World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones?

There is a thread from 2008 here on ATS with the same title, but with the byline "says UN Official"
2008 ATS Thread

This is a new article claiming that allegedly there are U.S. Marine's boots on the ground.

Could not find any other sourcing so please inform to you best so we Deny Ignorance:
World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones
Original Link:
World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia: U.S. Sends in the Marines and Drones

Whenever the U.S. rachets up its armed interventions in Somalia, disaster follows. Four years ago, after the Americans instigated an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to overthrow an Islamist government that had brought a semblance of peace to the region, it set off what the United Nations then called “the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa – worse than Darfur.” Today, many of those same refugees are confronted with the worst humanitarian crisis on the planet – once again, largely courtesy of the United States.

The original news source from 7/13 states:

A U.S. Marine task force is about to be deployed in the war against Somalia, where American drones are stepping up their predations. For the second time in four years, U.S. aggression threatens the lives of multitudes in the Horn of Africa. “A United Nations spokesman describes the food and refugee emergency in Somalia as the ‘worst humanitarian crisis in the world,’ with millions at immediate risk.

So why did GlobalResearch.ca alter the story? Do they have new developments?

Swells another US adventurism underway. Really how many more nations will the US 'liberate'?

reply to post by starwarsisreal


So we have:
#1. Afghanistan
#2. Iraq
#3. Libya
#4. Pakistan
#5. Yemen
#6. Sudan

Lucky #7. Somalia

We can also add Columbia, Mexico, various black ops and lastly the war on it's own Constitution.
List of ongoing military conflicts

The following is a list of ongoing military conflicts that are taking place around the world and which continue to result in violent deaths. This list is for the sole purpose of identifying present-day conflicts and the death toll associated with each conflict.

No wonder we can only buy friends.

Good Lord, we cannot stay out of Somalia. You would've thought we learned our lesson in '93.

Congratulations America, you've successfully maintained a war in every continent simultaneously, minus Antartica.

reply to post by isthisreallife


No I am pretty sure we are in an armed conflict against Saul of The Molemen in the Hollow Earth entrance in Antarctica.

But seriously, does anybody remember an ATS Thread where they claimed that the real reason all the war ships are alleged in offshore of Somalia is because of a wormhole or something odd like that? Can't find the Thread.

Originally posted by isthisreallife

Congratulations America, you've successfully maintained a war in every continent simultaneously, minus Antartica.

you sure? seems Antarctica is the biggest black hole for news on the planet. so even if something WAS going on slim to none chance we would hear of it.

with the financial crises you would think that the US would be bringing troops home not sending out more. but then again when have MOST governments done the sensible thing. wonder WHY there is a financial crises in the first place. sure the military IS needed, but why pay for all these "live fire" training exercises anyway, especially all at once? all that EXPENSIVE ammo wasted, and transportation costs involved.

My country's on the brink of bankruptcy and we start more fighting. We'd probably have a fairly balanced budget if we could just not send troops to random countries.

Read the original article:

“We’re not going to go hunt down al-Qaida in the Maghreb,” said Col. Dale Vesely, plans and operations chief for Marine Forces Africa, which is also based in Stuttgart, “but we’re training [African militaries] to go fight it.” The unit, which includes air and ground elements, could grow from 123 Marines to about 364 troops in the next few years, if the initial missions prove successful, said Brig. Gen. Paul Brier, deputy commander of MARFOR Africa.

www.stripes.com...

But I still am suspicious...because for now they're "just training" until something happens where they have to "immobolize the enemy"

Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
My country's on the brink of bankruptcy and we start more fighting. We'd probably have a fairly balanced budget if we could just not send troops to random countries.

edit on 17-7-2011 by AnIntellectualRedneck because: (no reason given)

opinion:
I think that the financial situation is very illusionary and probably not true. To the people at the top, pushing ammunitions and cargo between warring states, there is no such thing as the crises because they have assets to gain from their opposition whom they are slowly killing using the military apparatus, see they are working in collusion with the states.
most of the governments are bought and sold already and are working at gathering as much resources for profit as possible. they are funding the war by stealing (claiming land entitlements) wherever they go hereby paying their war debt as they go along. They aren't actually losing any "money". I say it like that because money is only what all of us make it, we give it it's worth, if we all decided money was worthless tomorrow, then they would probably kill us and replace us with people who decided it is worth something. like we have right now.

if this doesnt make sense its because i wrote it all out in one giant non stop message lol