Video Shows Arabs Fighting in Somalia

AP ^ | 6 July 06 | Chris Tomlinson

[LSUfan]

Clinton cut and run in '93 and this is the long-term result. Somalia will become a petry dish for Jihadists. Multiply this times 100 and you'll get the impact of cutting and running from Iraq today.

[fr_freak]

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.

[austinaero]

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.

[MNJohnnie]

Hire some merc, keep the UN out of it. Problem solved

[Toddsterpatriot]

A recruiting video issued by members of the fundamentalist Islamic movement in Somalia shows Arab radicals fighting

Come on. Everyone knows that Arabs can't fight. Well, at the very least they can't win. LOL!

[nicko]

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...

[Red6]

There is a lot of truth to your words. But few will see the correlations and a pro-liberal media will not comment of draw this conclusion even WHEN they know the truth.

Our failure in Somalia set a tone. Many saw us as a "Paper Tiger" (OBL own words). It was a horrible disaster for the Somali people who today are ruled by warlords. It's a security threat because it created a "safe country" for Jihadist elements to flee to as OBL did in Afghanistan and Sudan.

That said, we never fully left Somalia. We are still meddling in this place.

[LSUfan]

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.

[xrp]

Somalia was once German I guess

Half Italy, half United Kingdom.

[johnny7]

We're going to have to deal with this soon I'm afraid.

[JewishRighter]

It's MOAB time!!!

[shield]

Get the innocence out, then NUKE IT.

[r9etb]

Clinton cut and run in '93 and this is the long-term result.

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.

[r9etb]

Our failure in Somalia set a tone. Many saw us as a "Paper Tiger" (OBL own words). It was a horrible disaster for the Somali people who today are ruled by warlords.

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.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Clinton cut and run in '93 and this is the long-term result. Somalia will become a petry dish for Jihadists. Multiply this times 100 and you'll get the impact of cutting and running from Iraq today.

Good analysis!

[VeniVidiVici]

Napalm sticks to kids.

[johnny7]

It's clearly becoming a 'wild-west' for the Islamo-nazi's... and will be the next Afghanistan-style training ground for world-wide operations.

Let the sand-nazi's move in... then MOAB their 'stinkin a$$es to Allah!

[LurkedLongEnough]

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.

[olde north church]

I refuse to sit here while you impugn the good name of Arabs! /sarc

[greasepaint]

I don't want the US to get involved.

Let's see how the Islamic utopia works out.