Posted on 12/01/2001 6:53:56 PM PST by NC Conservative
LONDON: The United States has asked Britain to help prepare military strikes against Somalia in the next phase of the global campaign against terrorism, the Sunday Telegraph reported here. US President George W Bush indicated last week that Somalia, Yemen and Sudan were likely to be the next targets in the war on terrorism because of their links to Al-Qaeda.
A team of British military top-brass which visited the US Central Command in Tampa, Florida, last week was asked to prepare a strategy for attacks on sites in Somalia, the paper said. They have now returned to London to discuss the plan with Ministry of Defence ministers, it added. According to the paper the request came as it emerged that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was funding a number of terrorist training camps in Somalia used by a militant Islamic group with close links to Al-Qaeda.
Hussein has agreed to help out the Al-Itihaad group in return for assistance from the Somali authorities in avoiding UN sanctions, the Sunday Telegraph said, quoting Iraqi dissident groups based here.
Bin Laden's network is known to have several training camps in southern Somalia and there has been speculation that he might head there if forced to flee Afghanistan.
Western intelligence agencies told the paper that members of Al-Itihaad had been trained at Al-Qaeda camps and that members of the group are suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The Pentagon officials have confirmed that US naval ships have been stationed off the Somali coast to prevent Bin Laden gaining access to the country by sea, the paper said.
Another British Sunday paper reported that the next phase of the war was being planned not against Somalia, but Iraq. The US is planning to depose Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer said.
Bush has ordered the CIA and top military personnel to draw up detailed plans for an operation that could begin in months, according to the paper. The plan is being opposed by British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other EU leaders and threatens to blow apart the fragile international coalition, the paper added. It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key military installations with ground troops assisting opposition groups in the north and the south of the country.
Sources quoted in the paper say the trigger for such an invasion would be the refusal of Hussein to resubmit to weapons inspections under the UN sanctions imposed after the Gulf war.
Washington has been told that evidence it has presented on an Iraqi link to September 11 is at best circumstancial. "In the past week the Americans have shut up about Iraqi links to September 11 and have been talking a lot more about their weapons programme," said a European diplomat quoted in the paper.
And how isn't it a good idea to turn potential Islamic fundamentalists into Christian Americans?
Were these children slaves? Sex slaves? Do you see it as bad to rescue such children from such evil?
LOL!!!
Yeah, Homo sapien with Homo sapien.
I don't remember God pulling off another separate creation in another Garden. I think we all come from Adam and Eve. And they may both have been black.
I believe God is a great artist, and that He painted with more than one color.
Nice try, but *you* were the first one to inject the issue of race into this thread -- there was no mention of racial issues here before *you* chose to introduce it, by making a point of saying that the young Sudanese man had a "white girlfriend".
Then when several people questioned just why you chose to make an issue of the the interracial aspect of the couple (it looked mighty odd to me, too), now you come back with, "hey, don't bring race into this..."
You set up the "game", now you're running away from it.
Would you or would you not feel differently if the Sudanese boy had a black girlfriend instead of a white one? Why or why not?
The Mesopotamian area of the world, the Middle East, is where the continents touch, where the human race migrated to all parts of the Earth. But at the center, the "races" are mixed.
Jesus was everything. He was black, and yellow, and red, and white. Like Light can be split into all the colors of the rainbow.
I hate it when threads get hijacked like this, but you are asking for it:
Numbers 12
[2] And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.
[3] (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.)
[4] And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
[5] And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
[6] And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.
[7] My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
[8] With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
[9] And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed.
[10] And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.
Dope.
Simply, the Bible directs people to join each to his own kind. That's what it says. I understand that section you quote, but I understand in a different way. But, I don't consider you a 'dope' since we don't agree.
What you believe is not necessarily what God wants you to believe. Did you read our Savior's words and come to this conclusion on your own? Or were you raised in a house or a church where you were taught such things?
You and those that taught you such things have misunderstood God. If it wasn't so important, I wouldn't bug you about this. But it is very important that you not inject a local cultural teaching into the Word of God.
Yep, and that includes you.
Do you have something against adjectives in the English language? We don't have many black girls in this area. There are a few Sudanese black girls, but not many. If you want to know what the white boys who are looking for girls have to say about the situation of competition suddenly showing up on the doorstep, you will have to ask them.
Do I care about the black community? Well, too often, they have told the white community to stay out of their business. They won't even cooperate with cops, in many instances, who try to solve black on black crimes. They want to be a separate community. I wish they would govern themselves to a higher degree than they do now.
There are many oppressed people in the world. We cannot bring all of them in to the US. We have far too many dogooders whose only response is immigration.
As someone who supports the Islamics, you have no credibility.
Your credibility is greatly in question because of the weird statement you just wrote.
Who are "the Islamics?" that I support?
Where did I say I support all Islamics in every way and in every thing they do or might do? Where did I say that I support all Christians in every way and in everything they do or might do? And same goes for FReepers.
What in the world are you implying?
I mentioned the black vs white issue for several reasons. First, I do believe that STDs, especially AIDS, is more common among the Africans than it is in the white community, especially here. I believe that AIDS is more common here in the black community but I am not sure.
Secondly, since AIDS is rare here, the introduction of Africans, who have AIDS more commonly, will quarantee the spread of AIDS here.
So, do you deny the prevalence of aids in African communities? Do you deny that AIDS is relatively rare here?
Thirdly, if these things are true, and they are, do you think that you are trying to defend the indefensible? We are not talking about interracial dating here. That might be the subject of another thread. We are talking about the spread of AIDS.
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