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| Africa Horn |
| Somali Rebel Islamists Declare Somali Govt Islamists to be Apostates |
| 2009-07-08 |
| July 6 (Bloomberg) — The leader of Somalias Islamist al- Shabaab movement which desires Full Hanbali as modified by Salafist Sharia gave the government which has Sharia based on various schools including Hanifi, which is frequently the least restrictive five days to surrender and hand over its weapons or face prosecution by Shariah courts. The rebel group, which the U.S. accuses of having ties to al-Qaeda, is fighting to oust Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who came to power in January and has called for peace talks between the countries Islamist factions. "I call on the apostate government soldiers who are in the frontline of battle to surrender to the Islamists and to hand over all their weapons," Sheikh Muktar Abu-Subeyr, the highest ranking officer of al-Shabaab, said in an audio recording distributed to reporters in the capital, Mogadishu, yesterday. Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siyad Indhaade, Somalias minister of state for ministry of defense, verified the authenticity of the recording and rejected the call for surrender. "The government soldiers will not lay down their weapons," he told reporters late yesterday in Mogadishu. Somalia is in its 18th year of civil war and hasnt had a functioning central administration since the ouster of Mohamed Siad Barre, the former dictator, in 1991. Islamists in the country are fighting to establish a caliphate, or Islamic government, in Somalia. |
| Posted by:Lord garth |
| #7 I hope they tear each other apart. |
| Posted by: Don Vito Crolutle2068 2009-07-08 22:46 |
| #6 Hey, we're running a $2 trillion deficit here. 40mm Bofors and 105mm arty is much cheaper and a whole lot more satisfying. Plus rights for the video can bring in a large chunk of change. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-07-08 21:46 |
| #5 Let's go with the TLAM, whatever that is. Sorry, nerdiness coming to the forefront again. TLAM would be your Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, a cruise missile that can be fired from submarines. Some of the Ohio class boats can carry about 150 of the little buggers. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-07-08 20:12 |
| #4 The problem with plagues, nowadays, is they tend to spread wherever airplanes fly. Let's go with the TLAM, whatever that is. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-07-08 19:47 |
| #3 A TLAM will do a nice imitation of The Hand of God. Seems a shame to waste a perfectly good missile on a bunch of scurvy dogs like the Somalis, though. Better to catapault the plague-infested carcasses of dead cats over the parapets, methinks. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-07-08 19:19 |
| #2 I hope the US Navy has sufficient intelligence to stage a blanket hit-and-run raid on al-Shabaab, preferably late at night. Kill several hundred of them, hit them from Kismayo to Puntland, return to ship and sail far, far away before daylight. Claim it was the Hand of God that smote them, not the US Navy. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-07-08 15:26 |
| #1 Can moustache insults be far off? |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-07-08 12:25 |