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From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Jul 17 2011 - 18:59:06 EDT

World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: U.S. Sends in the Marines and
Drones

by Glen Ford

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<http://www.globalresearch.ca> Global Research, July 18, 2011

"Whenever the U.S. rachets up its armed interventions in Somalia, disaster
follows."

Even as U.S. militarization of the Horn of Africa has contributed massively
to the threatened starvation of millions, the Americans have announced an
escalation of drone attacks against Somalia and the establishment of a
<http://www.stripes.com/news/africom-marine-task-force-to-help-train-militar
ies-fighting-al-qaida-linked-groups-in-somalia-maghreb-region-1.148904>
Marine task force [5] for the region. A United Nations spokesman describes
the food and refugee emergency in Somalia as the "
<http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-11/news/29761800_1_refugee-agency-dadaab
-largest-refugee-camp> worst humanitarian crisis in the world [6]," with
millions at immediate risk. Not coincidentally, the epicenter of the
disaster is the area where Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia meet - which is also
a focus of U.S. Special Forces, surveillance and logistics activity.

The Americans blame the al-Shabab resistance for exacerbating the drought
emergency, but for at least two years the Americans have used
<http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/us-starves-children-somali-war>
food as a weapon [7] of war in Somalia, in an effort to starve out those who
might be supporting the Shabab. The U.S. has armed an array of militias
operating near the Ethiopian and Kenyan borders, making normal agricultural
pursuits all but impossible, and the current world-class catastrophe,
inevitable.

Whenever the U.S. rachets up its armed interventions in Somalia, disaster
follows. Four years ago, after the Americans instigated an Ethiopian
invasion of Somalia to overthrow an Islamist government that had brought a
semblance of peace to the region, it set off what the United Nations then
called "the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa -
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/africa/20iht-somalia.1.8401525.html
> worse than Darfur [8]." Today, many of those same refugees are confronted
with the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet - once again, largely
courtesy of the United States.

"The Obama administration has upgraded Somalia and Yemen as hotspots in its
endless war-making."

The original crime - the one from which all the other horrors flow - was the
theft of Somalia's government, and the crushing of its people's dreams for
peace. The American proxy aggression, largely conducted through Ethiopia and
now Kenya, and much of it directed from Djibouti, the actual headquarters of
the U.S. Africa Command, AFRICOM - is the root cause of the social
disintegration of Somalia, which has pushed much of the population to the
edge of extinction. These are the crimes against humanity that international
courts should be prosecuting. Instead, the International Criminal Court has
become a tool of the aggressor, and even proposes to deploy the U.S.
military as its deputies, to enforce its warrants: justice turned upside
down.

The newly activated Marine task force will augment America's stepped up
drone attacks against the Shabab, an escalation of Obama's second shooting
war in Africa, and war number 6, globally.

In addition to the Marines and the drones, the U.S. recently committed $45
million to equipment and training for the Ugandan and Burundian soldiers
that are all that props up the puppet Somali government in Mogadishu, the
capital.

The Obama administration has upgraded Somalia and Yemen as hotspots in its
endless war-making, claiming al-Qaida operatives in the region are even more
dangerous to the U.S. than their counterparts in Afghanistan and Pakistan -
which essentially tells us that al-Qaida isn't really all that relevant to
why American is spreading war and misery all over the planet. What is clear,
is that the world's greatest humanitarian threat lives at 1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue.

For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford. On the web, go to
<http://www.blackagendareport.com/> www.BlackAgendaReport.com [9].

BAR executive editor Glen Ford can be contacted at
<mailto:Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com> Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com
[10].

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