poor killing the poor (somalia)

abdul Qadir

remember death
Dear Sheikha,

What we’re witnessing in Somalia is another killing field, another poor killing the poor, devastation, and another war.

It seems a familiar scenario.

The Ethiopians’ foreign minister said they have been pushed in this nonsense war but he didn’t dare to spell it out saying who had pushed them.

Today, the West fears losing its old monopoly.

AB from Iran


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Dear AB,

I agree with your view wholeheartedly.

The U.S. has begun another war. Having failed to win Iraq war and get its goals implemented as desired, Washington opened another battlefront in Somalia, not to fight Al Qaeda but to lay hands on the country’s oil reserves and ensure a tighter grip and stronger hegemony in the region.

Some laugh at the suggestion that Somalia could ever rank among the world's major oil producers, but the story of Somalia and its oil wealth goes back to the colonial period when British and Italian geologists first discovered oil deposits during that period of imperialism.

Conoco, Chevron, Amoco and Philips- four U.S. oil companies- have concessions in nearly two thirds of Somalia. They were granted oil contracts in the final days of Somalia’s deposed dictator, Siad Barre.

And it is believed that the first American military engagement in Somalia was fully supported by Conoco.

No one doubts that the U.S. is supporting Ethiopia to lay hands on Somalia’s oil wealth, whether it will pursue same policy and scenario we witnessed in Iraq or not, only time will tell.

Sheikha Sajida,
The Sheikha can be reached via e-mail at [email protected]

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