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At least 30 people have been killed and a dozen injured in an attack by US assassination drones in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/231562.html



US drones kill 35, wounds dozens in southern Somalia

The casualties come after an unmanned aircraft fired several missiles at al-Shabab training bases located between the country s capital city of Mogadishu and its neighboring city Afgoye on Thursday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/236148.html


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Wie schon im Fall der Tötung von bin Laden setzt US-Präsident Obama verstärkt auf riskante verdeckte Militäreinsätze.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36297/1.html



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By Abayomi Azikiwe

United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in Somalia. Despite Washington s denials, the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29811.htm



U.S. intensifies its proxy fight against al-Shabab in Somalia

The Obama administration is intensifying its campaign against an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia by boosting the number of proxy forces in the war-torn country, expanding drone operations and strengthening military partnerships throughout the region.

http://wapo.st/runIzG



US kills 18 people in Somalia

According to a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) officer, the incident occurred in an al-Shabab training camp in the town of Badade.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212652.html



US kills 4 people in Somalia missile strike?

A missile strike killed four foreign ''Islamist militants'' south of Somalia's capital on Friday, an intelligence official said, a day after the country's prime minister called for foreign air strikes against the al Shabaab rebel group. The United States never comments officially on drone strikes in Somalia.

http://reut.rs/zfl1nr


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On Friday, three high-ranking members and 14 fighters of the al-Shabab militant group were killed when the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack on Dhoobley town. On Thursday, nine civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in US airstrikes on the outskirts of Kismayo.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199713.html



A Secret License to Kill

By David Cole

Imagine that Russia started killing individuals living in the United States with remote-controlled drone missiles, and argued that it was justified in doing so because it had determined, in secret, that they posed a threat to Russia s security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29168.htm



Terror: Somalia, Libya may be sign of US military action to come, expert says

Dubbed 'offshore balancing,' the strategy has been used for years in Somalia in the wake of the US withdrawal from the African country after the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu when 19 US and UN troops died during a disastrous humanitarian mission.

http://bit.ly/qXILjt



US kills dozens in Somalia

United States drones have reportedly struck three districts in southern Somalia, killing dozens of civilians and wounding scores of others.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201160.html



US attacks kill several people in Somalia

Somali officials have confirmed U.S. aerial attacks on Thursday morning in an area between Kismayu and Dhoobley cities, according to Press TV.

http://presstv.com/usdetail/201795.html



US kills six people in Somalia

The US drone attack left six civilians dead and many more injured in the Dhoobley town located near Kismayo, the capital of the lower Juba region and a port city located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202894.html



US kills 16 people in Somalia

The drone attack took place near the city of Afmadow, located in the middle of Somalia s Juba region.

http://presstv.com/detail/203413.html



US Kills 78 People in Somalia

By Press TV

In a different incident on Friday, another US drone attack killed 11 civilians and wounded 34 more in Hoosingow district in the south of the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29403.htm



US kills 15 Somali civilians

A US drone strike has killed at least 15 civilians and injured dozens of others in the southern region of war-torn Somalia,. This recent strike follows a similar strike in the same region on Friday, which killed at least 70 people.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204715.html



US Kills 27 People in Somalia

Dozens of civilians were also injured after an American strike on the port town of Kismayo, about 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, witnesses told Press TV.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205053.html



US drone crashes in Somalia, kills five

A US unmanned aerial vehicle has crashed near a military facility in southern Somalia, killing at least five government soldiers, Press TV reports.

http://presstv.com/detail/205178.html



US kills 18 civilians in Somalia

The US drone attack struck Musa Haji district in Lower Juba region on Wednesday morning, and left 18 civilians dead and 37 more injured, a Press TV correspondent reported.

http://presstv.com/detail/205465.html



US kills 9 people in Somalia

The US drone carried out attacks Sunday morning near the Bilis Qooqani districts in southern Somalia, leaving nine people dead and 14 others wounded.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/206136.html



US kills 29 people in Somalia

The Tuesday attack took place on Afmadow town in southern Somalia, a Press TV correspondent reported. Somalia is the sixth country where the US military has conducted such drone strikes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/206540.html



US kills 20 people in Somalia

A US drone attack has killed 20 civilians and injured 60 others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207928.html



US Kills Dozens Of People In Somalia

The first strike happened in the southern town of Badheere on Saturday, killing nearly 45 people, witnesses said.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208518.html



US kill 38 more people in Somalia

The US remote-controlled drones launched aerial attacks on Tabataa town, which is located in the southern Lower Juba region of Somalia. At least 38 people were killed and over 66 others were wounded in the terror strikes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209381.html



US kills 17 people in Somalia

The attack occurred in a civilian region near the town of Dhobley in southern Somalia on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210237.html



US kills 7 people in Somalia

The US drone carried out the assassination attacks Wednesday morning in Hiiraan region near Kalaberka of central Somalia.

http://presstv.com/detail/211638.html


From Information Clearing House

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Peace Prize-winner Obama savages Somalia

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/20/11

A human catastrophe is taking place in Somalia, the result of drought, famine - and the savage war conducted by the Obama administration, complete with a CIA training facility and prison. According to the Guardian, 150,000 desperate Somalis, mostly women and children, have walked more than 60 miles to a crowded refugee camp in Kenya in the past three months...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1109w.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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UK rights group Reprieve says it has evidence that the base lies underneath the presidential compound, and that some inmates are as young as 14.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14850581



New American Ally in Somalia: 'Butcher' Warlord

By David Axe

If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain t seen nothing yet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm



US Bombs South Somalia

At least three missiles have reportedly been fired by US drones near the Kenya-Somalia border, raising fears of possible casualties, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199459.html



US kills 9 civilians in Somalia

Senior Al-Shabaab leaders said that the drone attacks were carried out early on Thursday in the outskirts of Kismayu town, killing nine women and children and wounding 30 others.

http://bit.ly/n1z5D2



US Kills 8 People In Somalia

At least eight people have been killed and several others have been wounded in a US assassination drone attack in Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207818.html


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?Somalische Seeräuber gefährden den Welthandel ? die Bundesregierung
arbeitet deshalb an einem neuen Konzept für den Schutz deutscher Schiffe:
Einsätze privater Sicherheitsfirmen sollen erleichtert werden, auch mit
schweren Waffen. (?) Bereits vor Monaten hatte die Bundesregierung eine
Kommission aus Experten mehrerer Ministerien gebildet, die intensiv mit
den deutschen Reedern verhandelt. Seit Jahren verlangen die Reeder einen
besseren Schutz deutscher Schiffe, lange schwebte ihnen die temporäre
Stationierung von Soldaten oder Polizisten auf den Tankern und
Containerschiffen vor. Den Einsatz privater Sicherheitsfirmen lehnten die
Reeder lange ab, da sie die Kosten für Söldner auf den Schiffen scheuten.
Zudem wären diese nicht befugt, schwere Waffen an Bord zu bringen. Genau
an diesem Punkt will die Koalition nun ansetzen. Im Gespräch sind neue
Regelungen im Waffenrecht, die den Einsatz von Sicherheitsfirmen mit
schweren Waffen ermöglichen soll. Da die weltweit agierenden Agenturen ?
etwa die Nachfolgerfirma des skandalumwitterten US-Unternehmens Blackwater oder die Firma Dyncorps ? jedoch undurchschaubar und
schwer kontrollierbar sind, will die Bundesregierung bei der Auswahl der Firmen ein Mitspracherecht haben?? Artikel auf Spiegel-Online vom 17.08.2011
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,780816,00.html

Siehe dazu:

Bundesregierung will Krieg und Gewalt privatisieren. Attac verurteilt
Pläne zum Einsatz von Söldnerfirmen

Pressemitteilung von Attac Deutschland vom 18.08.2011
http://www.pressrelations.de/new/standard/result_main.cfm?pfach=1&n_firmanr_=109361&sektor=pm&detail=1&r=462904&sid=&aktion=jour_pm&quelle=0

die Anmerkung von Jens Berger auf den Nachdenkseiten vom 18.08.2011:
?Diese Meldung ist an Absurdität kaum zu übertreffen. Mehr als 3.000 der
rund 3.600 Schiffe deutscher Reeder fahren nicht unter der deutschen
Flagge, da man keine Steuern an den deutschen Staat abführen will und mit
Billigflaggen Arbeitnehmerschutzrechte, Tariflöhne und Sicherheitsauflagen
außer Kraft gesetzt werden. Nach internationalem Recht sind die
Containerschiffe und Tanker, um die es hier geht, Hoheitsgebiet dieser
Billigflaggenstaaten. Für die Frage, ob Söldner ihren Dienst an Bord
dieser Schiffe ausüben dürfen, sind somit so schillernde Staaten wie
Liberia, Antigua und Barbuda, die Marschall-Inseln oder Belize zuständig.
Der Umstand, dass sich Berlin über diese glasklaren Zuständigkeiten
hinwegsetzt, ist nicht weniger als ein eklatanter Bruch des Völkerrechts ?
anstatt dafür Sorge zu tragen, dass deutsche Reeder ihre Schiffe wieder
unter deutscher Flagge fahren lassen, unterstützt Berlin die Steuerflucht
der Branche.?
http://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=10477#h13


Aus: LabourNet, 19. August 2011

Somalia - das ist die Piratenküste. War das Land in den letzten Jahren anders in den Schlagzeilen der Kommerzmedien? Warum es die Piraterie überhaupt gibt, wieviel Geld in militärische Aufrüstungsprogramme gesteckt wurde, all das wurde zumeist ausgeblendet. Jetzt ist auch dieses Land von einer Hungersnot betroffen, und es wird Geld gespendet. Es gibt die Dürre, ohne Zweifel, wie in den angrenzenden Regionen der benachbarten Länder auch. Es gibt aber auch die Aktivität von bewaffneten Milizen, aus US Geldern bezahlt, die zum Kampf gegen die Al Shahab Milizen gegründet wurden - und die eben genau im Zentrum der Hungerregion jegliche normale landwirtschaftliche Tätigkeit unmöglich gemacht haben, schreibt Glen Ford in 'America s role in Somalia s humanitarian crisis' das am 20. Juli 2011 bei Pambazuka erschienen ist..: http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/75059

Siehe dazu auch: 'Banken haben Vorrang' von Uli Schwemin am 27. Juli 2011 in der jungen welt, der einige naheliegende Berechnungen anstellt und auf die Ausladung eines Festredners Bezug nimmt..: http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/07-27/031.php


Aus: LabourNet, 29. Juli 2011



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Video

Keith Olbermann talks with Jeremy Scahill of The Nation, also a 'Countdown' contributor, about a secret CIA site in Somalia that trains Somali agents in counterterrorism efforts against a militant Islamic group.

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By Glen Ford

The newly activated Marine task force will augment America's stepped up drone attacks against the Shabab, an escalation of Obama's second shooting war in Africa, and war number 6, globally.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28605.htm



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The CIA uses a secret prison buried in the basement of Somalia s National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters, where prisoners suspected of being Shabab members or of having links to the group are held. Some of the prisoners have been snatched off the streets of Kenya and rendered by plane to Mogadishu.

http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia



Mainstream Media Won't Report on CIA's Secret Sites

By RT

As the CIA expands covert missions, it's no surprise than many of their operations go unreported. Jeremy Scahill of The Nation says, though, that many outlets are aware of some injustice carried out by the CIA and are just failing to report them.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28598.htm


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