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March 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Dylan Welch and Rafael Epstein
The Brisbane Times
March 13, 2012
The missile struck in the middle of the night one Friday last month, ripping apart a car in a speeding convoy on a road 60 kilometres south of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
By the time local authorities arrived, the four men inside the car (unnamed intelligence sources would later tell Western media they were “foreign fighters”) were human debris.
The incident went largely unnoticed in the West, perhaps dismissed as just another strike – perhaps from a US Predator or Reaper drone – that neatly eliminated four targets in America’s ongoing global war on terrorism.
What such a scenario does not describe, however, is the extensive planning behind the strike, and that a seemingly automated killing was in fact the climax of a very human process of intelligence gathering by an unusual hybrid of soldier spies who have become the front-line fighters in America’s global shadow war.
The latest front in that expanding war includes Somalia and Yemen. America’s shadow war is becoming as critical as its battle against al-Qaeda on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Indeed, it is understood that this year the United States will have as many drones in the skies above Yemen and the African nation of Somalia as it will have over Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Africa is also the continent in which Australia’s latest covert unit, the SAS’s 4 Squadron – was operating last year. Officially, the SAS has three squadrons, but in 2005 the Howard government raised a fourth. It’s existence has never been acknowledged.
The squadron has been operating in Nigeria, Kenya and Zimbabwe, three countries with which Australia is not officially at war. Authorised by Defence Minister Stephen Smith in late 2010, the soldiers have, among other things, been assessing border controls, exploring landing sites for possible military interventions and possible escape routes for the evacuation of Australian nationals and military assessments of local politics and security. They are doing this out of uniform and without being accompanied by officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, with whom undercover SAS forces are conventionally deployed. This has raised concern in military circles that should these soldiers be captured they would not have adequate legal protection or contingency plans.
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