support of a puppet government created by the
international community. That alliance spanned
the spectrum from extreme radicals to moderate,
devout Muslims. The latter were in charge.
Everyone – except Pentagon planners, it seems –
knew that Somalia had never proved fertile
territory for Saudi-style radical Islam. However,
indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas by
Ethiopia, Somalia’s historic enemy, with huge
casualties, put an end to that. The Islamists
were driven out, the moderates went into exile
and the hardliners took control of the south with
a popular powerbase beyond their wildest dreams.
A puppet government, installed by foreign
invasion, riddled with crime and corruption,
alienating and radicalizing the population: here
we see the quintessential template of the "War on
Terror," replicated faithfully in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Somalia -- and soon, perhaps, in Pakistan.
And now the Bush Regime -- going out in a
Götterdämmerung of blood and fury aimed at the
world (and at the American people) -- wants to
intensify the chaos in Somalia, laying it bare to
more invasions, "precision strikes," death squad
operations, renditions and other atrocities, this
time coming from not just from Washington and its
Terror War proxies but from all directions. This
is the answer of the American militarist state to
any problem, such as piracy or terrorism: the
blunderbuss assault of massive military force by
land, sea and air; vast destruction, social
collapse -- and immeasurable, unbounded human suffering.
This is the reality of much-praised "continuity"
in "national security affairs" that Barack
Obama's appointments have promised. This is what will be "continued."
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