"War Torn" - U.S. Slaughter In Syria,
Somalia And Yemen
By
Moon Of Alabama
March 17, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- When I saw the above tweet this
morning I wondered which "war torn"
country those Somalis were fleeing from
when they were murdered. The tweet
doesn't say. Were they fleeing from the
"war torn" Somalia? Or were the fleeing
from "war torn" Yemen?
It
is a sad world when has to ponder such.
It tuned
out these people were fleeing
from both wars:
Coast guard Mohammad Al Alay told
Reuters the refugees, carrying
official UNHCR documents, were on
their way from Yemen to Sudan when
they were attacked by an Apache
helicopter near the Bab Al Mandeb
strait.
An Apache
attack helicopter shot up the refugees'
boat. There are Saudi, United Emirates
and U.S. Apache helicopters in or around
Yemen. It is unknown which of them
ordered and which executed the strike.
These helicopters, their ammunition and
the service for them are a
favored U.S. export
to
belligerent dictatorships like Saudi
Arabia.
The UN
warns that 5 million people in Yemen are
only weeks away
from starving.
The Saudis, the U.S. and the Emirates
block all land routes, air ports and the
coast of Yemen and no food supplies come
through. This is an ongoing huge war
crime and literally a genocide. But
"western" media seem totally
unimpressed. Few, if any, reports on the
war on Yemen get published. Never have
they so openly displayed their
hypocrisy.
Somalia is
falling back into an all-out civil war
fueled by the decades old
unwillingness of the U.S.
to condone an independent local unity
government. The Islamic Court Union, a
unity government created by the Somalis
in 2006, was the last working instance
of a real Somali state. It had no
Jihadist agenda and held down local
warlords. It was destroyed by the Bush
administration:
A UN cable from June 2006,
containing notes of a meeting with
senior State Department and US
military officials from the Horn of
Africa task force, indicates that
the United States was aware of the
ICU’s diversity, but would “not
allow” it to rule Somalia. The
United States, according to the
notes, intended to “rally with
Ethiopia if the ‘Jihadist’ took
over.” The cable concluded, “Any
Ethiopian action in Somalia would
have Washington’s blessing.” Some
within the US intelligence community
called for dialogue or
reconciliation, but their voices
were drowned out by hawks determined
to overthrow the ICU.
During the
last 10 years an on-and-off war is waged
in Somalia with the U.S. military
interfering whenever peace seems to gain
ground. Currently a new round of war is
building up. Weapons are streaming
into Somalia from Yemen,
where the Houthi plunder them from their
Saudi invaders:
Jonah Leff, a weapons tracing expert
with conflict Armament Research,
said many [Somali] pirates had
turned to smuggling. They take
boatloads of people [from Somalia]
to Yemen and return with weapons, he
said.
The wars on Somalia and Yemen are the
consequences of unscrupulous and
incompetent(?) U.S. foreign policy.
(Cutting down the size of the U.S. State
Department, as the Trump administration
now plans to do, is probably the best
thing one can do for world peace.)
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The U.S. military should be cut down
too. It is equally unscrupulous and
incompetent.
Last night the U.S. military hit a
mosque in Al-Jīnah in Aleppo governate
in Syria. It first claimed that the
strike, allegedly targeting a large
meeting of al-Qaeda, was in Idleb
governate. But it turned out to be miles
away west of Aleppo. Locals said a
mosque was hit, the roof crashed in and
more than 40 people were killed during
the regular prayer service. More than
120 were injured. The U.S. military said
it did not hit the local mosque but a
building on the other side of the small
plaza.
The U.S. maps and intelligence were not
up-to-date. A new, bigger mosque had
been build some years ago opposite of
the old mosque. The old mosque was
indeed not hit. The new one was
destroyed while some 200 people were in
attendance. Eight hellfire missiles
launched from two Reaper drones were
fired at it and a 500lb bomb was then
dropped on top to make sure that no one
escaped alive. Al-Qaeda fighters were
indeed "meeting" at that place - five
times a day and together with the locals
they have pressed by force to attend the
Quran proscribed prayers.
Had the Russian or Syrian army committed
the strike the "western" outcry would
have been great. For days the media
would have provide gruesome photos and
stories. The U.S. ambassador at the UN
would have spewed fire and brimstone.
But this intelligence screw-up happened
on the U.S. side. There will now be some
mealymouthed explanations and an
official military investigation that
will find no fault and will have no
consequences.
Amid this
sorry incident it was amusing to see the
propaganda entities the U.S. had created
to blame the Syrian government turning
against itself. The MI6 operated SOHR
was the first to come out with a high
death count. The
al-Qaeda aligned,
U.S./UK financed "White Helmets"
rescuers made a quick photo session
pretending to dig out the dead. The
sectarian al-Qaeda video propagandist
Bilal Abdul Kareem, which the New York
Times recently
portrait
in a positive light, provided damning
video and accusing comments. The amateur
NATO researchers at Bellingcat
published what they had gleaned
from maps, photos and videos others
created.
Each new lie and obfuscation the U.S.
Central Command in the Middle East put
out throughout the day was immediately
debunked by the horde of U.S. financed
al-Qaeda propaganda supporters. This
blowback from the "information
operation" against Syria will likely
have consequences for future U.S.
operations.
In another
operation last night the Israeli air
force attacked Syrian forces near
Palmyra which were operating against
ISIS. The Israeli fighters were chased
away when the Syrians fired air defense
missiles. This was an Israeli attempt to
stretch the "rules of operation" it had
negotiated with the Russian military in
Syria. The Russians, which control the
Syrian air space, had allowed Israel to
hit Hizbullah weapon transports on their
way to Lebanon. Attacks on any force
operating against Jihadis in Syria are
taboo. The Russian government
summoned
the Israeli ambassador. Netanyahoo broke
the rules. He will now have to bear the
consequences.
This article was first published at
Moon Of Alabama
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