Bombing of Somalia
Matt | 12.01.2007 16:53 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | South Coast
The USA has been bombing Somalia for days following an invasion by their Ethiopian allies. Hundreds of innocents have been killed.
The Islamic Courts that ruled most of the country have been defeated and Somalia has already been brought back to the chaos that the country had suffered for 16 years until the Islamic Courts brought peace to the capital.
The Islamic Courts that ruled most of the country have been defeated and Somalia has already been brought back to the chaos that the country had suffered for 16 years until the Islamic Courts brought peace to the capital.
On Christmas eve, whilst the western world was distracted by festivities, the USA persuaded (and paid) Ethiopia to invade in an effort to score a victory in their bogus 'War on Terror'.
Saying that they wanted to spare civilian lives, the Islamic Courts fled Mogadishu without a fight. Since then they have been pursued by the Ethiopian army and air force, and the USA began bombing using massive AC-130 planes and helicopter gunships. Entire villages have been destroyed and the civilian death toll is now in the hundreds, if not the thousands.
WE NEED TO ACT! Just as the War on Terror is global, our resistance to the war must also be global. Somalis are being killed to feed the US bloodlust just as the Iraqis, Afghans, Lebanese and Palestinians have. Yet there seems to have been no outrage even amongst the anti-war/activist community. Please, if anyone is doing anything to support the Somalis and resist the US war machine in africa, please let us know. Africa is too important to be left to the Live8 idiots.
There is a vigil planned for Saturday the 20th of January in Churchill Square, Brighton.
If anyone would like to know more, to help or to let us know of what they are doing (especially in the Somali community) please let us know.
Please contact Matt at
theveganarmy@yahoo.co.uk
Saying that they wanted to spare civilian lives, the Islamic Courts fled Mogadishu without a fight. Since then they have been pursued by the Ethiopian army and air force, and the USA began bombing using massive AC-130 planes and helicopter gunships. Entire villages have been destroyed and the civilian death toll is now in the hundreds, if not the thousands.
WE NEED TO ACT! Just as the War on Terror is global, our resistance to the war must also be global. Somalis are being killed to feed the US bloodlust just as the Iraqis, Afghans, Lebanese and Palestinians have. Yet there seems to have been no outrage even amongst the anti-war/activist community. Please, if anyone is doing anything to support the Somalis and resist the US war machine in africa, please let us know. Africa is too important to be left to the Live8 idiots.
There is a vigil planned for Saturday the 20th of January in Churchill Square, Brighton.
If anyone would like to know more, to help or to let us know of what they are doing (especially in the Somali community) please let us know.
Please contact Matt at
theveganarmy@yahoo.co.uk
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12.01.2007 18:11
Reopens that cautious debate, includes the people "criminalised" by the situation, ( allawi + irish peace process + hindsight ) - but is harder to "play" by the old operators - even the old uk/usa operators (dodgy ex-spies or "gladio-homeguard-neighbourhoodwatch" types ) that it seems might have acted in ways to stir up others as unwitting provocateurs - or worse.
Its crucial, too, that africa isnt tipped into internal wars due to the "need" to whip up the tv spectres of the "clash of cultures" after the 2006 election-theft in the states was bungled - to the extent that it has unravelled - again - in ohio !
PS WHEN ARE PEOPLE IN THE WEST THAT - IN DOMESTIC SCENARIOS - SEE THEMSELVES AS DEFENDERS OF " LORE'N'ORDER" GOING TO SEE THAT THE "ISLAMIC COURTS" BUNCH ARE THE SAME - TRYING TO SORT OUT THE SCAMS, WARLORDS, BULLIES ETC . . . . LUMPING THEM INTO A SORT OF "AXIS OF BOGEYMEN" IS ABSURD - BUT BOMBING , TOO, SEEMS ALMOST trying to CREATE ENEMIES.
THE ENTIRE "WAR OF ERRORISM" IS FAILING, AS A FAKE RATIONALE - IF PEOPLE LET THOSE RESPONSIBLE KEEP TRYING TO "FLOG THAT DEAD HORSE" - ODD "OUTRAGES" MIGHT ESCALATE AS THE LAST LIES ARE EXPOSED.
Eisenhower was accurate.
good thinking
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13.01.2007 12:00
WARNING this video will disturb the easily offended, this is a video of the Army distributing "justice" to a starving child who has been caught stealing rotting food from the army bins.
However it must bee seen, it's the truth as disturbing as it is
informative bloke