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Somali aid blockade: Killing kids to revenge 9:11 ?!

—–The Somali Civil War broke out twenty years ago, when the US removed its support for dictator Siad Barre. Most of the country is currently presided over by al-Shabaab, who the western

the political Aid Blockade to Al Shabaab continues the cruel punishment for imagined crimes against America, starting 30 years ago when uninvited US troops were kicked out after the Black Hawk fiasco.

media routinely link to al-Qaeda, though the US government’s own National Counterterrorism Center has found no organisational links. The US backs its rivals in the so-called Transitional Federal Government, which is more open to western interests than al-Shabaab….

…Now, as famine grips the region, the Obama administration sees a potential opportunity to re-establish US hegemony. In her speech last week Hillary Clinton stated that: “The relentless terrorism by al-Shabaab against its people has turned an already severe situation into a dire one that is only expected to get worse”. Even by the standards of imperial realpolitik, this is staggering hypocrisy.

In reality, it is the US and United Nations which has long denied aid to the 2.8 million people who live in the territory controlled by the al-Shabaab, by designating any such aid material assistance to a terrorist organisation.

 This was exactly the pretext the Obama administration used two years ago, when it forced the World Food Programme to close its programmes for mothers and malnourished children on the grounds that it was assisting a terrorist organisation.
 
 As initially happened in Libya, US regional allies are proposing a no-fly zone over the al-Shabaab territory. However, al-Shabaab has no air capability whatsoever. The aim of any western military intervention would be to overthrow al-Shabaab, and replace it with a dictatorship of the west's choosing. Already, US-backed African Union forces have launched an offensive against al-Shabaab in the capital Mogadishu, as well as the town of El Wak.
 
 The threat of starvation cannot be solved by the replacement of one capitalist ruling class with another. Every day, enough food to feed the hungry of the world is destroyed, in order to keep profits high. Many farmers are paid not to grow food for the same reason. Like the overwhelming majority of the Earth's population, the interests of starving Somalis lie in an economic system based on human need, not elite greed.

Read Full article HERE   http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/08/scandal-of-usas-somalia-aid-blockade.html

Riots against Repression sweep UK

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Open Revolt Spreads Across Britain

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A fourth night of riots have spread across Britain, including the cities of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Greater Manchester and Salford. The riots were sparked by police brutality and systemic ongoing violence against the working class and poor.

Breaking News

*Riots flare in more English cities and towns
*Canning Circus police station firebombed
*Up to 2,000 rioters stormed shops in the city of Manchester. At least 47 people have been arrested, and public transport across the city has been suspended.
*Elsewhere in the West Midlands, rioters have smashed shop windows and started fires in West Bromwich – and roads have been closed in Wolverhampton.

Websites*Indymedia UK*Libcom*Freedom Press

Opinion

earlier March 15 demo
*Freedom: North London Solfed’s response to the London riots
*Ian Bone: Fucking Hell! Veteran anarchist Ian Bone gives us his view on the riots
*Socialism And/Or Barbarism: An open letter to those who condemn looting
*The UK riots: the psychology of looting

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2011080uk-riots

Riot: Money-Free SHOPPING..While Shops Last!

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LOOT NOW WHILE SHOPS LAST!

The SHOPPING WITHOUT MONEY craze swept across London overnight – Enfield,Edmonton,Brixton, Islington. Walthamstow,Oxford Circus – and likely to spread to thhe rest of FIRESALE UK over the next few days. While the Tory toffs holiday in Tuscany effective wealth redistribution takes place on our streets in a way the TUC could never imagine.

OH NO – THE GAME’S UP – THERESA MAY IS FLYING HOME!

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200 YOUTHS ATTACKING COPS IN BRIXTON – 11.50PM

REPORT from daily telegraph reporter:

At least 200 youths pelting stones + bottles @ police. Businesses told to shut up shop. 2 different cordons #Brixton #riots #London
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WESTFIELD SHOPPING CENTRE IN WEST LONDON UNDER ATTACK

Early reports – westfield shopping centre in shepherds Bush under attack from stone throwing mobs – what a loot that would be! reports of rioting spreading from enfield to Ponders end with shopping centre looted

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BULLET THAT HIT COP RADIO WAS POLICE ISSUE

This is the truth – BULLET THAT HIT COPPER ON POLICE RADIO WAS POLICE ISSUE – therefore all the bollocks on here about Duggan shooting first is bollocks…….cop was shot by copper as was duggan……..early police lies exposed again……….nothing they say is EVER fucking true!

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TROUBLE SPREADS TO ENFIELD

I only have a few details – loads of cops, arrests for just being on the streets, HMV looted………..anyone know more let me know. extra cops out all over london….lots of untrue reports on twitter……..jewellry shop looted… police car  attacked…….small numbers involved maybe 40-50 people…COP VAN TORCHED..

much more in this vein from the BONE himself.  http://ianbone.wordpress.com/

Tottenham last month..where it all began. Though we can't claim direct credit for starting the Rebellion, Tottenham has had a strong community anarchist voice for generations''.

UK Riot spreads.Cops running/Free Shopping.

 

London riots: Looting and violence continues

Journalist Paraic O'Brien told BBC Radio 5 live that he saw up to 200 youths charging at riot polic

There has been a continuing wave of “copycat criminal activity” across London in a second night of looting and disorder following riots in Tottenham.

More than 100 people have been arrested as officers were attacked, police vehicles damaged and shops looted and damaged in parts of London.

Disorder spread to Enfield, Walthamstow and Waltham Forest in north London and to Brixton in the south of the city.

Some 35 officers have been injured over the two nights of rioting.

Three officers were hurt when a vehicle hit them as they tried to make an arrest in Waltham Forest, east London.

Clashes broke out in Enfield, north London, on Sunday evening where shop windows were smashed and a police car damaged.

There have been reports of a gang of up to 200 youths looting shops and charging police in Coldharbour Lane and the High Street in Brixton, south London.

Continue reading the main story

Rebellion spreads as youths defy police

  • Three officers injured after being hit by a vehicle in Chingford Mount, Waltham Forest, at about 00:45 BST
  • More than 30 youths vandalising and looting a number of shops in Walthamstow and Waltham Forest
  • Vandalism carried out by about 50 youths in Oxford Circus, central London
  • A police vehicle being attacked in Islington, north London
  • A Tesco store in Ponders End being attacked and items stolen

Kit Malthouse, Deputy Mayor of London and Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, described the scenes of the last two nights as “disgusting and shocking” and said the police did a good job. He added: “Obviously there are people in this city, sadly, who are intent on violence, who are looking for the opportunity to steal and set fire to buildings and create a sense of mayhem, whether they’re anarchists or part of organised gangs or just feral youth frankly, who fancy a new pair of trainers.”Talking about the impact on the capital’s image, one year ahead of the Olympic Games, he said: “It’s pretty rotten for London, it does not look good.

 Police in riot gear were on the streets of Enfield in north London

‘Rocks and bottles’

BBC London’s Paraic O’Brien said he had witnessed widespread looting in Brixton.

He said: “They smashed a William Hill, they set bins on fire.

“And now what we’re seeing as the night progresses is that replicated, sort of flashpoints all along Brixton High Street……..


At the scene

Andy Moore BBC News

I saw the rioting in Tottenham on Saturday and I saw the rioting last night and it was certainly different in character.

What might have been started in Tottenham by youngsters aggrieved about what they saw as police persecution has become something very different in nature.

Last night there was a sense that the looting, and violence and disorder across London was being co-ordinated on social media
.Police said “copycat” violence spread to other parts of London on Sunday night and early Monday, including the main shopping district at Oxford Circus.

There were people in their cars, youngsters on bicycles, moving very rapidly, leaving a trail of destruction behind them. As soon as you moved to one location they would move on to the next one.

The police were doing their best to catch up with them. You had police vehicles going backwards and forwards, blue lights flashing, riot police coming out of their vehicles.

Ten minutes later they’d get back in again and go off to the next location – essentially trying to fight the fires, metaphorically, that were spreading all over London.

“I’m standing outside Halfords on the other side of the road and they’ve just smashed through the doors of Halfords. They’re taking bikes out the front entrance.

“I have to say, what really struck me was the small number of police officers that there actually seem to be on Brixton High Street responding to this.”

Press Association photographer Lewis Whyld saw looters battle police at a Currys store in Brixton.

He said: “A couple of hundred youths were rioting and looting. Riot police went in to get them out and there was a big fight in the street.

“Youths were throwing rocks and bottles and there was a bin on fire. They used a fire extinguisher to push the police back so they could get back into Currys and continue taking things out.”

London Fire Brigade said it had been called to a number of fires in Enfield, Brixton and Walthamstow, including a fire at a shop on Brixton Road, which is now under control.

Tube closure

The disorder follows rioting in Tottenham which broke out on Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning.

A peaceful protest over the fatal shooting by police on Thursday of 29-year-old Mark Duggan descended into violence later in the evening.

The unrest spread into nearby Wood Green and Tottenham Hale. Shops were attacked and looted, 26 police officers and three others were injured and buildings and vehicles were set alight.

police warned the public not to trust everything they saw on the Internet

Social networking websites swirled with rumors of other riots beginning or being planned in other areas of the city, but police warned the public not to trust everything they saw on the Internet - adding that officers were keeping a close eye on what was being said online as well.
The violence has cast a pall over a city preparing to host the 2012 Olympic Games.
A man is detained outside the Currys electrical store in Brixton The Currys store was one of many in Brixton that were attacked

Parts of Tottenham are still cordoned off, as officers and forensic specialists continue to examine the riot scene.

A total of 61 arrests have been made in connection with the first night of rioting. The majority were for burglary, and other offences including violent disorder, robbery, theft and handling stolen goods.

Sixteen people have been charged for offences including burglary, violent disorder and possession of a pointed or bladed weapon following the Tottenham riots.

As well as Mr Duggan, a police officer was also shot in Thursday’s incident, which happened in what was called a “pre-planned” event, under Operation Trident, which investigates gun crime in London’s African and Caribbean communities.

Police had stopped a minicab which Mr Duggan had been travelling in.

Attack' on teenage girl blamed for start of riot
A rumoured attack on a teenage girl by police has been widely blamed for triggering Saturday night’s riot.

The 16 year-old was said by some witnesses to have thrown a stone at a line of officers during the initial protest at Tottenham police station.

She was then allegedly knocked to the ground, and as the crowds retaliated it led to two squad cars being set alight at the start of a night of violent disturbances and looting.
Image 1 of 2Rioters face off with riot police officers on the streets in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday Aug. 7, 2011
Rioters face off with riot police officers on the streets in Tottenham, north London, on Sunday Aug. 7, 2011 Photo: AP
 Bus routes 67, 123, 141, 243, 259, 279, 349, 318, 341 and W4 are on diversion

 

Police forced to retract ‘Report All Anarchists’ call.

The Metropolitan police initiated an embarrassing climbdown after a police station in Belgravia, west London, published a leaflet asking the public and businesses to report anyone with anarchist sympathies.

The call for information on a political rather than criminal group echoed a similar appeal for information about al-Qaida activity and “could have been better worded”, Scotland Yard admitted.

City of Westminster police’s “counter-terrorist focus desk” had last week called for anti-anarchist whistleblowers, stating next to an anarchist emblem: “Anarchism is a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy. Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police.”

The move angered some anarchists who insisted that being an anarchist does not imply criminal behaviour, indeed the biggest problem with the anarchist movement is the predominance of Pacifists..

Capitalists, on the other hand are unanimously criminal and should be reported immediately

The City of Westminster is not a fan of anarchists, it seems, after their counter-terrorism unit sent out a document that includes a warning about the dangers posed by anarchists.  Helpfully, the document defines anarchism for us. In fact, it defines anarchism in exactly the same words (and with exactly the same punctuation) as the Wikipedia entry for anarchism. Isn’t that a coincidence? Anyway, the document urges the reader to report any instances of anarchism to the police.

Special Force terrorists do 70 attacks a day!

”By NICK TURSE

SECRET WAR in 120 Countries..

Somewhere on this planet an American commando is carrying out a mission. Now, say that 70 times and you’re done… for the day. Without the knowledge of the American public, a secret force within the U.S. military is undertaking operations in a majority of the world’s countries. This new Pentagon power elite is waging a global war whose size and scope has never been revealed, until now…….

One of its key components is the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, a clandestine sub-command whose primary mission is tracking and killing suspected terrorists. Reporting to the president and acting under his authority, JSOC maintains a global hit list that includes American citizens. It has been operating an extra-legal “kill/capture” campaign that John Nagl, a past counterinsurgency adviser to four-star general and soon-to-be CIA Director David Petraeus, calls “an almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine.”

This assassination program has been carried out by commando units like the Navy SEALs and the Army’s Delta Force as well as via drone strikes as part of covert wars in which the CIA is also involved in countries like Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen. In addition, the command operates a network of secret prisons, perhaps as many as 20 black sites in Afghanistan alone, used for interrogating high-value targets.

Growth Industry  From a force of about 37,000 in the early 1990s, Special Operations Command personnel have grown to almost 60,000, about a third of whom are career members of SOCOM;”

read much more in Counterpunch   http://counterpunch.com/turse08042011.html

 

Were Bin Laden’s killer ‘Seals’ on blitzed chinook?

'US specials do 70 terror ops per day..'

A NATO helicopter has crashed in eastern Afghanistan during a battle with the Taliban, killing 30 US and seven Afghan soldiers and one civilian interpreter. More than 20 US navy SEALs from the broader unit that killed Osama bin Laden were among those killed in the crash.

The unit is made up of only a few hundred personnel based in Dam Neck, Virginia. It is known officially as Naval Special Warfare Development Group, or Devgru, and is part of a special operations brotherhood, members of which call themselves “the quiet professionals”. (The Guardian)

So it is more than possible, despite official denials, that the Taliban have killed the killers of Osama Bin Laden.

The troops from SEAL Team Six were flown by a crew of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, according to one current and one former US official. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because families are still being notified. ( ElJazeera)

One source said the team was thought to include 22 SEALs, three air force air controllers, seven Afghan army troops, a dog and his handler, and a civilian interpreter, plus the helicopter crew.

The Taliban quickly claimed to have shot down the helicopter during a firefight. They also said eight of their fighters were killed in the fighting.

“They wanted to attack our mujahideen who were in a house, but our mujahideen resisted and destroyed a helicopter with a RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) rocket,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

The helicopter was taking off from the roof of the house after the raid when hit by the RPG rocket.

In total US Special Forces are said to be larger than the whole Canadian army, and operate with total impunity. On average they carry out 70 terror raids every day. Mostly in Afganistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, but in many other countries as well.....

The US usually does not comment on covert actions – especially those that go wrong. But the 2008 incident was caught on mobile phone video, so the Americans confirmed it and apologised publicly……..

In October last year sailors from the unit were dispatched to rescue the British aid worker Linda Norgrove, who had been kidnapped by militants in Afghanistan.

Norgrove died during the raid after one of the Seals threw a fragmentation grenade close to where she was sheltering.

Special force soldier enjoying his job

Initial reports suggested she had been killed by an insurgent’s suicide bomb vest. But when the Seal commanding officer reviewed surveillance video recordings he saw an explosion after one of the Seals threw something in Norgrove’s direction. A number of the Seals were disciplined as a result…….

A measure of its commitment to secrecy came when the head of the navy Seals sent the Bin Laden team a congratulatory email reminding them to keep their mouths shut afterwards. “Be extremely careful about operational security,” added Rear Admiral Edward Winters. “The fight is not over.”  (BBC report)

On the same day as the deaths of the Special Forces an Imam and his children were killed in a separate raid.
In the Nad Ali district in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, up to eight civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike on Friday, governor Shadi Khan said.
"A group of Taliban attacked a foot patrol of NATO forces," Khan said.
"Subsequently, an air strike targeted the house of an imam of a mosque in the area. 
As a result the imam, his wife and seven of their children were killed." 
Daud Ahmadi, the Helmand provincial spokesman, said he was "aware that there have been some civilian casualties as a result of a NATO air strike in Nad Ali district" and that an official delegation had been dispatched to investigate.