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2010-10-08 Africa Horn

Don't look now: Somali Al-Shabab terrorist group could split in two - ideological differences

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Posted by gorb 2010-10-08 11:29|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 PREDICTION: Within one year the southern grouping will be hailed by the intelligentsia as a 'moderate' element with whom the West can 'do business with.'

Posted by Free Radical 2010-10-08 12:48|| 2010-10-08 12:48|| Front Page Top

#2 See also RUSSIA TODAY > MOST WANTED TERRORIST [Chechen/Chechnyan Militant Leader UMAROV] LOSES CONTROL OVER HIS MILITANTS. Chechen Militants split up from other [Chechen?]Militant Groups oper in SOuthern Russia.

[GRAIN OF SALT here].

8 ION HAARETZ > NUMBER OF IRANIAN DRUG SMUGGLERS CAUGHT IN MALAYSIA [138 Persons in tote, of which majority are "drug mules", rest are Syndicate; All could legally be beheaded iff found guily of drug smuggling under Malaysian law].

* PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > WSJ:

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-08 21:12|| 2010-10-08 21:12|| Front Page Top

#3 TOPIX > SHOULD THE US HELP BREAK UP SOMALIA?

and

* CHINESE MIL FORUM > [Eric Margolis] MISSION CREEP IN AFPAK | MISSION CREEP IN AFPAK - WHAT CAN CHINA DO FOR ITS ALLY?

PAK's "ROCK-VS-HARD-PLACE" HOLE vee US, Anti-US-Western Local Islam getting bigger + wider as US deemed likely to make stronger anti-Militant demands vee Islamabad Govt., seek expansion of US MilPol role in PAK = AFPAK Region come 2012 US POTUS, Congresscritter Elections???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-08 22:52|| 2010-10-08 22:52|| Front Page Top

#4 The would also split the 72 half virgins or 36 full virgins?

Posted by Skunky Glins**** 2010-10-08 23:00|| 2010-10-08 23:00|| Front Page Top

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