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    UN order multinational naval forces to interdict Al Shabab's illegal charcoal trade

    . How the Charcoal Trade Fuels Al Shabab

    . Days after the report was issued, the Security Council passed Resolution 2182, authorizing the use of naval force to disrupt the trade. If trade hubs in the Gulf region will not stop the trade, it seems, the warships of the Combined Maritime Forces, a 30-nation naval partnership that patrols the region to deter piracy will have to do the work for them. It is too soon to tell if the new mission is tightening the screws on al Shabab. If it works, though, it will signal a new era in the war against the terrorist group.
    Seriously stoopid.
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    authorizing the use of naval force to disrupt the trade
    Most of the charcoal goes to buyers in the Gulf region, a [day] trip away from Somalia across the Arabian Sea. It circulates within the Gulf countries’ free trade zone and might then be distributed to markets in the Arabian Peninsula and further afield.
    And this is a legitimate military target how?


    Article 2 of the 1907 Hague Convention IX – Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War allows the bombardment of "[m]ilitary works, military or naval establishments, depots of arms or war matériel, workshops or plant which could be utilized for the needs of the hostile fleet or army, and the ships of war in the harbour". This was supplemented by the 1977 Protocol I amendment to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which provides for the general protection of civilian objects and restricting attacks on military objectives. Article 52 of Protocol I states that: "In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage."[1]


    Any attack must be justified by military necessity: An attack or action must be intended to help in the military defeat of the enemy; it must be an attack on a military objective,[2] and the harm caused to civilians or civilian property must be proportional and not excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.













    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimate_military_target





    Use of naval force to disrupt the charcoal trade is at par with bombing crop lands.
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