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Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem
Civil Unrest in Libya
The change in Libya has been clearly marked by America’s endeavour to drag the European states, under the auspices of NATO, to serve the Greater Middle East Initiative. NATO’s task stipulates protecting the foreign security of the Initiative; by withdrawing from the air strikes, Am erica left the European states in charge of the task, though she is still partaking in the other activities of the Alliance. This is a clear success for the Americans, which the European states perceive; in addition to bearing the cost of the air strikes, Europe is bracing herself for instability in the Mediterranean, which will result in an increase in immigration from Africa. Libya’s lengthening crisis would contribute to the depletion of Europe’s economies - which are already severely strained by a catalogue of crises - due to the successive increases in oil prices and the drop in the production of Libyan oil, which is light and low in sulphur and much coveted by European oil refineries.
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Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem
Political Chinwag
America and maritime piracy in Somalia
The maritime piracy acts off the Somali coast have since 1991 started to gradually spread from the coasts to the high seas and deep oceans. It has also been noticed that these piracy operations are not initiated and concluded in the whole of Somalia, but in the area close to the coast of Puntland, specifically the Port of Eyl, located in a very remote mountainous region. After it succeeded in separating Somaliland from the rest of Somalia in 1991, Ethiopia, supported by the US, incited some of the heads of the tribes in the Puntland region, under the leadership of Abdullahi Yusuf (the current Somali president) and provided them with the funds and weapons they needed, to help achieve the project of separating Puntland from the unified Somalia in 1998. Ethiopia, supported by the CIA and under the pretext of fighting terrorism, continues to train the militias, provide them with weapons and pays the security officers in the Puntland in order to maintain the status quo.
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Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Raheem
Al-Qaeda in Maghreb
Regardless of the communiqué by the so-called al-Qaeeda in the Islamic Maghreb, in which it claimed responsibility for the blasts of Casablanca and Algiers more than two weeks ago, the timing and the recurrence of these operations will pave the way for America and give her the regional and international pretexts to forge ahead and execute what Defence Secretary Robert Gates had announced on 6 th February 2007 to Congress about the decision to establish a new U.S. Africa Command headquarters, to be known as AFRICOM. The headquarters will be operational by the end of 2008; it will coordinate all military and security interests throughout the continent. Hence, after that America used to coordinate her military and security operations in Africa through three Commands HQs, the Central, the European and the Pacific, AFRICOM will coordinate the military and security matters of all countries of the African Union except for Egypt, because of her special situation vis-à-vis the Middle East.
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The Great Hoax - Arab Spring & GMEI