It’s deja-vu all over again. In Somalia, in a unilateral move destined to further destabilise the lawless nation, a hi-tech U.S. gunship has slaughtered “terror suspects” and civilians alike as ousted members of the Somalia Islamic Courts Union – whose six months of strict Islamist rule had largely stopped the preceding 15 years of violence and chaos common under feuding warlords – flee invading Ethiopian forces.
With U.S. sanction, the Ethiopian putsch was ostensibly done to stave off the collapse of the weak but internationally recognised Somali “Government” bunkered in its lone stronghold in the west of that unhappy country. At least one child – a four-year-old boy - was killed in the U.S gunship strike.
An aircraft carrier has joined three other US warships off the Somali coast. Last year, the United States covertly supported warlords – the same thugs responsible for the Blackhawk Down debacle - fighting the Islamist movement. Prepare for overt support, in typical, hypocritical U.S. fashion. And meanwhile back in Iraq, Pandora’s Box continues to disgorge its Bushevik-fed horror…