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- From: ilyess@ECE.Concordia.CA (Ilyess Bdira)
- Subject: Re: Somalia: The REAL U.S. mission
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:04:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.200943.16033@colorado.edu> perlman@qso.Colorado.EDU (Eric S. Perlman) writes:
- >
- >Natural resources (of various kinds) are always convenient excuses.
- >However, one reason why they were a persuasive reason for our
- Uranium is not just any kind of natural resource.
- >
- >>**Note: strategic location on Horn of Africa along southern approaches
- >>to Bab el Mandeb and route through Red Sea and Suez Canal. [also
- >>Somalia is good location for a military base to launch air strikes
- >>against independant countries like Libya and Yemen and protect US
- >>colonies like Saudi Arabia.]
- >
- >This last line shows just how far out in the ozone whoever wrote this
- >piece was. Saudi Arabia is hardly a US colony. Indeed, it's
-
- the last line was a comment from the poster I think.
-
- ...
- >They'll have to do better than this. Orders of magnitude better, I
- >should add.
-
- How about the recent article by UPI about the influence of
- Islamic fundamentalism in Somalia (which mentioned that in areas
- where they dominated looting and crime was eliminated which gave
- them more and more influence and popularity)
- How about the fact that the CIA is engaging in a covert war against
- Sudan and Yemen both very close to Somalia and that it did not want Somalia
- to eventually fall under independent fundamentalists?
- How about the fact that the CIA needed a base to threaten both Sudan
- and Yemen and Somalia is just the right place?
-
-
- Either the CIA is very lucky or it is creating its own "good luck."
-
- They should know however that they have limited resources and that they
- cannot control every single Arab nation in the same time (remember they had
- to forget about Sudan a little bit in 1990 when they were preparing for
- the downsizingn of the Iraqi military). So if all people of those countries
- work hard in the same time to gain their real independence, they will
- defeat the CIA and minimize the effect of foreign interference.
-
- Don't make me laugh and say the the U.S.A went there for humanitarian
- reasons, maybe that is a byproduct (or a cost of transaction), but not
- a goal.. That is not in the agenda of the CIA.
-
- =============================================================
- Modified Murphy's first law of realistic probability:
- If it can happen, it will happen...
- Unless of course "it" is a good thing.
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