Luke, check out this article.. talks about how the whole mess in Somalia was engineered by the CIA for the billion barrels of oil in the ground, found by the Bush family... they first tried to buy the dictator for $100 million per year, and then started the civil war to oust him and then built a CIA base that can hold up to 100,000 troops in 2013: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34728-after-the-black-hawks-arrived-in-somalia-a-history-of-us-meddling-continues