ATDTDA (1): Oltre Giubba (30:4)

[Dave Monroe]

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:

> "As it happened," Lindsay, the Unit Historian,
> recalled, "we caught a contrary wind, and ended up
> in the middle of some unpleasantness in Oltre
> Giubba, instead of down at alex, where we had
> counted upon some weeks of educational diversion,
> not to mention a more salubrious atmosphere" (p.
> 30).
> 
> Jubaland (Somali: Jubbaland) or Juba Valley (Somali:
> Dooxada Jubba), formerly Trans-Juba (Italian: Oltre
> Giuba), is the southwesternmost part of Somalia, on
> the far side of the Juba River (thus "Trans"-Juba),
> bordering on Kenya....

Torn from yesteryear's, yesterdecade's AND, more or
less, albeit presciently, yesterday's headlines ...

The United Nations intervention in Somalia (code-named
Operation Restore Hope) was a United
Nations–sanctioned United States military operation
from 9 December 1992 to 4 May 1993. The operation
planned to avert a growing humanitarian disaster in
the increasingly lawless Republic of Somalia, which
was suffering from severe famine, general chaos, and
domination by a number of warlords following the
collapse of Siad Barre's military government.
Ambassador Robert B. Oakley was appointed head of this
operation by President George Herbert Walker Bush.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Restore_Hope

Black Hawk Down (2001)

http://www.sonypictures.com/homevideo/blackhawkdown/

But wait, there's more ...

On Tuesday, January 9, 2007, the United States openly
intervened in Somalia by sending AC-130 gunships to
attack Islamist positions in Ras Kamboni. Dozens were
killed.

On January 11 and 12, joint U.S. and Ethiopian forces
conducted additional airstrikes in the wild
countryside near Ras Kamboni. The U.S. said it was
targeting a terrorist cell responsible for the
bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
in 1998. However, the human rights organization Oxfam
said 70 nomadic herdsmen were killed and 100 wounded
in the airstrikes, and none of them were combatants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#2006_Civil_War

Plus some general info ...

https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/so.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1072592.stm


 
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