Airstrike in Somalia
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Sounds like we've killed AQ's top guy in Somalia.
Some of the quotes below are the typical claptrap, but one is amusing. Only thing missing is the obligatory mention of innocent children being killed. No doubt some dead kids will appear before any photographers do.
Read on . . .
"Our brother martyr Aden Hashi, has received what he was looking for — death for the sake of Allah — at the hands of the United States," Robow told The Associated Press by phone.
How about if we do them a favor and tell them all to gather in a certain place at a certain time, and we can give them what they're looking for?
Analysts say the strike is likely to harden extremists and make it more difficult to appeal to moderate elements in the Islamist movement, which contains many clan members, businessmen and members of the Somali Diaspora.
Iise Ali Geedi, an analyst at the Somali University, says the attacks will increase anti-American sentiment. The attack may also weaken the position of the prime minister, who wishes to bring more militant elements into the talks against the wishes of the president.
How about if we just surrender - would that suffice?
We don't exclude the dead so and sos funeral from the target lists.
Just saying if you want to wipe them out when they are gathering.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
They might less angry when they send in the next suicide bomber.
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people."
A. Lincoln
That was so wrong.
Mogadishu Residents Express Outrage After Ethiopian Troops Attack Mosque
Alisha Ryu, Voice of America, April 22, 2008According to eyewitness reports, the victims inside al-Hidaya Mosque in Mogadishu's Huriwa district were killed by Ethiopian troops on the second day of intense fighting, which left more than 80 people dead in the war-ravaged capital ... Sources in Mogadishu say the Hidaya mosque, one of the largest in Mogadishu, may have been targeted by the Ethiopians because it had long served as a base for different Islamic groups, including al-Ittihad al-Islami, a militant Somali group the United States has labeled as a terror organization.
But the sources say in recent years, the Hidaya Mosque has been a place of worship for adherents of a mystical branch of Sunni Islam called Sufism. Most Somalis belong to the Sufi order, which has no ties to the ultra-fundamentalist Wahhabi movement embraced by members of al-Ittihad and its successor, the Shabab.
see links to my blog about the Saudi/Wahhabi role in Somalia's deadly conditions.
"Austere, intolerant, well-armed, and blood-thirsty, in their own regions the Wahhabis are a distinct factor which must be taken into account" - Winston Churchill, 1921
...President Obama will stop all that imperialistic American War on Terror nonsense.
John
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is the note this interview was given to the AP by phone. I thought they would have feet on the ground speaking directly with the moderates. After all, they care so much about what happens to AQ members my guess in they are all holding hands and singing kumbaya in unison, so how dangerous could it be?
Good Lord, did they even bother to do a little research into Somali Clans? Apparently not, since they would have learned he with the biggest guns wins. Oh, but the UN is going to fix everything - or was that Bill Clinton - I can't seem to remember.
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Good Job guys...
die a "martyr". I don't think he should drop the soap where he's going though. 72 versions, not virgins
Tim Schieferecke
he'll find out he's one of somebody else's 72 virgins!
Kill the terrorists
Protect the borders
Punch the hippies -- Frank J
Somali University and Dispora for starters. Followed by the nearest office of the AP.
Shesh.
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