Posted on 01/20/2007 11:44:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Intelligence sources tell us several Americans — or at least people holding U.S. passports — were captured among the 6,000 Islamists fighting on behalf of the ousted Islamic Courts Union (ICU) during the ongoing conflict in Somalia.
The American passport holders are being held and interrogated in Kenya. According to our sources, one of the American Islamists had received pilot training in the past, an indication that he may be a terrorist who could be used in a future al Qaeda operation to hijack an aircraft and use it as a missile, as occurred during the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The recent fighting by Ethiopian and transitional federal government forces against the partially ruling ICU forced thousands of Islamist fighters of the ICU to move south to Kismayo and Ras Kamboni, on the Kenyan border.
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate intelligence committee in written testimony last week that Ethiopian forces were in hot pursuit of the Islamists.
"Ethiopia likely intends to eliminate as many of the radical Islamists and their camps as possible before withdrawing," Gen. Maples said.
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Gee, I wonder who they voted for in '04?
Don't hurt them, they might sue us.
Put them on the plane to Gitmo, lock them in a cage and put them on a steady diet of ham sandwiches. See if they like that.
Yep and thank you Ali Veritas.
They don't need to be in Gitmo at our expense. Turn them over to officials who will not let them see the light of day again.
Who needs a passport. Just cross the Mexican border, water stations along the way, friendly border agents who go to jail if they try to stop you, all the comforts of an American Welcome Wagon.
Hang all of them.
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