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.
(Excerpt) Read more at adnki.com ...
I suggest that the American military for the next two years of a W rule, continue to bomb , smash every Islamofascist area whether nations involved do not like it or not: Pakistan, Somalia, the Phili., any where in the ME. Why not? Will the Dems try to impeach? So what? The Pubs, though wussies, will not allow it. Kill as many of these thugs as possible and let 2008 decide if the voters really want the USA to lose to these Islamos.
I.e. it's not in our best interest right now to interfere and stop further bloodshed.
interesting website. Same source:
http://www.adnki.com/index_English.php
TERRORISM: EUROPEAN RIGHTS WATCHDOG CHIEF URGES GUANTANAMO'S IMMEDIATE CLOSURE
Strasbourg, 9 Jan. (AKI) - The head of the Council of Europe - Europe's top human rights watchdog - has called on the United States government to brook no delay in shutting down its controversial military prison camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "Guantanamo is a flagrant violation of human rights, an embarrassment to the United States of America and a liability in the world’s fight against terrorism," Terry Davis said on Tuesday in a statement ahead...
Only a political solution
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This seems the new DRat talking point.
Pelosi and Reid's letter to W was also along those lines.
It is interesting to watch high officials try to say something relevant. Issuing rules to parties with zero standing ex cathedra is a quick way to be lost in background noise.
The correct response to hand any EU member...would be that if a proper society adopted absolute control over weapons then they would not be invaded or have its citizens killed (why not use the mighty members of the EU as an example?). A strong segment of society in Somalia...which we aren't sure if they are Muslims or not....apparently did not control their weapons or use of weapons...and since society is unable to take care of their own situations...then your neighbors will help control the situation.
The EU should be held as an example for any African country...and let any idiot who wants to believe in the European socialism...get a strong spoon full of the their garbage. It sounds good in press and certainly makes your shining example look even better then it really is.
Got to come back to this one.......Marxists all......running for doctors appt.
Don't forget Dearbornistan.
bttt
"Guantanamo is a flagrant violation of human rights, an embarrassment to the United States of America and a liability in the world’s fight against terrorism," Terry Davis said on Tuesday in a statement ahead..."
Libtards just love to polesmoke terrorists. I think they really admire them, because they appear "strong", are provocative, entertaining. Sick bastards.
Is it wrong for me to hope people like this are killed by terrorists?
I am so sick on these fake people.
Somali Journalist on the Union of Islamic Courts: 'The Nightmare is Over'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD141507
Nice link! That writer pulls no punches. I particularly liked, [snip] The UIC "Mistook Their Easy Ride to Power" for "An Unstoppable Revolution" [unsnip]
It's the most positive and uplifting piece I've read in many a long day...
That is wrong. They should be strung up by their neighbors. Figuratively of course. Or not.
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