THE WORM TURNS
July 1, 2008, Battle of Beledweyne Somali opposition fighters ambush Ethiopian army convoy leaving 47 Ethiopian soldiers and 235 Islamist fighters dead.
August 22, 2008, Al-Shabaab retakes Kismayo, IRIN News (Islamic Courts Union, had been driven out of Kismayo in January 2007 when Ethiopian forces rolled into Somalia to take control of much of central and southern Somalia.)
The Islamic Courts' Youth Wing, al Shabaab (Shabaab = "youth' in Arabic), with great cost in deaths and casualties to themselves heroically pushed the heavily weaponized Ethiopians back out of cities, though UN authorized African Union "Peace Keeping' forces invaded as well to protect the remnants of a revamped warlord coalition,
In early December 2008, Ethiopia announced it would withdraw its troops after first securing the withdrawal of the AMISOM peacekeepers from Burundi and Uganda. Withdrawal of the AMISOM peacekeepers puts pressure on the UN to provide troops.
January 25, 2009 [oft defeated] Ethiopian troops completely pulled out of Somalia.
Situation in Somalia in February 2009, following the second Ethiopian withdrawal
Al-Shabab captured Baidoa, where the TFG parliament was based, on January 26. Following the collapse and end of the TFG, moderate Islamist leader of Islamic Courts, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was elected to become the new President of a United Somali government including the warlords. Al-Shabab declares war on him and pledges to continue attacks on TFG.
March 25, 2009, Five TFG soldiers shot execution style in a Mogadishu district known for rogue soldiers stealing from civilians and local shops, setting up illegal toll blocks.
2009-01-27--explosions and gunfire heard as government soldiers fight among themselves over control of the city, following the departure of Ethiopians. Police, local militia looting the presidential palace and parliament building as well as police stations; police who have splintered into clan groups. Mareeg.com-
January 5, 2010, CNN, More than 1 million in Somalia going hungry, aid agency says
10 March 2010, Up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, a leaked UN report says. It says WFP contracts are awarded to a few powerful individuals who operate cartels that sell the food illegally. US funding cut. The UN document says food aid is diverted to a web of distributors, transporters and armed groups, with some local UN workers also taking a cut in the profits, and transporters have to navigate roadblocks manned by various militias and bandits. BBC
"In May (2010), the fighting intensifies in Mogadishu; 270,000 displaced; internally displaced persons 1.5 million " UNHCR website.
July 6, 2010, (CNN) -- Anti-government demonstrators, including women dressed in full hijabs brandishing AK-47 automatic rifles, march through the streets of Somalia's violence-torn capital accuse African Union Mission of killing people. "AMISOM killed my mummy" and "AMISOM get out of our country" said two signs. e and it will happen in Bujumbura [the Burundi capital] too." [7]
12 JULY 2010, The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it was behind Kampala Uganda blasts that killed 74 people, one American.
Somali militants recruit Americans Video CNN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59GUaGYnaQ
10 June 2011, Somali Interior Minister killed by Niece, BBC
Three more regions of Somalia struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, UN
28 Oct, US launches drones from Ethiopia BBC
19 November 2011, Ethiopia troops 'enter Somalia' Ethiopian troops cross border into Somalia in significant numbers, eyewitnesses say. At least 20 vehicles carrying Ethiopian troops. BBC
Kenya's intervention in southern Somalia in October 2011 had been planned for at least two years. The release of WikiLeaks cables in 2010 documented the plans and the role of the State Department.
The UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia fresh from the UN-US-NATO re-conquest of Libya for the West, and the
assassination of the its revolutionary leader and Chairman of the African Union. "We are now at a critical juncture -- a moment of fresh opportunities for the future of Somali people," Mr. Ban said. The reader might Step back a moment an consider how commonplace a UN ruthless and inhumane military attack has been over the sixty odd years of the UN's existence: [see Korean Traitor US Stooge UN 'Terror Council' Sec. Gen. in Somalia
click here
(In addition to U.S. NATO and the UN involvement in Somalia and Kenya, the state of Israel has close ties with the government in Nairobi and has contracts to train the Ethiopian Armed Forces.)
July 1, 2008, Battle of Beledweyne Somali opposition fighters ambush Ethiopian army convoy leaving 47 Ethiopian soldiers and 235 Islamist fighters dead.
August 22, 2008, Al-Shabaab retakes Kismayo, IRIN News (Islamic Courts Union, had been driven out of Kismayo in January 2007 when Ethiopian forces rolled into Somalia to take control of much of central and southern Somalia.)
The Islamic Courts' Youth Wing, al Shabaab (Shabaab = "youth' in Arabic), with great cost in deaths and casualties to themselves heroically pushed the heavily weaponized Ethiopians back out of cities, though UN authorized African Union "Peace Keeping' forces invaded as well to protect the remnants of a revamped warlord coalition,
In early December 2008, Ethiopia announced it would withdraw its troops after first securing the withdrawal of the AMISOM peacekeepers from Burundi and Uganda. Withdrawal of the AMISOM peacekeepers puts pressure on the UN to provide troops.
January 25, 2009 [oft defeated] Ethiopian troops completely pulled out of Somalia.
Al-Shabab captured Baidoa, where the TFG parliament was based, on January 26. Following the collapse and end of the TFG, moderate Islamist leader of Islamic Courts, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed was elected to become the new President of a United Somali government including the warlords. Al-Shabab declares war on him and pledges to continue attacks on TFG.
March 25, 2009, Five TFG soldiers shot execution style in a Mogadishu district known for rogue soldiers stealing from civilians and local shops, setting up illegal toll blocks.
2009-01-27--explosions and gunfire heard as government soldiers fight among themselves over control of the city, following the departure of Ethiopians. Police, local militia looting the presidential palace and parliament building as well as police stations; police who have splintered into clan groups. Mareeg.com-
January 5, 2010, CNN, More than 1 million in Somalia going hungry, aid agency says
10 March 2010, Up to half the food aid in Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, local UN workers and Islamist militants, a leaked UN report says. It says WFP contracts are awarded to a few powerful individuals who operate cartels that sell the food illegally. US funding cut. The UN document says food aid is diverted to a web of distributors, transporters and armed groups, with some local UN workers also taking a cut in the profits, and transporters have to navigate roadblocks manned by various militias and bandits. BBC
"In May (2010), the fighting intensifies in Mogadishu; 270,000 displaced; internally displaced persons 1.5 million " UNHCR website.
July 6, 2010, (CNN) -- Anti-government demonstrators, including women dressed in full hijabs brandishing AK-47 automatic rifles, march through the streets of Somalia's violence-torn capital accuse African Union Mission of killing people. "AMISOM killed my mummy" and "AMISOM get out of our country" said two signs. e and it will happen in Bujumbura [the Burundi capital] too." [7]
12 JULY 2010, The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab has said it was behind Kampala Uganda blasts that killed 74 people, one American.
Somali militants recruit Americans Video CNN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e59GUaGYnaQ
10 June 2011, Somali Interior Minister killed by Niece, BBC
Three more regions of Somalia struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, UN
28 Oct, US launches drones from Ethiopia BBC
19 November 2011, Ethiopia troops 'enter Somalia' Ethiopian troops cross border into Somalia in significant numbers, eyewitnesses say. At least 20 vehicles carrying Ethiopian troops. BBC
Kenya's intervention in southern Somalia in October 2011 had been planned for at least two years. The release of WikiLeaks cables in 2010 documented the plans and the role of the State Department.
The UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia fresh from the UN-US-NATO re-conquest of Libya for the West, and the
assassination of the its revolutionary leader and Chairman of the African Union. "We are now at a critical juncture -- a moment of fresh opportunities for the future of Somali people," Mr. Ban said. The reader might Step back a moment an consider how commonplace a UN ruthless and inhumane military attack has been over the sixty odd years of the UN's existence: [see Korean Traitor US Stooge UN 'Terror Council' Sec. Gen. in Somalia
click here
(In addition to U.S. NATO and the UN involvement in Somalia and Kenya, the state of Israel has close ties with the government in Nairobi and has contracts to train the Ethiopian Armed Forces.)
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