U.S. Secretly Backing Warlords In Somalia? What?

Source: Washington Post

So...in the middle of this "holy war on terror", the U.S. is secretly supporting Somali warlords who openly use terror as a weapon of choice? Really....

Another blatant example on how the whole "war on terror" is a big joke, and we again are the hypocrites and supporting the wrong side.

More than a decade after U.S. troops withdrew from Somalia following a disastrous military intervention, officials of Somalia's interim government and some U.S. analysts of Africa policy say the United States has returned to the African country, secretly supporting secular warlords who have been waging fierce battles against Islamic groups for control of the capital, Mogadishu.

The latest clashes, last week and over the weekend, were some of the most violent in Mogadishu since the end of the American intervention in 1994, and left 150 dead and hundreds more wounded. Leaders of the interim government blamed U.S. support of the militias for provoking the clashes.

You know you have hit a sensitive subject when you get the classic "no comment" response when asking about these illegal activities.

U.S. officials have declined to directly address on the record the question of backing Somali warlords, who have styled themselves as a counterterrorism coalition in an open bid for American support.

"The U.S. government funded the warlords in the recent battle in Mogadishu, there is no doubt about that," government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told journalists by telephone from Baidoa. "This cooperation...only fuels further civil war."

U.S. officials have refused repeated requests to provide details about the nature and extent of their support for the coalition of warlords, which calls itself the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism in what some Somalis say is a marketing ploy to get U.S. support.

Isn't it nice?

The U.S. not only creates terrorists by having a flawed and short-sighted understanding of Islamic and Muslim culture, we also financially back them.

Just another day of business from the Bush crime family, a.k.a. the White House. The hypocrisy is unbelievably blatant this time around.

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