Posted on 04/15/2008 10:48:56 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Somalia's foreign minister says his government will ask the U.N. Security Council to send a multi-national force to his country to take over from African Union peacekeepers who are currently trying to help bring stability to Somalia... Ali Ahmed Jama told reporters at the United Nations Tuesday that his government will use this week's two-day meeting at U.N. headquarters of African leaders and Security Council member states to press for an international force to take over security in Somalia... The current African Union force, known as AMISOM, is made up of about 2,300 troops from Uganda and Burundi. Jama said his government is asking the United Nations to fill the security vacuum which is now being filled by a combination of Somali security forces, AMISOM and some troops from neighboring Ethiopia... In a report to the Security Council last month, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlined four scenarios for possible future developments in Somalia. They ranged from increasing U.N. personnel in parts of Somalia to the possible deployment of more than 28,000 U.N. peacekeepers - but only if certain political and security conditions were met on the ground.
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N.F.W.
:’D
Part of me says to go ahead and send in the troops, just to show the locals what might have happened if they had allowed us to help them the first time, instead of fighting us. But another part of me is screaming; fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Yup, it worked out so well for Rwanda.
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