How an intelligence officer’s disappearance in Somalia has ripped the government apart

WaPo via msn ^ | 18 September 2021 | Rachel Chason, Omar Faruk

[blueplum]

NAIROBI — The disappearance of a young intelligence officer in Somalia has led to a rapidly escalating power struggle between the president and prime minister ...

Details of what happened to Ikran Tahlil Farah, a 25-year-old cybersecurity analyst, are still murky. But her abduction led President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Thursday to suspend the powers of the prime minister, who has accused him of obstructing justice in Tahlil’s case.

The political showdown risks becoming a security crisis, experts say, and has blown up any pretense that Somalia’s federal government is functioning....

...Rep. Michael McCaul (Tex.), the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he is closely monitoring current political divisions within Somalia and is “deeply concerned ....

[blueplum]

There's a 2011 article that claims $55Billion had been poured into Somalia to that date. No clue on current tab but we are Somalia's number one 'provider'.

[blackdog]

When it comes to America wasting money and life, we adhere to the Evil $hithole Matrix. The higher the level of untrustworthy, evil people in power the higher the dollars point in the graph. The higher the evil data point sits the greater the $hithole multiplier boosts the payout.

Now once the matrix payments exceed $1 Billion U.S. Dollars, the next multiplier comes into play. That is the Beltway laundry enhancer. For every billion that gets sent out, a 40% administrative fee and a 10% fee for finer arts (paintings) is added and thru a series of shell corporations and trusts is then sent back to Washington D.C. to lobby for a continued and increased Evil Data Point Position and supplemental calculation.

[Does so]

Re:Paintings...

Does Hunter know of this?

[vpintheak]

Flipping disgusting. Both parties are responsible. Both parties are screwing America.

[ronnie raygun]

Foreign aid is their money laundering scam, everyone along the way gets a cut right back to the politicians who fostered it supported it and delivered it, scumbags using our tax dollars like the mafia

[dynachrome]

Somalia has a government? Who knew.

[sauropod]

Good. About time that Shi*stain is called to account.