My feeling is that the Somalis are paying the price for killing 18 American GI’s.America has long forgottent that her peacekeepers have killed over 10,000 Somali women and Children in one single day. Because those white Anglo-Saxons at the helm of American power place very little value on Black live in their home country the situation in Somalia is an extension of the racist attitudes of the dominant white elite.

I have no doubt that minority Christian Tigre-led Ethiopia regime of Mr. Zenawi is an agent of US. Directly or indirectly the US should be held account for the atrocities and the war-crimes that are committted on their behalf.

I believe and totally see all the acts of violence such as “Suicide Bombing” and “Political Killings” by the Al-shebab and the alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia as legitimate.
The dangerous conditions created by the Ethiopian Invasion demands such measures. I am not one of those apologetic Somalis that call their people terrorist or they have links to Al-Qaida when their own people are being victimized for reasons of whiteman racism and Jewish led global zionism. I believe and would recommend to the Somali people to go and slaughter every single white man in the dark continent whenever they have the chance and where ever.

I believe and support that the legitimate mechanisms and appropriate prime sponsors of terror and state-led are pridominantly white Anglo-saxons and their stooges every where. I believe this global minority must be seen as what they are bigots that are terrorizing the rest of the world when they are only less then 12% of the people on the face on earth.

I believe be it in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Somalia those who are fighting the instruments of America and their “workers” are doing their nationalistic duties to ebb the “the empire of America” and her Zionist and terrorist agenda. The real Al-Qaida that has the hallmark of terrorist acts is the US. Who else but bombards innocent civilians on daily bases and call them the victims of their “state sponsored terrorism” terrorists.

We are fed up with the American war-machine. And the people of the World emphatically say America your security is in your national border not in the hinderland of Arabia, Asia, or Africa. May be I believe this Devil whiteman should be nuked.

Don’t worry about having to defend the U.S. government and military from an “Islamaphobia” foreign policy in the Horn of Africa. I believe the present scenarios playing out inside Somalia are complicated and potentially dangerous as Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer and other international government officials and experts have repeatedly stated to the international press for years.

Let’s start with the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, then there was that nasty little incident back in 1993… plus the Ethiopians and Kenyans and Eritreans and Sudanese and Libyans and Yemenis and Saudi Arabians and… all have their national security and business interests in Somalia at stake.

Interesting to watch all the international envoys swoop into the region now in order to take advantage of the departure of the CIC (Council of Islamic Courts) from Mogadishu. Perhaps the more moderate elements of the CIC will be very anxious to sit down at the negotiating table with the Somali TFG and the “international community envoys” real soon. The government leaders of the autonomous regions of Somaliland and Puntland may even show up at the peace neogtiations. Now that would be really something, wouldn’t it?

This “invasion” was bound to happen and you (not you personally, but you the reader) would have to have been very naive indeed to not have read the “Writing on the Wall” over the past 3 years or so. The JTF-HOA in Djibouti is not a multi-national development aid project, not exactly. How many western countries have a (token) presence of military combat troops and medical and engineering personnel in Djibouti now?

Here is a Wikipedia link to more information about the Ethiopian military for Michael Riggs. I thought that those TV news reports showing Ethiopian troops with their heavy trucks and hardware looked familiar (Russian, East European, post-Soviet era stuff). The “technicals” (small pickup trucks with mounted heavy caliber automatic rifles and AAA) are Japanese and Korean made vehicles, sourced from select Middle Eastern and North African used car dealers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopia/Military

Akwe’s other point about Ethiopia’s Muslim population is well-placed and important. No one is getting how important, even the few (NPR) who get the numbers right (I’d say 50% Muslim is a conservative estimate): global support of Ethiopia’s invasion will contribute to massive destabilization within the country as well, and more importantly, heightened autocracy and tacit oppression of the Muslim population by the Meles regime.

Ethan – though I agree with nearly everything you say, it’s important to keep in mind that this is a global failure. Yes, US Islamophobia is at the heart of recent events, but their was a lot of regional and global cooperation that went into constructing and supporting the Baidoa gov. Knowing how many people could probably see this work going down the tubes back in July, I’m astonished at the global silence that has accompanied Ethiopia’s presence in Somalia. And now? Well, Kenya at least can’t afford to remain silent – let us hope that some how, someone, can buy some time as this conflict approaches their border.