Feral Jundi

   Boy, CSS Global has their work cut out for them.  What gets me about this kind of attack, is this is Nisour Square material.  Insurgents opened up in a crowd, the ensuing firefight ends up killing innocents because they were caught in the cross fire, and no doubt, the insurgency will blame AMISOM and the government and turn it into a propaganda salad for everyone to eat.  In a place where there is such little value placed on life, this comes as no shock and you have to expect that. One thing that CSS might want to think about, is putting video cams on their vehicles.  That way, as soon as there is a fire fight or ambush, it can be proven who started it and where it came from, and they can show on film what their response was.

     Al Shabab and others will be doing all they can to take advantage of any propaganda scenarios, and trying to force a CSS protection team into a fight that results into civilian deaths would be up on the top of the list for embarrassing the US and the new Somalia government.  How you counter that, is to get the film out about what went down, way before the window lickers can.  To visually show justification for the ensuing fire fight(if it came to that), and turn it around on these guys.  Either way, the guys at CSS need to study the Nisor Square accident, and figure out what they need to do in order to work through that kind of worse case scenario.

   However they counter the attack and the propaganda value of the attack, is up to them.  I highly suggest the company reach out to those in the industry and government that are in the loop for the best industry practices for dealing with this kind of thing.  All sorts of companies do things a little different, and by now, everyone has found their happy place with this kind of operation.  Build your snowmobile with this one, because all eyes are on CSS to get this one right. Good luck.-Matt

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Somalia: Scores Killed as Somali President Leaves for Kampala

22 October 2009

Nairobi — Fifteen people died and many more were wounded when Somali rebels attacked the airport as a presidential convoy headed there before jetting off for a summit in Uganda.

As the presidential convoy headed for Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle Airport, Islamists opposing the Transitional Federal Government started targeting the airport and Maka al-Mukarramah Avenue that links Villa Somalia, the state house in Mogadishu, to the runway.

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