Posted on 11/29/2009 7:39:32 AM PST by Saije
The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Training camps in the lawless nation of Somalia are attracting hundreds of foreigners, including Americans, and Somalis recruited by a local insurgent group linked to al-Qaida, according to local and U.S. officials. American officials and private analysts say the camps pose a security threat far beyond the borders of Somalia, including to the U.S. homeland.
In interviews with The Associated Press, former trainees gave rare details on the camps, which are scattered along desert footpaths, rutted roads and steamy coastal dens. They say the recruits are told the United States is the enemy of Islam.
U.S. and Somali officials say Somalia's al-Shabab jihadist, or holy war, movement is growing, and uses foreign trainers with battlefield experience from other conflicts.
The threat posed by the training camps was underscored in federal court documents unsealed Nov. 23 in Minneapolis, home to a large Somali-American community. An indictment against several Somali-Americans who allegedly fought in Somalia said trainees at one camp included dozens of ethnic Somalis from Somalia and other African countries, Europe and the United States.
"The trainees were trained by, among others, Somali, Arab, and Western instructors in ... small arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and military-style tactics," said an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Michael N. Cannizzaro Jr. that was unsealed with the indictment.
Former al-Shabab fighter Hassan Yare, who works in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, said life in the camps is austere. Recruits sleep on plastic sheets and sometimes eat only one meal a day — often maize cooked with water. Phones are confiscated. Recruits are only allowed to speak to their parents once every other Friday.
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This just goes to show you how depraved they really are ... if they could look at things objectively they'd realize that Obama is the best friend they've ever had.
Send a B-52 from Diego Garcia to get their attention.
*ping*
One would be enough if properly armed.
Diversity is our strength. More Koolaid!
Maybe the CIA can go there to recruit Arab linguists?
So do the American people, enamored as they are with Western Decadence, also known by the Orwellian misnomer "Liberalism" (there's nothing liberal about these people or their movement).
"Somalia is among a handful of places where terrorists can train openly."
The United States is too.
People tend to get what they deserve and vice versa, and the American people will pay for their foolishness. The cost will be high. Folly is expensive.
Barrack is already there recruiting his next czar...
That's OK, their are shooting at their friend. I OTOH, have a whole box of 25 Osama Bin Laden targets. :)
Ain’t gonna happen, Reagan is dead.
Properly armed, you could send it from North Dakota.
Welfare money to Somalis in MN and other states fueling jihad against Americans. Denver airport has them everywhere and I have seen them in other airports.
Just when I lose faith in humanity, this shows that there's a little bit of good in everyone.
They hate our president? After all the bowing, groveling and “submission?” I thought that would make the jihadis automatically like us!
They hate us now, hated us before, and will always hate us.
How can anyone read this and not demand
mass deportation?
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