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Al Jazeera Mobile Bulletin + Today’s State Dept. Briefing

By SusanUnPC on January 27, 2009 at 12:30 AM in Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, State Department Press Briefings, World News

Every day, you can receive the daily State Dept. briefings via e-mail and video. BELOW is the January 26, 2009 briefing:


Here is the full text of the daily press briefing, on January 26, 2009.

  • Gary McGowan

    Youtube tells me the user has removed the first video.
    It was here:
    http://preview.tinyurl.com/dxh9vz
    or here:
    http://www.youtube.com/v/0gNfhYNB-xg&hl=en&fs=1
    either of which get me the “removed by user” message, but we can still see that the opening story was about Somalia.

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    They post lots often. As I write, here is their latest on Somalia:
    “Inside Story – Somalia’s power vacuum – 26 Jan 09 – Part 1”
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwK-khYSEoU&feature=channel_page

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    AlJazeeraEnglish at youtube is here with many reports each day:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish
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    Thanks for these news reports, Susan. We cannot live on CNN only.

  • BARB

    What else we should know about Somalia:

    SOMALIA, DUMPING GROUND FOR TOXIC WASTE

    Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: “Somebody is dumping nuclear material here. There is also lead, and heavy metals such as cadmium and mercury, you name it.” Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to “dispose” of cheaply. When I asked Mr Ould-Abdallah what European governments were doing about it, he said with a sigh: “Nothing. There has been no clean-up, no compensation, and no prevention.”

    At the same time, other European ships have been looting Somalia’s seas of their greatest resource: seafood. Europeans have destroyed their own fish stocks by over-exploitation, and have now moved on to Somalia’s. More than $300 million worth of tuna, shrimp, and lobster are being stolen every year by illegal trawlers. The local fishermen are now starving.

    Mohammed Hussein, a fisherman in the town of Marka, 100 km south of Mogadishu, told Reuters: “If nothing is done, there soon won’t be much fish left in our coastal waters.”

    This is the context in which the “pirates” have emerged. Somalian fishermen took speedboats to try to dissuade the dumpers and trawlers, or at least levy a “tax” on them. They call themselves the Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia, and ordinary Somalis agree. The independent Somalian news site WardheerNews found 70 per cent “strongly supported the piracy as a form of national defence”.

    ARTICLE FROM AL JAZEERA – ENGLISH