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Pentagon Eyeing Drone Shift To Aid Somalia
Pentagon eyeing drone shift to aid Somalia
By Pauline Jelinek | Guardian UK
The Pentagon is considering dispatching surveillance drones and other limited military support for a Somali government offensive against al-Qaida-linked insurgents, U.S. officials said, part of a cautious move to increase U.S. assistance to the anarchic African nation.
U.S. diplomats are pressing Somali leaders to detail the goals of the looming assault, in order to figure out the most appropriate ways the U.S. can help.
Determined to avoid a visible American footprint on the ground or fingerprints on Somalia's shaky government, U.S. officials are struggling to find the right balance between seizing the opportunity to take out al-Qaida insurgents there and avoiding the appearance of a U.S. occupation.
Any U.S. moves in Somalia are haunted by the disastrous 1993 U.S. military assault into the Somali capital — made famous in the book and movie "Black Hawk Down." The strike left 18 U.S. soldiers dead. Read more.
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THE WORLD AND ITS POPULAR CLASSES MUST UNDERSTAND THAT THE CRIMINAL FASCIST EMPIRE OF AMERICA IS OUT OF CONTROL AND THEY MUST FORM INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL ALLIANCES, INTERNATIONAL STRIKES, WORLD WIDE TO TAKE DOWN THESE NAZIS, CRIMINAL SCUM AND ALL CLASS AND IMPERIAL COLLABORATORS WHO ENABLE THESE FASCISTS.
MAY THE INTERNATIONAL COURTS GO AFTER THIS FASCIST CRIMINAL SCUM......AND PUT THESE NAZIS AWAY.....
DRONE AID.....THINK ABOUT THIS FASCIST LANGUAGE....EXTRADJUCIAL NAZI MURDER IS CALLED "AID".....PROSECUTE THE CIA NAZIS, PENTAGON NAZIS, LIBERAL APPEASING WAR CRIMINALS, OBAMA.......THE TEA BAGGERS HAVE IT WRONG...........HE IS NOT A SOCIALIST,....BUT HE IS APPEASING CRIMINALITY, FASCISM.
USING THE POLLUTED LANGUAGE, TERMINOLOGY OF ABSTRACTIONS WHERE EVERYONE IS TALIBAN, AL QUAIDA WHO RESIST AMERICAN NAZIS, OCCUPIERS WILL LEAD TO FASCIST DISASTER.
Stephen Lendman and others have contributed articles to show that the imperial agenda of Obama is to move into Africa under the pretense of "Al quaida", instead against his Nazi, fascist, imperial, colonial policies.
Like the military bases encircling both Russia and China, Obama is using Africa and Somalia to force a confrontation with Iran for fascist ZIONIST NAZIS IN ISRAEL AND THE NAZI,FASCIST LINKS TO NATO.......SIEG HEIL.
Obama Expands Military Involvement in Africa
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/02-9
excerpt:
"After one year in office, however, it is clear that the Obama administration is following essentially the same policy that has guided U.S. military policy toward Africa for more than a decade. Indeed, the Obama administration is seeking to expand U.S. military activities on the continent even further.....
Furthermore, the United States will also continue to expand and improve the network of local military bases that are available to U.S. troops under base access agreements.
The resurgence of Vietnam War-era counterinsurgency doctrine as a principal tenet of U.S. security policy, therefore, has led to a major escalation of U.S. military involvement in Africa by the Obama administration that seems likely to continue in the years ahead.
Daniel Volman is the Director of the African Security Research Project in Washington, DC. He is the author of numerous articles and reports and has been studying U.S. security policy toward Africa and African security issues for more than 30 years."
IMPERIAL OPPORTUNITY IS BASED ON CRIMINAL AND ABSTRACT, CORRUPT LANGUAGE AND POLICIES........PUT THESE NAZIS AND LIBERAL APPEASING FASCIST AWAY.......OFF TO THE HAGUE...OFF TO THE NUREMBERG TRIALS..........AND SHOW WHAT FASCISTS THUGS, APPEASERS THEY ARE.
Class and imperial opportunism. If one abstracts all resistance to occupation, aggression as "Taliban", "militant" or "Al qaida" resistance, rather than civilian deaths, funeral, wedding parties that were bombed by F###ING NAZIS, IMPERIAL WHORES who report that the truck load of children and woman, all 130 plus civlians were "militants" killed.........SEIG HEIL YOU FASCIST, CRIMINAL NAZI, IMPERIAL, COLONIAL, LYING, PENTATGON NAZIS.
"Knowing When to Say When"
Meet Lt. Col. Chris Gough: Killing by Drone and Proud of It
http://www.counterpunch.org/rattansi04022010.html
excerpt:
"For some reason, not one journalist saw fit to attend a gathering of those interested in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles – or drones – at the plush Waldorf Hilton in central London. Except me and my cameraman.
Perhaps one shouldn’t be surprised. The corporate media doesn’t seem too interested in the so-called surgical strikes carried out by the U.S. Air force as they buzz around the skies of Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan. No matter what the Pakistanis or the “Afghan government” says against these drone flights, President Obama and his administration are in love with drones – seemingly the universal panacea for killing the “enemy” without risking the lives of brave servicemen and women."
F***K Obama and his appeasing imperial, corporate Nazis.....Pentagon fascists.......... who think that criminal technical policies are ok........because Empire Nazis are dying at a lessor rate....than the victims of this fascist criminal foreign policy........GO TO HELL, GO TO THE HAGUE, GO TO INTERNATIONAL LAWS THAT PUT OBAMA AND HIS APPEASING CRIMINAL LIBERAL WHORES AS COMPLICIT CRIMINALS.