US hires firm for Somalia mission Contractor to aid peacekee

[COSTA]

Mercenaries will be deployed in Mogadishu

DynCorp International, which also has US contracts in Iraq, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, will be paid $10 million to help the first peacekeeping mission in Somalia in more than 10 years.

It's a potentially dangerous assignment. When the first 1,500 Ugandan peacekeepers arrived in Somalia's capital Tuesday, they were greeted with a mortar attack and a major firefight. And yesterday, attackers ambushed the peacekeepers in Mogadishu, setting off another gunfight.

The support for the Ugandans is part of a larger goal to improve African forces across the continent and promote peace and stability in a region that's often lawless and a haven for terrorists, including some tied to Al Qaeda. The United States has also begun to depend more on African nations for oil and minerals, and wants to expand its influence.

The State Department has committed $14 million for the African Union peacekeeping mission to Somalia and has asked Congress for $40 million more. DynCorp's workforce includes many former US troops who frequently work in hostile areas.

The Virginia-based firm had been contracted until April to help with the "moving of supplies and people" engaged in the Somalia mission, including supplying tents, vehicles, and generators, said DynCorp spokesman Greg Lagana.

"We have an overall contract for African peacekeeping; this is a specific task order for Somalia," he said. "But we are also present in Liberia and southern Sudan."

The Somalia contract allocates $8 million for equipment and $2 million for transportation, according to a State Department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized as a media spokesman.

DynCorp, whose services range from equipment maintenance to paramilitary security forces and training police, provided logistics for the UN peacekeeping mission in Somalia from 1992 to 1995. It was not immediately clear if DynCorp employees would work inside Somalia under the new contract, signed three weeks ago.

Other company operations in Africa include a program to disarm and rehabilitate former soldiers in Liberia, while advising the government on the reconstitution of the army

[biko]

desperation is a motherfoker!

the minute you brough ethiopians to the picture somalis gave up on your kind. so you think this merceneries will make a difference?

[Ceelgabo]

American should be fired on if they step on foot in Somaliland...

[Sadaam_Mariixmaan]

your Ragtag Army will annulated

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Potential employment for the now retiring MAC.

[biko]

what about the bussines? mise wadki baa ku yeedhaya..

[Hyperactive]

lol biko miyo ku fahmaya horta

[biko]

am hoping he does, after all, magicisu waa "somali cadan"

[Hyperactive]

War horta ninka na'eybka ku jiro wan kayaban. moxo somalida sida ugu na'ay , mise muslim kasto bo sa o ne'ebyahay?

[biko]

mad mac somaali waan jecelahay bu dharar iyo haben nagu waalay somalina waxba uma ogola.

danbiga waxa lee abgal sababto ah iyaga ninkan somali cadan iyo waxan loo bahnen madaxa u galiyay..

good luck deciphering that somali patoi

[Hyperactive]

somalida kowi madowba ba hashin wayey ee ma kuwa white ah bey la heshini?

[biko]

considering somali mentality its a posibility.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Hey Biko
Can you give me the gist of this conversation.

BTW, what does your nick mean? The only thing Biko means to me is the name, Stephen Biko, and he wasn't Somali.

[COSTA]

Stephan Biko is South African that your white cousins killed in
Soweto but i like Peter Gabriels Biko song and i think this Djaboutian fag got the name from the song

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

"Stephan Biko is South African that your white cousins killed"

They weren't my cousins. They were Boers, which I am not related to.