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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

CIA Activities In Somalia Have “Blown Up In Our Face”...

Darn, I think you lost another one Georgie. How many is that 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and now Somalia, the list is not to good moron.

The New York Times Mark Mazzetti June 7, 2006 at 10:13 PM
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A covert effort by the Central Intelligence Agency to finance Somali warlords has drawn sharp criticism from American government officials who say the campaign has thwarted counterterrorism efforts inside Somalia and empowered the same Islamic groups it was intended to marginalize.

The criticism was expressed privately by United States government officials with direct knowledge of the debate. And the comments flared even before the apparent victory this week by Islamist militias in the country dealt a sharp setback to American policy in the region and broke the warlords' hold on the capital, Mogadishu.

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