Posted on 01/09/2007 9:01:10 AM PST by IrishMike
European Union human rights and development commissioner Louis Michel's spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj Tardiu, has strongly criticised the United States military's airstrikes on Tuesday against alleged al-Qaeda linked militants in southern Somalia which it is feared killed many. "This kind of incident is not particularly conducive to improving the longterm situation.. and would seem to confirm that the conflict in Somalia will continue for a long time to come," Tardiu told journalists in Brussels.
"There's a danger that Somalia will become a theatre for clashes between religions and civilisations," Tardiu continued. Extremism doesn't have deep-seated roots in Somali society, he claimed, adding: "The phenomenon of the Islamist Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) movement is a response to a failed state - this represents a threat."
Given this context, only the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops as soon as possible, and the deployment of an international peacekeeping force that will safeguard a ceasefire can bring security to the war-wracked country, Tardiu argued. The Ethiopian government has undertaken to withdraw its troops from Somalia within two weeks.
"Only a political solution can create any prospect of peace and stability in Somalia," Tardiu cautioned, adding that "a comprehensive dialogue is needed that includes all the forces in Somalia, including moderates from the UIC. His comments echoed those made on 3 January by EU politicians at meeting on Somalia in Brussels. They agreed on the need to include all the country's political forces in peace talks, and favouring an African peacekeeping force that would be acceptable to all parties.
Germany's foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, speaking on behalf of his country's presidency of the EU - which hosted the Brussels meeting last week - assured Somalis "unfaltering, especially humanitarian, assistance," from the bloc and also from the United Nations.
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To the EU: Bite us.
In case the Europeans had not noticed, Somalia was a basket case before the Ethiopians invaded, and before the US bombed.
"comprehensive dialogue is needed"
Talk all you want EU. No one is stopping you.
in 10-15 years - the EU will be begging for AC130 airstrikes, on parts of their own countries, to suppress the islamofascist hordes.
What an asshat.
Insert standard nonsense: Somalia didn't attack us on 9/11, Somalia has nothing to do with the War on Terror, there was no Al Qaeda in Somalia before the US attacked, we're creating terrorists, where's Osama? blah, blah, blah...
"comprehensive dialogue is needed"
an example of comprehensive dialogue:
EU: We need to sit down and discuss a political solution
ISLAMISTS: Convert, pay or die
EU: Seriously, what can be done to bring this to a peaceful solution?
ISLAMISTS: Convert, pay or die
EU: Come on guys, really..I'm having pizza and coke delivered in case these negotiations go on for a while..what can be done?
ISLAMISTS: Convert, pay or die
EU: You are not..BLAM BLAM BLAM
ISLAMISTS: You are the one that ignored the first two options..
Personally I'm not surprised by this development.
As opposed to the peaceful Somalia that preceded this recent clash?
Hey EU: Up eurs!;)
Talk is all that the EU can do now.
Talk talk talk.-EU
Boom Boom Boom!-U.S.A.
IT'S THE WAR ON TERROR, STUPID!
the EU will be begging for AC130 airstrikes, on parts of their own countries,
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That could be as early as tonight in certain areas of Paris and London.
Wasn't the UN in charge in Somalia (Mogadishu) when BlackHawk down occurred.
We were not properly supported by the UN troops at that time, nor did Blowjob Bill support our troops at that time.
Now we have Nancy (Tokyo Rose) Pelosi.
Hey mike, F-Off.
POTUS
European Union Decides To Throw Their Lot In With The Terrorists.
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What surprises me slightly is the European Union is out ahead of the Democrat Party on this one !!!
The EU needs to explain why it's okay for Al Qaeda folks to kill us, but we cannot kill them.
And where do I trade in my Euros, before they become worthless?
only because our 'old media' refuses to tell the truth.
Hey mike,
F-Off.
POTUS
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Diplomacy with a twist !
Why do they fear that we killed many Al-Qaeda? This just means they want them to live, if not thrive. A dead give away to their thoughts on those thug killers.
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