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| Africa Horn |
| License To Kill |
| 2010-04-10 |
| Local officials are reporting that dozens of al Qaeda members from Yemen have arrived in Somalia, bringing weapons and other equipment with them. Somalia is pretty wide open, with a long coast and no air-traffic-control to even monitor who flies in. There are many air charter companies in the region that will, for a price, fly you and your cargo into Somalia. Yemeni and Somali fishermen often moonlight as smugglers. It is believed that some, or all, of the al Qaeda leadership in Yemen has been moving to Somalia in the last month. While several of the Yemeni tribes have promised to protect al Qaeda leaders, the tribes have more bluster than military power. Government security forces have been rounding up more and more al Qaeda members, despite tribal threats. The Americans and all their surveillance equipment are increasingly active in Yemen, making it harder for al Qaeda people to hide. While the al Qaeda leadership has fled Yemen, the rank-and-file members have been ordered to lie low and stay hidden for two months or so. Al Qaeda believes that the government will not sustain the current counter-terror operations, and that by the Summer, the al Qaeda leadership will be able to return and resume planning world conquest. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #5 "Helping our own US taxpaying citizens.... not so much." Nonsense, Besoeker. You just have to realize that Bambi defines "helping" as |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-04-10 19:18 |
| #4 Interesting I might also add, that Barry can send clandestinely (or at least without MSM publicity) teams of security assistance experts and trainers to South Africa to assist with the World Cup while requests from the Governors of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico for border assistance continue to go unanswered. Helping ANC communists Jacob Zumba and Melema is a splendid idea. Helping our own US taxpaying citizens.... not so much. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-10 16:20 |
| #3 Behold |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-04-10 16:10 |
| #2 Africon. And in March 2010, U.S. officials revealed that the Obama administration was considering using surveillance drones to provide intelligence to TFG troops in Somalia for their planned offensive against al-Shabaab. According to these officials, the Pentagon may also launch air strikes into Somalia and send U.S. Special Forces troops into the country, as it has done in the past. http://www.bartamaha.com/?p=24705 |
| Posted by: Gomez Threter7450 2010-04-10 14:45 |
| #1 I suspect that there is a concerted effort to drive al-Qaeda from several countries to Somalia. The idea is that Somalia is so degenerate and anarchic that after a goodly amount of bloodshed at least someone will finally get control of the place. The end result is Somalia turned into a prison, where the prisoners turn on each other and solve two problems at once. The trick will be in arranging so that all tickets to Somalia are one way. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-04-10 14:09 |