Battle of Mogadishu - 3–4 October 1993
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.
Nicole Richie
Nicole Richie
See also Mogadishu Truck Bombing 2017 for another event staged in Somalia.
See also Messenger exchange about the Collateral Murder video with Vince Emanuele, alleged Veteran for Peace.
See also Messenger exchange about the Collateral Murder video with Vince Emanuele, alleged Veteran for Peace.
My initial prompting to examine the evidence of this event was a comment on this eulogy to Terry Jones, stating that Madeleine Albright was a dual citizen (implied dual Israeli/US citizen). She isn't but I was intrigued by what it said in Wikipedia about her.
Madeleine Albright - Wikipedia - denying Boutros Boutros-Ghali a second term as UN Secretary-General
Albright was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 9, 1993. During her tenure at the U.N., she had a rocky relationship with the U.N. Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whom she criticized as "disengaged" and "neglect[ful]" of genocide in Rwanda.[58] Albright wrote: "My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes."[59]
In Shake Hands with the Devil, Roméo Dallaire claims that in 1994, in Albright's role as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N., she avoided describing the killings in Rwanda as "genocide" until overwhelmed by the evidence for it;[60] this is now how she describes these massacres in her memoirs.[58][61] She was instructed to support a reduction or withdrawal (something which never happened) of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda but was later given more flexibility.[61] Albright later remarked in PBS documentary Ghosts of Rwanda that "it was a very, very difficult time, and the situation was unclear. You know, in retrospect, it all looks very clear. But when you were [there] at the time, it was unclear about what was happening in Rwanda.""[62]
Also in 1996, after Cuban military pilots shot down two small civilian aircraft flown by the Cuban-American exile group Brothers to the Rescue over international waters, she announced, "This is not cojones. This is cowardice."[63] The line endeared her to President Clinton, who said it was "probably the most effective one-liner in the whole administration's foreign policy."[64]
In 1996, Albright entered into a secret pact with Richard Clarke, Michael Sheehan, and James Rubin to overthrow U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was running unopposed for a second term in the 1996 selection. After 15 U.S. peacekeepers died in a failed raid in Somalia in 1993, Boutros-Ghali became a political scapegoat in the United States.[65] They dubbed the pact "Operation Orient Express" to reflect their hope that other nations would join the United States.[66] Although every other member of the United Nations Security Council voted for Boutros-Ghali, the United States refused to yield to international pressure to drop its lone veto. After four deadlocked meetings of the Security Council, Boutros-Ghali suspended his candidacy and became the only U.N. Secretary-General ever to be denied a second term. The United States then fought a four-round veto duel with France, forcing it to back down and accept Kofi Annan as the next Secretary-General. In his memoirs, Clarke said that "the entire operation had strengthened Albright's hand in the competition to be Secretary of State in the second Clinton administration."[66]
Boutros Boutros-Ghali scapegoat
I was alerted by the sentence:
After 15 U.S. peacekeepers died in a failed raid in Somalia in 1993, Boutros-Ghali became a political scapegoat in the United States.
It prompted me to think that perhaps if Boutros-Ghali was wanted rid of that perhaps the scapegoating of him was engineered and that perhaps the event had been staged for that purpose. Not that Boutros-Ghali was necessarily an innocent party. According to investigative journalist Linda Melvern, Boutros-Ghali approved a secret $26 million arms sale to the government of Rwanda in 1990 when he was Foreign Minister, the weapons stockpiled by the Hutu regime as part of the fairly public, long-term preparations for the subsequent genocide. The Rwandan genocide seems a very large can of worms and, on reflection, no doubt my initial thought of the battle being engineered to scapegoat him is completely unfounded. Nevertheless, the evidence shows the event was staged, whatever the reasons.
No credible evidence of the event
I looked up the Battle of Mogadishu in Wikipedia which gave a very convoluted description that I couldn't follow but the sentence below set off little bells:
At 15:42, the MH-6 assault Little Birds carrying the Delta operators hit the target, the wave of dust becoming so bad that one was forced to go around again and land out of position.
Aha! Was this the same kind of dust that worked its magic as the twin towers came down making Ground Zero look like a warzone and the same kind of dust that conveniently covers the staging of death in the faked Collateral Murder video?
Fast-roping in the thick haze
Well, there’s an awful lot of dust in the footage we’re shown of this battle and we do have to wonder why quite so much. It's in a city, not in the desert with lots of sand to stir up. The subtitles tell us that the soldiers are “fast roping” down from the Black Hawk but is it soldiers we see as we peer through the thick haze or dummies? Could be anything at all. Nothing in the video provides evidence of the convoluted story they tell us in Wikipedia.
Black hawk pilot, Michael J. Durant
Michael’s femur and back were broken but he recovered and got back into ice hockey. He says:
My back’s deformed – it will always be that way – they left it alone. My personality is: if it hurts when you get up go do something until it stops hurting. And it works.
Comment: We’re left with the puzzling question of why “they left it alone”. Why did they leave it alone – if it was too risky to do something or futile why not provide that information. Nothing about his appearance suggests that his back is deformed. And we all know that when feel pain, continuing activity does not always result in the pain going away. While it sometimes may, other times the activity exacerbates the pain.
Navy SEAL, Howard Wasdin.
Reporter: Your leg was hanging on by threads of flesh. You’re begging the doctors not to amputate. They reluctantly agree not to. How difficult was your recovery?
HW: You know, the physical recovery – I almost died from a staph infection – I had to go to daily debreedings?? (debridements??) where they scrub out the necrotic tissue but that recovery wasn’t near as bad as the mental recovery, the mental war I was fighting with myself. … The silteen?? was the only thing in my mind given my abusive childhood – I thought I had gotten to the point where I could totally protect myself.
Comment: Incomprehensible pronunciation and alien-seeming words are signs of fakery and Howard generously provides us with two. His leg was hanging on by threads of flesh but is working absolutely fine now? Pull the other one. Check out Howard tangoing and see his triathlon images on his website.
The reporter states that Howard helped a Somalian boy who had a similar injury although he had lost his leg and asks Howard to elaborate.
HW: There was this little boy next to our safe house and I found him by smelling – you know – the necrotic tissue and decided to help him out.
Comment: While it is true that necrotic tissue has a foul odour the details we are given for Howard finding this poor boy are very skimpy. Shouldn't we be getting a little more to the story. A feature of staged events is the provision of information that is a little unusual with very little detail to explain it.
Country-and-western singer and former US Army Ranger, Keni Thomas
Keni's a real performer. In this presentation at the American Veterans Center he tells us how he's the last man out of his helicopter and how, when he's about to go he looks over at his crew chief. He says:
"Ned had put this sticker across his helmet. It said, "NO FEAR". It was in black and white or ... red, white and blue."
Comments:
--- It seems strange that he would make such an error as "black and white" for "red, white and blue". And you wonder why crew chiefs are wearing stickers on their helmets. That would strike me as against regulation.
--- He tells us gunfire was heard which is interesting because in the video, the allegedly genuine audio track of soldier conversation we hear stops and is replaced by music just at the point the soldiers are allegedly fast-roping down. Wouldn't you expect the video maker to leave the sound of gunshots in the video?
He tells us:
"When we hit the ground there were people shootin' but it wasn't that bad. As many times as I've told this story it always sounds funny to me that I would say there were people shootin' but it wasn't that bad. It wasn't bad because they were missing which is ... that if people shootin' at you that's what you want. OK, just remember that, make them miss, all right. Think small."
Comment: How credible is it that a soldier would be OK with being shot at because the shots missed. Obviously, you don't know that the shots are going to miss so while you're experiencing being shot at surely you wouldn't be thinking "it isn't that bad".
In the next part of the story Keni tells us that his buddy, Doug, has been hit and that Sergeant (pronounced Sarnt) Watson tells him (with seeming great authority) that he is now in charge addressing him as Sergeant (pronounced Sarnt) Thomas.
Comment: Where's the hierarchy, here? Both Watson and Thomas are sergeants and presumably Keni's buddy, Doug, too. Why is one sergeant telling another what to do?
Further along in his performance, Keni tells us that one of the men he's been made in charge of, Floyd, starts yelling, "He's in the tree, Sarnt, he's in the tree." Keni responds, "What?". Keni goes on to say:
"Remember I said there were guys shooting at us and this guy was gettin' closer and nobody could actually figure out who the guy was who was shootin' at us that was gettin' close but Floyd sees him and Floyd as he's pointin' out says, "He's in the tree, he's in the tree." Sarnt Watson from across the street hears him and says, "What?" and Floyd responds, "He's in the tree, Sarnt," to which Sarnt Watson responds, "Yeah, I heard you the first time. Well, if he's in the tree why don't you shoot him?" I could see the lightbulb going off, Floyd's thinking, 'Oh I enlisted into the Ranger regiment as a machinegunner. That's my job," and his helmet got - the poor guy looked like Barney Fife [a comically inept fictional Deputy Sheriff in the Andy Griffiths Show] - his helmet got straighter he put it down, he charged the weapon system - and they teach you when you shoot a machine gun it gets fired in what's called a 5 to a 7-round burst and that's because they don't want to overheat the barrel."
Keni then tells how Floyd goes nuts with the machine gun so that the barrel's "glowing". He tells us he's a redneck and then he imitates Floyd saying in a silly-sounding voice "Hey, did I get him?" Keni tells us he said to him, "I don't know if you got him, Floyd, but you got the whole tree ... That's a technique you know and it works."
Comment: It's hard to know where to start, isn't it? If you believe that trained soldiers in a life-and-death situation in a battle would speak and behave as described above, please email me at [email protected]. How on earth the audience, among whom there must surely be veterans can go along with this nonsense is beyond me.
Madeleine Albright - Wikipedia - denying Boutros Boutros-Ghali a second term as UN Secretary-General
Albright was appointed Ambassador to the United Nations shortly after Clinton was inaugurated, presenting her credentials on February 9, 1993. During her tenure at the U.N., she had a rocky relationship with the U.N. Secretary-General, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whom she criticized as "disengaged" and "neglect[ful]" of genocide in Rwanda.[58] Albright wrote: "My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes."[59]
In Shake Hands with the Devil, Roméo Dallaire claims that in 1994, in Albright's role as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N., she avoided describing the killings in Rwanda as "genocide" until overwhelmed by the evidence for it;[60] this is now how she describes these massacres in her memoirs.[58][61] She was instructed to support a reduction or withdrawal (something which never happened) of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Rwanda but was later given more flexibility.[61] Albright later remarked in PBS documentary Ghosts of Rwanda that "it was a very, very difficult time, and the situation was unclear. You know, in retrospect, it all looks very clear. But when you were [there] at the time, it was unclear about what was happening in Rwanda.""[62]
Also in 1996, after Cuban military pilots shot down two small civilian aircraft flown by the Cuban-American exile group Brothers to the Rescue over international waters, she announced, "This is not cojones. This is cowardice."[63] The line endeared her to President Clinton, who said it was "probably the most effective one-liner in the whole administration's foreign policy."[64]
In 1996, Albright entered into a secret pact with Richard Clarke, Michael Sheehan, and James Rubin to overthrow U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was running unopposed for a second term in the 1996 selection. After 15 U.S. peacekeepers died in a failed raid in Somalia in 1993, Boutros-Ghali became a political scapegoat in the United States.[65] They dubbed the pact "Operation Orient Express" to reflect their hope that other nations would join the United States.[66] Although every other member of the United Nations Security Council voted for Boutros-Ghali, the United States refused to yield to international pressure to drop its lone veto. After four deadlocked meetings of the Security Council, Boutros-Ghali suspended his candidacy and became the only U.N. Secretary-General ever to be denied a second term. The United States then fought a four-round veto duel with France, forcing it to back down and accept Kofi Annan as the next Secretary-General. In his memoirs, Clarke said that "the entire operation had strengthened Albright's hand in the competition to be Secretary of State in the second Clinton administration."[66]
Boutros Boutros-Ghali scapegoat
I was alerted by the sentence:
After 15 U.S. peacekeepers died in a failed raid in Somalia in 1993, Boutros-Ghali became a political scapegoat in the United States.
It prompted me to think that perhaps if Boutros-Ghali was wanted rid of that perhaps the scapegoating of him was engineered and that perhaps the event had been staged for that purpose. Not that Boutros-Ghali was necessarily an innocent party. According to investigative journalist Linda Melvern, Boutros-Ghali approved a secret $26 million arms sale to the government of Rwanda in 1990 when he was Foreign Minister, the weapons stockpiled by the Hutu regime as part of the fairly public, long-term preparations for the subsequent genocide. The Rwandan genocide seems a very large can of worms and, on reflection, no doubt my initial thought of the battle being engineered to scapegoat him is completely unfounded. Nevertheless, the evidence shows the event was staged, whatever the reasons.
No credible evidence of the event
I looked up the Battle of Mogadishu in Wikipedia which gave a very convoluted description that I couldn't follow but the sentence below set off little bells:
At 15:42, the MH-6 assault Little Birds carrying the Delta operators hit the target, the wave of dust becoming so bad that one was forced to go around again and land out of position.
Aha! Was this the same kind of dust that worked its magic as the twin towers came down making Ground Zero look like a warzone and the same kind of dust that conveniently covers the staging of death in the faked Collateral Murder video?
Fast-roping in the thick haze
Well, there’s an awful lot of dust in the footage we’re shown of this battle and we do have to wonder why quite so much. It's in a city, not in the desert with lots of sand to stir up. The subtitles tell us that the soldiers are “fast roping” down from the Black Hawk but is it soldiers we see as we peer through the thick haze or dummies? Could be anything at all. Nothing in the video provides evidence of the convoluted story they tell us in Wikipedia.
Black hawk pilot, Michael J. Durant
Michael’s femur and back were broken but he recovered and got back into ice hockey. He says:
My back’s deformed – it will always be that way – they left it alone. My personality is: if it hurts when you get up go do something until it stops hurting. And it works.
Comment: We’re left with the puzzling question of why “they left it alone”. Why did they leave it alone – if it was too risky to do something or futile why not provide that information. Nothing about his appearance suggests that his back is deformed. And we all know that when feel pain, continuing activity does not always result in the pain going away. While it sometimes may, other times the activity exacerbates the pain.
Navy SEAL, Howard Wasdin.
Reporter: Your leg was hanging on by threads of flesh. You’re begging the doctors not to amputate. They reluctantly agree not to. How difficult was your recovery?
HW: You know, the physical recovery – I almost died from a staph infection – I had to go to daily debreedings?? (debridements??) where they scrub out the necrotic tissue but that recovery wasn’t near as bad as the mental recovery, the mental war I was fighting with myself. … The silteen?? was the only thing in my mind given my abusive childhood – I thought I had gotten to the point where I could totally protect myself.
Comment: Incomprehensible pronunciation and alien-seeming words are signs of fakery and Howard generously provides us with two. His leg was hanging on by threads of flesh but is working absolutely fine now? Pull the other one. Check out Howard tangoing and see his triathlon images on his website.
The reporter states that Howard helped a Somalian boy who had a similar injury although he had lost his leg and asks Howard to elaborate.
HW: There was this little boy next to our safe house and I found him by smelling – you know – the necrotic tissue and decided to help him out.
Comment: While it is true that necrotic tissue has a foul odour the details we are given for Howard finding this poor boy are very skimpy. Shouldn't we be getting a little more to the story. A feature of staged events is the provision of information that is a little unusual with very little detail to explain it.
Country-and-western singer and former US Army Ranger, Keni Thomas
Keni's a real performer. In this presentation at the American Veterans Center he tells us how he's the last man out of his helicopter and how, when he's about to go he looks over at his crew chief. He says:
"Ned had put this sticker across his helmet. It said, "NO FEAR". It was in black and white or ... red, white and blue."
Comments:
--- It seems strange that he would make such an error as "black and white" for "red, white and blue". And you wonder why crew chiefs are wearing stickers on their helmets. That would strike me as against regulation.
--- He tells us gunfire was heard which is interesting because in the video, the allegedly genuine audio track of soldier conversation we hear stops and is replaced by music just at the point the soldiers are allegedly fast-roping down. Wouldn't you expect the video maker to leave the sound of gunshots in the video?
He tells us:
"When we hit the ground there were people shootin' but it wasn't that bad. As many times as I've told this story it always sounds funny to me that I would say there were people shootin' but it wasn't that bad. It wasn't bad because they were missing which is ... that if people shootin' at you that's what you want. OK, just remember that, make them miss, all right. Think small."
Comment: How credible is it that a soldier would be OK with being shot at because the shots missed. Obviously, you don't know that the shots are going to miss so while you're experiencing being shot at surely you wouldn't be thinking "it isn't that bad".
In the next part of the story Keni tells us that his buddy, Doug, has been hit and that Sergeant (pronounced Sarnt) Watson tells him (with seeming great authority) that he is now in charge addressing him as Sergeant (pronounced Sarnt) Thomas.
Comment: Where's the hierarchy, here? Both Watson and Thomas are sergeants and presumably Keni's buddy, Doug, too. Why is one sergeant telling another what to do?
Further along in his performance, Keni tells us that one of the men he's been made in charge of, Floyd, starts yelling, "He's in the tree, Sarnt, he's in the tree." Keni responds, "What?". Keni goes on to say:
"Remember I said there were guys shooting at us and this guy was gettin' closer and nobody could actually figure out who the guy was who was shootin' at us that was gettin' close but Floyd sees him and Floyd as he's pointin' out says, "He's in the tree, he's in the tree." Sarnt Watson from across the street hears him and says, "What?" and Floyd responds, "He's in the tree, Sarnt," to which Sarnt Watson responds, "Yeah, I heard you the first time. Well, if he's in the tree why don't you shoot him?" I could see the lightbulb going off, Floyd's thinking, 'Oh I enlisted into the Ranger regiment as a machinegunner. That's my job," and his helmet got - the poor guy looked like Barney Fife [a comically inept fictional Deputy Sheriff in the Andy Griffiths Show] - his helmet got straighter he put it down, he charged the weapon system - and they teach you when you shoot a machine gun it gets fired in what's called a 5 to a 7-round burst and that's because they don't want to overheat the barrel."
Keni then tells how Floyd goes nuts with the machine gun so that the barrel's "glowing". He tells us he's a redneck and then he imitates Floyd saying in a silly-sounding voice "Hey, did I get him?" Keni tells us he said to him, "I don't know if you got him, Floyd, but you got the whole tree ... That's a technique you know and it works."
Comment: It's hard to know where to start, isn't it? If you believe that trained soldiers in a life-and-death situation in a battle would speak and behave as described above, please email me at [email protected]. How on earth the audience, among whom there must surely be veterans can go along with this nonsense is beyond me.
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