Somalia country
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Claims (7)
Safari Club supplied_arms_to
Somalia documented
“in order to get the corrupt guys to win, just like we did in Zaire. So this whole thing is bullshit, but I'm just reading to you what it says the Safari Club is. It also provided arms to Somalia during the Ogaden War, and it organized secre…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Revolutionaries for the Right -Kyle Burke @ 1:30:19
Schlumberger trafficked
Somalia book_quoted
“enabled Schlumberger to work with these petro-states and avoid U.S. sanctions. They were also found to operate in Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Okay, he goes on and talks about the fact that there has been cooperation in the past of the CIA usi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner A Gladio Glasses look at Ted Cruz @ 31:27
Tigray People's Liberation Front carried_out_attack
Somalia book_quoted
“kleptocratic rule, Zenawi provoked ethnic division and committed large-scale war crimes against when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 and 2007 and provoked a war with Eritrea in 1998 where the TPLF carried out a large-scale ethnic cleansing…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Ethiopia @ 27:05
CIA overthrew
Somalia host_asserted
“politicians, both parties involved in it. And it is much bigger when you use refugee populations, all of which have been vetted by the State Department from areas where the CIA and the CIA was rampantly involved in Somalia in overthrowing t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Mafia, CIA and George Bush Part 21 @ 1:32:57
United States carried_out_attack
Somalia host_asserted
“extricated itself without pain from only two unwinnable situations, Somalia and Lebanon. And in neither case did the Pentagon risk its credibility. After 40 years of active involvement in Colombia, it's hard to think that it would make the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 8 @ 43:17
CIA installed
Somalia host_asserted
“And they were doing all kinds of crazy shit. And if you go back and read the history of Somalia, you find out that, and I'm not saying they're not bad, they're bad. The terrorist that we were told, the al-Shabaab guys, they were the ones th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia CIA and George Bush Part 22 @ 1:32:22
Erik Prince funded
Somalia guest_asserted
“This included funding famine relief in Somalia and the Sudan and contributing to building hospital schools and orphanages and churches in the Middle East and Asia. She went on to say that Sikowsky's statement to the publication was libelous…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Invisible Soldiers Part 9 @ 47:39
Mentions (57)
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Now that the president's returned from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and meeting with Cater as well. But some of you have been in the spaces. Now, I've been poking at this question about, you know, back after 9-11, Wesley Clark, General Wesley Clar…
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And most, like the Horn of Africa, which for our purposes includes like Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya. And I don't remember if Uganda, I want to say it was, but maybe not. But that whole...…
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because it looks like a rhinoceros's horn. And that is considered the Horn of Africa. And it's critically important because if you zoom in on Yemen and Djibouti, Eritrea, in that area, youth in Somalia, you see immediately the narrow passag…
▶ 27:05
kleptocratic rule, Zenawi provoked ethnic division and committed large-scale war crimes against when Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 and 2007 and provoked a war with Eritrea in 1998 where the TPLF carried out a large-scale ethnic cleansing…
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operations into Somalia and Eritrea. Another professor, Dr. Saleh Mohamed Idris, recounted before the International People's Tribunal a conversation between Zanawi and a CIA agent by the name of Paul Henze, which we ran across him before, H…
▶ 32:57
or anybody else to include the Department of Defense from the U.S. in its country. To punish it for its defiance, the U.S. began imposing crippling sanctions under the false pretext that Eritrea supported the Somalian terrorist group al-Sha…
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Where's his name again? Barnett, Thomas Barnett, wrote called The Pentagon's New Map. It was published in 2004. I will find that and post it later if Bridget doesn't beat me to it during the course of the show. But another bullet point, the…
▶ 1:30:19
in order to get the corrupt guys to win, just like we did in Zaire. So this whole thing is bullshit, but I'm just reading to you what it says the Safari Club is. It also provided arms to Somalia during the Ogaden War, and it organized secre…
▶ 31:27
enabled Schlumberger to work with these petro-states and avoid U.S. sanctions. They were also found to operate in Saudi Arabia and Somalia. Okay, he goes on and talks about the fact that there has been cooperation in the past of the CIA usi…
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of all of these people outside of the United States, when the responsibility, you can't come here as a non-English speaking Somalian and steal billions of dollars from American taxpayers without Americans helping you, setting you up. That's…
▶ 1:41:27
Don't focus on the Somalia or the Minnesota aspect. This is not Somalian fraud. It's not Minnesota fraud. This is government fraud, and it is enabled by people who benefit from it. Focus on where does this whole fraud start, and that's in W…
▶ 43:17
extricated itself without pain from only two unwinnable situations, Somalia and Lebanon. And in neither case did the Pentagon risk its credibility. After 40 years of active involvement in Colombia, it's hard to think that it would make the …
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on interrogation that was created by the FBI. They dubbed it in Portuguese. During class hours at the International Police Academy, discussions of domestic politics was not allowed. The academy's official liked to point out that whether you…
▶ 20:23
The original Top Gun was directed by the late Tony Scott and produced by Jerry Brockheimer, who went on to produce Black Hawk Down, a recreation of the ambush of U.S. soldiers in Somalia. Oliver Stone called Black Hawk Down a nonsense movie…
▶ 1:31:40
Just like they used USAID. They are using these programs to money launder our money. And it is not all going to Somalians in the United States. And it is not all going to Somalia. This is just the latest operation to steal our money. And it…
▶ 1:32:57
politicians, both parties involved in it. And it is much bigger when you use refugee populations, all of which have been vetted by the State Department from areas where the CIA and the CIA was rampantly involved in Somalia in overthrowing t…
▶ 1:33:19
whatever you call it, terrorist organization, that whole thing sprung up because of CIA operations. They were the people that were fighting the CIA. And that's the reason why they're called terrorists. And I'm not saying they're good people…
▶ 1:31:58
not the main source that they control. They're taking out the competition. And so you literally have to be on crack if you think that all of these quote unquote refugees, where we've sourced every one of them to include Somalia, why are all…
▶ 1:32:22
And they were doing all kinds of crazy shit. And if you go back and read the history of Somalia, you find out that, and I'm not saying they're not bad, they're bad. The terrorist that we were told, the al-Shabaab guys, they were the ones th…
▶ 1:33:43
in charge of the drug operations going into LA on the South side, in San Francisco, in Miami. They don't sit idly by. They work for the CIA inside the United States. And that's exactly what the Somalians are doing. They bring the people her…
▶ 51:02
There were other political actions in Somalia. The special group approved in February 1964. That project went on for years. The special group reportedly considered a State Department proposal of supplying arms to certain groups in Tanzania,…
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was not aggressive enough. When Richard Allen, Reagan's first national security advisor, ordered a covert operation to disable floating dry docks the Soviet had put on the Somali port of Berbera, McMahon objected to this as an act of war. A…
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On December 9th, 1992, if Americans remember anything about the U.S. in Somalia, other than the tragic battle popularized by Black Hawk Down, it is the midnight invasion of this East African country where Marines landed in the glare of ligh…
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record because it's like, hey, most of these do not come to fruition until after the swearing in of the next president. They fell short on this one. The Somali operation was typical of US military actions during the 90s, quote unquote, huma…
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Not because the CIA wasn't involved, because they were. They were intimately involved in creating it as a failed state. The forces that had arrayed in Somalia overthrew Mohamed Siari, who had been the leader of Somalia for 20 years. The war…
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The Bush administration had actually evacuated its embassy in Mogadishu. Until then, the Somali capital, several thousand American citizens left at the same time that the Gulf War had started, which was well before that. By Bush's final day…
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and pickup trucks or four-wheel drive vehicles equipped with machine guns doing whatever they wanted. International Aid Group was unable to distribute food. The UN created a mission in the spring of 1992 because you want to put civilians in…
▶ 20:03
taken all of those supplies, just like what we see happening now, where they take the supplies and then sell them in black market. And there were Somalias starving. Having lost the election, he decided to go ahead with an effort to interven…
▶ 20:37
One reason the TV crews were set up on the beach was that the CIA cleared the way. Sounds like a setup. Michael Shacklin, former deputy director of the station in Mogadishu, returned to help make this intervention possible. Isn't that nice?…
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Shanklin arrived at the airfield north of the city with the CIA team to reactivate his old network. Among his assets had been a top aide to Mohammad Farhad Hadin, one of the most powerful warlords who controlled much of Mogadishu and was re…
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Whether you like it or not, just like Qaddafi, when they leave, the entire thing falls apart. That man had been on the payroll of Shacklin. The CIA had apprised Hadin of the impending U.S. intervention. In other words, setting them up. On D…
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most of them American, walking into a death trap. The night of the landing, Shacklin's people watched the beaches. American troops quickly dispersed through Mogadishu, creating a main base at the international airport. Heavy transports bega…
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to points on the Somali coast. The CIA facilitated these moves in the same way that it had connected with Hadid. For example, a few days after the initial disembarkment, agency operatives teamed with U.S. diplomats and international peaceke…
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Tumarka in January was carried off in exactly the same way. The first American death of the Somali operation was in fact a CIA assignee, Sergeant Larry Friedman of Delta Force, detached to work with the CIA. Conditions were never easy. Unli…
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CIA officers moved one or a few at a time and never had the same priority for reinforcement. Yeah. Shacklin confronted the chaos soon after the invasion as he drove CIA's new station chief to meet an agent. Gunmen stopped them. One grabbed …
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Still, as security deteriorated, the CIA people were forced to surround themselves with protective details, which made clandestine movement impossible. Mike Shacklin had one major advantage. As an African American, he could at least blend i…
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There was about 21,000 troops. The U.S. had nearly 4,000. Pakistan had sent a large contingent as well, almost 5,000, which is interesting because we're just out of Pakistan and Afghanistan, right? So these Pakistan contingents are the peop…
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ordinarily find that kind of strange, except for the fact that Somalia used to be a colony of Italy. A Turkish general held top command. Major General Thomas Montgomery was the U.S. senior troop commander. The U.N. also changed the mission.…
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You know, while our troops are still on the ground, we're no longer just feeding people. We're now going to actually get into action. To accomplish this, the U.N. appointed a special representative, an American retired Admiral Jonathan Howe…
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an attitude that did not serve him well in Mogadishu. They called it the dish. That was the nickname for the Somali capital. Spooks and soldiers labored amidst intense heat. The services did what they could to pass time. One American recall…
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um music from armed forces radio the um dj would say keep your head down in the volume up mike shacklin performed in an assignment that he didn't want code name condor shacklin had had his share of heat and sun as a marine major in vietnam …
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He had been certain of years in the sun and he had gotten them. Sudan, Algeria, Jordan, Chad, then Somalia for the first time. Yeah, that's interesting knowing what we know now about all of those. So he's definitely one of the covert guys w…
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He had also had an abbreviated tour in Liberia, which is really interesting. Shacklin's request was for a place where the water runs and the lights work. Instead, he got Somalia. As the UN built up, Shacklin's relationship became complicate…
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of the outgoing U.S. military commander's comment to Howe. Look, do not take on Adid. Whatever you do, don't. You have to understand who he is in the country. Don't make him an enemy. But the dish became tenser by the day. Adid worried that…
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A CIA report on June 21st pictured Adid as a canny opportunist and a disruptive force among the Somali politics. How do we always link up with those guys every single time? In early June, two dozen Pakistani soldiers had been killed from an…
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would destroy him, just had a target put on his head. Admiral Howe demanded U.S. reinforcements in a parallel effort to take down the warlord. American commanders also asked for heavy tanks. A July 19th CIA report placed responsibility for …
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On at least one occasion, CIA informants were trapped in an artillery bombardment of Somali positions, retaliating for attacks on the UN. Another time, the CIA and military got into a fight over cross-border missions, which the soldiers int…
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yesterday or the day before. In 2010, while still Blackwater's chairman of the board, Prince helped a private military company known as Saracen International. It would later become Sterling Corporate Services. When contracts in Somalia to t…
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Kellogg, Brown, and Root contractors were dispatched to Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Albania, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Somalia, Zaire, Haiti, a large swath of Southwest Asia, all to support U.S. Army operations. The Balkans, on the wh…
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that there's an entire population that was resettled from a CIA operation in Somalia in Minneapolis. These people refuse, for whatever reason, to even discuss or name the CIA. The CIA did not allow Jeffrey Epstein. The FBI did not allow Jef…
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The asymmetrical conflicts employing unconventional operatives was not new to the history of warfare. In Africa, low-intensity, local, intrastate battles have been ongoing in countries like Angola for 30 years. And, of course, we've talked …
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allowing the firm to run support operations for the U.S. military in Haiti, Somalia, Balkans, Kuwait, among others. So his reward, Dick Cheney's, for getting Halliburton the job was he gets to be the CEO. Under the leadership of President B…
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And of course, General Powell was on board with that because he's army. Got to have the ground forces. Adding to complications were two recent events. America's failed intervention in Somalia in 1993 and the 100 days of genocide in Rwanda i…
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It concerned him that so many Americans knew nothing about it. And it was even worse considering the new technology of drones. That deeply concerned him. By 2012, there were two types of drone wars, one conducted by U.S. military in Afghani…
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The humanitarian organizations were reporting that UN peacekeepers have been quietly turning to private security, particularly in hazardous areas like Somalia and Afghanistan. And again, if you didn't have the CIA creating these instabiliti…
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would be the insurance industry, which we established early on in this book, was tightly linked to Aegis. Once again, the government was stepping aside and allowing the private sector to sell right in, and it wasn't just off the coast of So…
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This included funding famine relief in Somalia and the Sudan and contributing to building hospital schools and orphanages and churches in the Middle East and Asia. She went on to say that Sikowsky's statement to the publication was libelous…