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2007-04-13 Africa Horn

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A Swedish teenager who was imprisoned for weeks with alleged terror suspects in Ethiopia said in an interview published Thursday that Americans in military uniform directed the Kenyan soldiers who took her into custody on the Somali-Kenyan border.

So. It's probably the only reason your bones are not buried in the mud after you were raped and disemboweled.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-04-13 01:20|| 2007-04-13 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Now how many of us could've swore that the "Swedish teenager" in question was named Inga or Magnus? Anybody?

Besides, she and her mama have to come up with a good story for why she was out traveling with a man she's not officially related and/or married to, and even worse, ended up in a family way. Not exactly good Muslimas, are they?

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-04-13 02:41|| 2007-04-13 02:41|| Front Page Top

#3 My thoughts, exactly, Anymouse. Besides, if we were going to have some folks there, ya think they'd have big American flags on their uniforms?

Whadda stupid cow.

Posted by Bobby 2007-04-13 06:42|| 2007-04-13 06:42|| Front Page Top

#4 was quoted as saying by the Stockholm daily Svenska Dagbladet...her mother, Helena Benaouda, told the AP... Helena Benaouda, who heads the Swedish Muslim Council

Looking at the article, it was written at AP headquarters based on dispatches from Nairobi... and reports in some Stockholm daily, who got their information from the head of the Swedish Muslim Council, mother of the Swedish teen, who no doubt was told what to say by an Al Qaeda flack. The US officials should have laughed while pointing this out, then gone on to raise Swamp Blondie's very interesting point. Also why the young woman in question was picked up with a group of fleeing Islamist and Al Qaeda spouses and offspring.

If pushed, a simple, "I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that," would do nicely, as I imagine the US officials were not privy to the details of that particular operation. Having heard over the water cooler that we had people in the area is not the same as knowing about a given operation, surely. Nor is it likely that a pregnant, Sweden-born Muslim teenaged girl is knowledgeable enough about American military uniforms and insignia to be able to differentiate such from other uniforms, paramilitary uniforms or fake uniforms on white men amongst Black Kenyan troops. Was she quite certain the white men weren't actually Kenyan from another service branch? I seem to remember a brouhaha about torture, where the torturee claimed to specifically remember the high shine on the torturers' boots... but American troops wear suede, nowadays. Rantburger's military contingent was quite exercised about that detail at the time.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 07:08|| 2007-04-13 07:08|| Front Page Top

#5 But Benaouda said she saw her fiance and two other Swedish citizens confined in what looked like "poultry cages with metal roofs" in Ethiopia

New meaning to the term... jail bird. And her background and knowledge of military insignia comes from where?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-04-13 07:18|| 2007-04-13 07:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Benaouda said she had traveled to Somalia with her fiance, Munir Awad, a Swedish citizen of Lebanese descent.

Ah, Somalia. Vacation? Danger tourists?
Something else, maybe?

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-13 08:41|| 2007-04-13 08:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Safia Benaouda, how I love those Swedish girls.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-04-13 09:17|| 2007-04-13 09:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Ja, sure!

Posted by Fred 2007-04-13 11:12|| 2007-04-13 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 And her background and knowledge of military insignia comes from where?

Al Qaeda training manuals?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-13 11:50|| 2007-04-13 11:50|| Front Page Top

#10 We can only hope it was a Wet Team.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-13 13:33|| 2007-04-13 13:33|| Front Page Top

#11 I knew quite a few guys, both during my Vietnam tour and afterwards, that worked "outside the mainstream". Most wore uniforms purchased outside the US procurement channels, or civilian clothes. Most received identification papers to use, and left their military ID, dogtags, and every other piece of identifiable US military equipment behind. The only time this wouldn't be so is if those particular military personnel were there at the specific request of the local government, and had permission to be there. I think little miss Safia is blowing smoke, but there COULD be some truth in her ramblings. The US military personnel could have pointed out that a particular group of women "didn't look like Somalis, and might be suspicious", at which time the Kenyans gleefully took them into custody. Her and her boyfriend need to be "repatriated" to Soddy Arabida, where they'd both be beheaded for being "bad" muslims.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-13 15:25|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-13 15:25|| Front Page Top

#12 wanna bet that lil bun in the oven grows up to be a Thugburg special?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-13 15:58|| 2007-04-13 15:58|| Front Page Top

#13 A1 on the Swedish Burka Team.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-13 18:17|| 2007-04-13 18:17|| Front Page Top

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