[Fresh Ink] [Somalia] US-backed Reign of Crime and Death Approaches 10, 000

[Richard Menec]

Pirates of the Horn: U.S.  Backs Reign of Crime and Death in Somalia

Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque

Wednesday, 17 September 2008

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The civilian death count from the  American-backed "regime change" operation 
in Somalia is approaching  10,000, with more than 800 killed in the Terror 
War slaughter since  June.

_The figures_ (http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=136264) , 
compiled by the Elman Peace and Human Rights Organization in Mogadishu,  are 
almost certainly an undercount, given the rampant chaos that has ravaged the 
country in the wake of the Ethiopian invasion, and the Muslim practice of 
quick burial of the dead. But they are horrific enough, especially when 
added to another statistic released by the United Nations last month: 3.7 
million Somalis are now in need of outside aid in order to survive. This is 
more than one-third of the entire population.

I have written often of what is happening in Somalia, and the American 
government's direct role in it, and the total silence of America's 
bipartisan political establishment about this vast  atrocity. I won't 
recapitulate the horror and terror -- and American  complicity -- here at 
the moment, but links to many of these pieces can be found in this recent 
post (http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1598/1/) .

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A puppet government, installed by foreign  invasion, riddled with crime and 
corruption, alienating and radicalizing  the population: here we see the 
quintessential template of the "War on  Terror," replicated faithfully in 
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia -- and  soon, perhaps, in Pakistan.

Mass  death, mass ruin and immeasurable human suffering: this is what the 
War on  Terror does.  This is what  the War on Terror is all about. It can 
have no other  outcome.  When someone supports the War on Terror -- as 
Barack Obama, John McCain,  Sarah Palin and Joe Biden all do, with eagerness 
and enthusiasm -- this is  what they are embracing. They are dipping their 
hands in innocent blood.

Full: http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1607/135/

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