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| Hundreds protest Islamic militia's takeover of Mogadishu |
| 2006-06-06 |
| MOGADISHU — Hundreds gathered Tuesday in northern Mogadishu to protest an Islamic militia's takeover of the city after weeks of bloody fighting with secular warlords allegedly backed by the United States. Members of the militia, which has alleged links to al-Qaeda, kept defensive positions about two kilometres from the protest, but did not move in to stop it. On Monday, the militia became the first group to consolidate control over all of Mogadishu's neighbourhoods since the last government collapsed in 1991 and warlords took over, dividing the impoverished country of eight million people into a patchwork of rival fiefdoms. |
| Posted by:DanNY |
| #6 refused .....D'oh! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-06 22:52 |
| #5 Les Aspin refuse armor reinforcements IIRC |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-06 22:48 |
| #4 From what I've been told, Shieldwolf, our guys were winning prior to the Blackhawk Down incident, and were wiping the floor with the warlords when the then-President panicked and pulled everyone out. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-06 21:50 |
| #3 Except, Somalia has been a sinkhole of despair and death for the better part of 2 decades now, and the people don't seem to care enough to do something about it. And those that did splintered off into Puntland and Somaliland. The Greater Mogadishu Area is the main source of trouble and instability in that "country". Unless and until Al-Q or one of its allies takes over that zone and starts setting up the kind of bases that we saw in Afghanistan, why should any Westerner give a damn what happens to that third world hellhole? Remember what happened the last time we went in to help : Blackhawk Down? |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2006-06-06 15:07 |
| #2 I wonder if Mogadishu will become the next roach motel to attract bad boyz from around the world? If so, it might prove to be a pattern of how we can finally purge the world of some of its perpetual trouble spots. First you let in Taliban-like Moslem brutalitarians, to utterly destroy whatever order is left and bitterly oppress everyone, and then you sweep it clean with the locals convinced that maybe responsible government isn't such a bad idea after all. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-06 10:52 |
| #1 the extremists are “using the people's weariness of violence, rape and civil war” to gain support for a government based on Islamic law. Umm, havent they ever heard of Sudan?? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-06 10:47 |