Experts say US funding Somali warlords – Yahoo! News: “(Reuters) – The United States has been funneling more than $100,000 a month to warlords battling Islamist militia in Somalia, according to a Somalia expert who has conferred with the groups in the country.”
Reuters’ leftist slip is showing, as usual. The USA is funding “warlords”, but the Islamists are “militia”… how noble of them!
Reuters names only one source, John Prendergast, a Senior Adviser at the (non-profit) “International Crisis Group.” Prendergast worked in the White House and the State Department in the Clinton administration from 1996-2001, a bit of information Reuters omits, but which bears on the objectivity of Prendergast as the only named source. All the other sources are “anonymous”.
Reuters seems to think it’s bad for the US to fund anti-Islamist groups in Somalia, and implies the UN is investigating US provision of arms to Somalia “warlords”. Outside of the hilarity of the UN investigating anything at all, the obvious point is simple.
Shouldn’t the US do what it can to prevent an Islamist takeover of Somalia, with all the potential for Taliban-style rule that would be a certainty?
