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2007-01-02 Africa Horn

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Posted by Brett 2007-01-02 11:43|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ``I was just an employee,'' he said. ``They didn't invite us to go with them.''

Yeah. Funny how that always seems to be the way it works out with these guys?
So how come you're not fighting Jihad to the last drop of your blood?

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-02 12:06|| 2007-01-02 12:06|| Front Page Top

#2 If the Islamists are hiding so effectively, how on earth did this intrepid reporter find so many to interview?

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-02 12:59|| 2007-01-02 12:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, he's intrepid and all, TW.

Posted by eLarson 2007-01-02 13:11|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-01-02 13:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Feeling unsafe ? Not to worry, Christians are accepting converts.

Posted by wxjames 2007-01-02 13:35|| 2007-01-02 13:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait - I thought they all wanted to die? So what's their bitch?

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-01-02 15:06|| 2007-01-02 15:06|| Front Page Top

#6 It's an LA Times reporter TW they are right up there with the NYT and AP in truthyness. I am just waiting for reports in the of Ethiopian difficulties in the south near Keyna from the harsh Somali winter.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-02 15:18|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-01-02 15:18|| Front Page Top

#7 the once-powerful alliance of Islamists...``I'm still not sure what happened.''... negotiations with the weak transitional government

Let's bring 'em all out for a final bow!

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-02 15:26|| 2007-01-02 15:26|| Front Page Top

#8 fighters and other court supporters remain trapped in Mogadishu, struggling to comprehend the new reality.

Oh, BOO HOO! Comprehend this...Mogadishu: 1993...US Rangers/SF...Blackhawk down.

Paybacks are a b*tch, islamo-cockroaches. What comes around goes around.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-01-02 15:30|| 2007-01-02 15:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Islamists in Somalia feel unsafe: Good

Posted by RWV 2007-01-02 15:39|| 2007-01-02 15:39|| Front Page Top

#10 TW:

I think it was last Saturday or Sunday, in an article posted here at RB, that noted in passing the ICU (the Taliban wannbes) and it's supporters were shaving their beards off en mass.

The reporter here, intuitively, sought out the hard boyz of just the right age, all of who looked relatively clean shaven. By that I mean, anything less than a good four - five day beard.

Call me wicked, but if I were an Ethiopian warrior over the weekend: all "relatively" clean shaven men and hard boyz of a certain age would be rounded up, detained, and questioned - extensively - without exemption. Those without a week old beard arguabaly should be shot on sight. The Taliban pulled the same stunt in Afghanistan and were able to melt away unmolested only to return to haunt the Coalition.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-01-02 15:50|| 2007-01-02 15:50|| Front Page Top

#11 What worries me is the possibility that these POS followers of Allan will come to the US through any number of legal and illegal means. The San Diego and Minneapolis Somali community (thanks for the first mooselimb US Congressman) are the signature of what is to come from our governments incomprehensible belief that an actual, responsible, honest government exists in Somalia and therefore some mutt that presents Somali government documents and a visa are acceptable to enter the US. Nothing good can come from letting any Somali in unless we have a real insight to their background and beliefs. I know it's tought for the idiots at the Department of State to believe, buit these people don't actually tell the truth and they have suspect motives in comuing here, especially since the Ethiopians are actually killing the Jihadi's in substantail numbers. (Lions of the Desert revealed again for the cowardly, load of crap braggarts they are.)

Posted by JustAboutEnough">JustAboutEnough 2007-01-02 15:54|| 2007-01-02 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 I love the ACME Deluxe Digital Sympathy meter. That has become my new wallpaper.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-02 17:08|| 2007-01-02 17:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Yeah, that's my favorite metre too. Hard to believe it was constructed from used analog widgets. I've been told that the display is the only digital part on the whole thing and that there's an emergency hex key wind-up under the biggest inspection plate on the back.

Obviously hand-crafted.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-02 17:20|| 2007-01-02 17:20|| Front Page Top

#14 I vas only a pastry chef in der officer's mess.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-02 17:22|| 2007-01-02 17:22|| Front Page Top

#15 I must've missed that, Mark Z. Thanks!

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-02 20:15|| 2007-01-02 20:15|| Front Page Top

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