U.N. human rights experts said that U.S. President Donald Trump's pardon of four American men (mercenaries) convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated U.S. obligations under international law,
Somalia
In Somalia, during the 1980s, the US backed a brutal dictatorship without regard to famine on a massive scale, resulting in the deaths of more than 300,000 Somalis, mostly children.
In 1992 US Marines and Rangers killed many Somalis before being pulled out of danger after Blackhawk helicopters were shot down. Over the next seven years, the US government attempted overtly and covertly with funding and arming to keep the warlord most cooperative for US investment banking interests in power.
2003-2005, Increased US funding and support for the warlords being defeated by a new and immensely popular conservative Islamic Courts Union government.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "it was wrong for the United States government to support warlords in Somalia."
In 2006, the Islamic Courts reopened Mogadishu International Airport,. The first airplane chartered by the Arab League flew from the airport for the first time in 11 years picking up Islamic Courts delegates to the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
When the popular Islamic Courts Union government forces finally defeated the warlords despite foreign troops and US helping the warlords, the US trained Ethiopian Army and Air Force invaded and murderously temporarily defeated the Somalian Islamic Courts.
January 3, 2007 - Ethiopian, U.S. airstrikes force ICU withdrawal from Kismayo.
On February 9, 800 Somali demonstrators in Mogadishu, burn U.S., Ethiopian, and Ugandan flags. Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Burundi had committed troops to the "peacekeeping mission',
By the end of March, 2007,the fighting intensified in Mogadishu - more than a thousand people, mostly civilians killed.
Al Shabaab, the militant youth wing of the Islamic Courts rose to leadership role.
Ethiopian helicopters attack rebel positions, while the insurgents were calling on the people of the city over mosque loudspeakers to resist.
On March 3, 2008, the United States air strike on Dhoble kills the leader of Al-Shabab Aden Hashi Eyrow; does nothing to slow down the Insurgency.
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