Monday, April 15, 2013

Seriously? Obama ok’s U.S. military support for Somalia’s new Muslim Brotherhood-linked president

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Sequester? via Barack Obama okays military support for Somalia. h/t sheikyermami

US military support for Somalia – US President Barack Obama, has said Somalia will receive military assistance from the US in order to bolster security and stability in the Horn of African nation.
A US State Department statement, made available to PANA in New York on Tuesday, said Obama made this known in a memo on Monday to the US Secretary of State, John Kerry.
It quoted Obama in the memo as stating: ‘I hereby find that the furnishing of defence articles and defence services to the Federal Republic of Somalia will strengthen the security of the United States and promote world peace’.
It also disclosed that the President directed Kerry to apprise the US Congress of the development.

PANA reports that the statement did not indicate the details or types of military materials and services to be provided to the Somali government.
The UN Security Council had on 6 March partially lifted the decades-old arms embargo on Somalia for one year to help the country in its fight against the armed al-Shabab group.
Fighting them in Africa, funding, arming and training them in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Gaza and elsewhere.
The council had said that it unanimously adopted a UK-drafted resolution that also renewed a 17,600-strong African Union peacekeeping force for a year and reconfigured the UN mission in the Horn of Africa country.
The 15-member council stated that the resolution would allow sales of weapons as automatic assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, but ban surface-to-air missiles, large-calibre guns, howitzers, cannons and mortars as well as anti-tank guided weapons, mines and night vision weapon sights.
It also requires that the Somali government or the country delivering assistance notify the UN Security Council ‘at least five days in advance of any deliveries of weapons and military equipment and providing details of such deliveries and assistance and the specific place of delivery in Somalia’.
The Somali government had asked for the arms embargo to be lifted and the US supported that, but other UN Security Council members were concerned about completely lifting the embargo due to security challenges.
The government believes lifting the embargo will help it strengthen its poorly-equipped military and enhance security measures in the country.
The embargo was imposed on Somalia in 1992 to cut the flow of weapons to feuding warlords, who a year earlier had ousted late Mohamed Siad Barre and plunged the country into civil war.
Somalia held its first elections last year to elect a president and prime minister since 1991.
An international meeting on Somalia is to convene in May in London.
As Daniel Greenfield writes, “Why settle for just arming the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Syria?
Obama decided this week that the Muslim Brotherhood-linked regime ruling parts of Somalia out of the capital city Mogadishu is eligible to receive U.S. military aid and weapons, sending a memo to Secretary of State John Kerry announcing the new finding and laying the ground work for even more foreign entanglements in Africa.
Giving weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood is bound to promote world peace. How could it not?
Rumor has it Obama is sending them the Blue Angels. 
He already used U.S. taxpayer funds to supply Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt with teargas.

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