War Archive
The Dominoes Reach Somalia
Tuesday Congress gave President Obama additional emergency funding for the war in Afghanistan. But the real new news is that America and Britain are beginning a new war in Somalia.
This was a week where terror succeeded. It began with the Al-Shabaab (Al-Qaeda) bombings in Kampala, which like 9/11 are intended to provoke. [...]
We Won! Power to YOU!
Guess what? We won an important battle: The Wall Street reform act signed by President Obama this week regulates U.S. corporations using Coltan from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)!
Reread my blog of May 10, “Evaporize Goma!”
There I discussed several of the great horrors of Africa : war, corruption, child soldiers and [...]
When Will We Ever Learn?
Posted by jimheck in Foreign Aid, Terrorism, War on July 23, 2010
The U.S. is finally realizing that Somali is the center of the world’s “War on Terror.” And so now we’re all ready to do exactly the wrong thing. Again.
I’ve written often — and spoken in public — about the growing power that Al-Shabaab has in Somalia. Al-Shabaab is Al-Qaeda in The Horn. [...]
EVAPORIZE Goma!
Posted by jimheck in Corruption, War on May 14, 2010
A large midweek wedding celebration dominated the eastern Congo town of Goma, this week, for the first time in decades. Is the war over, or just getting ready to start, again?
We’ll have to go to our PlayStation3 to find out.
I have a mixture of distant nostalgia and abject fear when I remember my own [...]
Rats to those Mines!
Posted by jimheck in War, Wildlife Management on May 13, 2010
An important electricity line has just been laid in western Mozambique, crucial to the development of Mozambique’s big new Limpopo National Park.
Thanks to. Rats.
Yes that’s right. Installation had been stalled because of the huge numbers of land mines that remained in the area from the civil war. Land mines are a problem [...]
Victorious fighters of al-Shabaab
Less than 24 hours after the UN Security Council approved continued funding of the Somali peace-keeping force, that force may have been routed from the capital by al-Qaeda.
After a night of intense fighting in Mogadishu, the blogosphere is replete with claims that al-Shabaab (al-Qaeda in Somalia) is near to taking over. Reuters was unable [...]
Horn of Alarm
The massive U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq to oust Al-Qaeda from the area is like a failed deer culling operation in the Skokie lagoon. It’s just pushing the vermin elsewhere.
And that “elsewhere” is the Horn of Africa, mostly Somalia, but recent events including the attempted Northwest Airlines bombing two days ago, suggest Yemen [...]
War Against the UnWilded
Posted by jimheck in Safari Lodges, Safety, War on December 4, 2009
Up to a third of East Africa’s tourism work force is now out of a job. Until now, it didn’t take guns to send them packing.
A number of high-end, professional robberies have been reported at camps in East Africa over the last month. As in downturns in the past, many disgruntled workers turn [...]
Terror in Somalia/Fear in Kenya
Fighting on the Kenyan border with Somalia does not mean Kenya’s stability is further threatened, but it does mean we better start paying more attention to Somalia.
The bold bombing in what had been a stable part of Mogadishu, today, and which killed several government ministers as well as a dozen graduating university students and several [...]
SEE BABY KILL
The African country that most emulates the west is South Africa. See Baby walk. See Baby run. See Baby kill.
South Africa has long been an arms warehouse, and many believe it already possesses nuclear weapons technology. Its guerilla attack rifle, the NTW-20 is probably one of the most sought [...]