Posted on 10/26/2006 9:17:15 PM PDT by Flavius
Summary
Troops in Somalia are digging in for an anticipated battle between the country's interim government and its allies on one side and the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) on the other. Despite recent successes, a SICC victory is not assured, since the Islamists have yet to prove themselves in a pitched battle. The interim government and its allies face their own logistical obstacles, however. Regardless of who emerges victorious, fears are running high among Somalian civilians that clan reprisals will result from this struggle.
Analysis
Troops in Somalia are digging in for an anticipated battle between the country's interim government and its allies on one side and the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) on the other.
Despite recent successes, a SICC victory is not assured, since the Islamists have yet to prove themselves in a pitched battle. The interim government and its allies face their own logistical obstacles, however. Regardless of who emerges victorious, fears are running high among Somalian civilians that clan reprisals will result from this struggle.
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nobody cared about Afghanistan either
Very activist judges :)
The Ninth Circuit.
Who are we supposed to root for here?
I'm obviously against the IslamoFascists so want them to lose... but is the other group (the Interim govt.) the ones who shot us up in Mogadishu?
Anyone out there more knowledgeable about this?
The Islamic group are backed by al-Queda....actually probably al-Queda funded....they need a replacement for Afghanistan.
Where's the U.N. forces, and where are other African nation coalition forces to successfully end Somalia's instability? Why is it way too often the U.S. who has to eventually "save the day" over and over again in other parts of the world only to be criticized by the rest of the world as being the "world's policeman" over and over again? If the U.N. wasn't so incompetent all the time, then all of the world's problems would truly decrease!
The more I came across Islam, the more I am considering it a cancer to this world.
This is what would of happened to iraq if we didn't take it when we did. Saddam was going down one way or another.
You are so right, and this never gets mentioned by anyone, not even the conservative media. Saddam had ceded vast portions of his country to the jihadists in return for under the table oil money, had lost the north, and controlled little but the sunnis. Iraq was imploding quickly and would be a jihadist nation today if we hadn't moved in.
but is the other group (the Interim govt.) the ones who shot us up in Mogadishu?
Source?
Agreed! But you gotta have an understanding of the 'vision' of the jihadists. Saddam was their useful idiot.
Someone should be touting the fact we 'took' Afganistan with a mere 30,000 troops, instead of the 300,000 USSR troops that were 'defeated' by the jihadists in ten years.
Somalia is another 'God forsaken country' that the jihadists want. We need to make it difficult for them.
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