IS IT JUST ME OR IS SOMALIA SUDDENLY BECOMING SIGNIFICANT?

It was reported earlier this week that Al Qaeda has a chemical weapons R&D unit in Somalia.

When I blogged on Somalia yesterday I had no knowledge of the mass murder at the shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Al Qaeda in Somalia, aka al Shabaab, has claimed responsibility. At the time of writing 59 have been killed. Victims were non-Muslims.

The seven nations named to General Wesley Clark shortly after the mother of all inside Ziojobs 9/11 were:
Iraq (2003)
Lebanon (2006)
Libya (2011)
Syria (2011 - )
Sudan
Somalia
Iran

Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon were named in A Clean Break.

Libya was known to be anti-Israel. Roland Dumas, who claimed that he was asked by British officials to plan the insertion of the cutthroat Jihadis into Syria, also claimed that a former PM of Israel said that Israel would destroy those nations who opposed it.

However there is the small matter of Somalia having the world's seventh largest oil reserves off its coast.

But how do you get that oil to market?

And which market?

I would say that the nearest market is Europe and a pipeline from Somalia through Sudan and Libya to Europe would transport Somali oil from Somalia to Europe.

This would explain the seven nations named to Clark: the four nations named in A Clean Break were Iraq, Iran, Syria and Lebanon; and Somalia, Sudan and Libya need to be under control to build the pipeline required to transport Somali oil to Europe.