Posted on 11/16/2008 2:58:01 AM PST by wgflyer
...Insurgent group al-Shabaab this week advanced to the edge of the capital Mogadishu and has seized important towns such as the strategic port Kismayo in recent months....
...As the insurgents take over more territory, human rights activists are concerned that stringent punishments will be handed out under the rebels' interpretation of Islamic law.
Fears were raised by a recent case in Kismayo, when a 13-year-old girl who complained of being raped by three men was stoned to death for adultery....
(Excerpt) Read more at hindustantimes.com ...
Geez, I was just thinking that about the US.
This area needs a bulls eye painted on it because it’s lawlessness will only put down a welcome mat for the most undesirable terrorists in the world. I’m sure Zero is chomping at the bit to clean this rats nest out.
“It’s a tiny country” “It can’t do anything to harm us”
Ever seen the Mouse that Roared?
They’re Obama’s words (albeit transferred reference to a different country) - not mine.
That kinda arrogence will get the US in trouble. Still remember being in that S$#@ hole in the early 90’s and the debacal pulled by Klintoon exiting the place. No jab was intended.
Let them have it! But no more Somali refugees, here. Please!
Let them have it! But no more Somali refugees, here. Please!
Insurgents took over the US without firing a shot on Nov 4th.
Why do I have the feeling that this is the type of war Dems like to get us involved in?
I'm not sure B.O. would send our guys there because the muzzies fight back (and I think he likes them). Our libs like to put us in places where it is guaranteed, as much as possible, that our presence is a propaganda success for leftist media, not a real one. If our guys get hurt, then the propaganda value is minimized so they tend to go to places where they can call our troops “peacekeepers”. Also, libs tend to downsize the military and redirect their assets, which makes it more of a risk to involve them in real combat.
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