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Sovereignty and preventive war

Independent Country
by James Leroy Wilson

01/25/14

Respect for national sovereignty is necessary, but not because foreign rulers are good. Not even because State regimes are 'legitimate' (they are not). It s necessary because these are the conditions into which we were born. We can blunder about, attacking one foreign monster after another, only to find out that we are not saving foreign civilians from anything, we are just adding to the killing...

http://tinyurl.com/l6ypdkm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Can Other Countries Bomb USA Like it Bombs Somalia and Many Others?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/may-other-countries-bomb-the-us/

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The Myth Of The Good Wars
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/howard-zinn/the-myth-of-the-good-wars-.html



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http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/24

Al-Shabab s Nairobi Mall Rampage Tied to 'Disastrous' U.S. Meddling in Somalia
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/09/25-0

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U.S. Government to Blame for Somalia s Misery

Op-Ed

Even in the midst of the global economic crisis, there is enough wealth in the world that it is an outrage so many should die of such extreme poverty and deprivation.

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/u-s-government-to-blame-for-somalias-misery/



Does al-Shabab Really Threaten the U.S.?

By Stephen M. Walt

When was the last time something bad happened somewhere and the U.S. government didn t see it as a threat?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36363.htm



US kills at least two people in Somalia: Residents

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed at least two alledged Islamist al Shabaab insurgents driving in a car south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, residents said on Monday.

http://dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Oct-28/236067-drone-strike-kills-at-least-two-in-somalia-residents.ashx


From Information Clearing House



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Nach Schätzungen starben fast 260.000 Menschen, die Islamisten-Milizen und die US-Antiterrorpolitik werden dafür mit verantwortlich gemacht.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/39/39056/1.html



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On Sunday, the unmanned aircraft targeted al-Shabab fighters near the Shalanbood region in Merka town. Earlier in the day, heavy clashes erupted between al-Shabab fighters and Somali government troops in the same region where at least 24 Somali troops were killed.

http://is.gd/LaB5wF



The UN and 250,000 Dead Somalis

By Thomas C. Mountain

During this period of mass starvation of the Somali people the UN and its western overlords spent over $1 billion funding its military ''peacekeeping mission'' in what s left of the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34865.htm


From Information Clearing House



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US-Präsident Obama führt im Gegensatz zu George W. Bush lieber Stellvertreterkriege oder kämpft mit Drohnen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37358/1.html



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At least 30 people have been killed and a dozen injured in an attack by US assassination drones in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/231562.html



US drones kill 35, wounds dozens in southern Somalia

The casualties come after an unmanned aircraft fired several missiles at al-Shabab training bases located between the country s capital city of Mogadishu and its neighboring city Afgoye on Thursday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/236148.html



U.S. kills 39 people in Somalia

At least 39 people have been killed in two US assassination drone attacks in Somalia, the latest of CIA s airstrikes in foreign countries.

http://is.gd/uYFJLX



US kills 6 people in south Somalia

The drone attacks occurred early on Wednesday near a Kuda Island village, which is located in 15km from Kuda, a senior al-Shabab official Sheikh Ibrahim said. He confirmed that six people were killed and dozens of others injured in the latest airstrikes.

http://is.gd/fCr6AF



US kills 25 people in eastern Somalia

Unconfirmed report

The attack took place in Somalia s Garas Balley district near the capital Mogadishu, leaving at least another 40 injured.

http://is.gd/t3PMjk



US drone kills 5 people in southern Somalia

More than two dozen people have also sustained injuries in the attack.
http://is.gd/xFzgy0



37 killed in US-led drone strike in southern Somalia

Unconfirmed report

The attack, which took place in the strategically important port city of Kismayo on Friday, claimed over 37 lives and injured dozens.

http://is.gd/iAbFSS


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Somalia
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Wie schon im Fall der Tötung von bin Laden setzt US-Präsident Obama verstärkt auf riskante verdeckte Militäreinsätze.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36297/1.html



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By Abayomi Azikiwe

United States and French military involvement in Africa is taking a deadly toll in Somalia. Despite Washington s denials, the people of this nation are suffering under the impact of yet another imperialist-driven war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29811.htm



U.S. intensifies its proxy fight against al-Shabab in Somalia

The Obama administration is intensifying its campaign against an al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia by boosting the number of proxy forces in the war-torn country, expanding drone operations and strengthening military partnerships throughout the region.

http://wapo.st/runIzG



US kills 18 people in Somalia

According to a Transitional Federal Government (TFG) officer, the incident occurred in an al-Shabab training camp in the town of Badade.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/212652.html



US kills 4 people in Somalia missile strike?

A missile strike killed four foreign ''Islamist militants'' south of Somalia's capital on Friday, an intelligence official said, a day after the country's prime minister called for foreign air strikes against the al Shabaab rebel group. The United States never comments officially on drone strikes in Somalia.

http://reut.rs/zfl1nr


From Information Clearing House



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On Friday, three high-ranking members and 14 fighters of the al-Shabab militant group were killed when the US military used remote-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles in an attack on Dhoobley town. On Thursday, nine civilians were killed and 30 others wounded in US airstrikes on the outskirts of Kismayo.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199713.html



A Secret License to Kill

By David Cole

Imagine that Russia started killing individuals living in the United States with remote-controlled drone missiles, and argued that it was justified in doing so because it had determined, in secret, that they posed a threat to Russia s security.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29168.htm



Terror: Somalia, Libya may be sign of US military action to come, expert says

Dubbed 'offshore balancing,' the strategy has been used for years in Somalia in the wake of the US withdrawal from the African country after the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu when 19 US and UN troops died during a disastrous humanitarian mission.

http://bit.ly/qXILjt



US kills dozens in Somalia

United States drones have reportedly struck three districts in southern Somalia, killing dozens of civilians and wounding scores of others.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/201160.html



US attacks kill several people in Somalia

Somali officials have confirmed U.S. aerial attacks on Thursday morning in an area between Kismayu and Dhoobley cities, according to Press TV.

http://presstv.com/usdetail/201795.html



US kills six people in Somalia

The US drone attack left six civilians dead and many more injured in the Dhoobley town located near Kismayo, the capital of the lower Juba region and a port city located some 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Wednesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/202894.html



US kills 16 people in Somalia

The drone attack took place near the city of Afmadow, located in the middle of Somalia s Juba region.

http://presstv.com/detail/203413.html



US Kills 78 People in Somalia

By Press TV

In a different incident on Friday, another US drone attack killed 11 civilians and wounded 34 more in Hoosingow district in the south of the country.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29403.htm



US kills 15 Somali civilians

A US drone strike has killed at least 15 civilians and injured dozens of others in the southern region of war-torn Somalia,. This recent strike follows a similar strike in the same region on Friday, which killed at least 70 people.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204715.html



US Kills 27 People in Somalia

Dozens of civilians were also injured after an American strike on the port town of Kismayo, about 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, witnesses told Press TV.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/205053.html



US drone crashes in Somalia, kills five

A US unmanned aerial vehicle has crashed near a military facility in southern Somalia, killing at least five government soldiers, Press TV reports.

http://presstv.com/detail/205178.html



US kills 18 civilians in Somalia

The US drone attack struck Musa Haji district in Lower Juba region on Wednesday morning, and left 18 civilians dead and 37 more injured, a Press TV correspondent reported.

http://presstv.com/detail/205465.html



US kills 9 people in Somalia

The US drone carried out attacks Sunday morning near the Bilis Qooqani districts in southern Somalia, leaving nine people dead and 14 others wounded.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/206136.html



US kills 29 people in Somalia

The Tuesday attack took place on Afmadow town in southern Somalia, a Press TV correspondent reported. Somalia is the sixth country where the US military has conducted such drone strikes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/206540.html



US kills 20 people in Somalia

A US drone attack has killed 20 civilians and injured 60 others in southern Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207928.html



US Kills Dozens Of People In Somalia

The first strike happened in the southern town of Badheere on Saturday, killing nearly 45 people, witnesses said.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/208518.html



US kill 38 more people in Somalia

The US remote-controlled drones launched aerial attacks on Tabataa town, which is located in the southern Lower Juba region of Somalia. At least 38 people were killed and over 66 others were wounded in the terror strikes.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/209381.html



US kills 17 people in Somalia

The attack occurred in a civilian region near the town of Dhobley in southern Somalia on Tuesday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210237.html



US kills 7 people in Somalia

The US drone carried out the assassination attacks Wednesday morning in Hiiraan region near Kalaberka of central Somalia.

http://presstv.com/detail/211638.html


From Information Clearing House

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Peace Prize-winner Obama savages Somalia

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

09/20/11

A human catastrophe is taking place in Somalia, the result of drought, famine - and the savage war conducted by the Obama administration, complete with a CIA training facility and prison. According to the Guardian, 150,000 desperate Somalis, mostly women and children, have walked more than 60 miles to a crowded refugee camp in Kenya in the past three months...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1109w.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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UK rights group Reprieve says it has evidence that the base lies underneath the presidential compound, and that some inmates are as young as 14.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14850581



New American Ally in Somalia: 'Butcher' Warlord

By David Axe

If you thought it was bad that Washington is paying a shady French mercenary to do its dirty work in Somalia, you ain t seen nothing yet.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29097.htm



US Bombs South Somalia

At least three missiles have reportedly been fired by US drones near the Kenya-Somalia border, raising fears of possible casualties, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/199459.html



US kills 9 civilians in Somalia

Senior Al-Shabaab leaders said that the drone attacks were carried out early on Thursday in the outskirts of Kismayu town, killing nine women and children and wounding 30 others.

http://bit.ly/n1z5D2



US Kills 8 People In Somalia

At least eight people have been killed and several others have been wounded in a US assassination drone attack in Somalia, Press TV reports.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/207818.html


From Information Clearing House



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