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Somali Islamists prepare to take Kismayo
2006-09-24
MOGADISHU - Hundreds of heavily armed Muslim gunmen moved on a key southern port in Somalia on Saturday as the lawless nationÂ’s powerful Islamist movement prepared to expand its territory, witnesses said.

Backed by heavy artillery and machine-gun mounted pick-ups known as “battlewagons” or “technicals” several hundred Islamic fighters sped through towns south of Mogadishu to join forces already surrounding Kismayo, they said. “I saw 30 battlewagons passing by and headed to Kismayo,” said Ali Nuur Jiisow, a resident of Afgoi Yerey village on the road to the port, now held by a militia loyal to a top official in Somalia’s weak transitional government.

“The fighters were heavily armed and they all had their heads covered so you could only see their eyes,” he told AFP. He and others in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region said the Islamists had told them they were going to take control of Kismayo to prevent the proposed deployment of an Ethiopian east African peacekeeping force to shore up the government.
Posted by:Steve White

#14  #5's "Destroying our freedoms here in the US" - RIGHTWINGNEWS.com > Clinton accuses Bush of wanting to INSTITUTIONALIZE Abu Ghraib here in America [paraphrased]. IOW, to turn America into a Commie-style Police-Army State, NOT just a Nany State. ONCE AGAIN THE DEMOLEFT CRITICIZES WHAT IT SECRETLY DESIRES, PROCLAIMS TO HATE WHAT IT WANTS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-09-24 23:20  

#13  OP rather than carpet bombing it would be interesting to set up a Khe Sahn style outpost in the hinterland with about 12 Vulcan Phalanx units and strings of accelerometers in the bush an obliterate all comers. Hue City seems less desirable.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-09-24 19:18  

#12  A little "shock and awe" from a dozen Buffs would put the fear of the REAL GOD into these nutcases in a hurry. I'm just sorry we don't have a Teddy Roosevelt in the White House. The war against islamofascists would be over. The rest of the world would probably hate us, but how is that different from now?
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-09-24 18:34  

#11  heavy artillery? What, some 155mm towed howitzers? 122mm towed guns? Heh.

Probably a single big 82mm mortar with a broken sight.
Posted by: Brett   2006-09-24 12:26  

#10  Lookin for that lost shaker of salt ?
Posted by: wxjames   2006-09-24 12:15  

#9  49 Pan, Bro, I know they (UN) hate Me.
I blew out a Birrkenstock, stepped on a pop-top,
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.
But there's booze in the blender and soon it will render,
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.

Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2006-09-24 11:29  

#8  Agreed sinse. The very reason I advocate strategic bombing of Iranian and Kartoum governments, blockades of nations that support terrorism, and assinations of the mullas that preach terror.

Joe, and don't froget the UN money pouring through the camps.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-24 11:14  

#7  49 Pan, as you know Kismayo is down south towards the Kenyan border. Easy access from the frontier. A lot of the support is coming from that direction from sympathizers/ refugees/ UN camps.
Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2006-09-24 11:05  

#6  well you may hate the patriot act but htis is not going too end umtil islam ends
Posted by: sinse   2006-09-24 11:05  

#5  I heard the same TW, I hope this is not another Afghan in the making.

If it is, it is another example of our failed policy in the war on terror. We need to be going after the money and the nations that are supporting it. Back to wanting to take out Teheran and the others that support and finance this stuff. We are just chasing this around the world, not dealing with it at the root level, and I don't mean poverty.

I know I sound like a broken record here, stuck in the loop. But this is destroying our freedoms here in the US. It won't be long and we will get used to airport security and the patriot act. I for one hope not and hate the Patriot act, I support it but I want it to go away soon. we need to bring an end to this.

Thanks for letting me rant.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-24 10:30  

#4  The training camps are reported to be currently in the setting-up phase, Super Hose.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-09-24 08:52  

#3  Naw, just give it time. Aids and the fighting will turn this place into no mans land in short order. A lord of the flies in the making.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2006-09-24 08:29  

#2  No problem Hose, IÂ’ll turn on the spigot you Hose them down!

Posted by: Joe of the Jungle   2006-09-24 06:38  

#1  We will end up back in there. They will set up training camps and begin to export jihad.
Posted by: Super Hose   2006-09-24 01:38  

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