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If you had to use CW to save someone's life, would that person die?
Good point on the seinfeld thing.. lol..
and yep, those Al Qaeda guys are insane idiots, for sure. No good can come from anything they have a hand in. rb wrote in message ups.com... Woody wrote: Who's gonna see a single want ad in 300 postings about nothing? Seinfeld ran for eight years and it was all about nothing. People cried at the end. Who wants to pilfer 300 postings about nothing to find a sale ad? On the Somalia thing, Do you mean extremists/terrorists that claim to follow Islam, or just basic Islamists? Here's one: ""Somali Islamist gunmen undergo military training http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx...ticleid=281612 {EXCERPT} Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa Somalia's dominant Islamic movement on Tuesday launched intensive military training for hundreds of its gunmen under a plan to create instruments of statehood......"" It looks like you mean the former. Please understand that Al Qaeda is a group of terrorists/extremists, it doesn't matter what religion they claim to follow. rb Here's another: ""SOMALIA, THE BLACK HOLE OF ANARCHY BY AHMED Q. BURSALIID In mid July 2005 The U.S. intelligence agents, working with local warlords, have carried out counter terrorist operations to seize sus*pects. "Somalia remains the theatre for a shadowy confrontation involving local Ji*hadis, foreign Al Qaeda operatives and in*telligence services from a number of re*gional and Western countries," says a report by the International Crisis Group in 2005. The report says the "dirty war be*tween terrorists and counter-terrorist oper*atives in Mogadishu appears to have en*tered a new and more vicious stage that threatens to push the country further towards Jihadism and extremist violence un*less its root causes are properly addressed." The Somali transitional federal government was formed in neighbouring Kenya in 2004 and moved into Somalia June 2005. However, the administration has failed to relocate to Mogadishu, the Somali capital, because the city was considered unsafe. Due to the insecurity of Mogadishu, the TFG relocated to Jawhar, which it later decided to move to Baidoa. Warlords and leaders of Islamic courts have been fighting in Mogadishu for about five months. This led to the loss of hundreds of civilians and destruction of properties. Somalia, which had been in a state of anarchy for more than a decade, has once again gone to war; this war was somehow different from previous ones. The nature of this war is seen to have some religious and political clash while previous ones were much related to tribal and feudal conflicts. Each one of the conflicting parties is claiming that the other group is related to Al-Qaeda when the reality is somehow different from that. After months of armed conflicts within the capital city of Somalia, Union of Islamic Courts took the lead with enormous points by eliminating the warlords who took hostage the country and its people for 16 years. United States of America, which earlier denied any allegation of helping or giving hand to the warlords in the fight to weed out the Islamic Militia in Somalia shortly after the takeover admitted that it had been supporting warlords to destabilise the Islamic militia. America has been an active player in the politics of Somalia, and until now its policy towards restoring peace and stability in the war -torn Somalia is somehow obscure. Somalis believe that it is the right time to take advantage to restore the lost hope of good governance in the country as Union of Islamic Courts led by Sheikh Sharif imposed law and order on Mogadishu, which was seen neither for 16 years. Hundreds of families from overseas countries returned back to Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia since the takeover took place. At first Transitional Federal Government welcomed the political change, which took place in Mogadishu as the Union of Islamic Courts disarmed a pack of US-backed warlords that took the country and its people hostage for more than a decade. But soon after the Islamic Militia started to capture some other cities, the TFG warned the Union of Islamic Courts of capturing farther cities. A big gap of political misunderstanding came in between the Transitional Federal Government and the Union of Islamic Courts, after the president of fragile Transitional Federal Government requested peacekeeping forces from the African Union. As the new Somali constitution inked in Kenya says, "Peacekeeping forces should not come from the neighbouring countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti)". Likewise, the parliament passed a motion, which it was requesting peacekeeping troops to Somalia without paying attention to the classification of peacekeeping forces from AU countries and of front line countries. This has created an escalation of political crisis in Somalia. Ethiopia, which is the common enemy of Somalia has sent its troops to Somalia in an attempt to protect the Transitional Federal Government. This time, Arab League took the political platform of Somalia to mediate the two conflicting parties. TFG and UIC were invited to attend a mediation conference held on June 2006 in Sudan to settle their differences. After a reconciliation conference, presided over by Sudanese president Omar Hassan Albashir, the current chairman of Arab League, the reconciliation process derailed with unknown reasons but it is believed that Ethiopia was the main figure, which made the reconciliation process fail as the outcome of the meeting could not meet the criteria of Ethiopia's plan to Somalia and then, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, a well-known pro-Ethiopian warlord and his loyal prime minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, a vet scientist started to advocate the legality of Ethiopian Army presence in Somalia. The Somalis are of the opinion that the involvement of Ethiopian Army in the peacekeeping operations in Somalia could cause havoc and deterioration of the political condition of the country in any case as Ethiopia is an old aged enemy of Somalia in East Africa. While a vast majority of the Somali public strongly opposed to deployment of Ethiopian troop into Somalia under any pretext, president Yusuf's political stance towards the deployment of Ethiopian troops in Somalia is clear and also in action by denying the presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia just to protect his presidential seat. Since the reconciliation conference in Sudan derailed a number of ministers resigned due to the political misunderstanding between TFG and UIC. Prime minister declared that he would be nominating successors of the resigned 24 ministers. In addition to that, the prime minister himself survived after the Somali parliament passed a motion of no confidence against him recently. Moreover, Prime minister of Ethiopia Milez zanawi whose government earlier denied any presence of Ethiopian troops in Somalia told BBC that his government has sent troops to Somalia to protect the Transitional Federal Government from the Union of Islamic Courts. While on the other hand, Eritrea is also believed to be an active supporter for the Union of Islamic Courts. Somalis believe that the support from both Ethiopia and Eritrea respectively is much related to a proxy war in between them. US government warned Ethiopia and Eritrea stop the proxy war they are playing in the Somali territory. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]"" |
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