Keith on Somalia Conflict II

[101Scout]

Since I don't have access to Keith on TV, please keep me and others in DW abreast of Keith's coverage and highlights on this breaking new US war front with Somalia in this thread.

[drummerboy]

:woohoo: OK Keith Olbermann, This is about RPGs' and Raytheon, I've been saying this for a while now and was actually starting to doubt myself. Keith had it on his show today. It's from Israel and the system name is Trophy. It's available now, and has been for a while, but our Army remains blindly committed to a system that with the most optomistic estimate won't be available before 2011. How many live could be saved, and injuries prevented? As I will continue to say, follow the money. Stay Active, Buddy:GrimReaper:

[Zemo]

Damn I've been sleeping so odd missed Keith the past 2 nights.

Somalia???...I've been either half asleep or too self involved.

I've been buying the daily newspaper and absolutely nothing about Somalia on the front cover.
Of course never anything about Iraq.
All I've been seeing is stories about the weather on the front page.
A story about Bush adding troops to Iraq is on page 6.
I usually only bother with a newspaper on Sunday and this past Sunday slept thru the AM news shows.

God we are surrounded by sheep on a runaway train heading for a corporate hell.

[BlueBerry Pick'n]

hum: this has been screaming on the edges of North American 'foreign politics' for a while now ([Only registered and activated users can see links])...

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they just make it look so "tut-tut, so sad for them" that those jumped up Busheviks never quite manage...

Anybody remember the last time there was a mess in Africa & we threw our dogs in the ring ([Only registered and activated users can see links])?

[Only registered and activated users can see links] Dallaire's searing memory of his time in that other land is now a book. Shake Hands With the Devil – The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda ([Only registered and activated users can see links](book)).

He describes the machete-wielding government-sponsored forces who went on a killing spree in 1994 and murdered 800,000 people in 100 days. It's a damning indictment of world leaders and UN bureaucrats who failed to stop the genocide. Even to write the story was painful.

"I actually think it's having relived that year in Rwanda and the four months of the genocide through writing the book. I mean, I actually had to relive it. You can't write it unless you relive it," Dallaire says ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).


Ethiopian fighter jets bomb Mogadishu airport
Strike marks first direct attack on Somali Islamic movement headquarters
Updated: 4:58 a.m. CT Dec 25, 2006

MOGADISHU, Somalia ([Only registered and activated users can see links]) - Ethiopian fighter jets bombed Mogadishu International Airport in the middle of Somalia’s capital on Monday, witnesses said, in the first direct attack on the headquarters of an Islamic movement attempting to wrest power from the internationally recognized government.

An Associated Press reporter who arrived shortly after the strike saw one wounded woman taken away. There were reports of two people killed. The runway and one building used by the Islamic forces were damaged. Islamic officials were not immediately available for comment.

Ethiopia’s prime minister announced Sunday night that his country was “forced to enter a war” with Somalia’s Council of Islamic Courts after the group declared holy war on Ethiopia ([Only registered and activated users can see links]).

Wait a minute... time out. Who here has read or is planning to watch The Last King of Scotland ([Only registered and activated users can see links])


World must understand Ethiopia's action, says British minister ([Only registered and activated users can see links])

By PAUL REDFERN, Special Correspondent


A senior British Foreign Office minister said that the international community needs to understand why Ethiopia took the decision to intervene in Somalia.

In an interview with the BBC, Lord Triesman said that Ethiopian Prime minister Meles Zenawi had “faced a genuine conundrum” in Somalia. With evidence that historic enemies were “massing” on Ethiopia’s borders, Lord Triesman suggested that the Ethiopians had little option but to react.

“He (Zenawi) has a history of dealing with widespread killing in his own country coming from Somalia,” the UK minister said.

While falling short of actually backing the Ethiopian invasion, Lord Triesman’s support for Ethiopia is in line with news reports of strong diplomatic underpinning for Addis Ababa coming from the most senior levels in both London and Washington. Moreover, Lord Triesman went on record in the interview as saying that there was “some evidence that there is Islamic terrorism being bred in the country,” under the Islamic courts but he went on to say that “that by no means is the attitude of the whole of the Islamic courts.”

The prevailing view among Horn of Africa experts in the UK is that Ethiopia would not have acted as it did in December in Somalia if it had not received green light to do so from both the UK and the US.

Britain’s minister for Africa also said the priority was now a ceasefire followed by a peace agreement “that holds. I think we need to get greater confidence among (Somalia and Ethiopia’s) neighbours that they are not themselves going to be dragged into wholesale war.”

Lord Triesman added that, “The only way we’ll get stability in Somalia is if we’ve got a genuine representative government that bridges the different clans and the different kinds of political view. “The transitional government, weak as it has been up until now, is the body that has done that.”

Meanwhile, in the UK, three men accused of playing leading roles in the Rwandan genocide of 1994 were arrested on December 29. Vincent Bajinya, Charles Munyaneza and Celestine Ugirashebuja had all been sought by the Rwandan government after seeking political exile in Britain. All three were remanded in custody at the City of London magistrates court to reappear on January 26. The arrest follows a special legal agreement between the two countries signed recently.

[101Scout]

Damn I've been sleeping so odd missed Keith the past 2 nights.

Somalia???...I've been either half asleep or too self involved.

I've been buying the daily newspaper and absolutely nothing about Somalia on the front cover.
Of course never anything about Iraq.
All I've been seeing is stories about the weather on the front page.
A story about Bush adding troops to Iraq is on page 6.
I usually only bother with a newspaper on Sunday and this past Sunday slept thru the AM news shows.

God we are surrounded by sheep on a runaway train heading for a corporate hell.

You're absolutely correct brother Zemo.... seems as if 'mums' is the word with most of the news media concerning Somalia........ well except a few propagandized mins of reporting about our BushForce there killing them 9/11 'terrorists' in Somalia. That puppy in Somalia is now framed to go per the new GOP's playbook..... for sucking more taxpayers funds into the BushForce war machine!

I hope Keith catches on with what's going on here and tells it like it is as he usually does! Please let me know when he cracks this new 'nut' case wide open on the air! It's another diversional BushCo overt operation for profits!!!