Posted on 07/20/2006 7:18:34 AM PDT by SJackson
HORN OF AFRICA Somali Islamists threaten holy war on Ethiopian troops 07/20/2006
Ethiopia, which is the main power in the Horn of Africa region, earlier said it would "crush" any move by the Islamists to take Baidoa. Related news Ethiopia warns it will "crush" Somali Islamist attack Somalia's Islamists threatened on Thursday to wage holy war on Ethiopian troops they said had crossed into the Horn of Africa nation.
"God willing, we will remove the Ethiopians in our country and wage a jihadi war against them," Sheikh Mukhtar Robow, a senior Islamist in charge of defence, told reporters.
Robow said around 20 Ethiopian military vehicles had crossed into Somalia at Dollow on Wednesday, adding to previous Islamist accusations that its giant neighbour was sending in soldiers.
Independent analysts believe Addis Ababa has sent several thousand troops into Somalia, and is massing many more on the border, as a deterrent to any more advances by the Islamists, who took Mogadishu from U.S.-backed warlords last month.
Ethiopia backs the interim Somali government of President Abdullahi Yusuf, based in the provincial town of Baidoa. Ethiopia, which is the main power in the Horn of Africa region, earlier said it would "crush" any move by the Islamists to take Baidoa.
Haha that's funny.
This time I'll tell the French to shove it, but we have no choice but to rescue them....we cannot have nuclear weapons of France to fall to the Muslims.
So we'll save their a$$es once again.
My first reaction is to just let them rot, But if France goes the rest of Europe is headed back to the dark ages that much quicker. The thought of England and French nukes in Islamic hands scares the hell out of me.
We'll have to keep Western Europe alive or we'll be besieged by threats from Islamic folks. With the help of the Left in the USA, we would fall.
Absolutely. Can you imagine if the Islamics had the full run of Europe? It would make the Holocaust look like a girl scout picnic. The left over here will gladly ignore the problem until its their heads on the block.
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