Posted on 12/02/2009 4:42:12 PM PST by SJackson
Train recruits openly in the lawless nation, pose a global threat
MOGADISHU, Somalia
The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts, use portraits of President Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Training camps in the lawless nation of Somalia are attracting hundreds of foreigners, including Americans, and Somalis recruited by a local insurgent group linked to al Qaeda, according to local and U.S. officials. American officials and private analysts say the camps pose a security threat far beyond the borders of Somalia, including to the U.S. homeland.
In interviews with the Associated Press, former trainees gave rare details on the camps, which are scattered along desert footpaths, rutted roads and steamy coastal dens. They say the recruits are told that the United States is the enemy of Islam.
U.S. and Somali officials say Somalia's al-Shabab jihadist, or holy war, movement is growing and uses foreign trainers with battlefield experience from other conflicts.
The threat posed by the training camps was underscored in federal court documents unsealed Nov. 23 in Minneapolis, home to a large Somali-American community. An indictment against several Somali-Americans who are accused of fighting in Somalia said trainees at one camp included dozens of ethnic Somalis from Somalia and other African countries, Europe and the United States.
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Obama targets? I thought they loved him now. So much for speeches. And Mogadishu, back to the future.
Hey we have something in common after all!
These subhumans hate us, no matter who is president. They hate the USA because most Americans are Christian and so few are death cultists.
The president has bowed down in submission to the subhumans and they still hate us.
(So obviously Bush is not the reason why they hate us.)
Osama is so 2003. He looks like a Dirty Wizard or a Homeless Santa.
The obama targets thing is a ruse; they adore him as one of their own.
The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts, use portraits of President Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
Ummmm..., I could have sworn that I was told that Obama was an adherent to Islam and that Muslims knew he was and they were "winking" and going along with his subterfuge. Why are they using him for a target, if that's the case?
***American officials and private analysts say the camps pose a security threat far beyond the borders of Somalia, including to the U.S. homeland.***
But, but Obama went to Cairo! He made a speach and apology at a Mosque! He’s the Arab’s friend! maybe he didn’t pay enough jiza tax!
Obamao and his friends drill hate for America. It’s what they are all about, and it’s showing.
And if they succeed in killing Obama, racist rednecks will be blamed.
I like the helicopter grab. More like it. These terror camps are popping up all over the place. Could spell big trouble going ahead. Certainly have in the past.
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