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2006-05-18 Africa Horn

Islamists break truce, warlord compound overrun

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-18 00:29|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Article: The attack coincided with a rally intended to call for peace, following the death of at least 140 people.

This is pretty cool. I've heard of diversionary attacks, but this is the first time I've heard of a diversionary demonstration.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-05-18 02:25|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-05-18 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Zhang,

Just look at all the pro-illegal alien demos here in the US designed to be a diversion from the WOT.

Posted by DanNY 2006-05-18 07:04|| 2006-05-18 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Obviously, the warlords, never read Koran/Hadiths.
Truce breaking was PTUI's favored tactic.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-18 07:53|| 2006-05-18 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 A broken truce?

Sigh. My world is crashing down. If you can't trust an islamist, who can you trust?

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-05-18 07:59|| 2006-05-18 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Dan

Presumably thats Turabis followers without approval of the Khartoum govt (a la KSA). The last thing Khartoum needs right now is to tied to AQ, id think.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2006-05-18 09:39|| 2006-05-18 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Liberalhawk:

In or out of the Sudanese government, Turabi apparently exercises enough clout and/or fear to keep getting himself out of jail despite the repeated accusations that he's tried to overthrow Bashir and his known association with al-Qaeda. The fact that the Sudanese accuse him of masterminding the Darfur rebellion yet simultaneously permit him to operate as a free agent more or less implies that they don't consider him as big of a threat as their own political dissidents, thus the ability of himself and his followers to send weapons to Aweys and Co in Somalia strikes me as quite plausible.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2006-05-18 11:30|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2006-05-18 11:30|| Front Page Top

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