U.S. lawmaker safe after plane fired on in Somalia (Obama will talk some sense in them)

cnn ^ | 4/13/2009 | cnn

[tobyhill]

A plane carrying U.S. Rep. Donald Payne was fired on as it left the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, but it departed safely and landed without incident in Nairobi, Kenya, his office said, citing U.S. State Department officials.

We understand that his plane was fired on ... as he left ... but that they have left safely and that no one was hurt," said Kerry McKenney, the spokeswoman in his Washington office.

Police officers at the airport told Payne's staffers in Washington that the plane carrying Payne was damaged in the attack, she said, but the severity of that damage was not immediately clear.

Payne told CNN's "The Situation Room" that he was unaware of the attack at the time.

"We were informed when we arrived in Nairobi that was a report of some mortar shelling at the airport about the time of our takeoff," Payne said.

[JerseyHighlander]

 

Donald Payne said he wants a complete change of American policy to support Eritrea and to condemn Ethiopia. American government is considering to label Eritrea a “state sponsor of Terorism” for arming the insurgency in Mogadishu. But Donald Payne has been organizing files to angelize the insurgency and to smear Ethiopian and Somali governments as destabilizing force in the region. Basically, Donald Payne thinks the killing of civilians by ONLF is fine and the rise of extremism in Mogadishu is acceptable. Well, okay, let us say it is fine to change current pro-Ethiopia American policy (against all common sense) just so that Donald Payne will feel joyful. But why would Donald Payne, a congressman, try to hide the killing of so many civilians by the ONLF terrorist organization? Donald Payne represents the crime-infested Newark city in New Jersey, so has the endless crimes, uncontrollable gang violence, death and suffering of Newark  citizens made him immune to suffering of civilians?

http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=2461

 

---

 

Payne has been the paid lapdog of ethnic-Somali Eritrean terrorists for several years:

YouTube - New York Times Video Report on ONLF - Ogaden ...

7 min - Jun 19, 2007 -

It is the epicenter of a separatist war pitting impoverished nomads against one of .... But key Democrats in Congress, including Mr. Payne, ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2UsCzim6cc

[Cicero]

U.S. congressman Donald Payne, left, has discussions with Somalia Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid today in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. (NewJersey.com)

That's racist!

[SandRat]

a Kerry McKenney ~shiver~ that's a Scary image. A cross between a Sen. John Kerry and Congresswoman Cynthia McKennyS ~shiver~

[Cheetahcat]

“It was the African Union that was there in full force, and there was certainly adequate security.”

Sure they do!! that Black Caucus stuff does not fly over there Mr 10 Term whatever.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Firing mortars at a plane?

[richardtavor]

BS story of the year, changing as we read...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Smells funny doesn’t it?

[Conspiracy Guy]

That story died didn’t it