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... GLOBAL NEWS ... NEWS BUT WHO DESTROYED was only 48 years, and infant mortality SOMALIA? was among the highest in the world. The UN‘action marks the first offen- yes : c a =. :usurious measures had ‘sufficiently sive use of "peacekeeping troops” in its \eakened Barre that he was over- history, other UN military actions were thrown by the Italian-based United not carried out by such troops. gomali Congress after a bitter fight. Peacekeeping troops are only autho- — simuitaneous with the overthrow, the tised to use force when attacked. This {jy picked up and left Somalia, as did transformation of the role of these y) the various human rights and relief troops, expressly contrary to the UN agencies. Charter, is part of the project of estab- “Although Barre had been ousted, lishing a UN army. — : bands of competing military units—all Contrary to the lies peddled in the funded out of Italy, Britain, and European press, the destruction of Washington—continued to wreak dev- Somalia by famine and civil war is the astation. It was obvious that, unlike direct responsibility of the United other coups, these’powers did not want States, Britain, France, and the UN, and any one faction to take over the govern- not any of the "warlords," including ment, but rather desired continuing Aideed, who at most are mere pawns. = chaos. Beginning in the summer of The destruction of Somalia is the 1991, a bitter clan and sub-clan war direct result of actions taken in 1990 by broke out between the forces of western governments to pull the plug General Aideed and current nominal on then-Somali President Siad Barre, Somali President Ali Mahdi who had ruled the country for 20 years Mohammed, as well as between other but who had displeased the northern clans. powers by his repeated efforts to block Already by December 1991, EIR and International Monetary Fund (IMF) ‘many other organisations were warning conditionalities on his country. His that Somalia faced a famine of huge effort to build such needed projects as proportions; but the UN and the north- the Baardheere Dam was harshly con- erm powers did nothing. It ‘is difficult demned. Complaining of "human not to conclude that the UN and the rights" abuses, the powers cut off all permanent members of the Security aid in 1989. Under IMF dictate, Council deliberately helped to create Somalia was paying 48% of its export the catastrophe in order to have a pre- earnings to debt service that year; ithad text for declaring sovereignty passé. devalued its currency by 460%, also (Source: “UN Policy Makes Somalia A under IMF demand. This isa country Hell On Earth", written by Joseph Brewda, where, before the war, life expectancy in EIR International, 25 June 1993) The Federal Emergency Management Agency, responsible for providing aid during natural disasters, spent most of its money over the past decade on a top- secret programme to enable the govern- ment to survive a nuclear attack, accord- ing to a report published Sunday. A six-month investigation by Cox Newspapers concluded that for every dol- lar FEMA spent on responding to natural disasters, almost US$12 was spent on the secret programme, which was built around a vast communications network. The network includes a fleet of 300 vehicles in five mobile units scattered from Washington state to Massachusetts and from Colorado to Georgia, according to the report. National security programmes account- ed for 78% of FEMA's budget from 1982 to 1991, dwarfing the amount spent on natural disasters—just 6.6% of the bud- get, the report said. Yet the national security programme money appears annually as just a single line in FEMA's budget—"submitted under a separate package", according to the report, which said a third of FEMA's 2,700 employees work in the project. The report was also critical of FEMA's effort to provide relief after Hurricane Andrew devastated south Florida last fall. For example, it said, the city manager of Homestead, Florida, pleaded for 100 hand-held radios because the town had only one working telephone. Instead, FEMA sent high-tech vans capable of sending encrypted, multi-frequency radio messages to military aircraft halfway around the world. CONAN THE VEGETARIAN CONAN The mobile communications units across the nation include generators capa- ble of powering a three-storey airport ter- minal. Sensitive radio, telephone and satellite gear is stored in custom-built trucks. THE In Thomasville, Georgia, FEMA built a bomb shelter at the Federal Regional Center in 1971 when there was the threat of a Soviet nuclear attack. The agency spends millions of dollars each year maintaining it and other underground facilities. (Source: Report by Cox Newspapers, downloaded via MUFON BBS Network on Wednesday 24 February 1993) NEXUS¢9 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1993