Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $20,264
25%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 25%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: suleimanhemed

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Horn of Africa now a key target for US ‘war on terror’

    05/06/2003 10:10:05 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 8 replies · 362+ views
    The Daily Star ^ | May 06 2003 | Ed Blanche
    Some see haven for drug running, terrorist training camps and al-qaeda Traditional violence and instability in region could prove sticky, entangling US in mesh of bloody rivalries BEIRUT: Not too long ago a man named Issa al-Hayatt carrying a South African passport was lying in the Kaysaney Hospital in downtown Mogadishu, the lawless capital of Somalia, a constant battleground between clan-based warlords. Around about March 11 or 12, he’d been shot in what appeared to be an attempt by militiamen to kidnap him. On March 18, six armed men, identified as Americans by witnesses, swept into the ward with several...