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2006-06-06 Africa Horn

Hundreds protest Islamic militia's takeover of Mogadishu

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Posted by DanNY 2006-06-06 08:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the extremists are using the people's weariness of violence, rape and civil war to gain support for a government based on Islamic law.

Umm, havent they ever heard of Sudan??

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-06 10:47|| 2006-06-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if Mogadishu will become the next roach motel to attract bad boyz from around the world? If so, it might prove to be a pattern of how we can finally purge the world of some of its perpetual trouble spots.

First you let in Taliban-like Moslem brutalitarians, to utterly destroy whatever order is left and bitterly oppress everyone, and then you sweep it clean with the locals convinced that maybe responsible government isn't such a bad idea after all.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-06 10:52|| 2006-06-06 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Except, Somalia has been a sinkhole of despair and death for the better part of 2 decades now, and the people don't seem to care enough to do something about it. And those that did splintered off into Puntland and Somaliland. The Greater Mogadishu Area is the main source of trouble and instability in that "country". Unless and until Al-Q or one of its allies takes over that zone and starts setting up the kind of bases that we saw in Afghanistan, why should any Westerner give a damn what happens to that third world hellhole? Remember what happened the last time we went in to help : Blackhawk Down?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-06-06 15:07|| 2006-06-06 15:07|| Front Page Top

#4 From what I've been told, Shieldwolf, our guys were winning prior to the Blackhawk Down incident, and were wiping the floor with the warlords when the then-President panicked and pulled everyone out.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-06-06 21:50|| 2006-06-06 21:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Les Aspin refuse armor reinforcements IIRC

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-06 22:48|| 2006-06-06 22:48|| Front Page Top

#6 refused .....D'oh!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-06 22:52|| 2006-06-06 22:52|| Front Page Top

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