Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
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Somalia research
SOMALIA
No date - Gouled Hassan Dourad, a
Somali who was a member of a Mogadishu based network allied with al
Qaeda. He was involved in several plots, including one to shoot down
an Ethiopian airliner in Somalia.
1960 – Somalia alligned with Moscow
since independence in 1960. Training for its forces in exchange for
bases, for the Soviets and airforce in Berbera, near the Red sea,
close to the Suez canal. (The great cold war. Gordon S Barrass ©2009
US).
1969 – Cuba began political and
military cooperation with Somalia. Siad Barre.
1977 – When Somalia, a Soviet client,
attacked a recently installed Socialist regime in Ethiopia. The
Russians switched sides. Those events did further upset relations
with the US. (Cold war. ©2005 Gaddis).
1982 – Somalia, on the horn of Africa
directly across from the Arabian peninsula, got Soviet arms, aid and
allowed the Soviets to build a deep water harbour and airstrip, for
the use of Soviet military forces. In 1982 it received arms and aid,
largely from the US and negotiated US use of the harbour and airport,
built by the Soviets. Ethiopia, its enemy in 1982 received Soviet
arms.
1991 – 'Operation Eastern Exit'. The
evacuation of 281 American and foreign personel from Mogadishu
Somalia. A joint navy and marine operation. (Americas little wars. P
Hutchthausen ©2003).
1991 – Somalia’s last government
was in 1991. Civil war. Mobile phone providers, Hormuud Colis
Nationlink Telesom. (Black code. Ronald J Deibert ©2013 Canada).
1992 – al Qaeda and a 1992 bombing in
Yemen. The training of terrorists who shot down American helicopters
in Somalia the same year. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006
US)
December 1992 – al-Qaeda bombed a
hotel in Yemen, they thought that the US personel supporting the
Somalia operations were there. (Against all enemies. ©2004 RA
Clarke).
1993 – Clinton administration.
Mogadishu Somalia al-Qaeda role in an attack on America. President
Bush sent troops to Somalia to end a famine of 700,000 people.
Terrorists were training Aideed’s militia. Al-Qaeda was sending
advisors to Aideed. (Against all enemies. ©2004 RA Clarke).
Oct 1993 – Somalia and UN famine aid.
At least 350,000 people died of famine or starvation. The downing of
two American helicopters in Mogadishu. Pres Clinton withdrew American
troops from Somalia. (The looming tower. Lawrence Wright ©2006 US).
3 October 1993 - 18 US troops were
killed in an urban attack in Mogadishu Somalia. Bin Laden and his
associates helped train and arm the men who killed the US troops.
1994 – During 'Operation United
Sheild' in Somalia. US marines used low energy lasers as a spotting
system. A LEL target marking system was established. (Beyond shock
and awe. ©2006 Harvey and Thompson).
2 Dec 1994 – The Achille Lauro sunk
off the coast of Somalia. (Chch Star NZ. Today in history. 2 Dec
2015).
1996 – The war in Chechnya was
planned during a secret summit of Hezbollah international held in
1996 in Mogadishu.
1996 – Meeting held in Mogadishu
Somalia attended by various Islamist armed groups. Bin Laden and
Iranian intelligence officers were also there. Plans for Islamic
insurgency were drawn up at the meeting.
15 April 1998 – Somalia hostage
taking. Somali militia abducted nine red cross and red crescent
workers at an airstrip north of Mogadishu. The hostages included a US
citizen, a German, a Belgiun, a French, a Norwegian, a Swiss and one
Somali. Gunmen were members of a sub-clan loyal to Ali Mahdi
Mohammed, who controlled the northern section of the capital.
1999 – Ismail I Ahmed. RH Green. The
heritage of war and state collapse in Somalia and Somaliland. Third
world quarterly no 20.
23 May 2000 – Peacekeepers sell arms
to Somalis. BBC UK.
2002 – Somalia issues history and
bibliography. Nina J Fitzgerald. Google books.
12 April 2002 – An Ethiopian court
sentenced five members of the al-Itihad al-Isamiya, a Somali Islamist
group, to death. For bombing attacks that killed 27 civilians in the
past ten years. The group is on the US list of terrorist groups and
is suspected of having ties to al-Qaeda.
3 Oct 2005 - In the lower Juba area of
Somalia gunmen shot dead a Somali national and UN security official,
Mohamuvd Mesre Gurage.
July 2006 – Iran sent more than 700
Islamist militants from Somalia to Lebanon, to fight alongside
Hezbollah in the war against Israel, a UN report said. The report
seen by the New York Times sad the militia in Lebanon provided
training and weapons to the Islamic alliance, fighting for control in
Somalia. Iran tried to trade arms for uranium from Somalia to further
its nuclear ambitions. (15 Nov 2006 The Australian Robert Spencer).
17 Sept 2006 – Somali cleric calls
for the Pope's death. The Age Melbourne Australia..
19 Sept 2006 – The Somali president
escaped a bomb and gunfire that killed 11 people in an assassination
attempt.
3 Jan 2007 – Christchurch Press NZ
Reuters article.
16 Feb 2007 – MSNBC site institute
report.
27 Sept 2008 – Somali pirates
captured a Ukraine cargo ship filled with military hardware. The
Guardian UK.
28 Oct 2008 – Somali pirates living
the high life. BBC UK.
9 June 2009 – Arms dealers revival in
Somali war business. Reuters.
28 June 2010 – Israelis, Americans
indicted for gun running to Somalia. Politico.
25 Aug 2010 – Somali al-Shabaab
military push through palace. Reuters.
17 Sept 2010 – M15 chief warns of
terror threat from Britons travel in Somalia. The Guardian UK.
24 Nov 2010 – Somalis in twin cities,
shaken by charges of sex trafficking. Erik Eckholm. The New York
Times.
2011-2012 – Famine in Somalia. East
African drought. Wikipedia.
21 July 2011 – Somali famine and
al-Shabaab compiance. US food aid in famine of severe malnutrition.
Huffington post.
3 Aug 2011 – The UN sent famine aid
to Somalia. Wikpedia.
11 Aug 2014 – 200,000 people were
buried in mass graves. 200,000 men, women and children were executed
and buried in mass graves. Somalia’s little dictator. UCIC.
2 Sept 2014 – One million Somali's
are at risk of hunger. Malnutrition from drought. UN. VOA.
21 Sept 2014 – UN fears a repeat of
Somali food shortages, when thousands of people died. A call for one
billion dollars for food and shelter, they got $313 million. The
Guardian UK.
4 Nov 2014 – One million Somalis are
in urgent need of food aid, says UN. Wall Street Journal.
27 Nov 2014 – A Somali sex ring rapes
underage British school girls. Rapes by paedophiles, a 13 year old
girl. The Mirror UK.
22 Jan 2015 – A Mayor was arrested
over food aid corruption. Diversion of aid, The Mayor of Bulo burte
district. Horseed media.
23 Jan 2015 – Suicide attack in
Somalia’s capital, before Turkish President Recep Tayyip’s visit.
Five people were killed, on the eve of a visit by the Turkish
President. Economic Times.
19 Oct 2015 – Soma oil and gas UK.
SFO and the Earl of Clanwilliam Somali oil deal. Jim Armitage. Petrol
for sale on Mogadishu. Soma oil and gas, Michael Howard. Independent
UK.
21 Oct 2015 – Somali refugee did not
report her rape to the Nauru police. Nauru police and rapes on Nauru.
The Australian.
2 Nov 2015 – A hotel in Somalia was
bombed by Islamic militants. Mogadishu a car bomb, shooting of guests
and hotel staff. New York Times.
3 Feb 2016 -
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/man-sucked-from-airliner-people-burned-after-explosion-tears-a-large-hole-in-side.html
3 Feb 2016 – Body found after
explosion on commerical fight. Mogadishu. Balad town residents found
a mans body, fell from a plane.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11584140
3 Feb 2016 – Bomb explosion. Man
sucked out of plane.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3428090/Pictured-Fire-breaks-passenger-jet-minutes-leaving-gaping-hole-aircraft.html
Monday, February 1, 2016
Kenya research
KENYA
1903 – A trail, Thomas Cholmondeley
heir to the Delamere fortune. A family who farmed in Kenya since the
third Baron arrived in 1903, they own land. Talk in Kenya of forced
repossession of farms owned by whites. (Empires children ©2009 Anton
Gill).
1920-1953 – In 1949 when David Steel
was 11, his parents decided to move to Kenya. Scottish population in
Kenya and Uganda. Declared a colony in 1920, Kenya has British
settlers, but there is segregation of blacks and whites. (Empires
children ©2009 Anton Gill).
1940-60 – By the 1940s 30,000 British
farmers had 12,000 square miles of land in Kenya. Poverty, starvation
and landless native people. Oct 1952 British governor was Sir Evelyn
Baring. State of emergency. Arrest and detention of many people from
March 1953 in detention camps in Kenya. State of emergency until 12
Jan 1960, propaganda about the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder
Walton ©2013).
1950-67 – From India to Nairobi
Kenya. One of 32,000 Gujarati workers who built the trans Kenyan
railway. 2,500 men died and 7,000 were invalid and sent back to
India. Independence in 1963. By 1967 new laws on trade. (Who do you
think you are. The genealogy handbook BBC UK 2014).
15 Nov 1952 – Sir Thomas Lloyd and
Sir Evelyn Baring. The Times UK. Intel and counter intel on Kenya. 22
Nov 1952. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
End 1952 – Mass deportations and
detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952
at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention centres
.Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation of mass
population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet gulag.
Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
1952-54 – Kenya, a police state,
forced registrations, detention without trial as punishment. Alex
MacDonald was the Colonial officer and intel advisor. Kenya special
branch. Propaganda, operation Jock Scott on 20 Oct 1952 declaration
of emergency. Operation Anvil on April 1954 repression, coercion.
45,000 people forcibly removed from Namibia. 16,500 detained in
camps. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
1952-56 – Kenya, British colonial
rule 1950s, violent counter insurgency and rebellion, Mau Mau. Oct
1953 till 1956. British forces held 20,000 Africans. The British
incarcerated at least 80,000 native Africans in camps. Forced labour
like the Soviet gulag system. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton
©2013).
End 1952 – Mass deportations and
detentions of about 78,000 native people in Kenya. By the end of 1952
at least 18,000 Kenyans were held in custody in 176 detention
centres. Abuse of detainees, interrogated Mau Mau. Forced relocation
of mass population. Women were raped and abused. Compared to Soviet
gulag. Torture in Kenya by police. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton
©2013).
Dec 1952 – 20,000 Mau Mau killed and
many more disappeared. One million people were forcibly displaced.
Women were raped. Property was confiscated. Records from the foreign
office were held in an archive at Hanslope park. M15 and Mau Mau in
Kenya. In Dec 1952 Alec MacDonald flew to Nairobi as an M15 officer.
(Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
10 Dec 1953 – Court of inquiry,
letter to Erskine to security. Torture and the height of empire.
(Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
June 1957 – Eric Griffiths Jones was
attorney general of the British government in Kenya. Secrecy about
detention camps for the Mau Mau. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton
©2013).
18 June 1963 – Organisation of intel
service in the colony Kenya. British governor Nairobi to FD Webber.
(Empire of secrets. Calder Walton (c)2013).
14 Aug 1963 – Griffith Jones to FD
Webber. (Empire of secrets. Calder Walton ©2013).
1964-70s – Poverty does not appear
out of nowhere. Survival and food. Since the 1970s US global
satellites could measure local rainfall. Children born in 1964 in
Kenya were often called Uhuru or freedom in Swahili. Wanjala means
born in hunger or Njaa. (Economic gangsters. Raymond Fisman. Edward
Maguel (c)2008 US).
1968 – British Richard Billing
Dearlove M16 working in Nairobi Kenya and visiting South Africa's
Boss. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).
29 December 1972 – Stuart Hugh
MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.
9 August 1975 – Kirstin Fiona
MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.
30 October 1984 – Martin David
MacDonald was born in Nairobi Kenya.
1998 – al Qaeda attacked the US
embassy in Nairobi Kenya and Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. 213 people
were killed. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).
2 Feb 1999 – Kurdish leader Abdullah
Ocalan tried to enter Holland. The Dutch governmenr refused him
entry. Dutch security at Amsterdam's Schipol airport. So Ocalan
caught a KLM flight to Nairobi Kenya. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas
(c)2008 UK).
2002 – Brother John Paschal
Prendergast. Christian brothers at Saint Bakhita, in Kitale north
west Kenya. Catholic.
Oct 2002 – Two shoulder fired
missiles nearly downed an Israeli passenger plane with thousands of
passengers going to Tel Aviv from Kenya. The 275 people on the plane
were lucky. Al-Qaeda. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).
22 Jan 2004 – BBC Africa. Huge pay
rise for Kenya's police.
Late 2004 – A ton of cocaine was
seized in Kenya. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK).
2005 – Caroline Elkins. Imperial
reckoning. The untold story of Britains gulag in Kenya. The brutal
end of empire in Kenya. London UK. Jonathan Cape. New York. Henry
Holt.
2005 – David Anderson. Histories of
the hanged. Britains dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire. London
Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
2008 – Crowd sourcing data through
Ushahidi platform, software tool for info collection and interactive
mapping, of the 2008 Kenyan elections. To monitor elections,
conflicts and other things around the world. (Black code. Ronald J
Deibert ©2013 Canada).
2009 – A group of Kenyans got a
lawyer. Sued the British govt for gross abuses while held as Mau May
50 years ago. During colonial emergency in Kenya. The existence of
8,800 files from the colonial office appeared. Records recovered,
were to cover up govt abuses and torture. (Empire of secrets. Calder
Walton (c)2013).
2011-2012 – In 2011 the foreign
office opened 1,500 classified files on the Kenyan Mau Mau in 300
boxes. At a secret facility at Hanslope park. Secret records made
public in Aug 2012. Mau Mau were beaten to death, burned alive,
castrated and kept in manacles for years. (Empire of secrets. Calder
Walton ©2013).
13 April 2011 – Ben Macintyre. The
Times UK. British Secret Mau Mau files.(Empire of secrets. Calder
Walton ©2013).
2012 – Kenya a history since
independence. Charles Hornsby. Google books.
2013 – CRA crisis tracker data,
plotted on Ushahidi from radios, to monitor each incident plotted on
a map, deaths and injuries, abductions and looting. Incidents
captured by mobile cameras, on a website and evidence. In Kibera,
Nairobi Kenya’s largest slum. Local officials witheld electricity
and rubbish collection. Water is controlled by corrupt officials.
(Black code. Ronald J Deibert. ©2013 Canada).
Dec 2014 – A British man was found
guilty of sexually abusing Kenyan street children. Leighday UK Daily.
20 Jan 2015 – Kenyan police fired
tear gas at children in a playground. Nairobi school children,
illegal confiscation of playground. ABC online.
7 June 2015 – A trial for an Oklahoma
man who is charged with the sex abuse of Kenyan orphans. A US
paedophile. Yahoo news. AP. Tim Talley.
12 June 2015 – VOA. Kenya risks US
sanctions for failing to stop human trafficking.
24 July 2015 – Volunters visit Kenyan
orphanages. Orphans they sponsored, with childen in the slums of
Kenya. Amarillo.com.
15 Oct 2015 – 63 police officers have
been fired for corruption in Kenya. The accounts of junior officers
were investigated. Yahoo news.
30 Jan 2016 – Missing people.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201601300266.html
2 Feb 2016 – Dead New Zealander
phones family after 30 years to say he is in jail in Kenya. Francis
Edward Strange age 56.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11583058
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