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Mr. Premise:
Three of these articles are up on SOTT now, so if you guys want to add your comments to the articles, that would be great.

Mr. Premise:
This http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/oct2011/keny-o26.shtml has been added with some background on CIA involvement.

bngenoh:
The consequences _http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/apr/05/somalia-suicide-bomb-camera-video?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

Of psychopathic fun and games:

--- Quote ---An attack by a female suicide bomber in Mogadishu is caught on camera. Ten people, including top sports officials, died in the explosion at the newly reopened National Theatre, which happened as the country's prime minister, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, was on the podium to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Somalia's first satellite broadcaster
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bngenoh:
Let's position ourselves first:


As you can see Sudan occupies a very strategic position, straddling East, North and Central Africa, and one of the areas that have been targeted for destabilization. Now Sudan has been divided into South and North Sudan, this state of affairs was officially recognized on July 9th 2011. So let's take a look at the politics:


--- Quote from: _http://edition.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=158359 ---The Sudanese ambassador to Tehran says the US and Israel play a key role in sowing seeds of discord and fueling the country's civil war and the unrest in its south. 

“The Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, is likely to be escalating the conflict,” Suleiman Abdel Towab told Press TV on Sunday.

[...]

“Sudan is like a bridge between Africans, Arabs and Muslims, So Israel and the US seek to control the Sudanese government and impose sanctions on it,” he said.

Towab underscored Sudan has shown it enjoys good potential for development and progress, managing to make great strides in times of sanctions and economic hardships.

“Sudan is the second biggest country after China in terms of economic growth,” the Sudanese ambassador said.
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Remember this:

--- Quote from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/226844-Sudan-Investigates-Mysterious-Air-Attack ---Sudanese authorities said they began investigating the targeted bombing of a car late Tuesday night in the coastal city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea. The incident in the east of the country led to the death of two people. A police statement quoted by the official Sudanese news agency conveyed that the missile struck a car on the main highway, 15 km south of Port Sudan, killing two people who were traveling the car.

According to the statement it immediately after the incident, security forces rushed to the scene and set up an operation room in order to determine the source of the attack. A Sudanese website, which is close to the country's security service said the aircraft bombed the car near the airport in Port Sudan, without giving further details.

A local official said that an unidentified aircraft coming from the direction of the Red Sea coast were launched a missile on a car when it was en route from Port Sudan airport into the city, killing two people on board. Sudanese sources said that the country's air defense forces fired anti-aircraft fire but could not hit the plane.
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The possible culprits:

--- Quote from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/226860-Were-the-Israelis-Behind-the-Mystery-Air-Strike-in-Sudan-Asks-Time-s-Bureau-Chief-in-Jerusalem ---To reach its territory, Israeli aircraft would have needed overflight permission from either Saudi Arabia or Egypt. Both border the Red Sea south of Israel, and neither is a fan of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Long experience with Egyptian meddling predisposes Khartoum to blame Cairo for a great deal, though on Wednesday its foreign minister was naming only Israel.

"This is absolutely an Israeli attack," Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Karti told reporters. He found in the air strike evidence of a plot to keep Sudan on the State Department's list of countries that support terror. 
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It's not something we didn't already know so just fwiw, because things are starting to heat up again:

--- Quote from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/244782-Sudan-Declares-State-of-Emergency-as-Clashes-Continue ---Sudan declared a state of emergency on Sunday along much of its border with South Sudan as the momentum toward all-out war continues to build after weeks of clashes over disputed areas and oil. 
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Same old, same old psychopathic fun and games.

bngenoh:

--- Quote from: _http://worldnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/14/12215949-report-us-expands-secret-shadow-war-in-africa ---The U.S. military is using small spy aircraft disguised as private planes as it expands secret intelligence operations across Africa, The Washington Post reported late Wednesday.

The surveillance missions are part of a "growing shadow war against al-Qaida affiliates and other militant groups," the newspaper said.

Citing a former U.S. commander, the Post said about dozen air bases have been set up for the unarmed spy planes in Africa since 2007. The newspaper said they include sites in Burkina Faso, Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya as well as in the Seychelles.

The report added:

--- Quote ---    "The surveillance is overseen by U.S. Special Operations forces but relies heavily on private military contractors and support from African troops.

    The surveillance underscores how Special Operations forces, which have played an outsize role in the Obama administration’s national security strategy, are working clandestinely all over the globe, not just in war zones. The lightly equipped commando units train foreign security forces and perform aid missions, but they also include teams dedicated to tracking and killing terrorism suspects."
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The Post said that the U.S. Africa Command declined to comment on "specific operational details."

However, the command confirmed that it worked "closely with our African partners ... to conduct missions or operations that support and further our mutual security goals."
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The world's at war, WW3, if the Hitler thing was a trial run, this is the full scale implementation, osit. As Einstein said it so eloquently, "I don't know what the third world war will be fought with, but I know what the fourth one will be fought with, sticks and stones."

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