Yeah, and the problem with the aid, too, is like, at this point, Barr is, like, either using aid as, like, bribes to people to keep them from doing anything, or as, like, a SOP to the IMF or to Western observers.

Or he's just, like, getting it stolen by some of his lieutenants and then sold in the black market.

Totally. And so the reporting that's coming out of Mogadishu

about all this stuff becomes a real thorn in the side of the regime because it's fucking with

the aid flow. Okay? Now Giancarlo's going to provide some context. As you know, the week before the

July 14th, 1989 events that killed the bishop of Mogadishu, Monsignor Colombo,

raped the wife of an airline manager who was a German national and stole his car.

On that morning of that famous day, I was in the harbor at 7.30 a.m. to unload a large engine

needed for the power plant in Mogadishu. A car, driven by a chauffeur, with another person attached, approached near me.

They rolled down their windows.

To my amazement, I saw in front of me, Ciyadh, the president of Somalia.

Good morning, Mr. President.

How come you're driving around so early in the day and without an escort to boot?

He smilingly replied, I have to check.

But what are these big engines?

"'What are they for, and why are you working on a Friday?'

"'My men silently ran away, simulating some work.

"'I replied,

"'The engines are for producing electricity,

"'and there is a great need for them in Mogadishu.

"'He thanked me and left.

"'I asked my man about the reason for so much fear. They told me, that's the president, just in case.

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