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Pakistan’s Daily Times reports:
Somalia’s Islamists are in full retreat after Ethiopian airstrikes and a ground offensive that have killed up to 1,000 of the religious movement’s fighters, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday.
“A joint Somali government and Ethiopian force has broken the back of the international terrorist forces … These forces are in full retreat,” Meles told reporters in Addis Ababa, adding that up to 1,000 Islamist fighters had been killed.
“A few are Somali but the majority are foreigners,” he said of the dead.
Somewhere, even as you read this, an Indymedia kid is working on a thesis that will link this directly to Chimposter W. KKKarlmuppet.
- The question really is how can we adapt this strategy to Iraq and beat Hell out of some terrorists.Posted by Ian Deans on 2006 12 27 at 08:27 AM • permalink
- Thank God for that! There was some concern that Somalia would be the next home for Al Quaeda. Interesting that most of the dead are foreign.Posted by AlburyShifton on 2006 12 27 at 08:29 AM • permalink
- When you are fighting on your own soil you don’t care how the media portrays you, you get in and kill the enemy, in this case the islamic rubbish. (yes I know Ethiopia is helping – good for them).Posted by surfmaster on 2006 12 27 at 08:32 AM • permalink
- Actually, it’s not surprising to me at all that so many “Somali” fighters are foreign. I think the true native Somalians would just assume the Muslim warlords and their foreign (meaning “oil-rich”) supporters go to hell and let them live peacefully.
Here’s to a few thousand more of the little bastards getting a New Year’s sendoff to the afterlife.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 12 27 at 08:35 AM • permalink
- #1, Ian Dean:
Rolling in and wiping out organized (or semi organized) armed resistance never was a problem. Remember how quickly we managed to cut through Saddam’s army as well?
It’s once the evil shits get set up in among the urban pop that the fun and games start. Especially when our side has to make every effort to appease those sold out to supporting the enemy, and have to try to hold themselves to ridiculous and impossible standards of tactical purity or face a fire storm of hostile propagandists.
- Grimmy’s right. We always knew the battle for Baghdad was going to be the big one. We just expected to wage it sooner. Sooner would have been better for the reasons Grimmy gives.
The UN Security Council, however, did take up the issue, and in another craven act which will further cement its reputation as an anti-Muslim body, bowed to American and British pressure to authorize a regional peacekeeping force to enter Somalia to protect the transitional government, which is fighting the Islamic Courts.
ROFL. Go Ethiopian Air Force!
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 27 at 04:13 PM • permalink
- #12 Salim Lone, who was the spokesman for the UN mission in Iraq in 2003, is a columnist for The Daily Nation in Kenya. This Global Viewpoint article was distributed by Tribune Media Services.
So the pro-Islamist, anti-western slant in that article is not surprising. Hey, Salim! How’s that Sudanese Darfur thing going?
- Has Lancet verified the number of dead?Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 27 at 06:14 PM • permalink
- My bet is that the Ethiopians, when confronted with Jihadis hiding in a Kindergarten, Napalm it, and then tell the parents that if they’re evil enough to put their kids at risk that way, tough. Word soon passes around.
This is not Shrechlicheit, terror against civilians, it just says that Jihadis will be killed, and human shields will be ignored or treated as probable Jihadis and dealt with on that basis.
You probably get fewer innocents killed in the long run too with that strategy, but it’s not one we can use.
What we can do is put a telescope to our blind eye while others use it. I’m not at all sure this is the right thing to do, but it does level the playing field somewhat, and does reduce the number of innocents killed.
- it just says that Jihadis will be killed, and human shields will be ignored or treated as probable Jihadis and dealt with on that basis.
Maybe not a tactic we allow ourselves to use, but used once or twice, it would prompt the human shields to throw out the jihadis, or at the very least, run like hell from them.
You probably get fewer innocents killed in the long run too with that strategy, but it’s not one we can use.
I disagree, Zoe. We can use that strategy. It’s just that we won’t.
Big difference.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 27 at 11:48 PM • permalink
- Australian Jobs allotted for NEW 20,000 Sudanese-citizens-islamics-militant-solidersand their wives and 20 children….
eg. Meat factory workers, sudanese consultants, sudanese mulitcultural drum playing theatre company, sudanese hair salons, sudanese spear throwing at Jambaroo recreational parks.
Not to mention….
Working at the big bananna Coffs Habour.
Country and western bongo drums in Tamworth
You gotta love the economy!!
- How many Etheopian Mig’s did Bob Geldoff pay for thanks to his Live Aid gig?Posted by mr creosote on 2006 12 28 at 05:48 AM • permalink
- Does anyone know all the words to “Feed the world?”
As in:
Arm the world
Let them know it’s crusade timePosted by mr creosote on 2006 12 28 at 08:59 PM • permalink
Somewhere, even as you read this, an Indymedia kid is working on a thesis that will link this directly to Chimposter W. KKKarlmuppet.
We can only wish it be so…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 12 28 at 10:00 PM • permalink
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