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Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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That is a lot of money Laughing



Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

WASHINGTON — Somalia's transitional federal government is asking America for $1 billion to help build a national army, police force, Foreign Ministry, tax collection system, courts, and democratic structures.

In other words, the U.N.-recognized transitional government needs to start building its nation from scratch. That was the message the government's minister for international cooperation, Dahir Jibreel, brought to the corridors of power in Washington last week.

Speaking to journalists at the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Jibreel said bluntly that today he would need just $10 million to buy a private militia capable of taking over his hometown in Somalia. According to the Weekly Standard, the transitional federal government is so strapped for funding that the presidential palace had to raise $15,000 last week to cover food expenses.

"Whoever has the resources will capture the country," Mr. Jibreel said in Washington on Thursday. "It's either the warlords, the Islamists, or us."

The stakes in Somalia have a recent echo in American military history. After American troops left Somalia in 1994, Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden claimed that his mujahedeen had proved that the American military was a paper tiger. In the wake of the military victory that drove out the Qaeda-affiliated Islamic Courts Union on December 28, the transitional government is bracing for an Afghan- or Iraqi-style insurgency.

So far, Mr. Jibreel's plea for more resources has not been answered. Last week, the State Department announced that initially America would donate just $40 million to reconstruction efforts. Mr. Jibreel said he was not sure how much of that sum would even reach the transitional federal government.

Mr. Jibreel also was critical of American foreign policy toward his country in the recent past. As an example, he cited the State Department's encouragement of members of the transitional federal government to side with the alleged moderates who remained in the new regime in Mogadishu after the most radical elements of the Islamic Courts Union took power on July 22, 2006. That regime not only has been accused by American officials of harboring and working closely with wanted Al Qaeda terrorists, but also began implementing Taliban-style Islamic laws soon after the takeover.

"The United States offered us money to side with so-called moderates. To us that was like giving us money to buy our own headstones," Mr. Jibreel said.

While he was critical of some of last summer's diplomacy, Mr. Jibreel had high praise for America's military intelligence. He said an attack earlier this month in Ras Kamboni — which initial reports said killed a Qaeda terrorist wanted for planning the 1998 bombing of two American embassies in East Africa — was an example of good cooperation between the transitional federal government's human intelligence and the greater technical capacities of the CIA and the American military.

The strike on Ras Kamboni was later found not to have killed Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, who Mr. Jibreel said was hiding with other wanted Islamist fighters in a dense jungle area at the southern tip of Somalia that is about the size of Rhode Island. The British press reported earlier this month that the Ras Kamboni operation killed dozens of civilians, but Mr. Jibreel disputed that characterization.
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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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let's just say some somalis are high on weed Sad


america who is seein the highest deficits in its history along with the billion dollars a week it takes to stay in iraq etc and the increasing debts to china sure as hell is not even going to give somalia more a couple million and even then they don't even trust the somali ppl but give it to orgs who can provide what is being asked for Laughing Laughing

Abdiqasim's legacy lives on, no one will ever trust another somali who claims to be a government Laughing Laughing Laughing
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[quote="DawladSade"]let's just say some somalis are high on weed Sad


america who is seein the highest deficits in its history along with the billion dollars a week it takes to stay in iraq etc and the increasing debts to china sure as hell is not even going to give somalia more a couple million and even then they don't even trust the somali ppl but give it to orgs who can provide what is being asked for Laughing[/quote]

I actually agree with you one this one.

WTF is wrong with these so called somali gov't representative....$1billion, which planet do they live in? All day everyday all they do is talk out of their arse....just talk no action. They think money is going to buy them peace....we seriously need real politican who know what the hell they are doing. They are a walking embarassmet.
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a Billion dollars to the United States is noting, seriously. this is a country that spends hundreds of billions on just war, Congress is likely approve a budget of so and so as long as the money is to "fight terrorism". there are about a hundred and ten ways to getting billions of dollars from the united states, just say there's al qaeda in the country and they'll toss a sh!tload of cash your way. :}
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[quote="The-Screw"]a Billion dollars to the United States is noting, seriously. this is a country that spends hundreds of billions on just war, Congress is likely approve a budget of so and so as long as the money is to "fight terrorism". there are about a hundred and ten ways to getting billions of dollars from the united states, just say there's al qaeda in the country and they'll toss a sh!tload of cash your way. :}[/quote]


where on earth do you live?...we are already the world's laughing stock, but why am I shocked about that, just look at how you are talking. Do you really think the US will invest $1 billion dollar in crazy somalia, when they can spend it on themselves in many ways. The united states already promised $40million to somalia but I'm sure there are conditions underlying it. Even if we got the $40 million, seriously we dont have the right ppl who know who to spend it wisely on the country.
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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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like i said, a billion dollars to the United States is nothing. tens of billions more disapear unaccounted for every year. This is the most powerful country on earth, $13.049 trillion GDP, the fock is a billion to them?
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The question is: Is billion dollar worth the investment in somalia?......the somalis are not requesting these funds to tackle terror but rather somali infustracture. And the US already offered $40mil. BTW, where the economy of the US is at and the way the house and senate feels about the gov't spending on foreign policy....I don't think they stand I chance to approve it.
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Is billion dollar worth the investment in somalia?


personally, i think a billion is disrespectful. should have asked for $10B



somalia is worth every penny of it.
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Laughing Laughing Shocked Is he for real?
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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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1 billion is nothing to the US, but I agree too much to be spent on an African wartorn nation. But you have to ask for more, to get more. If Somalia asks a billion, chances are Somalia will get at least something. I mean 10% of what's been asked for: 100 million. That's some serious money.

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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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what will a $1000,000,000 do for all somalis. somalis need to sit together and solve their problems. peace in somalia needs all somalis to address sharing all available resources. it is worth $trillions.
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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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i smell corruption.

politicians and warlords stealing all the money and sh!t.


you watch.
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Re: Somalia Asks America For $1 Billion in Aid

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the only shit they good at is begging , they send profissional beggers around the world , they are even begging f-king poor Africans ,who begs brundi and malawi , f-king asshole Magaca umadda intay dhulka dhigeen bay hadanaa ku dawarsanayaan , their mission is smiple get as mush as you can before it's too late ....Geedi is the smart one though he already got place in both Kenya and Ethiopa
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U.S should spend 1 Billion and more on Somalia today or it will spend 10 billions in a few years when the UIC terrorist come back. I say it should also give 10 more billions to deal with terrorist savage at home and their sympathizers aboard. It should also help move the capital to peaceful place such as Qandala.
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What have they done so far to justify anyone investing in their government. The TFG is a useless institution which is only good for embarrassing Somalis everywhere and giving warlords another chance to continue oppressing the people.

To hell with America and their money.....if they want to increase the pay cheques of the warlords they can go ahead.
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