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2006-12-28 Africa Horn
Somalia gov't troops enter Mogadishu
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Posted by tu3031 2006-12-28 10:14|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The southern border is with Kenya, where there are already Somali refugees. So best bet for the jihadis when they run is to try to blend with refugees, cross into Kenya, go to ground in Mombassa, and then try to high tail it to the ME or South Asia.
Posted by liberalhawk 2006-12-28 10:42||   2006-12-28 10:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, makes sense. Kenya barely holds itself together and they've had a growing 'insurgency' problem. Apparently the Muslims there are seething and eye-rolling. So we'll see a 'National Islamic Somali Resistance Jumbilaya Front' or some such nonsense springing up.
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2006-12-28 10:45||   2006-12-28 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's the Reuters spin on it:

The SICC had brought a semblance of stability to Mogadishu after chasing U.S.-backed warlords from the city in June. Islamists and residents said order had collapsed with their departure.
Posted by tu3031 2006-12-28 10:53||   2006-12-28 10:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Alas the Powerful Islamic Courts (which whipped the US-backed-Warlords) are no more, the ineffectual transitional government based in the borderville of Baidoa has trumped over a coalition of memes. But the destruction of the Powerful Islamic Courts has birthed A Return to Looting.
Posted by Cliches R Us 2006-12-28 11:58||   2006-12-28 11:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe what we are witnessing is some CIA money well spent?
Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-12-28 12:04||   2006-12-28 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 As usual, the pressfilth love any fascist regime that "keeps order," as long as it kills lots of innocents and hates America
Posted by E. Brown 2006-12-28 12:21||   2006-12-28 12:21|| Front Page Top

#7 As aharia inc. leaves a new kleptocracy will be in place soon. Of course the only things worth stealing are the stuff brought in the foreign aid folks.

The people will mostly prefer the kleptocracy because some of the stolen goods will eventually trickle down.
Posted by mhw 2006-12-28 12:25|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2006-12-28 12:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Now imagine the countless raped, murdered and dead had the Ethiopians wasted years arguing about this at the UN.

President Bush, I am looking at you.
Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-28 12:47||   2006-12-28 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 He said they numbered about 3,000 and they were headed to the port city of Kismayo, south of Mogadishu, which the Islamic forces captured in September.

I hope the Ethopians take them apart there and not let them escape to Kenya or Yemen.I bet the seas will be busy in following weeks!!!!

Posted by Ebboluque Omogum5153 2006-12-28 12:48||   2006-12-28 12:48|| Front Page Top

#10 Ex - "President Bush, I am looking at you."

And why, pray-tell, would you be doing that? He's not the Chief of The World Police. That was just a stupid movie. Dirka dirka dirka.
Posted by .com 2006-12-28 12:55||   2006-12-28 12:55|| Front Page Top

#11 I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard that Muslims are forbidden from waging jihad on Ethiopia, becuase they gave shelter to Mos' relatives when he got chased out of Mecca.
Posted by Thoth 2006-12-28 14:22||   2006-12-28 14:22|| Front Page Top

#12 I suspect Excalibur is suggesting that President Bush wasted years arguing about Iraq at the UN.
Posted by eLarson 2006-12-28 14:25|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-12-28 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 The only way to fix Mogadishu is to find, fix and finish the top 10 clans there. That means the head of the clan, his brothers and his immediate family above the age of 12, including the wives. HE, sniper bullet, knife in the back, cyanide in the food, however it happens, it needs to be done.

Same goes for the "Islamic Courts" - toake the top 10 mullahs and top 10 leaders, same treatment.

Cruel. But it works, and thats they rules of the game THEY chose to play by.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-28 14:36||   2006-12-28 14:36|| Front Page Top

#14 From Bill Roggio:
Several American military and intelligence sources have informed us that the Ethiopians are not taking 'foreign' prisoners on the battlefield - al-Qaeda fighters are being summarily executed. Some advantages the Ethiopians possess over the United States is a willingness to use all means necessary to eliminate the ICU and al-Qaeda, and a willingness to ignore international condemnation for its actions.
Posted by eLarson 2006-12-28 15:21|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2006-12-28 15:21|| Front Page Top

#15 I can think of a few reasons that the ICU was allowed to expand past Mogadishu before it was attacked and destroyed.
1) Setting the international scene : the world press was talking about the ICU taking over Somalia and their connections with Al-Q for a couple of months before the Ethiopian blitzkrieg. The ICU was arrogant enough to openly discuss a "Greater Somalia" that meant cutting off parts of Kenya and Ethiopia to add to the present Somalia. That made all sorts of people nervous.
2) Intelligence gathering : SOCOM in Djibouti has been keeping an eye on all major and terrorist groups in North Africa and mapping locations, building organization charts, tracing smuggling routes, etc. What has come out in the past couple of days is that the US provided Ethiopia with a lot of operational intelligence on the ICU for this blitzkrieg.
3) Logistics : Ethiopia need a couple of more months to get all the spares in place, the equipment built up, the troops run through live fire training, and the depots put in place for the advancing columns. Plus, the Ethiopians have been rebuilding/rehabing a lot of their ex-Soviet military aid {tanks, APCs, and the like}; and not all of what they thought they needed may have been ready until the past couple of weeks.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-12-28 16:52||   2006-12-28 16:52|| Front Page Top

#16 Shieldwolf, Thanks for your reassuring comments. Let's hope the experience is repeatable and that Kenya is prepared also.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-12-28 17:02||   2006-12-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#17 As neykuturny as it seems, this is one method that works, and works well, andis withing the Geneva Convention for unlawful combatants:

"Ethiopians are not taking 'foreign' prisoners on the battlefield - al-Qaeda fighters are being summarily executed. "

If we cannot interrogate them, then simply execute them on the spot.
Posted by OldSpook 2006-12-28 20:42||   2006-12-28 20:42|| Front Page Top

#18 #17 OS - Works for me.

The whiny-assed lefty clowns keep whining about Geneva Conventions - I say we should follow them. And do as you suggest - shoot the bastards on sight, even if they surrender.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-12-28 22:00|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-12-28 22:00|| Front Page Top

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