For some reason this story has not yet made the news in the U.S.:
On Monday, March 3, the U.S. Navy fired a Tomahawk missile at a house in Somalia where they claimed an al Qaeda member, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted for questioning by the FBI for involvement in the African embassy bombings in 1998, was hiding out.
CNN reported that 6 people, 3 women and 3 children, were killed and another 20 were injured. Two houses were destroyed.
Now the Daily Nation out of Nairobi, Kenya, is reporting that Nabhan was not at the site at the time of the attack:
A US missile strike against the Somali town of Dobley may have missed its target – Kenyan terror suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. …
The Tomahawk missile fired from the sea may have hit when the suspect, born in 1968 in Mombasa, had already left the location, the sources added.
But the police are not ruling out that Mr Nabhan may be among the 20 people wounded in the attack.
Mr Nabhan is a close ally of another wanted terrorist suspect Harun Fazul, and are believed to be always together.
Other sources close to Mr Nabhan said they did not believe he was killed. “I think it’s just propaganda to try and find out where he actually is,†said one source.
The current war in Somalia, a greater humanitarian catastrophe than even the crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan, was started by the United States back in December, 2006, in the name of catching 3 al Qaeda suspects.
This is completely crazy! How long is the US going to go around the world killing innocent people in the name of fighting terrorism?
Display of unaccountability defines status as a member of the elite.
In order to be unaccountable one must err or transgress.
For unaccountability to be displayed error or transgression must be displayed.
Genuine incompetence is the most reliable path to error and transgression and their display.
Ergo: Given competition and over time the elite will approach and display complete incompetence in all its acts and their immunities.
Chinese Launch Missile Attack On American Terrorist –San Francisco, PIP.
In a surprise early morning attack yesterday a Chinese warship launched a cruise missile meant to destroy Ling Chow, a Taiwanese-American terrorist who has been fomenting violence with the People’s Republic of China. The missile struck a bungalow in San Francisco near the Golden Gate bridge where Chow allegedly stayed. At least a dozen American civilians were killed and an undetermined number wounded. Authorities claim Chow was not in the bungalow at the time of the attack.
Chinese officials ignored the few feeble American complaints about the attack, saying that they had a right to defend themselves against terrorism, and that it was unfortunate if innocent civilians were killed. One official, speaking off the record, noted that terrorists often used families with children to protect themselves, and that it wasn’t clear that those who died in the attack were not themselves associated with Ling Chow.
In Beijing the Chinese Communist Party Chairman’s approval rating went up 11 points overnight after the attack. Bloggers and various talk show hosts have vigorously supported the Chairman’s campaign against terrorism in general and the San Francisco attack in particular, noting that the government should root out unpatriotic, anti-Chinese elements which try to undermine China’s fight for survival.
Meanwhile the United States has appealed to the United Nations for redress, but the Chinese-dominated Security Council is considered by experts to be unlikely to accede to the U.S.’s demands, or even allow a resolution against such attacks.
Exactly, and though it may appear to be a logical jump of some magnitude, the only possible Neo-Fascist and Theo-Fascist response by Americans at the moment will to be found in Thucydides’ Melian dialogue, mouthed by the Athenians.
Even the Libertarian, whether he agrees or not, and also the Socialist, may at least come to grasp what was behind Mao Tse-tung’s, “the only power comes out of the barrel of a gun.”
Whatever happens over the next few decades, and if one lives long enough to see it, one is looking forward to the surviving Neo-cons, for example, preparing long and sophistic texts designed to indoctrinate the Chinese Communist-Fascists into their own high-minded perception of ethical behavior between peoples and nations.
See the Klare article about the next big “threat”.
Without a reason to justify their multi-billion dollar budgets, the pentagon fat-cats would lose their raison d’etre Thus, we always be at war with someone… until somnambulant Americans wake up and break the chain. And that is a stretch.
It will last as long as the $$$ holds out.
saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted for questioning by the FBI for involvement in the African embassy bombings in 1998, was hiding out.?!!
The U.S decided he was guilty, and decided to kill him without any court proceedings,so we would never know if he really was guilty or not! but if he was killed would not have to exprience American hospitalty at Gitmo!
It’s not “How long is the US going to go around the world…”, it’s how long are INDIVIDUALS going to “BUY IN” to the LIE and conveniently perform their MURDEROUS actions from an “unaccountable” distance.
These “service” men and women are nothing but godd*amn f*cking murderers.
“Serve their country” my ass.
Get a real job or start a real business providing a real service. THAT’S “serving the country”.
I “SERVED” my country for 24 yrs in the United States Army and i stand as proud today of our armed forces as i did the day i took my oath to protect this great nation and all who called themselves Americans. I watched as the people that i vowed to protect turned their backs on me and the brothers and sisters that i proudly served with.
We stood strong thru the hate filled voices, the protests and the knowledge that the people we were willing to lay our lives down for could care less.
Our military survived all of this and gained a new found strength that no matter what, We would never forsake our country even though it felt as if it had forsaken us.
Calling us murderers is nothing new to us, putting us down and trying to make us feel less than is nothing new to us.
Our will as defenders of our nations freedom will NEVER be broken! We will never forsake our people or our land, We will forever stand true to the vow we took to place the lives of our fellow Americans and the lifes blood of this great nation that we call home above all threats against us.
Our minds are trained for strength and our bodies built to defend. Call us whatever you would like… but know that we will continue our journeys as American Soldiers. We will not go down quietly! We will continue to defend this nation and it people for all threats and all evil. No one will break our SPIRIT that we hold so dear in calling ourselves…AMERICAN SOLDIERS! To all the men and women my ‘Brothers and Sisters’ of our Armed Forces i proudly say ..HOOOAHHHH God Bless or Great Nation and Our Armed Forces
CW2 McCarty
United States Army
82nd Airborne Div.
Peachy keen rhetoric. You might want to review the military oath, which is to the United States Constitution. you might also want the read said Constitution one of these days. The enemy is in the office of President and Vice President.
corr: “You might”, “to read”
Guess you are not perfect either huh?
The typos are a dead give away.
retired vet,
Get over yourself and read Major General Smedley Butler’s “War Is a Racket.” It is online. Perhaps once you stop congratulating yourself, you can start understanding why some of us do not appreciate your so called service to the country.
“Our will as defenders of our nations freedom will NEVER be broken!” Is this a joke? You don’t defend our freedoms, you defend the Empire. You are definitely don’t protect us by being in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Check this out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/sep/06/september11.iraq/print
Indeed, ingrate, Old Auger Eye’s oath was to the United States Constitution, wasn’t it? In both theory and practice.
Dear Mr. McCarty,
God bless you for your service to our nation. Many people don’t understand that if it were not for you and people like you, we would not have the freedom to sit comfortably in our homes and freely express our thoughts on this blog or anywhere else for that matter. Freedom is not free. Yes, our nation has made some awful mistakes and no we certainly are not perfect. But what nation is? God bless people like you. And please know that I think most Americans still hold you in very high regard. So don’t worry about the small minority who villify and disrespect you.
Well we thank you Tim… me , my father and im sure his father before him and now i thank you for my son who is presently serving his 3rd tour overseas for all of your support. He is the 4th generation soldier in this family and no we dont do it for the glory or the praise… We do it for the love of our great nation and the pride we hold for it! I am well aware of all the ignorance in this world, as is my son. But as he always says, ” I dont fight the enemy in front of me…I fight for the people who stand behind me”. And i think those words are by far priceless.
And you are right… Freedom is NOT free! It was bought and paid for by the blood sweat and tears of our fallen brothers and sisters.
Again thank you for your comment sir and the support of our troops!
Aha.
“We will continue to defend this nation and it(s) people for(from??) all threats and all evil.”
And what do you call blowing up women and children with Guided Missiles? In my book that is called an “evil act”, just like the bombing of Guernica was evil when the Nazis did it, painting a US Air Force or US Navy symbol on those missiles, bombs, and bombers does not “automatically” make evil acts “acceptable”. Evil acts are evil acts, US troops are not exempt from the ethical standards that others must follow or else be called “evil”. They apply to everyone.
Swirling down a sinkhole of murder, corruption, incompetence, and moral depravity. Yup, rest in peace ‘land of the free and home of the ONCE brave’. Amerika is governed by punks and the Amerikan people allows it.
Right, Skulz, and the youth of the USA are unhappy with their elders for allowing punks to govern it/us.
I’d say this is payback by installment for the “Black Hawk Down” episode back in October 1993 (remember the dead Americans being paraded through the streets after being stripped?). I’m quite sure that, had everything worked out as planned by the Neocons (Afghanistan and Iraq conquered, new governments in Iran and Syria, Israel triumphant), an invasion of Somalia and really bloody, destructive payback for the events of October 1993 would’ve been the order of the day.
Yes, another intrusion into places where we do not belong. I’m sure that one stung as a bunch of supposedly rag-tag locals lured our eleite rangers and special forces into a death trap. For a good article on how the state keeps luring young men into national “service” go here.
Today Iraq is made to pay for The Babylonian captivity.
“The Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile, is the name typically given to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar during the 6th Century BC. The Captivity and subsequent return to Israel are pivotal events in the history of the Jews and Judaism, and had far-reaching impacts on the development of modern Jewish culture and practice….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity
The Israelis have no one to blame for that one except their own King.
It parallels the present day situation where our stupid, so-called, leaders have gotten US into a big mess.
Isn’t Somalia a sovereign state? What the hell is the US doing firing missiles into a sovereign state?
Because we’re freaking bullies, eh, Deucaon.
If Somalia could shoot back and sink the attacking ships the US Navy would not do such things.
Aha. We need to send in more Tomahawks and take out the Hospital. If he was wounded we will be sure to get him. We of course regret any deaths of innocent civilians. We do our best.
The Cuban terrorist who blew up a Venezuelan airliner on a flight from Caracas to Havana is living in retirement in Miami. Chavez has every right to start raining missiles into Little Havana to get the mass murdering bastard. The Cuban Youth Fencing team was on the plane but since they didn’t repudiate Castro and dared represent Cuba overseas that made them guilty and deserving of death. Hugo will of course regret any innocent loss of life.
I wonder how long until American police routinely lob missiles into communities to get the “bad guyd” since everyone is of course guilty. A quick torture session always gets a confession after all. And we are at War against drugs and poverty so its all OK.
Well, it is purely historical observation that SWAT teams were one of the widely unpublicized consequences of the War in Vietnam, weren’t they?
So too the militarization of police and “policification” of the military, yes?
In fact, there is little doubt in my mind that Erik Prince and Blackwater are pursuing, besides their own enormous profits, the next and obvious step if Americans are apathetic enough to let them.
Actually the boys at Natick(where the US Army researches future and current gear) are cooking up something that they call “new” Police Uniforms which look like something resembling Waffen SS uniforms with black and white stripes and combat helmets. These are meant to be deployed in situations such as New Orleans during Hurrican Katrina. The transformation of the US into a full Police State is only years away.
http://nsrdec.natick.army.mil/media/photo/techprog/techprog1_lg.jpg
The Cuban terrorist is good terrorist!
More state terrorism by Murder Inc, ie the US Military and the war criminal civilians they report to. They all belong in the Hague answering for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
War crimes? Crimes against humanity?
Oh are you refering to them being our seas to keep the terrorism out of the US?
Im sure they wouldnt mind, they are already over their doing the jobs that men like yourself dont have the balls to.
So you just sit there on your coward hind end and hide behind your computer while the real men go to the front lines and sit at home typing out your pityful little whines.
My opinion is that anyone posting negative comments toward their own country and military be charged with treason!
…and taken to concentration camps while everyone else proclaims their love for the Fuhrer.
Hail Victory! Hail Victory!
One Empire, One People, One Commander in Chief!
I wonder if the failure of this attack will get much attention in the media. After all, if it did then the Wargasm Party nutballs who called this a “victory in the Global War on Terror” would have to come up with a new story.
Yep, blowing up Third world outhouses with multi-million dollar guided missiles…that’s the work of our “best and brightest”!
You bring up a central point, that few have discussed to date: how much does it cost the US military to do X in terms of what is used and what is destroyed or incapacitated?
The same question began to occur near the end of the Vietnam conflict, though who knows what the multiplier might be in regard to Iraq?
Be of good cheer, it has to date cost only perhaps $3,000,000,000,000 (which figure will grow to perhaps $7,000,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000,000 over the next fifteen or more years) to destroy Iraq and increase the influence of Iran in the area.
In the process the Bush administration has stretched the US military to the breaking point, put the country on the edge of bankruptcy, and made the US simultaneously hated and a laughingstock around the world.
Bargain basement prices perhaps.
The old KGB could not have done a better job if they tried.
With oil today over $105 per barrel it may be time to take five and put an attack on Iran and oil at $200 per barrel into your economic models, if you got ’em.
Speaking of attacks and the “O” word, has anyone been able to make any sense out all the saber rattling going on South of Panama? It appears that something is afoot and I would not be surprised if our friendly local intelligence agency is at the center of it, stirring the pot. The aim of it all would be to ged rid of Señor Hugo, who has proven himself to be a pain in the okole for US oil interests…
There is a video of an interview with the elder Bush responding to Senor Chavez calling his son a “burro” that is pertinent.
Senor Chavez is extremely intelligent under what looks like bluster.
You realize, naturally, that Venezuela has been subsidizing US oil supplies at below market prices?
I don’t think some of the American military and civilian black ops folks in Colombia have thought it all through.
Chavez has, including the irrelevancy of whether he survives personally or not.
“[AP March 7,2008] Light, sweet crude for April delivery rose 46 cents to $105.93 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after setting a new trading record of $106.54….
Lower interest rates tend to weaken the dollar, and many analysts believe the weak dollar is the reason why oil has set new inflation-adjusted records three times this week, and risen 23 percent in less than a month….
On Friday, the dollar set a new low against the euro Friday before rising. But most investors believe that despite occasional rebounds, the dollar is likely to continue falling as the Fed continues to cut rates….
Concerns about a possible conflict between oil producers Venezuela and Colombia also supported oil prices Friday. Earlier this week, rebels attacked and shut down a a Colombian oil pipeline that transports 60,000 barrels of oil a day in retaliation for a Colombian raid into Ecuador. Venezuela threatened to slash trade and nationalize Colombian-owned businesses, and Venezuela and Ecuador have sent troops to their borders with Colombia….
Goldman Sachs, a widely watched oil price prognosticator, said oil could average $110 a barrel by 2010, up from a previous forecast of $80, and said a price spike as high as $200 a barrel is possible, according to Dow Jones Newswires….”
[excerpt]
As I said, for all his apparent bluster, Senor Chavez is an extremely intelligent fellow, and has thought things through, as, for example, most Americans, left and right, seemingly have not.
Translation of Tim R comments to McCarthy:
“Thanks for defending Israel for me so I don’t have to do it myself as I am a coward who would rather blog and convince other people to do it for me. ”
Yours disingenuously,
Benedict Arnold
A bit hard on Benedict Arnold, whose leg still lies patriotically at Saratoga.
Was Phil once part of our military?
If not then i guess his own comment is toward himself as well
Eugene
Your comment reminds me of when Jim Trafficant apologized to all the hookers because Congressman were being compared to them. He felt that it was an insult to the hookers.
Yeah at least you get what you paid for.
I will never be part of a military that defends another country at the damage and peril to ours. Thats treason.
They would be feasting I presume after bombarding a tiny forrested village close to the border of Kenya with AC-130 missiles. Little do they know that their missiles have successfully managed to wipe out a herd of cattle and some pastoralists in the village. And no sign of ‘Al-Qaeda’ operatives…
The AC-130 is an aircraft not a missile. It is like a bomber, but it uses Cannons/guns instead of bombs and missiles to direct cannon fire against targets on the ground from high altitudes. It is cheaper than using Tomahawks and JDAM/Paveway/JSOW bombs to vaporize villagers. Now if the Somalis were to get some decent Manpads(Portable Surface to Air missiles) from Eritrea or Egypt it would likely level out the playing field a bit.
You know the double standards are just too obvious. The US accuses the Sudanese government of using aircraft in attacking Darfur villages, yet the US has no problem with using aircraft to attack villages across the planet.