In a new investigative report published by The Nation magazine called "The CIA's Secret Sites in Somalia," independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the CIA is using a secret facility in Somalia for counter-terrorism as well as an underground prison in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Scahill says the CIA is training a new Somali force to conduct operations in the areas controlled by the militant group, al-Shabab, and in Mogadishu. While a U.S. official told The Nation that the CIA does not run the prison, he acknowledged the CIA pays the salaries of Somali agents. -YT
Aired July 13th 2011
Here's the article at The Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/article/161936/cias-secret-sites-somalia
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bareboards2says...*dead
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bcglorfsays...Good, I hope the CIA is abducting, killing and otherwise terrorizing Al-Shabab's members. I hope every nation in the world is contributing to such a mission.
The entire problem of starvation and suffering in Somalia is because of monsters like Al-Shabab. There is no problem loading cargo planes with enough food aid to feed Somalia's people. There is no problem with enough land in Somalia to grow food for them. The problem is Al-Shabab murders the farmers because no-one can protect them. The problem is Al-Shabab steals the food aid or murders the aid workers because there aren't enough people to protect them.
The sooner Al-Shabab is gone the sooner Somalia's poor and starving people have a chance at something better than slowly starving to death in refugee camps on Somalia's borders.
enochsays...*promote
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vaire2ubesays...why hide that you're doing good things, unless you have a secret motive that may not withstand scrutiny or conscience ... ie the history of all CIA actions everywhere...
bcglorfsays...>> ^vaire2ube:
why hide that you're doing good things, unless you have a secret motive that may not withstand scrutiny or conscience ... ie the history of all CIA actions everywhere...
I'd prefer they were more open about. Al-Shabab is bad and we are willing to use a lower burden of proof than "beyond a shadow of a doubt" when it comes to fighting them because getting rid of them sooner is worth making mistakes along the way. There are literally millions of innocent lives being destroyed the entire time the world is failing to deal with Al-Shabab.
And I have no delusions about America sending in the CIA for it's own profit, benefit and reasons. America wouldn't be there unless it thought it benefited by being there, and humanitarian reasons are NOT something America cares enough about to risk their own resources to only help foreigners. I still support that American actions coincidentally align with removing a horrific entity destroying the lives of millions of the most underprivileged people on the planet. It's too bad the Congo and Rwanda aren't strategically more important, at least enough to warrant outrage at genocides in progress.
longdesays...*africa
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