DIGG THIS As Eric Margolis points out the rise of piracy off the coast of Somalia is directly related to the 2006 US-backed Ethiopian invasion and the decades of US involvement in the region since the fall of Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991. In fact the very same fighters driven north towards the tip of The Horn by the fall of Mogadiscio, to Ethiopian driven US tanks, are involved in the attacks on international shipping. Hijackings in 2005 were in the single digits, rose to a dozen in 2006, doubled after the Christmas invasion to over 30 and when the … Continue reading Victim Disarmament At Sea