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Ethiopia /USA/ Somali Pirates' Cover-up By Thomas C. Mountain |
Global Research, April 16, 2009 |
Onlinejournal.com |
The Somali pirates operate out of the Ethiopian and USA created enclavesin Somalia calling themselves Somaliland and Puntland. These Ethiopian and USA backed warlord controlled territories have for many years hosted Ethiopianmilitary bases, which have been greatly expanded recently by the addition of thousands of Ethiopian troops who were driven out of southern and central Somaliby the Somali resistance to the Ethiopian invasion.
After securing their ransom for the hijacked ships the Somali pirates headdirectly to their local safe havens, in this case, the Ethiopian military bases, where they make a sizeable contribution to the retirement accounts of theEthiopian regime headed by Meles Zenawi.
Of course, the international naval forces who are patrolling the Horn ofAfrica know all too well what is going on for they have at their disposal all sorts of high tech observation platforms, ranging from satellites to unmanneddrones with high resolution video cameras that report back in real time.
The French commandos started to pursue the Somali pirates into their lairslast year until the pirates got the word that for the right amount of cash they were more than welcome in the Ethiopian military bases in their localneighborhoods. Ethiopia being the western, mainly USA, Cop on the Beat in East Africa put these bases off limits to the frustrated navies of the world, who areno doubt growling in anger to their USA counterparts about why this is all going on.
Now that the pirates have started attacking USA flagged shipping,something that was until now off limits, it remains to be seen what the Obama administration will do. One thing we in the Horn of Africa have learned all toowell, when it comes to Ethiopia, don't expect anything resembling accurate coverage by the media, especially those who operate under the cloak of"freedom of the press."
Stay tuned for more on this from the www.Onlinejournal.com, the only site willing to expose thetruth on matters no one else will touch.
Thomas C. Mountain, the last white manliving in Eritrea, was in a former life an educator, activist and alternative medicine practitioner in the USA. Email thomascmountain at yahoo.com.
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