President Bush's Speech on Terrorism Undercut by Attacks in Somalia Posted by The Editors

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President Bush spoke this morning to the graduating class of the FBI Training Academy. He commended the expanded role the FBI has played in the US’s fight against terrorism; “’More than seven years have passed without another attack on our soil. And this is not an accident," the President said. "Since 9/11, we have gone on the offense against the terrorists abroad, so we do not have to face them here at home…” Yet the President’s speech was undercut by morning news reports of suicide bombings in Afghanistan, India, Spain, and Somalia.

The optimistic tone of President Bush’s speech at the FBI Academy this morning reflects the degree to which the current administration has been separated from reality, especially in Somalia. The Washington Post reports that the death toll for Wednesday’s crescendo of suicide bombings across northern Somalia rose to 30 this afternoon. The AP explained that the attacks struck “just as international leaders held talks on ending decades of deadly turmoil in this chaotic African nation. The five seemingly coordinated attacks targeted a U.N. compound, the Ethiopian consulate and the capital, Hargeisa. All occurred in the breakaway republic of Somaliland…” U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden said that "While Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world for aid workers, Hargeisa has been relatively stable and consequently many United Nations staff were stationed there." The BBC reported that foreign workers will be pulled from the area.

Militants in Somalia linked to Al Qaeda are suspected of the synchronized bombings, and experts worry that “the attacks might signal that insurgent groups are expanding their reach to new areas and are using more sophisticated techniques.” The militants are part of a group known as Shabab, and they have “been fighting a guerilla war against Somalia’s transitional government and the Ethiopian troops supporting it.” Shabab’s leadership has vowed to overthrow Somalia’s fledgling government, drive out any Ethiopian troops, and recently announced their intentions to “forge closer ties with Al Qaeda,” making it potentially not dissimilar from the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Recent hijackings of cargo ships along the Gulf of Aden, off the coast of Somalia, are far from unrelated in this matter. Despite recent commitments to secure one of the busiest shipping lanes in that region, the AP is reporting Somali pirates today hijacked a Turkish ship and its crew of 20 in the Gulf. States and alliances sending ships and war planes to police the waters there need to acknowledge that the problem they must now confront is much deeper, and has much further reaching influence, than the proliferation of piracy.

The string of attacks on cargo and aid ships this past year, like the suicide bombings in the past few hours, is testimony to the failure of the Bush administration, as well as the international community, to coherently and effectively address the crisis befalling failed states around the globe.

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Bush spoke? Oh, how interesting. But it is an important subject and thanks for raising it. Somalia desperately needs more helpful attention.

Somalia isn't a failed state just by chance, the US has caused the crisis by using a proxy Ethiopian army, as well as bombing and shelling, to destabilize the Islamic government which was not amenable to US control of this geographically vital (horn of Africa) and energy-rich (oil) country in Africa -- America's new battleground (AFRICOM).

Now the Ethiopian have had enough of being used and are pulling out. The UN security council won't get involved because it's usually "hands-off" anyplace with a US interest, so it's an ongoing, worsening terrible tragedy.

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