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Mogadishu Falls to Somali Government Troops (citizens wave flowers to soldiers)
Reuters ^ | Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:44am ET | Guled Mohammed

Posted on 12/28/2006 6:28:18 AM PST by meg88

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Mogadishu Falls to Somali Government Troops
(citizens wave flowers to soldiers)


I suspect we won't be seeing that plastered on the MSM Evening News.
21 posted on 12/28/2006 6:43:46 AM PST by VOA
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To: VOA

You mean Katie Couric won't have footage of this tonight on the See-BS Evening News?? (shocking, I tell you!)


22 posted on 12/28/2006 6:45:16 AM PST by meg88
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To: Steel Wolf

We have put a lot of money and time in wooing Ethiopia over the last several months.Bush realized the strategic neccessity of a good relationship with this nation and it's now proving to have been an excellent move.


23 posted on 12/28/2006 6:45:59 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: ASA Vet

There are parts of eastern Ethiopia, the Ogaden region, that have a large number of Somalis. They've been a cause of trouble before, and would be again, were a hostile and organized government rise in Somalia. Rather than wait for the Islamists to consolodate power, they simply took the fight to them first.


24 posted on 12/28/2006 6:46:08 AM PST by Steel Wolf (As Ibn Warraq said, "There are moderate Muslims but there is no moderate Islam.")
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To: meg88

I'm going to an Ethiopian restaurant this weekend


25 posted on 12/28/2006 6:46:09 AM PST by Uncledave
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To: meg88
I wonder how much support we are giving to the Ethiopians....
26 posted on 12/28/2006 6:46:13 AM PST by Gamecock (Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. J.I.P.)
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To: rhombus

"Now...how to handle the subsequent terrorism?"

Knowing the Ethiopians, they will catch terrorists, bring them into the town square and mutilate them, leaving their rotting corpses for the insects and other vermin to feast upon.

Something we should have done with Al Queada.


27 posted on 12/28/2006 6:47:06 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted." Lenin)
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To: reagandemo
I am sure the Ethiopian army did not fight the battles in a P.C. way...

I'm sure that's true. More importantant is the fact that the islamo terrorists knew that this was not going to be a P.C. war. That's why they didn't try their ususal terrorist activities during the advance. Fortunately for the Ethiopians they didn't have to fight the international press corps along with the islamo terrorists.

28 posted on 12/28/2006 6:47:23 AM PST by FreePaul
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To: meg88
"We have been defeated. I have removed my uniform. Most of my comrades have also changed into civilian clothes," one former SICC fighter told Reuters. "Most of our leaders have fled."

Changing their clothes does not necessarily mean they have changed their minds, it just means you won't be able to pick them out of a crowd.

The battle is only half over.

29 posted on 12/28/2006 6:48:24 AM PST by oldbrowser (This war isn't over until it's OVER.)
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To: Gamecock
I wonder how much support we are giving to the Ethiopians....

I have no doubt that the Dims will soon be demanding hearings and investigations into that.

30 posted on 12/28/2006 6:49:24 AM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Aren't they calling that sectarian violence in Iraq? ;-)


31 posted on 12/28/2006 6:49:55 AM PST by rhombus
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To: rhombus
"I have removed my uniform. Most of my comrades have also changed into civilian clothes"

Should'nt take too long to find out. The dude quoted and his "comrades" have already taken Step 1...

32 posted on 12/28/2006 6:50:14 AM PST by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat [This is some nasty...])
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To: meg88
Parts of Mogadishu shook with the sound of gunfire and there were outbreaks of looting after leaders of the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) fled its base early in the morning.

Looting! I hope they protected the museums or there'll be hell to pay.

33 posted on 12/28/2006 6:51:41 AM PST by rhombus
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To: meg88

Is this being covered on the cable news networks?

I'm seeing stories about panda babies and the best Christmas gifts.


34 posted on 12/28/2006 6:51:56 AM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Uncledave
A hearty helping of Ethopian food for everyone this weekend!


35 posted on 12/28/2006 6:53:22 AM PST by meg88
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To: meg88

Are muslims allowed to own flowers?


36 posted on 12/28/2006 6:54:39 AM PST by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: FreePaul
Fortunately for the Ethiopians they didn't have to fight the international press corps along with the islamo terrorists.

That will doubtless change, and very soon. I'm sure al Qaeda is already sending out messages to their allies in the media that their assistance is needed. Obviously they can't win a fair fight, so they need the press to tie the Ethiopians' hands behind their backs.

37 posted on 12/28/2006 6:55:11 AM PST by CFC__VRWC (AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
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To: meg88
citizens wave flowers to soldiers

Civillians often play it safe when it comes to welcoming invading armies, especially if each side has some hope of their support. In WWII, some Italian villages changed hands between Allied and German forces several times. Each time the villagers "welcomed" their "liberators" with wine.

I don't doubt that most Italians would far rather see the Americans or British marching in, than the Germans, but villagers often decided to do what they could to keep the heavily armed troops arriving in town as well disposed as possible towards the locals.

I don't know if the Italians preferred the French Foreign Legion or French North African colonial troops to the Germans. The Free French government paid their North African troops a bounty for Germans killed, the number of dead being proven by turning in left ears. They discontinued the practice due to complaints that not all of the ears came from dead -- or even wounded -- Germans. Allied dead and wounded, or civilains, lost their ears too. If was one of the few times in WWII when Black troops in the US Army were at an advantage, as the French would never believe that their ears came from a German.

I seem to have wandered off point here. If the Government loses Mogadishu again, expect to see stories that the populace welcomed the rebels into town with flowers.

38 posted on 12/28/2006 6:56:55 AM PST by Pilsner
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To: MizSterious
You're entirely correct. Our last two wars - Vitenam and Iraq - fought PC-style have been disasters.
39 posted on 12/28/2006 6:57:31 AM PST by BW2221
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To: meg88

GWB... good job... now let our forces do the same.


40 posted on 12/28/2006 6:58:24 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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