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2009-04-20 Africa Subsaharan

U.S. Mulls Striking Somali Terrorist Training Camps

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Posted by Sherry 2009-04-20 15:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 In Minneapolis?

Posted by mojo 2009-04-20 16:33|| 2009-04-20 16:33|| Front Page Top

#2 mojo -- there's been lots of reports and speculations on the "missing youths."

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2009-04-20 16:37|| 2009-04-20 16:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Something will have to be done sooner rather than later. Al-shabab is a growing threat.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-04-20 17:01|| 2009-04-20 17:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Sink the entire pirate armada on the way out.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-04-20 17:01|| 2009-04-20 17:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Who cares if we kill traitors in Somalia? I mean, if you take up arms for a hostile foreign power - whether a state or not - that is the kernel of treason. Used to be that we executed traitors, not coddled them.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2009-04-20 18:10|| 2009-04-20 18:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Bombing training camps is a short term politically motivated effort. Granted we need to shut them down, like cutting cancer out, but we need to attack the leadership and destroy them. We need to go after the financers and kill them, someone is paying for these camps and they are not Somalies. The problem with that is it is not politically tollerable to strike a wealthy family firm in Saudi. So our cowardly leaders continue to play "Wack Mole" and not hit the real targets!

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-04-20 18:50|| 2009-04-20 18:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Someone is paying for the camps and for the youths to travel via the airlines to train for jihad. Somalis living legally as refugees from the UK and Australia have also disappeared and may have legit passports for re-entry, posing a national security threat. This is coordinated and needs shut-down, as camps will pop up elsewhere if the trail is not followed through.

Posted by Thealing Borgia 122 2009-04-20 19:39|| 2009-04-20 19:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Back in 2002, a suspected American al-Qaida operative named Kamal Derwish was killed by a U.S. Predator strike in Yemen. The death was so controversial, the CIA and the military still haven't admitted that Derwish was killed that day.

I'm glad we were doing that. I hope we still are. As for the idiots who decided to take up jihad, by declaring war on us, they gave up the right to demand special protection. Kill them without mercy. I'm sure in the meantime someone has been tracing down calls to/from the U.S. from Somalia. Hopefully that will lead somewhere.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-04-20 20:54|| 2009-04-20 20:54|| Front Page Top

#9 If you look at pirate attacks last year and now this year, they have increased greatly. I would not be surprised if al Q got into the action, using Somali ~~day laborers~~ ~~local fodder~~ men as the muscle.

I agree with Pan. Cut off the head and the rest whithers away. We as a government do not have the will to do what needs to be done.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-04-20 21:22|| 2009-04-20 21:22|| Front Page Top

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