Here I reproduce the controversial Observer article published late last year. Already those of us who are observant will have seen the tell tale signs confirming the contents of the article that you are about to read. They include increased military exercises in the region and the presence of at least one huge military ship off the East African Coast.
Read the controversial Observer article for yourself;
US accused of covert operations in Somalia
Emails suggest that the CIA knew of plans by private military companies to breach UN rules
Antony Barnett and Patrick Smith
Sunday September 10, 2006
The Observer
Dramatic evidence that America is involved in illegal mercenary operations in east Africa has emerged in a string of confidential emails seen by The Observer. The leaked communications between US private military companies suggest the CIA had knowledge of the plans to run covert military operations inside Somalia - against UN rulings - and they hint at involvement of British security firms.
The emails, dated June this year, reveal how US firms have been planning undercover missions in support of President Abdullahi Yusuf's transitional federal government - founded with UN backing in 2004 - against the Supreme Islamic Courts Council - a radical Muslim militia which took control of Mogadishu, the country's capital, also in June promising national unity under Sharia law.
Evidence of foreign involvement in the conflict would not only breach the UN arms embargo but could destabilise the entire region.
One email dated Friday, 16 June, is from Michele Ballarin, chief executive of Select Armor - a US military firm based in Virginia. Ballarin's email was sent to a number of individuals including Chris Farina of the Florida-based military company ATS Worldwide.
Ballarin said: 'Boys: Successful meeting with President Abdullay Yussef [sic] and his chief staff personnel in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday ... where he invited us to his private hotel suite flacked by security detail ... He has appointed is chief of presidential protocol as our go to during this phase.'
She refers to one 'closed-door meeting' with a senior UN figure and mentions there are 'a number of Brit security firms' also looking to get involved.
Ballarin claimed she has been given 'carte blanche' to use three bases in Somalia 'and the air access to reach them'.
She then suggests that the CIA have been kept informed of the plans. Ballarin states: 'My contact whom we discussed from the agency side requested an in-person meeting with me. I arrived in New York at 2340 last night and was driven to Virginia - arriving at 0200 today.'
According to the highly respected newsletter, Africa Confidential, which originally published extracts of the emails last week, Select Armor started its operation planning in Kampala, Uganda. The emails suggest that the Ugandan government were willing to help secure arms supplies for any operation although this is denied by security officials in Kampala.
In one reply to Ballarin, Farina said: 'A forced entry operation [into Mogadishu] at this point without the addition of follow-on forces who can capitalise on the momentum/initiative of the initial op will result in a replay of Dien Bien Phu'. This is a reference to the defeat of French colonial forces in Indochina in 1953.
The website of Farina's company ATS boasts it 'can execute operations in support of host national indigenous forces'. ATS claims it uses former US and British special operations personnel.
One email discussing funding of any operation sent from Farina to Ballarin states: 'We may have to re-focus our efforts in the US among the DOS [State Department] and DOD [Defence Department] to bring any forward movement to this effort.'
The Observer left several messages with both Select and ATS requesting interviews but nobody responded. Ballarin told Africa Confidential last week that the company's operations in Somalia were 'classified'.
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Sunday, April 15, 2007
Facts About The CIA
The CIA or Central Intelligence Agency is an intelligence agency of the United States government similar to the British MI6.
Its objectives include obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, and reporting such information to the branches of the United States Government.
Another function of the CIA is propaganda or public relations, overt and covert information dissemination, both true and false, and influencing others to decide in favor of the United States Government.
The third function of the CIA is what has widely been referred to "as the hidden hand of the U.S. government." This generally involves engaging in covert operations at the direction of the President.
Interestingly this last function is what has caused most controversy for the CIA, raising questions about the legality, morality, effectiveness, and intelligence of such operations.
The CIA has been successful on thousands of missions that remain secret. We actually only get to hear of the failures. Like the CIA-organized Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961. The failed para-military invasion embarrassed the CIA and the United States world-wide. Later, the CIA several times tried and failed to assassinate Fidel Castro.
On the propaganda front, since World War II, the CIA has broadened spy and counterspy missions in Europe and around the World. It has also led infiltration, propaganda and “sponsoring” missions in various intellectual circles with the support of important American cultural institutes.
But mostly CIA mission and activities mostly get very dirty and complicated. Several witnesses and persons in the know have insisted that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking to fund illegal operations. In 1996 for instance, a journalist called Gary Wenn wrote a series of very well-researched articles for a famous American newspaper, the San Jose Mercury where he claimed that US aircrafts that supplied arms to the Contras in Nicaragua brought in cocaine to the United States on their return trips.
Faced with congressional and media criticism over the controversial stories, the San Jose Mercury News refused to stand by the story and retracted it and prevented Webb from doing any more investigative reporting. Webb ended up giving quitting journalism for good.
The CIA has of course come under stinging criticism for failing to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and India's nuclear tests. But the biggest failure according to its' critics as the failure to see the September 11, 2001 attacks coming let alone forestalling them.
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Its objectives include obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and persons, and reporting such information to the branches of the United States Government.
Another function of the CIA is propaganda or public relations, overt and covert information dissemination, both true and false, and influencing others to decide in favor of the United States Government.
The third function of the CIA is what has widely been referred to "as the hidden hand of the U.S. government." This generally involves engaging in covert operations at the direction of the President.
Interestingly this last function is what has caused most controversy for the CIA, raising questions about the legality, morality, effectiveness, and intelligence of such operations.
The CIA has been successful on thousands of missions that remain secret. We actually only get to hear of the failures. Like the CIA-organized Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in 1961. The failed para-military invasion embarrassed the CIA and the United States world-wide. Later, the CIA several times tried and failed to assassinate Fidel Castro.
On the propaganda front, since World War II, the CIA has broadened spy and counterspy missions in Europe and around the World. It has also led infiltration, propaganda and “sponsoring” missions in various intellectual circles with the support of important American cultural institutes.
But mostly CIA mission and activities mostly get very dirty and complicated. Several witnesses and persons in the know have insisted that the CIA has been involved in drug trafficking to fund illegal operations. In 1996 for instance, a journalist called Gary Wenn wrote a series of very well-researched articles for a famous American newspaper, the San Jose Mercury where he claimed that US aircrafts that supplied arms to the Contras in Nicaragua brought in cocaine to the United States on their return trips.
Faced with congressional and media criticism over the controversial stories, the San Jose Mercury News refused to stand by the story and retracted it and prevented Webb from doing any more investigative reporting. Webb ended up giving quitting journalism for good.
The CIA has of course come under stinging criticism for failing to predict the collapse of the Soviet Union and India's nuclear tests. But the biggest failure according to its' critics as the failure to see the September 11, 2001 attacks coming let alone forestalling them.
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