Reversal of Fortunes in Somalia: Mogadishu Siege

Threatwatch ^ | December 27, 2006 6:15 PM | Steve Schippert

[SunkenCiv]

"If you can't party with the big boys, don't show up". Related, from October:

Mogadishu, Somalia - Somali Islamists declare 'jihad' against Ethiopia
Reuters (excerpt) | October 9, 2006
Posted on 10/09/2006 5:15:51 PM EDT by HAL9000
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1716440/posts

[rbg81]

Hopefully, the Ethiopians won't go all wussy about wantonly killing these guys. Putting their heads on sticks and ear necklaces would send the right message [in this case].

[rbg81]

Islamic fighters in northern Mogadishu were spotted changing out of their uniforms into civilian clothes.

This must be right out of the Jihad field manual.

[randog]

Rice has no stage presence, hence she appears to be a very weak leader, which she might very well be. Her performance in the 9-11 hearings was deplorable. I thought she was going to have a breakdown in front of the committee.

[expatpat]

Perhaps she just 'went native' dwon there in Foggy Bottom. All her advisors are probably the lefty wimps that proliferate at State.

[Democratshavenobrains]

This war is a media war. The old cloak and dagger Cold War crap doesn't work in this century against this enemy.

[Dog Gone]

I disagree. But that's what makes this forum interesting.

Look, there's no media in Somalia. So if you want to believe what they're reporting about it, be my guest.

But don't think you're getting informed.

[muawiyah]

In the original folios from which the King Arthur tales are drawn there's an instance where he praises and rewards a knight for having caught a runaway slave and returning him to his master.

Whether the story is true or not, looks like 5th Century and earlier Christian morality in the British Isles was a tad rugged.

[muawiyah]

Can you imagine the Leftwing whimpering we will hear if the Ethiopian soldiers put ladies' underwear on the heads of the AlQaida terrorists.

[elhombrelibre]

I think you're mistaken about the people of Darfur. They're black Africans who I mistakenly thought were mostly anamists and Christians, I am wrong apparently. But I also think that slavery is still practiced in the Muslim world, especially the Arab Muslim world, that Muslim slave traders continued to harvest black African slaves long after Americans and Europeans stopped, and that most American Muslims either don't know this or don't care. As for black Baptists, I'm not really eager to chide them since I'm sure their apathy comes from a focus closer to home. And since so many black Muslims leaders have taken their anti-US show on the road to places like Africa, I'm thinking they should be more attuned to the plight of black Africans.

[elhombrelibre]

It's a small percentage for sure, but it is a huge mystery.

[elhombrelibre]

Oh, and black Americans are not being chided for practicing Islam. They're being considered odd for overlooking the role of Islam and Arabs in the slave trade that went on long after the 1850's and is still alive in some places today.

[elhombrelibre]

The word "slave" comes from the word "slav." No doubt there were slaves by other names long before our English word "slave" and in other places where Slavs never existed and long before this word became the word we most associate with black African slavery in the Western Hemisphere. I still find it interesting.

[hinckley buzzard]

Good job President Bush.

Let's see how it ends first, before handing out pats on the back. It appears the US State Department is trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[muawiyah]

As long as the only Sudanese black Africans being persecuted by Moslems were Christians and animists in the South of the country, no one other than Randall Robinson and little girls taking up collections in grade school cared.

The MSM sure didn't care.

Then, the action shifted to Darfur, and it was Moslem on Moslem. Now, all of us are supposed to care according to the MSM.

Let's encourage all of'em go to to Darfur, get out in the field, and tell us real life stories about it.

They should do that as soon as possible too.

[elhombrelibre]

Usually, it works like this. Muslims can kill lots of Muslims without it being a crime or news. Muslims can kill lots of Jews and it's the Jews fault. Muslims can kill lots of Christians and it's Bush's fault. Jews and Christians cannot defend themselves against Muslim attacks because that would be persecution and unfair. That's the PC template.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

another link...

http://www.shabelle.net/news/ne1953.htm

[editor-surveyor]

"Okay, she wants us to have our guns but on just about everything else she is Colin Powell."

Do you suppose that she is smart enough to be "laying low?"

[Jacob Kell]

"I've never understood why American blacks are so fond of Islam."

I'm no expert, but my opinion is that they hear people say that Christianity is the "White Man's" or "Slave Owner's" religion, or that they think they're getting in touch with their African roots by converting to Islam. I don't know the exact statistics, but I think that most of the black African slaves imported to America were Animist (i.e. pagan)

[fish hawk]

Rob Low? I doubt it.