UNITED NATIONS, Feb. 20, 2007

U.N. Sets Stage For Somalia Peacekeepers

Security Council Votes To Authorize African Union Force To Help Stabilize Country

  • Displaced Somalis people gather to check on damage after a mortar shell hit a makeshift house in Mogadishu, Somalia on Feb. 20, 2007. Violence between various warring groups has escalated with this latest mortar and rocket attack hitting Somalia's capital early Tuesday in a series of attacks that killed some 12 people, including a 4-year-old boy and wounded almost 50 others.

    Displaced Somalis people gather to check on damage after a mortar shell hit a makeshift house in Mogadishu, Somalia on Feb. 20, 2007. Violence between various warring groups has escalated with this latest mortar and rocket attack hitting Somalia's capital early Tuesday in a series of attacks that killed some 12 people, including a 4-year-old boy and wounded almost 50 others.  (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

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(AP)  The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize an African Union force to help stabilize Somalia, setting the stage for U.N. peacekeepers to take over the long-term job of bringing peace to the Horn of Africa nation.

The resolution adopted by the council urges the 53 African nations to contribute troops to the 8,000-strong force and urges other U.N. member states to provide financial support and any needed personnel, equipment and services.

The measure gives the AU force international legitimacy. Most African countries will not deploy troops in any peacekeeping mission without such authorization.

"For the first time in 15 years, the Somali people have a prospect of being governed by representative institutions that will provide them with security and stability," said Britain's U.N. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry, the main sponsor of the resolution.

"The international community for its part must lend its support to Somalia's transitional federal institutions to turn this opportunity into a reality," he told the council after the vote.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since clan-based warlords toppled dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 and then turned on each other, sinking the poverty-stricken nation of seven million people into chaos.

The rout in December of the Islamic fundamentalist movement that controlled most of Somalia by Somali government troops and Ethiopian soldiers allowed the country's weak U.N.-backed transitional government to enter the capital, Mogadishu, for the first time since it was established in 2004. But escalating violence threatens to plunge Somalia back into the years of anarchy and chaos.

The latest fighting has also raised questions about the deployment of the AU force, whose first troops — a small Burundian advance team — were scheduled to be on the ground as early as Friday.

Nigeria reiterated its commitment to establishing stability in Somalia, saying Tuesday that its 850-troop contribution to the peacekeeping force should arrive by mid-April.

The resolution adopted Tuesday noted the Aug. 19 communique of the African Union Peace and Security Council stating that the AU will deploy a mission to Somalia for six months to help stabilize Somalia which "will evolve into a United Nations operation that will support the long-term stabilization and post-conflict restoration of Somalia."

It asks Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to send a technical assessment mission to AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and to Somalia as soon as possible to report on the political and security situation "and the possibility of a U.N. peacekeeping operation following the AU's deployment." It asked Ban for a report in 60 days.

The resolution authorizes the AU force to protect the transitional government's institutions, to help re-establish and train Somali security forces, and to help efforts to promote dialogue and reconciliation.

France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere called the AU force "a source of great hope" for the Somali people.



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by lars008-2009 February 22, 2007 7:50 AM EST
I was talking today to a woman from Bosnia, she so many horrific inhuman things were dont by the Muslims to her people. She would only tell me a couple of what she thought was the least of the horrific things that were done... she said that the Muslims would take the pregnant women and asked them if they wanted to know what the *** of their baby is and even if the woman said NO, they would then proceed to cut the baby out of the womb then hold the baby up and tell the dying woman the *** of her baby... and to the men they would put him over a very sharp pointed stake, and eventually he wouldn't be able to hold his weight up and he would fall and impale himself through the bowels and die a horrific death...
These people say that Allah is all merciful, Allah will let people submit and live, but if they dont submit they die, simple...so we either submit or we die,, just as the quran says, and our leaders seem hell bent in putting us in more and more danger, they have allowed the enemy to not only get behind enemy lines but to multiply like flies... They have to deal with the fast growing ever increasing Muslim problem at home and in every country that they have adopted...all other religions come and live happily all except Islam,,
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by lars008-2009 February 22, 2007 7:42 AM EST
let the riots begin......

The float carried two identical cartoon-style papier-mache figures, each wearing a suicide-bomber's belt and carrying a dagger and a pistol. The first was labelled 'the cliche,' the second was labelled 'the reality.'

Both scowling figures were labelled 'mullahs,' a term used to describe both Shiite and Sunni clergy. The float was part of a carnival parade watched by more than half a million people in the western city of Dusseldorf.

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by pepperwood2 February 22, 2007 12:41 AM EST
lars008 - Howdy Mate - Please understand that I'm only the Messenger. I couldn't agree with you more.
Much needs to be done! Now we must go arise from our cover, be thankful that God let us live, and go fight the rest of the battle for those who gave all they could give.

Part II - "But worse than that is that the Rwandans need American money. They need Belgian money to reconstitute themselves. What option do they have regarding Clinton coming in there and trying to excuse himself? Throw him out? No. Embarrass him? They gave him a bit of a hard time, but that was insignificant to what was deserved. These great leaders who go to these countries and ask for excuses, that's sort of like trying to get rid of the blood on their hands. Really what they're doing is imposing that on those people, blackmailing them to accept these apologies, so that it satisfies the people back home that we brought closure. "I went there and in humble statements I demonstrated that we had failed and that we are sorry about it." ***. I have no time for any such actions. There is no respect of the people. I mean it's crass to actually be able to go there and say that. %u2026
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by pepperwood2 February 22, 2007 12:19 AM EST
Cherrio Mate - Please understand that I'm only the messenger - PBS Frontline brought us "The Rest of the Story" Hope this helps!

Frontline Interview Part I - U.N. Force Commander in Rwanda

How do you feel now when you hear U.S. senior officials -- Clinton, Albright, others -- talk about Rwanda? Of course Clinton went and apologized--

He didn't apologize.

Well, it was couched as an apology.

No, no. He went to reinforce the blackmail on the Rwandans. %u2026 When he was there in '98, he said, "Oh, I didn't know. We didn't realize." I've got all those quotes and stuff, which are outright lies. They knew, it was there as information, and it is evident that that information was either at his level or stopped within the structures. But the Americans knew what was going on inside there, and to go and excuse yourself -- the Belgians did the same thing -- in front of these people. The Americans scuttled any initiative to bring about a force to be able to save hundreds of thousands. How can they look at this guy and accept an apology?


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by pepperwood2 February 21, 2007 2:15 AM EST
"Ghosts of Rwanda"

The Annan-Clinton-Murtha-Christopher Policy towards our Beloved Rwandans

"The mother fell. ... The soldier who had shot her shot at the baby who was crawling towards his mother. I will never forget that. I will never forget seeing a soldier's weapon pointed at a baby's head. It is the most horrible scene that I've spent all my life trying to drown."

That we Americans will stand right here and stand against them," Lane says in "Ghosts of Rwanda." "[I] felt very strongly about that, because otherwise they'd think they could get away with it."

Why did the international community so quickly abandon Rwanda at a time when its presence might have stopped the genocide? Like Kofi Annan, many of the diplomats and government leaders in office at the time blame the failed Somalia mission, in which U.S. soldiers attempting to capture a Somali warlord were ambushed.

"The Clinton administration was brought to its knees by the problem in Somalia," says Michael Sheehan, former peacekeeping advisor to the U.S. Mission at the United Nations.

Annan is more succinct. "To some extent," he says, "Rwanda became a victim of the Somali experience."

" Clinton said. "We cannot solve every such outburst of civil strife. ... Whether we get involved in any of the world's ethnic conflicts in the end must depend upon the cumulative weight of the American interests at stake."
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