The process can be outlined as follows. A Somali warlord places an order to import arms into Somalia.

Ethiopia also supplied arms to Mohamed Dheere, the warlord in charge of Jowhar (Middle Shabelle) and a TFG ally.

The warlord or criminal backgrounds of some of the future members of parliament will have to be dealt with.

In many cases the practice has been perpetuated on behalf and in support of a well known warlord engaged in confrontations.

Military equipment in the form of night vision devices was also part of a shipment of arms to a warlord located in Mogadishu.

In Somalia the warlord will repay the middleman using the services of an alternative remittance business dealer or broker (hawaladar) who may also be part of the network or economic group.

As a result, Colonel Barre Aden Shire Hirale (Kismaayo warlord and (dissident) Minister of Reconstruction and Resettlement in TFG) sent his militia to support Habsade and located it at Baadheerre, south west of Baidoa.

The fact that this warlord can continue to commit crimes against humanity is not only extremely serious in itself, but also a contributory factor in stirring up anti Banyamulenge feeling, and seriously jeopardizes the transition.

(b) The purchase and sale of arms by individual members of the Transitional Federal Government to protect their respective interests, be they commercial, i.e., arms trade, drug trafficking, taxes and other revenue collections, etc., or to protect their warlord strongholds in Somalia.

To understand the business of mythology and what a Chief Belief Officer is supposed to do, you have to hear a story of Ganesha, the elephant headed god who is the scribe of storytellers, and his brother, the athletic warlord of the gods, Kartikeya.

That intervention together with the US and Saudi governments provision of arms to Afghanistan s anti Soviet guerrillas through Pakistan s Inter Services Intelligence agency helped spread militancy and terrorism, which the subsequent US military intervention has kept alive. As a result, Afghanistan is now at risk of becoming partitioned along ethnic and tribal lines, with militia or warlord controlled enclaves proliferating.

But ill equipped and poorly led UN replacement forces for the American presence put the remaining US troops in the bull s eye as they attempted to bring to justice the Somali warlord responsible for the death of Pakistani peacekeepers. The ensuing bloodbath of US soldiers generated images that the American public could not stomach, prompting the exit of American and then UN forces.