MOGADISHU, Somalia, June 3, 2007
U.S. Battles Islamic Militants In Somalia
A U.S. Warship Attacks Islamic Militants, Somali Government Kills 8 Insurgents In Gun Battle
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The fighting late Friday, which the provincial government said included an American militant, appeared to mark the opening of a new front against Islamic militants in Puntland, a semiautonomous region that has remained relatively peaceful through Somalia's anarchy.
The government declared victory in April against insurgents in the Somali capital, which is in the south. Since then officials of the government and Ethiopian troops sent to prop it up have been targeted in bomb attacks.
“The insurgency appears to be spreading to other parts of Somalia,” said Ted Dagne, specialist in African Affairs at the Congressional Research Service in Washington.
Puntland Vice President Hassan Dahir Mohamoud said eight foreign militants were killed in the fighting and Somali forces were pursuing five others. He told The Associated Press there were no civilian casualties because the area is uninhabited.
Mohamoud said the Puntland government had requested the U.S. navy to help fight the militants.
He said that the government knew the nationalities of five of the foreign militants: the U.S., Britain, Sweden, Eritrea, and Yemen. He said security forces identified them from their passports.
“We have successfully completed the operation against the terrorists who came here and we are chasing the other five,” said Mohamoud, speaking from Puntland's capital, Garowe. He said the total number of militants was 13; government officials earlier reported as many as 35.
Muse Gelle, a regional governor, said the militants arrived in the area near the port town of Bargal by speedboat on Wednesday. He said a U.S. destroyer attacked late Friday.
Musa Ismail Mohamed, a former government economist who lives in Puntland, compared the area where the fighting took place to Afghanistan's Tora Bora, which U.S. forces besieged in 2001 in a failed effort to flush out Osama bin Laden.
“Americans should strike it harder than yesterday and then they will succeed. If they do not do that, then may be Bargal may become a stronghold for terrorists,” Mohamed said Saturday, speaking on the phone from Puntland's main port, Bossaso.
A task force of coalition ships, called CTF-150, is permanently based in the northern Indian Ocean and patrols the Somali coast in hopes of intercepting international terrorists. U.S. destroyers are normally assigned to the task force and patrol in pairs.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, attending a security conference in Singapore, said he had no comment on the action in northern Somalia as it is “possibly an ongoing operation.”
Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, could not confirm U.S. involvement in Friday's fighting, but added: “The very nature of some of our operations, as well as the success of those operations is often predicated on our ability to work quietly with our partners and allies.”
Puntland's minister of information, Mohamed Abdulrahman Banga, told the AP that the extremists arrived heavily armed in two fishing boats from southern Somalia, which they controlled for six months last year before being routed by Ethiopian troops.
“They had their own small boats and guns,” he said.
The United States has repeatedly accused Somalia's Council of Islamic Courts of harboring terrorists linked to al Qaeda and allegedly responsible for the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The U.S. sent a small number of special operations troops with the Ethiopian forces that drove the Islamic forces into hiding. U.S. warplanes have carried out at least two air strikes in an attempt to kill suspected al Qaeda members, Pentagon officials have said.
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See all 45 CommentsSo, what have we learned from Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and the world of Islam? --- Those places are infested with hopeless malefactors. Dickin%u2019 around with bloodthirsty savages, hoping our benevolent goodwill will make them like us, is merely futile delay of the inevitable. The only thing that will ever get them off our back is complete eradication. Because, obviously, Allah%u2019s cultists are never gonna quit. Someday, in the not too distant future, the Islamic Fascists will attack with WMD. When that day comes, owing to self-preservation, Western powers will have no other option but to annihilate not only states but also entire regions.
And this is why traditionalists know that our border must be secured, amnesty must be stopped, and the suicidal immigration policy set in 1965 must be reversed --- this is the only conceivable way of avoiding the aforementioned annihilation scenario.
"Gen. William Odom discusses the %u201Cworst strategic disaster in American history,%u201D the war in Iraq: the view of most generals that the war is wrong, the failure of the politicians to see the consequences of their actions, the centrality of the neoconservatives and the Israel lobby in pushing for the Iraq invasion, the %u201Csurge,%u201D
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Iraq war supporters are under the influence of AIPAC. AN ISRAELI POLITICAL LOBBY GROUP!
HERE ARE SOME OF AIPAC DEMOCRATIC SUPPORTERS! CONTACT THEM!
Levin, Carl- (D - MI)
269 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6221
Web Form: levin.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Steny Hoyer
http://hoyer.house.gov/contact/
READ AIPAC BRAG ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE ON AMERICAN POLITICIANS!
http://www.aipac.org/for
ms/join_aipacClubs.htm
REMEMBER THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE IS RUN BY PRO ISRAELI GROUP! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO CAME UP WITH THIS SURGE IDEA!
EVEN AS AMERICAN MILITARY AID LANDS IN LEBANON, President Bush is funding Al Qaeda in Lebanon with funds from Iraq! http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/ar
ticles/070305fa_fact_hersh
50 years of American involvement in the Middle East ENOUGH it has nothing worth one more American Life!
THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STANDS IN NEW YORK HARBOR AND IS NOT KNEELING IN THE MIDDLE EAST!
"I am no fan of GW, but not because he is willing to take it to Allah%u2019s Psychopathic Murderers Inc. Judging from some of these posts, it is becoming more and more difficult to discern Libs from the terrorists."
Sure you're not a fan of GW Bush. I bet you've voted for him twice - and that makes you a bigger loser then that coke snortin', drunk driving, cowardly moron who didn't turn up for most of his own military service.
Now, why don't you please explain to me why the Republicans - and especially GW Bush - don't want to go after Bin Laden.
Explain to me why they have sold out America to Muslims so that they can make a few more dollars.
I bet you won't.
"We are bombing Somalia because you Blue Staters ran away from Somalia the first time. Ironically ... no ... stupidly, you easily confused and bewildered Dems took your revenge out on the wrong *** people ... i.e., Serbians ... for crying out loud. Apparently, the Serbs were fully aware of what took 9/11 to enlighten us about. Any Dem who votes to surrender ought to be promptly hung for treason ... and no need for a trial."
And what would you do with those who do business with Muslims?
ie - people like the Bush family Klan.
Maybe we should hang GW Bush for treason - he's no longer interested in going after Bin Laden - the real enemy.
That's treason as far as I'm concerned.
"Islamics and their so-called religion ought to be banned from the civilized world."
There's nothing civilized about you - perhaps you should do the world a favor.
Hint: Long walk, short cliff.
Re: "but that he had no information about casualties among the extremists."
...nor casualty counts among the civilians, no doubt.
Galavanting around the globe, 'linking' people to 'Al-Qaeda' on a whim, and bombing them from a nice, safe distance. What a cowardly and criminal policy!?
Women? Children? Hey, if they are cosorting with 'the extremists', then they deserve to be slaughtered, don't they?
What a disgrace.
Islamics and their so-called religion ought to be banned from the civilized world. And considering what transpired today --- enough already! Today was the near culmination of another *** Dem suicidal PC F-Up --- this no doubt another *** child of Teddy and his 1965 bring-in-all-the-weirdos-cuckoos-and-wackos immigration act. Guess Teddy felt lonely.
Posted by jabberwock11
Wake Up! The Muslim religion preaches Jihad and world domination by the Muslims. You can sugarcoat this anyway you want. The enemy (extremists) use men, women. and children as shields. They hide in hospitals ans mosques. Further, they blow-up their own people. Yes, get them wherever and whenever we can before they destroy us. As for the herdsmen, Muslims are resonsible for killing many thousands of their own. Seventy herdsmen is unfortunate but nothing compared to what the Muslims do to each other.
RUBBER STAMP REPUBLICANS! SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON!
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm
Here are a list of the Republican Senators up for Reelection in 08. Ask them how much AIPAC influences their vote on Iraq? Is their support for Israel more than their duty to the Americans living in their states?
Alexander, Lamar- (R - TN)
Allard, Wayne- (R - CO)
Chambliss, Saxby- (R - GA)
Cochran, Thad- (R - MS)
Coleman, Norm- (R - MN)
Collins, Susan M.- (R - ME)
Cornyn, John- (R - TX)
Craig, Larry E.- (R - ID)
Dole, Elizabeth- (R - NC)
Enzi, Michael B.- (R - WY)
Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC)
Hagel, Chuck- (R - NE)
Inhofe, James M.- (R - OK)
McConnell, Mitch- (R - KY)
Roberts, Pat- (R - KS)
Sessions, Jeff- (R - AL)
Smith, Gordon H.- (R - OR)
Stevens, Ted- (R - AK)
Sununu, John E.- (R - NH)
Warner, John- (R - VA)
Who is "them" when you say "get them"? Any Muslim. Anyone that we happen to kill? Any country we don't like? Maybe "they" used this kind of logic when they attacked the world trade center. I noticed you felt no need to respond the part about the 70 innocent herdsmen we killed before. What justifies that? They are Muslims so we can kill them?
December 8, 1941/September 12, 2001
The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to the very life and safety of our nation.
As Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense.
Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.
Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests are in grave danger.
With confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounded determination of our people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us God.
USA's PLEDGE 2 THE WORLD GIVEN BY JFK!!
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
--John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "
"Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." --John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961 "
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Winston Churchill
Edmund Burke: All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do
the future of the non muslim world under islam....
But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).
http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm
this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....
are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???
apartheid fascist nazi islamic style
Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm
Sorry I spelled your name wrong on the last post.
Thanks for your service; what branch?
"Looking for answers on a "blog"...now that is funny."
"For myself, there is plenty we can do during this timeout"
All those things you mentioned should already be in the works. I was just wondering if we were going to tell everyone else that we would be on a "time out" and not to bother us until the next President was sworn in or do we have our barbecue and wait to see who invites themselves to come to it?
WHY IS IT NOT ONE ISLAMIC MUSLIM COUNTRY GRANTS EQUAL RIGHTS TO NON MUSLIMS???
FASCIST NAZI ISLAM SAYS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATES ISLAM LAW...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
For example, in 1981, the Iranian representative to the United Nations, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, articulated the position of his country regarding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by saying that the UDHR was "a secular understanding of the Judeo-Christian tradition", which could not be implemented by Muslims without trespassing the Islamic law.
http://www.un.org/terrorism/
http://www.un.org/terrorism/strategy-counter-terrorism.html
http://www.un.org/
But the accepted assumption in India is that most of India's Muslims were converted to Islam through the sword. Meaning the Indians were given an option between death or adopting Islam. The third option was getting examined in Islam religion along with heavy taxes- Jeziya (poll tax) and Kharaj (property tax).
http://adaniel.tripod.com/Islam.htm
this is what fascist nazi islam calls peace....
are you ready to live under islam rule as a non muslim???
apartheid fascist nazi islamic style
Rights of Non-Muslims in an Islamic State
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id3/islamic_state.htm
Posted by jabberwock11
And why not? Thje Muslim threat is spreading around the world. These people are intent on destroying life as we know it. Get them wherever and whenever we can. These people are a threat to our natrional security and our way of life.
Show them how stupid Americans are.
I wonder when the Bush administration is going issue another "terrorist alert"? We haven't had one since the 2004 elections. Which is really amazing since we were having them at least once a month in the run-up to the elections.
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In a long interview on Hamas TV, Hazim Al-Sha%u2019arawi, Deputy Director of Al-Aqsa TV and one of the creators of the Hamas children%u2019s TV show Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers, said that using the program to promote Islamic rule over other religions is actually promoting %u201Cjustice, goodness and world love.%u201D
Al-Aqsa TV and the Palestinian Authority have been under fire since PMW reported last week that Tomorrow%u2019s Pioneers was using a character named Farfur, a knockoff of Disney%u2019s Mickey Mouse character, to convey messages about Islamic supremacy as well as hatred of Jews, Israel and the U.S. Despite public statements by PA Minister of Information Mustafa Barghouti that the show would be taken off the air until it could be reviewed and revised, a new episode of the program %u2013 featuring Al-Sha%u2019arawi as one of the hosts %u2013 ran Friday.
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