Kampala December 13, 2006 – THE Great Lakes parliamentary Forum on Peace (AMANI) has backed the deployment of the UPDF in Somalia.
The AMANI representative in Uganda, Matthias Kasamba, (Kakuto) confirmed that the resolution was passed at their recent meeting in Kabale.
Ghana: Plane Cited in Arms Trafficking Scandal
Accra, December 11, 2006 – From Accra, comes the deeply disturbing report of a Ghana-registered plane being used by the most shadowy international arms traffickers the African continent has been ever plagued with.
A Ghanaian registered Boeing 707, suspected of being involved with Russian-Israeli mafiosi facilitator Viktor Bout's worldwide arms trafficking and smuggling network of charter flights, was recently spotted off-loading 40 tons of ammunition at Mogadishu Airport in Somalia.
MOGADISHU, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist movement warned arch-foe Ethiopia on Tuesday to withdraw troops from the Horn of Africa nation within a week or face war.
The Islamists, who dominate most of the south, say Ethiopia has at least 30,000 troops in Somalia near the provincial town of Baidoa, where an internationally recognized interim government is based. Ethiopia, the West and the United Nations back the government, but its power does not extend beyond town.
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court found exiled former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam guilty in absentia of genocide on Tuesday, ending a 12-year trial.
Mengistu, who now lives in Zimbabwe, was accused with top members of his Marxist military government of killing thousands during a 17-year rule which began with the toppling of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 and included war, purges and famine.
Cape Town , December 08, 2006 – Somali refugees who have fled the violence in their country have settled in South Africa. They've set up shops in townships, competing with local business. And that's spurred new violence. Gretchen Wilson reports.
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ASMARA, Dec 15, 2006 – Eritrea said on Friday it had sent an envoy to Iran to establish diplomatic and economic ties with Tehran as its relations with western nations sour over a border dispute with Horn of Africa neighbor Ethiopia.
Both Iran and Eritrea have routinely criticized the United States and the United Nations over what they say is foreign meddling in their affairs.
Kampala, December 11, 2006 – Uganda will not send a peacekeeping force to Somalia unless security improves and the risk of war in the Horn of Africa country diminishes, said a senior government official on Monday.
"We have decided that at this particular time, we should not go to Somalia," minister of state for foreign affairs Oryem Okello said in comments that appeared to row back from Kampala's previously stated position of willingness to go in.
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Jihad Media Battalion in Support of Somalian Taliban & Child Abuse
The cyber jihadis from the Jihad Media Battalion have produced an animated power point presentation in support of The Islamic Courts Union of Somalia declaring jihad against Ethiopia. The Jihad Media Battalion is one of the public relations arm of the al Qaeda in Iraq umbrella organization, The Islamic State of Iraq -- although there is some question as to whether they are "official" spokesmen or not.
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GAROWE, Somalia, Dec 13 (Garowe Online) - Angry police officers exchanged gunfire Wednesday with President Mohamud “Adde” Muse’s security forces, witnesses and officials reported.
President Adde Muse, the Puntland leader, was on an official visit to the central police station in Garowe, the State capital, when police officers let several prisoners “loose” in protest against the President’s visit.
Somali government troops guard a detained Oromo Ethiopian separatist fighter loyal to Somalia's Islamic Court Union, in Baidoa, Somalia, on Wednesday. The man is suspected of spying and planning suicide bombings, said General Mohamed Warsame, the head of national intelligence for the Somali transitional government. Somalia's prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said Tuesday that war is inevitable with the country's Islamic militants, saying thousands of them have surrounded Baidoa, the only town his government controls. |
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Dec. 14, 2006- With the Ethiopian government saying it is technically at war with Somalia's Islamic Courts movement, and the movement having declared holy war against Ethiopia, there is fear that an all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa may be unavoidable.
In the past week, several skirmishes have broken out between militias loyal to Ethiopia and those loyal to the Council of Islamic Courts, the movement that has taken control of the southern region of the country, including Mogadishu, the capital.
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Nairobi, December 14, 2006 – The United Nations on Thursday launched a massive appeal for funds to ease suffering in crisis-stricken Somalia, where nearly two million people, already hit by drought and floods, may now face war.
With all-out conflict between the country's powerful Islamists and weak Ethiopian-backed government now appearing imminent, the world body urged donors to contribute more than $237-million (about R1,6-billion) this year.
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MANAS, Somalia, December 14, 2006 – Wearing purple flip flops, oversized trousers and a T-shirt, Osman Ali holds a gun that is almost as big as he is.
Ali, who says he is 25 but looks to be in his teens, is one of hundreds of fighters being hastily trained by Somalia's government as it faces off with the country's increasingly powerful Islamic movement.
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Geneva, December 15, 2006 – It’s that time of year when many in Somalia attempt to cross the Gulf of Aden, hoping for a better life in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East. However, it’s often a perilous journey due to smugglers and the risk of capsizing.
Astrid Van Genderen Stort is a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR. From Geneva, she spoke to VOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De Capua about a tragic end to a recent attempt to cross from Bosaso to Yemen.
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Somali men ride on top of an old pickup truck in Baidoa, Somalia, Friday, Dec. 15, 2006. Somali President Abdillahi Yusuf said Friday that peace talks with the country's Islamic movement are no longer an option because the group's leaders have declared war on his government. "They are the ones who effectively closed the door to peace talks and they are the ones who are waging the war," said Yusuf. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
BAIDOA, Somalia, December 15, 2006 - Peace talks with Somalia's Islamic movement are no longer an option, the president said Friday, warning that the group is allowing al-Qaida terrorists to "set up shop" in the Horn of Africa.
"This is a new chapter and part of the terror group's plan to wage war against the West," Abdillahi Yusuf told The Associated Press during a rare interview at his heavily guarded office in western Somalia.
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Somaliland Government Condemns UN Security Council Resolution
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 16, 2006 (SL Times) – Somaliland government rejected the recent UN resolution that lifted the arms embargo on Somalia and authorized the sending of regional military forces to protect the Baidoa based transitional government of president Abdillahi Yusuf and prime minister Ali Muhammad Gedi.
Somaliland minister of Sate for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Said Muhammad Nur, speaking to Somaliland Times said last Tuesday (12/12/06), that “The government of Somaliland has always stressed in the past that the partial lifting of the UN arms embargo on Somalia will bring dire consequences for the stability of the Horn of Africa and should be given serious thought and attention by the Security Council”.
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Mass Genocide Graves Discovered Northeast Buroa
Human remains found in mass graves in Buroa. All victims were executed, shot in the head as can be seen in this picture.
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Buroa, Somaliland. December 16, 2006 (SL Times) – New mass genocide graves were discovered last Thursday by locals in north-east Buroa, regional capitol of Togdheer region.
Buroa police were informed by locals living in the area where these mass graves were discovered. Locals said recent heavy rains unearthed mass graves containing large amounts of human remains.
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Hassan Dahir Aweys leader of Union Islamic Courts dressed in battle fatigue, 10 December 2006 Mogadishu |
Hargeysa, December 09, 2006 (SL. Times) - The regional court of Hargeysa concluded today (09/12/06) its long awaited court verdict for the trial of fifteen suspects accused of committing terrorism related crimes against the State of Somaliland. Among the accused is Hassan Dahir Aweys founder and leader of Mogadishu Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and many other top ranking UIC leaders.
Six of the accused were in absentia, of these two were acquitted Hassan Dahir Aweys and Aden Hashi Ayro and four were given 25 years prison sentence.
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''Somalia Remains in Political Stasis Despite Mounting Tensions''
During the second half of November and into December, the conflict in Somalia between the Islamic Courts Council (I.C.C.), which seeks to establish an Islamic state in the country based on the implementation of Shari'a law, and Ethiopia, which is determined to prevent that outcome and backs the powerless clan-based Transitional Federal Government (T.F.G.) militarily and diplomatically, continued to teeter on the brink of war, with the two major actors gazing into the abyss and regional states and organizations, international organizations, and Western powers attempting to head off the outbreak of full-scale armed confrontation through diplomatic initiatives.
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MOGADISHU, Dec 14, 2006. Somalia, — The stadium was packed, the guns were cocked and even the drenching rain could not douse the jihadist fire.
Thousands of Somalis, from fully veiled, machine-gun-toting women to little boys in baggy fatigues, gathered Friday to rally against what they called foreign aggression. As a squall blew in, they punched wet fists into the air and yelled, “Allahu akbar,” or “God is great.”
“I am ready to die,” said Osama Abdi Rahim, dressed head to toe in camouflage and marching around with a loaded rifle. He is 7 years old.
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Addis Ababa, December 13, 2006 – Ethiopia and Somaliland have agreed to work together to maintain peace and security along their common border which is in jeopardy due to Al-Ithad, Al-Islamya and other breeding disreputable threats.
During talks with a high-level Somaliland delegation led by Interior Affairs Minister Abdillahi Ismail Ali yesterday, Federal Affairs Minister Siraj Fegessa said: " Ethiopia and Somaliland need each other more than ever before." He further said that with the international community taking a policy of appeasement towards Al-Ithad forces, Ethiopia and Somaliland can no longer put off making essential choices for adequately meeting the challenges posed by the terrorists against their nationals security interests.
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Hargeysa, Somaliland, December 16, 2006 (SL Times) – Heavy rains have brought destruction and mayhem to Hayeti, Garas and Dhuhun residents (n-east of Berbera) in Hagal district of Sahil region. Up to 500 families are affected. Many have lost their homes, possessions and livestock to severe floods caused by recent ‘Dayr seasonal’ rains, which were exceptional this year throughout much of east Africa.
According to Jama Farah Ahmed, the parliamentarian upper house ‘Guurti’ representative for Hagal district in Sahil region told Somaliland Times that “Majority of the villages devastated by the recent floods were located at the foot of Sahil Golis mountain range. Due to the inaccessibility of these areas it took three to four days for us to get news of the devastation caused by the floods”.
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Somalia's top Islamist leader said on Friday his fighters did not plan to attack the Horn of Africa nation's interim government but only its "invading" Ethiopian allies.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys mocked as "empty talk" US accusations that al Qaeda had taken over his movement.
"We do not intend to attack the government, but at the same time we are obliged to attack Ethiopians wherever they are," he told Reuters from Mogadishu.
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Sahal says the Islamist edict persuaded him to go ahead with the wedding
Mogadishu, December 12, 2006 – The family of Sahal Abdi-kafi no longer talk to him following his wedding to his long-time girlfriend Zamzam Ahmed, a member of Somalia's lower caste Yahar community.
Despite his family's strong disapproval, the couple went ahead with their marriage, encouraged by an edict from the Islamist group which has taken control of the capital, Mogadishu, and much of southern Somalia this year after 15 years of lawlessness.
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Addis Ababa, December 14, 2006 – The Washington Post's Stephanie McCrummen sat down this week with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to discuss rising tensions with Somalia's Islamic Courts, and the state of democracy inside the country.
On the issue of Somalia:Ethiopia is inching closer to war with the Islamic Courts, who have taken over large swaths the country, including its capital, and who have in the past called for creation of a "Greater Somalia," including portions of ethnically Somali Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. Diplomats estimate that Ethiopia has at least 8,000 troops in Somalia bolstering the fragile, but internationally recognized transitional government, a claim that Ethiopia has repeatedly denied.
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NAIROBI, Dec 14 - The United States on Thursday condemned as "irresponsible" a threat by Somalia's Islamist movement to attack Ethiopian troops backing the Horn of Africa nation's interim government unless they leave within days.
The defense chief for the Mogadishu-based Islamists gave the ultimatum on Tuesday. He said Ethiopia has more than 30,000 troops on Somali soil to bolster the administration of President Abdillahi Yusuf in Baidoa, the only town in government control.
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With Annan, Africa loses its first UN chief
Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
«The world accepted Africa as a hopeless region.
15 December - As the UN's General Assembly today swore in Ban Ki-moon as the 8th United Nations Secretary-General, sub-Saharan Africa's and Ghana's first-ever 10-year leader of the world body is praised for his great efforts to move the African continent forward. Kofi Annan put African development on the world's agenda like no other leader, but also failed to show strength at many important crossroads.
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LONDON, 04 Dec-2006 - Attempts by the British government to engage with the Muslim community since last year's bomb attacks in London have backfired and are not hampering the spread of extremism, a report said Monday.
Instead of isolating extremist elements, government initiatives had tended to "drive a wedge" between the Muslim population and the wider community, the study by the left-of-centre think-tank Demos said.
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National unity fronts are all well and good, but what the region really needs is effective democratic government, writes Galal Nassar
A new wind is blowing over the Arab world and it brings with it a promise of many governments of national unity. In Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Mauritania and Somalia, national unity is a byword for politics.
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DJIBOUTI December 13, 2006 – Business executive Peter Thoren rode in the cockpit of the C-130 cargo plane as it raced over barren scrubland in the Horn of Africa, surveying a battlefield in the war on terror that most Americans know nothing about.
Thoren and seven other members of Business Executives for National Security could see the footpaths used by nomads to search out water and pasture. A few dirt roads connected small settlements, but from thousands of feet in the air, the region is intimidatingly vast.
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Disturbing News From Somalia And Ethiopia, Embroiled In The Latest African War
By Rageh Omaar
The next African war has already begun, though you may not have heard of it, as the television cameras have yet to arrive. By the time they do begin to take pictures of the hungry and displaced, it will be too late to avoid another man-made disaster in the most impoverished corner of the world.
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Just as the genocide committed against the people of Somaliland seems to be a bit receding from public memory, an event takes place which reminds us of it. This time, it is the discovery of mass graves in the city of Buroa which were unearthed in the aftermath of last month’s heavy rains. Officials from Somaliland’s government have confirmed that the people in the mass graves were massacred in 1988 by Somalia’s government. Although a final tally of the number of people who were dumped in these mass graves has not yet been determined, initial indications show that they are in the hundreds.
It is ironic that these mass graves were discovered right after the UN’s Security Council resolution affirming Somalia’s territorial integrity. Clearly, the UN is not concerned about the fact that the rulers of Somalia committed genocide and massacres in the name of protecting Somalia’s integrity.
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In November 2005, the Centre for Human Rights began investigating the possibility of a third destination for the LLM field trip. The reasons for increasing the number of field trip destinations to include Somaliland include the following:
Somaliland is a state in the making; it would be ideal for students on the programme to have a first hand experience of this. |
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Islamism As A Political Tool In Somalia
By Abdalla Hirad
Another Road Pump to Reconciliation?
The takeover of the Al-itihad al-Islami of Mogadishu in June, 2006, and later expansion of its control over much of the south, has been but a great frustration for those seeking peace and reconciliation in Somalia. Warlordism, the question of “Somaliland”, the occupation and hegemonic control of parts of the deep south of Somalia by marauding militia from the central regions of the country have been the main obstacles to peace and reconciliation since the collapse of government in 1991. Not to mention that none of these phenomena have ever been seriously addressed, if at all, in those 14-plus so-called reconciliation conferences that the nation witnessed over the last 16 years. |
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By Abdulkadir J. Dualeh, New York, USA
Any one who objectively reads the opinions expressed by the various Somali groupings, and who is endowed with an elementary level of intellect, can fail to notice that fear, the master of all passions, is guiding all our opinions.
The predominant fear underlying these opinions seems to be a perceived fear of tyranny by a majority, by a religious grouping, or by an unaccountable government.
If that is, indeed, the root cause of our predicament, then let us calmly explore solutions and debate the pro and cons of solutions. I say let reason wakeup and let fear take a nap, at least temporally, and let us deploy our intellect in discovering practical mechanisms that can alley our fears and reassure every community. Such an undertaking will require all of us to abandon rigid obedience to the dogmas of our groupings and judge solutions by their merit
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President Rayale’s Policy Against Influence Of Islamic Courts
The growing activism by the conservative groups of the religious community in Somaliland presents a serious challenge to the young democratic system, which has not built its deep roots in Somaliland yet. The challenge comes from the conservative religious community who calls on the people to follow the Islamic Sharia Law in forming government instead; this is a message, which the Somaliland people can easily identify with and may positively respond. Switching from democratic system to theocracy will dramatically change most of the characteristics of Somaliland including its sovereignty.
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By Omar Salad
The declaration of war by the Ethiopian prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his parliament’s approval that Ethiopia should go to war with Somalia on the baseless pretext that the UIC pose immediate threat to his country while several divisions of his army has already been deployed inside Somalia, and the Americans’ backing to Ethiopia and proposal to the UN that more African troops be sent to Somalia to fight alongside the weak TFG and against the UIC are very worrying developments that can bring about unprecedented catastrophe and human tragic of great proportions of genocide in Somalia similar to those happened in Rwanda and Iraq. So one has to speak out this about ominous prospect.
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Ahmed Kheyre, London, UK
Sir, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Vice/President of Somaliland, Mudane Axmed Yuusuf Yasiin on his recent speech to the Madaxdhaqameedyada Somaliland. Finally, a Somaliland politician who isn't worried about being seeing as anti-Islam, and willing to tell the truth.
Mudane Yasiin made the point that all Somalilanders ask each other every single day, "Where was all this so-called brotherhood when our cities were being bombed and being shelled, and our the fleeing women and children gunned down under the directions of these so called Sheikhs currently ruling the roost in Mogadishu?" Bravo Mudane Yasiin, bravo indeed.
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By Abdillahi M. Ali, London-UK
According to war definitions a proxy war is a war where two powers use third parties as a supplement or a substitute for fighting each other directly or a superpower fights with less. Proxy wars might be prevalent during the Eastern block and Western Cold War, but in this new Millennium, America and its adversaries are already in bitter proxy wars in many fronts, take as an example what is happening in the Middle East today, the last July’s war between Hezbollah militias and Israeli forces demonstrated the kind of proxy war that possibly America and Iran are engaging in that region.
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By Yassin Abdillahi Ahmed, Hargeysa,
The business community was working hard to survive right from the inception of Somaliland. They were working severe circumstances for the last decade and half, and even some time security was critical. Still the environment is not promising. They are working without Banking, Insurance; reliable electricity; traveling documents; Appropriate laws, the list is endless.
Although, for the last decade and so, the country was peaceful, but obstacles were great and circumstances were at a stake! They played crucial role in disarming, reconciliation, demobilization, reconstruction, Democratization and building a free society.
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BY AHMED ARWO
by Shaikh Muhammad As-Salih Al-Uthaimeen, may Allah have mercy on him
"In The Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful"
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Universe. May peace and blessings be upon Muhammad, the last of the prophets and messengers, and upon his family and esteemed companions.
Hajj is one of the best forms of worship and is one of the most sublime deeds. It is one of the greatest pillars of Islam that Allah sent Muhammad with (may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). A servant’s religion is incomplete without it
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Not Being Had By Al-Itihaad
By J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
The news from the Horn of Africa continues to be worrisome. The recent catastrophic floods that swept through the region have not slowed the advance of the radical Islamists, who in June seized control of Mogadishu, Somalia's sometime capital. Continuing its relentless progress, the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) is sowing violence where it can, sweeping up strategic towns and regions throughout the territory of the former state and imposing its puritanical interpretation of Islam. |
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Radical Islamists are preparing to take control of the impoverished country and start a regional war in East Africa.
By Garrett Jones
TO MOST Americans, Somalia is the place where "Black Hawk Down" happened, or the place with the pictures of the starving African children, or, for some, the biblical land of Punt. (Scholars quibble about locating Punt.) Americans tend to confuse African countries with one another except when our soldiers are dying there, and the violence in Sudan, Uganda, Congo or Zimbabwe can seem indistinguishable. But the anarchy in Somalia, which straddles the strategic Horn of Africa, is in a class by itself.
For more than 16 years, Somalia has existed without the pretense of a central government, surviving largely on foreign aid and remittances from its overseas diaspora, the best and brightest young Somalis.
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By Bethuel A. Kiplagat
Nairobi, December 11, 2006 – At long last the United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of a peace keeping force to protect the exposed and fragile Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia.
Without the threat of Ethiopia, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) would have by now overrun the Government in Baidoa. The rejection by the UIC of the UN decision is understandable because it has frustrated its grand design of bringing all the Somali-speaking people in the Horn under one Islamic State by force, if necessary.
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A centerpiece of the Iraq Study Group's report is its advocacy for securing foreign companies' long-term access to Iraqi oil fields.
By Antonia Juhasz
WHILE THE Bush administration, the media and nearly all the Democrats still refuse to explain the war in Iraq in terms of oil, the ever-pragmatic members of the Iraq Study Group share no such reticence.
Page 1, Chapter 1 of the Iraq Study Group report lays out Iraq's importance to its region, the U.S. and the world with this reminder: "It has the world's second-largest known oil reserves." The group then proceeds to give very specific and radical recommendations as to what the United States should do to secure those reserves. If the proposals are followed, Iraq's national oil industry will be commercialized and opened to foreign firms.
The report makes visible to everyone the elephant in the room: that we are fighting, killing and dying in a war for oil. It states in plain language that the U.S. government should use every tool at its disposal to ensure that American oil interests and those of its corporations are met.
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Kampala, December 8, 2006 – Next time you take a taxi and find everybody nodding to themselves with iPods (digital music players) on their laps, do not sneer. Just jump to the next empty seat, get yourself a newspaper, flip through the entertainment section and make a date with your favorite TV soap or entertainment spot.
Latest research by Consumer Insight Africa, shows that 53 per cent of Kenyans spend their free time either listening to music or watching TV.
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Expert: no credence to notion of quest for caliphate as overriding goal of Islamist movement.
Previous Caliphates enjoyed scientific and military superiority globally – both absent today
By Andrew Hammond
RIYADH, Dec 13, 2006 – The creation of an Islamic caliphate, or empire, has long formed part of al Qaeda's world view, and it is a vision that seems to have unsettled Washington.
But experts say it will remain just a militants' dream. Before he went into hiding in 2001, Osama bin Laden often talked of deposing Muslim rulers, seen as beholden to Western powers, and abolishing modern state borders to unite all Muslims under a caliphate -- an Islamic state where God's word was law ruled over by a caliph, or "successor" to Prophet Mohammad.
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By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI, Dec 14, 2006 – African states should send peacekeepers to help Somalia's fragile interim government negotiate with rival Islamists from a position of strength, the head of the African Union (AU) said on Thursday.
A week ago, the U.N. Security Council approved deploying a regional force in the chaotic Horn of Africa country to support the embattled Western-backed administration. The AU had earlier backed the mission, first proposed two years ago by Somalia's interim government.
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