New evidence reveals the secret role of the CIA in Somalia. This time it’s not only the case of more agents deployed in the country, but an increase of drone attacks and, most significantly, secret prisons run by the CIA. An investigative report in The Nation magazine also gives details on how the Agency trains officers among the Somali and plans missions against members of the Islamic militant group al-Shabaab, believed to have close ties to al-Qaeda. Jeremy Scahill, a national security correspondent and the author of the article, talks to RT’s Kristine Frazao.
GodlessXVIII
December 2, 2011 at 11:25 am
Wow the ignorance of those comments.
RT = Russian, and thus pro-russian.
Thanks to all the Capt. Obvious out there, but that has nothing to do with the reporting of Jeremy Scahill, who is one of the last great investigative journalist out there reporting un-embedded from the very places being savaged and destroyed in the War on Terror.
This ad hominem bull is why no one take you guys seriously.
marzytallaght
December 2, 2011 at 11:46 am
they should just drop a nuclear bomb on the shithole,problem solved
SsOma10
December 2, 2011 at 11:57 am
we well destroy America we did in1993 and we also do again defeated we Britain 1900 1921
fargonbastedge
December 2, 2011 at 12:43 pm
@landlogger nah, just Muslims and retarded lefties/communist… The worlds filth!
MetalSights
December 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Jesus, you are the same fucking people that call me a brainwashed American, while you watch biased one-faced brainwashing media!
Fucking hypocrites. Go die in a hole.
fargonbastedge
December 2, 2011 at 2:21 pm
@landlogger You lefties eat up this Russia’s shit there feeding you and are to gulible to know hahaha…
Of course theres drone missile strikes in Somalia, there has been all over the muslim world since 9/11 for obvious reasons… But RT spends it as “big bad america looting the world bwhahah” and you gulible fucks eat it up.
The funniest ones are the westerners, when all of RT”s bias is always “anti-western”. Once again to gulible to relize hahahah
olddogpark
December 2, 2011 at 2:25 pm
USA has a problem with people who use food as a gun or a weapon to disable the people fight against the government they don’t like that’s why black hawk down happened
landlogger
December 2, 2011 at 3:01 pm
US has made the whole world their enemy
JustAnotherYtuber
December 2, 2011 at 3:26 pm
@waterspindle
yeah, exactly, that all you have to say.
Answer the rest of the comment, fuckhead, stop dwelling on that and trying to turn the tables.
waterspindle
December 2, 2011 at 4:00 pm
@JustAnotherYtuber
I’m a stupid “rag head” as you say? Would it surprise you that I’m a non-hispanic white american as the US requires me to answer to get student loans or participate in the US census? Your comments leave a lot to be desired, even for an aggressive, ignorant, racist, nasty person. Congratulations.
JustAnotherYtuber
December 2, 2011 at 4:18 pm
@waterspindle
haha you really are a stupid fucking rag head.
“US/NATO driven millions-of-deaths far outweigh the fundamental islamic attacks”
Well i hope you know that 80% of casualties in the war on terror (Iraq and Afghanistan) were at the hands of Islamic militants such as the Taliban and Iraqi Insurgency.
Also, why don’t you join the “jihad” and fight the “infidels” in the mountains of Afghanistan if you are so angered by the war instead of blabbering over the internet like a coward?
waterspindle
December 2, 2011 at 5:03 pm
/ JustAnotherYtuber SAID: “Oh come on that was very rare, how often does that happen?” Every day. In those places you mention. The fundamentalist US/NATO driven millions-of-deaths far outweigh the fundamental islamic attacks. rhetoric like yours is functionally useless. If US wars keep going the way they are, the US will indeed be setting itself as the worst war-crimes producers of our century. Are you too shell shocked from bombing civilians the hear?
ukusapillage
December 2, 2011 at 5:06 pm
i hate how these bitches in rt are talking about collapse and war and debt and havent a fucking clue of the seriousness of the whole deal, they think they will still have job and these are just words that are spookie and sell good
JustAnotherYtuber
December 2, 2011 at 5:06 pm
@waterspindle
Oslo, as in the recent bombings and shootings?
Oh come on that was very rare, how often does that happen?
Oh one shooting? WELL LOOK AT THE VIOLENCE GOING ON IN SOMALIA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, SUDAN, ETHIOPIA, YEMEN, PAKISTAN. The Oslo shooting is fuck all to the violence and corruption that goes on there. Don’t even bother too compare them.
GoodVibezin
December 2, 2011 at 5:16 pm
I’ve heard president Obama speak many times and rarely, if ever, has he referenced the U.S. Constitution.
I’ve heard congressman Ron Paul speak many times and rarely, if ever, has he NOT referenced the U.S. Constitution.
Now tell us again please, who is the scholar on constitutional law?
waterspindle
December 2, 2011 at 5:42 pm
@JustAnotherYtuber SAID: “Islam breeds hate.”
FUNDAMENTALISM breeds hate. check out Oslo you awful jackass. it was an anti-muslim anti-immigration maniac. Fundamentalism doesn’t discriminate. It hates everyone.
waterspindle
December 2, 2011 at 6:16 pm
the “strikes” mentioned meet the newer CIA definitions of “surgical strikes”. It is part of the plan from public youtube videos. see “Legacy of Ashes” youtube video on former and present CIA agents discussing in detail. Scahill said “surgical strikes” just at the end there. Yup.
JustAnotherYtuber
December 2, 2011 at 6:24 pm
@zigzagwell30
Islam breeds hate.
Nothing but a bunch of dirty, uncivilised, tribalist, rag heads.
The world will end and we will ALL end up like Somalia and the rest of the Islam world if Islam takes over.
Notice how every single Islamic country is a SHITHOLE?
zigzagwell30
December 2, 2011 at 6:58 pm
this station is anti USA clearly. BUT IT DEOS NOT MEAN THAT THE US GOVERMENT IS NOT IN DEEP SHIT EVERY WHERE. It is over for USA, what gose up must come down. USSR, UK, FRANCE, ROME, and THE OTTAMANS. I think our common enemy is surviving throu and thou. WAAAAKEEEEEEEEE UP ISLAM IS TAKING OVER.
m015094
December 2, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Jeremy Scahill is a pure propagandist. A “secret” prison that everybody knows about? Really Jeremy?
Cabronosidad
December 2, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Scary shit. The military-industrial-congressional complex has things so finely tuned nowadays that you have to stand back in awe at its expertise; creating a never-ending pool of ‘terrorists’ with every illegal drone attack. How much does a cruise missile cost the taxpayer? I think somewhere I read about $670,000 one. The US pursues a foreign policy favorable to its arms industry’s interests, fighting the ‘war on terror’. Brilliant!
Shame it’s going bankrupt in the process.
adamatova
December 2, 2011 at 8:08 pm
UN officially declares a famine in Somalia.today.
abdulduule
December 2, 2011 at 9:06 pm
this is a war on humanity
menacenorth
December 2, 2011 at 9:21 pm
@MetalManDan7 ohh yeah
MsColdCanada
December 2, 2011 at 10:10 pm
How come I don’t see any of the really, really conspiratorial comments here yet, maybe I missed them. Things like “the US has been using HAARP to cause the Somali drought the past 3 yrs” .