thomas davison Party Leader
Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 4018 Location: northumberland
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Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:10 am Post subject: CALL ME A PRAT SAYS THEY WILL USE AIR STRIKES IN SOMALIA |
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Air strikes will be used on Somalian rebels if lawless country can't be stabilised, warns David Cameron
PM's to announce UK is more than doubling military funding to the country from �5million to �13million
Somali pirates attack more than 400 vessels and more than 100 hijacked in three years assault on international shipping
By Graham Smith
Last updated at 1:24 AM on 23rd February 2012
Warning: David Cameron, pictured during Prime Minister's Questions today, has talked of the 'real threat' posed by extremism in Somalia
Britain has drawn up plans to send an aircraft carrier, Apache attack helicopters and Royal Marines to fight pirates and terrorists in Somalia.
David Cameron will announce that the UK is more than doubling military funding to the country from �5million to �13million.
But he has also secretly examined proposals to launch air strikes on al-Shabab Islamic extremists who are linked to Al Qaeda and control one third of the country.
Somali piracy threatens international shipping, with 400 vessels attacked and more than 100 hijacked in the last three years.
The Prime Minister warned that Somalia is a direct threat to Britain.
He has seen intelligence warnings that young Somalis are travelling home from the UK, being radicalised and receiving terrorist training before returning to Britain.
He will host an international summit in London, attended by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to tackle what No 10 calls the world�s worst failed state.
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The international gathering will attempt to agree an approach to resolving the political turmoil, improving security, tackling terrorism, and providing humanitarian aid.
Militants: Radical Islamist group al Shabaab still controls much of south Somalia
Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, left, and EC President Jose Manuel Barroso, right, talk to the press in Brussels about issues facing Somalia ahead of the international summit
Britain and other EU nations have even considered launching airstrikes against the al Shabab militant group, which is linked to Al Qaeda, the Guardian reported.
Foreign Secretary William Hague announced last night that Britain will fund a new �550,000 intelligence centre in the Seychelles to co-ordinate action against Somali pirates.
Mr Hague said the operation will 'allow the international community to target the king-pins of piracy and ensure piracy does not pay.
He added: 'For too long, the international community has focused its efforts on the young desperate men who are sent out to sea, without seeking to hold to account those who finance and enable huge pirate operations.'
Guarded: Foreign Secretary William Hague, pictured in the Somalian capital Mogadishu last month, has announced that Britain will fund a new �550,000 intelligence centre in the Seychelles to co-ordinate action against Somali pirates
Britain is also providing �150,000 through the UN to help create a maritime security co-ordination office in a stable part of Somalia to co-ordinate action on the ground against the pirates.
But unseen at the summit, Mr Cameron�s National Security Council has examined plans drawn up by the Ministry of Defence to escalate British involvement in the conflict.
No decisions have been made but among options are sending the aircraft carrier Ocean, a �mix of helicopters�, which could include the Apaches that took on Colonel Gaddafi�s forces in Libya, and �boots on the ground�.
Defence sources have played down the likelihood of sending SAS or SBS special forces
Here we go again! Let's waste our scarce finances on a bunch of sorry losers, aka 3rd world despots, let's put the welfare of others before the people of the UK, let's focus on everything and everyone apart from the problems in the UK, and the austerity imposed on UK folks by successive politicians. When is just ONE newspaper going to shout the message across to our lamentable public-school softie politicians - PUT THE UK, IT'S PEOPLE AND IT'S PROBLEMS FIRST! Because that is what you were elected to office for.
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if you really must have an air strike do it on the EU. |
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