Copyright B Purkayastha 2014
Friday, 19 September 2014
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Yep, you nailed it. The worst offenders were Japanese trawlers with drift--nets is my recollection, with no coast guard protecting Somali water, they had stripped the fishing grounds to an ocean desert. And that is precisely when the trouble had begun with the pirates. But it was US Senator Charles Grassley and friends had arranged to arm Said Barre to the teeth previous to this, and he used those weapons to wreak a biblical terror on his own nation, setting the chain of events into motion that led to all loss of order in Somalia and the phenomena of vanished government and rule by war lords and endless civil war resulting in fundamentalism drawing people desperate for order into their ranks... and we all know the rest of the story-
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