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| Africa: Subsaharan |
| US May Be Assisting Chad’s Counter-Terror War |
| 2004-03-12 |
| The Chadian army battled Islamic militants near a remote village on the country’s western border with Niger, killing 43 "terrorists" of a group suspected of links with al-Qaida, the government said Friday. I like that body count. Three soldiers were also killed and 18 wounded in two days of fighting that started Monday near the village of Zouake, Chad’s information minister, Moukhtar Wawa Dahab, said in the capital, N’Djamena. Suspecting that al-Qaida might be recruiting and planning new attacks in the deserts and jungles of Africa, the United States is helping train and equip security forces in Chad, Niger and two other Saharan nations to better guard their porous borders against terrorists and arms trafficking. If this is true, these troops deserve strong support. Some 200 U.S. soldiers have been deployed throughout the continent to patrol alongside local armies or hunt terrorists on short notice if necessary. However, a U.S. defense official, speaking in Washington on condition of anonymity, said Thursday that no American forces took part in the fighting in Chad. Good. The anti-terror struggle is our; but national defense is up to the nationals. Clashes started when five trucks packed with fighters from the Salafist Group for Call and Combat crossed from Niger into Chad, where soldiers on a routine patrol intercepted them, Dahab said. The Salafist group is an Algerian Islamic militant organization believed to have ties to Osama bin-Laden’s al-Qaida... The only good terrorist is a dead one. |
| Posted by:Man Bites Dog |
| #1 YOU FUCKING BASTARDS HOW DARE YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT IT IS YOU THE PEOPLE OF THE DUMB WEST THAT SHOULD BE TREATED LIKE THIS NOT INNOCENT MEN WHO ARE NOW FREE BUT THE QUESTION THAT REMAINS IS WHY ARE THEY NOW FREE IF THEY WERE GUILTY???!!! YOU WILL ROT IN HELL BELIEVE ME YOUR TIME WILL COME |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-3-13 8:04:29 AM |