Posted on 07/06/2006 1:56:35 PM PDT by LSUfan
A recruiting video issued by members of the fundamentalist Islamic movement in Somalia shows Arab radicals fighting alongside the local extremists in Mogadishu, and invites Muslims from around the world to join in their "holy jihad."
The video, obtained by The Associated Press, provides the first hard evidence that non-Somalis have joined with Islamic extremists in Somalia.
The Supreme Islamic Courts Council, which defeated U.S.-backed warlords in Mogadishu last month and is now the country's most powerful force, has repeatedly denied links to extremists such as al-Qaida.
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We need to re-institute the Cold War policy of providing support to any groups fighting our enemies, which, in this case, are Islamic fascists instead of communists.
God, I fear for our children. Somalia is in our future. The UN is too busy worrying about Israel and defending Palestine to even think about visiting Somalia. What a hole.
Hire some merc, keep the UN out of it. Problem solved
Come on. Everyone knows that Arabs can't fight. Well, at the very least they can't win. LOL!
I don't give the Islamics much of a chance over there...let 'em have at it...the Sammies will eventually take care of it...
Way back in 2002, it was thought that Al Qaeda might set up in Somalia after we went into Afghanistan. A buddy of mine with a MEU(SOC) headed there in 2002 and they sat offshore for weeks cutting donuts in the Indian Ocean and then up and left.
Then the German Navy moved in and did all sorts of ELINT (Somalia was once German I guess) for months and eventually everyone figured that there was no threat.
Looks like AQ moved in behind us.
Half Italy, half United Kingdom.
We're going to have to deal with this soon I'm afraid.
It's MOAB time!!!
Get the innocence out, then NUKE IT.
Only partially. The salamikazes are exploiting unrest in exactly the same way the Soviets did, back during the Cold War. Clinton left the unrest, which is bad enough; but he's not to blame for the salamikazes taking advantage of it.
Really, in terms of tactics and where they take action, there's very little difference between the Islamic extremists of today, and the Communist extremists of yesteryear.
This is why it's a damned good thing that the US has put boots on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan -- the salamikazes have to be defeated, just as the nazis and commies had to be defeated, and we need to be fighting them now, when it's relatively early.
Waiting for the salamikazes to spread more fully throughout the region would make it far more difficult to control them.
Gotta be careful, though. The reason we went in there in the first place, under Bush41, was because the Somali people were ruled by warlords. Things really haven't changed much in that respect.
The difference is that radical Islam has spread a great deal in the past 20 years. It thrives in places like Somalia, but it exists independent of such places.
Good analysis!
Napalm sticks to kids.
Let the sand-nazi's move in... then MOAB their 'stinkin a$$es to Allah!
When I saw the title, at first I thought "Arabs" might have simply been fighting over access to the US news media or to some treasonous congress critter for classified info.
Lady liberty cries.
I refuse to sit here while you impugn the good name of Arabs! /sarc
I don't want the US to get involved.
Let's see how the Islamic utopia works out.
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