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2006-12-26 Africa Horn
Islamic fighters quitting Somalia front: witnesses
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Posted by Seafarious 2006-12-26 01:16|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 So the brave Sir Jihads bravely ran away!
Posted by 3dc 2006-12-26 01:47||   2006-12-26 01:47|| Front Page Top

#2 "We have withdrawn as part of our military strategy," said Sheik Mohamoud Ibrahim Suley

Excellent strategy!
Posted by Whiskettes4Hilali 2006-12-26 02:34||   2006-12-26 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 an Islamic cleric said anyone who did not pray five times a day would be executed.

There's little I wouldn't do to make the man a liar.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-12-26 02:53||   2006-12-26 02:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Too easy. I'm sure the real fighting will be coming soon. The jihadis are regrouping and calling for islamic reenforcements from neighboring countries. Ethiopia would do well to move fast while time is on their side.
Posted by Jesing Ebbease3087 2006-12-26 07:08||   2006-12-26 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 If they're penning themselves up in a small area, so be it. May I have the honor of calling in the first Arclight™ mission?
Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical  2006-12-26 07:58||   2006-12-26 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems interesting. Attack them behind thier front, and they have to run back to protect. Then attack behind them again, they will run there. Keep them running.
Posted by plainslow 2006-12-26 08:28||   2006-12-26 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 I bet the ICU is no logistical machine either...how do these guys get food and water and ammo?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-12-26 08:37||   2006-12-26 08:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Shades of the Battle of Tours.
Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-26 08:43||   2006-12-26 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9 To tell you the truth, I really thought that the Kenyans would jump in the melee, but I love the Ethiopians- they have BALLS. The Legion is lurking around but the Italians cannot be seen.
Posted by Joe of the Jungle 2006-12-26 09:00||   2006-12-26 09:00|| Front Page Top

#10 I bet the ICU is no logistical machine either...how do these guys get food and water and ammo?

By stealing it from the locals. Odds are they abandoned the village because the supplies ran out.
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-12-26 09:06|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-12-26 09:06|| Front Page Top

#11 The battle of Bilbao as of 24/12
Posted by tipper 2006-12-26 09:07||   2006-12-26 09:07|| Front Page Top

#12 ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamists are in full retreat after Ethiopian airstrikes and a ground offensive that have killed up to 1,000 of the religious movement's fighters, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday.

"A joint Somali government and Ethiopian force has broken the back of the international terrorist forces... These forces are in full retreat," Meles told reporters in Addis Ababa, adding that up to 1,000 Islamist fighters had been killed.

"A few are Somali but the majority are foreigners," he said of the dead.
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-26 09:35||   2006-12-26 09:35|| Front Page Top

#13 They aren't running away; they're "re-deploying," a la Murtha, et al.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-12-26 09:35|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-12-26 09:35|| Front Page Top

#14 I bet our advisers are bus-ee, helping the Ethiopians to beat tub on the Islamists. Everything from satellite maps, enemy concentrations and movements, flying spare parts and ammo into Addis Ababa, probably even augmenting their soldiers' pay and perks so that they will be extra motivated.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-26 10:06||   2006-12-26 10:06|| Front Page Top

#15 As a taxpayer, I sure hope so 'moose. I'm also hoping we are learning a few things about the current state of jihadi human and financial networks when one of these actions kicks up.
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-12-26 10:18||   2006-12-26 10:18|| Front Page Top

#16 

Run away!
Posted by xbalanke 2006-12-26 11:23||   2006-12-26 11:23|| Front Page Top

#17 allan's snackbar, oh brave, Lions of Islam TM
Posted by anymouse">anymouse  2006-12-26 13:06||   2006-12-26 13:06|| Front Page Top

#18 F*ck just keep winning baby.

Get sum you crazy African desert dwellers!
Posted by Shipman 2006-12-26 15:42||   2006-12-26 15:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, a top leader of the Islamic group, accused Ethiopian troops of massacring 50 civilians in the central town of Cadado. Ethiopian officials were not immediately available to respond.

LOL, he must think kofi will help him!
Posted by RD 2006-12-26 16:11||   2006-12-26 16:11|| Front Page Top

#20 And the LA Times weighs in:

Somalia could be Ethiopia's quagmire

It must be force of habit...
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-26 16:30||   2006-12-26 16:30|| Front Page Top

#21 Somalia could be Ethiopia's quagmire

Water is very precious in that part of the World.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-12-26 17:56||   2006-12-26 17:56|| Front Page Top

#22 accused Ethiopian troops of massacring 50 civilians

It's called "Shift the blame"
Not working.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-12-26 19:51||   2006-12-26 19:51|| Front Page Top

#23 Somalia is Ethiopian for Viet Nam. Something like that.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-12-26 23:58||   2006-12-26 23:58|| Front Page Top

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