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“War is imminent. There is no other alternative.” Somali Jihad Update: "Islamists mass troops on Ethiopian border," from Business Day, with thanks to D.:
MOGADISHU — Somalia’s powerful Union of Islamic Courts began massing thousands of troops on the border with Ethiopia over the weekend, days after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he was ready to confront the Islamic militants in Somalia.“War is imminent. There is no other alternative,” Islamist military officer Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal said by satellite phone from the border. “Ethiopia declared war, so we will defend ourselves and protect our country and people.”
The Islamists have declared a jihad on Ethiopian troops in the country to back the weak transitional government based in the northern town of Baidoa.
Ethiopia last week said it was ready for a confrontation with the Muslim militants, who control most of the country.
Residents of the border area have begun fleeing.
Meles told a news conference on Saturday he had explained Ethiopia’s position to western powers. “Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counterproductive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward,” he said.
“We, too, agree that dialogue is the best way, nevertheless as the direct victims of the aggression, we feel we might be forced at some stage to respond with force.
“It is our country that is being attacked. Naturally, we do not seek any green, red or yellow from anyone to protect ourselves.
“If, and when, we are convinced that all options of resolving the invasion through peaceful means are exhausted, only then we may act to respond in kind,” Meles said. The Islamists had trained, armed and smuggled hundreds of Ethiopian rebels into the country, he said.
Posted by Robert at November 28, 2006 3:52 AM
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while the West is days usual talk talk when action is required perhaps a couple of at C5 Hercules blow with fuel air bombs dropped over the dropped over the concentration of troops would stop the troops from the Islamic court attacking her one thing it would give them what they want a quick trip to paradise and all those virgins.
Posted by: islamakapigeaters
at November 28, 2006 4:01 AM
Ethiopia has a large Christian population. The islam ic monster machine cant allow that. It basically boils down to that...
Posted by: THE ALLIES SHALL WIN
at November 28, 2006 4:02 AM
“Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counterproductive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward,”
Of course, if one is attacked, any military response might be counterproductive. That is in this world where peace is war and war is peace.
Dialogue is always the best way forward. We have seen this in Israel (which has finally achieved a ceasefire with some of the Arabs in Gaza) and we will see how it is best in dealing with Iran and Syria as it has proven to be so successful in dealing with North Korea.
Neville Chamberlain found it to be true also. He held a piece of paper from whom he termed "Herr Hitler" which could serve only one purpose (the same as do the pages of the koran).
Yes, "peace in our time" is again the order of the day. We can all sleep soundly knowing that the peacemakers are at work in Washington (in Brussels we can expect nothing less, of course).
The best way to deal with Islamic aggression is to start jawboning with the aggressors. Talk some sense into them, don't you know? They're all just moms and pops just like us, aren't they? Yep. Sure are.
at November 28, 2006 4:15 AM
islamakapigeaters,
Although I like the idea of how to make peace that you propose, it is at odds with current thinking of those in power (on our side--or are they?)
Posted by: unicorns62000
at November 28, 2006 4:18 AM
What with their world's highest rate of clitorodectomy, it is only natural that the Somalis are agitated.
These guys need to get laid, pure and simple. Up here in MSP, for example, I'm told by Mpls Police Dept officials that Somali cabbies are always getting busted for open containers in their vehicles, loitering around whorish parks and city street corners, and soliciting prostitution.
Given that his wives have been lopped, Mpls Somali Man is forced to turn to such boozy midnight interludes with American tramps.
Never gets reported Mpls Star & Sickle newspaper, either.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer
at November 28, 2006 7:31 AM
One hopes that not all of the American military equipment and training is being squandered in Iraq but that some is intelligently being used to help, inter alios, the Ethiopians so that they may both protect themselves and help damage those furthering Jihad all over the Horn of Africa.
Posted by: Hugh
at November 28, 2006 7:57 AM
Nobody will talk right now. EU will not do anything serious; US government will not do anything substantial' UN will keep quiet untill a lot damage has been done, then the Arab moslems and of course moslems everywhere will be praying for the islamic court very seriously and be pumping in money to support them with the hope that their political ideology be achieved. Some Islamic nations will be sending money secretly and others will be sending fighters for the battle. As far as moslems are concerned, it's not about somali, but about fighting 'infidels' for the establishment of islam. If possible, destabilize even Ethiopia.
Every cares not! Nobody is in a hurry!
at November 28, 2006 8:03 AM
Hugh,
i hope that the US put it in their agenda at all. The whole of Africa is in danger right now but no one cares.
The aviation industry in Nigeria have been denying the fact that some of the air crashes in recent times in Nigeria must have been terrorism-related, until they caught a young man about last week trying to check-in explosives into another plane. He'll not board the plane but will pay and check some goods.
All over the place, the threat is there.
I hope that substantial help is given to Ethiopia.
at November 28, 2006 8:13 AM
AQ's second front has been established in order to spread the West's reousrces, spread islam and make another area to draw in jihadists.
Will this be another area that if engaged will be seen as the Wests's fault for making more jihadists?
I wonder...
Moose
Posted by: Moose
at November 28, 2006 8:26 AM
Screw dialogue.
Are we arming the Ethiopians ?
The sooner the better. It's payback time for Mogodishu.
Posted by: dgene
at November 28, 2006 8:45 AM
"I hope that substantial help is given to Ethiopia."
-- from an African poster above
Yes.
As it should have been given to the Christians in the southern Sudan, who could still be helped by an American expeditionary force willing to enter, to seize both the southern Sudan and Darfur (with consequences for teetering Chad as well), and hold both areas against a Sudanese government now suddenly terrified and ready to deal, but with no deal offered, only the sober announcmeent that both areas will be held until a referendum can be held, and the local non-Arab population, predominately Christian in the southern Sudan, and Muslim in Darfur, can vote on whether they wish for independence from their Arab masters and murderers. And the unfeigned gratitude of those people, so different from the "Iraqi" Arabs we thought we were also rescuing and thought would greet us, and then treat us, as liberators, will be hard to deny, even by the U.N. and the E.U. It won't stop the howls of protest from the Arab League, but most of the Infidel world will only be helped to come to its senses by such howls, and those smiling faces will boost the morale of endangered Christians all over sub-Saharan Africa.
The oil of the Sudan, that artificial state cobbled together by the British as, originally, the "Anglo-Egyptian Sudan," is to be found in the Christian south, with some possibly being developed in the African-populated region of Darfur. The northern Arabs have no oil with which to survive; it could be a resource for a new, black African nation, constiting of those Christians, those animists, and those nominal Muslims in Darfur who might not remain Muslims for long.
And the next time the Christians of southern Nigeria attempt to fend off the Jihad of the Muslim North, as Col. Ojukwu said (in the Ahiara Declaration of 1969) Western powers ought not to cynically turn their backs while Egyuptian and other Arab pilots help massacre black African Christians, but to extend military and diplomatic aid. And there too, all the oil is located in the Christian-populated south.
My, my. Things to think about. Things to plan for in the Pentagon, if one actually recognizes what is going on is a war between a determined camp, the Camp of Islam, and a Camp of Confused Infidels, who need to stop being so confused for so damn long.
Posted by: Hugh
at November 28, 2006 8:51 AM
It seems nobody gives a damn about Ethiopia. No doubt the West will wring its hands in agony once the slaughter begins. It could have possibly prevented it by sending the Ethiopians what they needed to defend themselves but now it's probably too late. History is now set to repeat itself.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS
at November 28, 2006 9:04 AM
Lets face the facts here. During WW2 the gateway to Europe was seen as North Africa by many. It is obvious the Islamists are firing some of thier first global salvos here. The west does not care about Darfur, Chad, Somalia, now Ethiopia ... because they are all black. Arab fighters from all over the Middle East are flowing into Eastern Africa to join the Jihad, and are picking off one communinty after another. Commiting genocide, and mass rape, ethnic cleansing, while western Democracies sit here and watch the murder unfold pontificating solutions the Jihad is slowly moving further south, and further west. This is a primer my friends for what will go down in Europe next. Sad to say it but we are killing ourselves with ignorance. I've tried to educate people, mostly liberals, but they seem more against Bush than facing the real issues. I show them these websites, and articles and have been doing it for years. I am met with apathy, denial and self loathing. I personally don't know what it is going to take to get the west to wake up and preserve itself for what happens in Africa will soon be visting our shores. If not for the sake of humanity then for the sake of self preservation.
Posted by: ethoman
at November 28, 2006 9:07 AM
“Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counterproductive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward,”
In other words, both the US and the EU have already sacrificed Ethiopia to Jihadis, and for what? To appease the murdering SOBs in the hope of not upsetting those Jihadis in their own back yards? This lack of moral backbone makes me sick to my stomach.
Posted by: Tziona
at November 28, 2006 9:35 AM
“Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counterproductive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward,”
Any dialogue between the deaf Muslims and the dumb West will lead to a victory for the deaf. Always has, always will.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS
at November 28, 2006 10:21 AM
Yesterday, the islamonazis issued an order for all non-muslims to turn in their guns, and will now undoubtedly execute anyone who dreams of self-defense against the mahometans.
Also yesterday, the mahometan "rebels" in Chad raided the state archives and destroyed the records. I guess you can't prove genocide if the local folks were never born, right?
Scary stuff. Can't anyone who calls himself a leader in the 'free world' finally sprout a pair of balls?
Posted by: Infidel33
at November 28, 2006 11:01 AM
Suggestion to U.S. gov't: dispatch one of these to Ethiopia, and the problem will be solved in a day or two. One is all it will take.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1719384732819516843&q=%22ac-130%22+gunship&hl=en
at November 28, 2006 11:26 AM
Wouldn't the Somalis massing troops on the Ethiopian borde,r not to mention the bellicose speech, be reason enough for the Ethiopians to take some action? Perhaps it is time for the Ethiopians to pull out the Ark of the Covenant in the cathedral in Aksum.
The US State Department needs a thorough house cleaning if this is the type of assistance they are giving countries that should be our natural allies against jihadist nations.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical
at November 28, 2006 12:44 PM
While reading "The Truth About Mr. Perfect" I saw that in the early days of Islam trying to establish itself some of the peaceful ones fled to Ethiopia. Eventually, they did go back to Arabia. Does this now mean Ethiopia was once part of the ummah because some of these losers once defiled that place with their presence like Spain?
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS
at November 28, 2006 12:47 PM
Meles told a news conference on Saturday he had explained Ethiopia’s position to western powers. “Both Brussels and Washington appear to believe that any military response on our part might be counterproductive, saying that dialogue is the best way forward,” he said.
Oh, it's so convenient for Bush to invade far-away iraq and they have the NERVE to tell ETHIOPIA - who is surrounded like ISRAEL but a sea of hostile seething hissing moslem snakes - that they have no right to defend themselves and they should be good little dialogue-dhimmis??!!!
I think we should ARM Ethiopia to the teeth! And if the moslems in OUR LANDS make a move.. deport them!
Posted by: germaninamerica
at November 28, 2006 12:54 PM
The best way to deal with Islamic aggression is to start jawboning with the aggressors. Talk some sense into them, don't you know? They're all just moms and pops just like us, aren't they? Yep. Sure are.
Posted by: unicorns62000
Just a nice bunch of good-old country moslems!
I wonder what Bob Marley would say about all of this?
I think the Ethioians should invove Haile Selassie and Bob
Marley and throw that in the faces of the phoney African-
American politicians and "hip-hip nationalists" who
constantly flirt with islam while gyrating all over the stage
and the video screen. I don't begrudge them their fun, but
if they hate "whitey" more than they love themselves - keep
going as you are.
And let your Ethiopians be murdered by these scum!! just
NEVER say that NOONE told you what is going on
I think the Ethiopians need to start hanging out with Jesse
Jackson and force him to take a public stand. Oh, I forgot
he's to busy milking Kramer for whaever it is worth!
And waht about Obama? I urge Ethipians to call on Barack Obama - do it very publicly. Get the press into it. Let's see
if he has the right stuff.
WE ALL MUST TAKE SIDES AND WE MUST FORCE OUR
"LEADERS" TO TAKE SIDES AS WELL!!!!!
That's what this is coming down to.
at November 28, 2006 1:17 PM
Screw Ethiopia but let's keep helping those poor palestinians. That's the impression I get from our out of control, insanely stupid State Department. It's going to take a lot of years to get some halfway intelligent people in there who can clearly distinguish allies from enemies and act accordingly because right now neither party has such people on hand.
Posted by: ISLAMSFORLOSERS
at November 28, 2006 1:18 PM
Ethiopia has a large Christian population. The islam ic monster machine cant allow that. It basically boils down to that...
Posted by: THE ALLIES SHALL WIN
Here you have people who actually WOULD welcome US FORCES with flowers - as in Southern Sudan!!
WHY are we WASTING our resources on these moslem ingrates in Iraq???
Bush only knows!! What an IDIOT!!! VOLLIDIOT!!!
Posted by: germaninamerica
at November 28, 2006 1:21 PM
When he says 'Washington thinks military response would be counterproductive' what he is saying is 'he spoke to the US State Department and that they said they should proceed to the nearest exit and surrender peacefully while the islamics rape and kill your women, children and take your country'.
Why in the hell can the US have the monopoly in the world on military response against islamics. All the while complaining that there are not enough countries standing with us and willing to fight islamics. The double standard is repulsive.
The State Department almost has George W. convinced that he needs to sit at the table and negotiate with Iran and Syria.
The world knows, God even the stupid media knows that Africa is the next battle ground. Here you have people that want to fight and they are told not to???? Our military should side step the State Department and start filling military orders for arms. Islamics from Europe, Asia, and the Americas are already heading to Somalia to invade Etheopia.
What the F*** are Americans going to do about it?
Are we going to allow another ally to go on the front line and then we withdraw and fallback militarily and politically and let them die. All the while using another country as a negotiating chip to make us look good to the militant islamics that we are meeting with and tell 'look at the good little boys we are we told another country not to hurt you, you can now have that country too'.
If, I mean WHEN countries decide that they will need to fight islam, they need a country that will be a big brother and help them. Not a limp wristed pussy.
Posted by: alaskan1000
at November 28, 2006 1:22 PM
alaskan1000-
You're right on target. Unfortunately, I'm beginning to think that the US will do very little to combat the Islamaniac onslaught in the world. We will probably have to fight them in pitched battles right in our own cities, street by street, in the future thanks to our gutless politicians who can't even bring themselves to name the enemy, much less do something about them.
at November 28, 2006 1:32 PM
For those of you that would like to pass along this information or inquire about the creation of a Anti-Islamicfascicm movement:
http://www.tothepointnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2539&Itemid=67
This sounds like a great idea and is being duplicated from the Anti-Communism movement. This new movement would be able to help out in cases like this when the State Department would not.
All the while this movement would try and educate the public, OUR POLITICIANS, and our media with information.
at November 28, 2006 1:36 PM
I wonder if Vladimir "the Putrid" Putin is arming Somali jihadists too.
Posted by: pythagoras
at November 28, 2006 3:01 PM
It's unfortunate that Ethiopia has the recent past that it has----very little sympathy for it in the west (the government not the people). What is the current government of Ethiopia like now? There is a large Muslim population in Ethiopia itself. The Christians are largely concentrated in the Amharic & Tigrinya speaking highlands. What about the Oromo folk--Muslims?
Posted by: Brooklyn Dave
at November 28, 2006 3:49 PM
The dhimmis in the oil companies, the administration and state department, should pull our troops out of Iraq and send them to defend Ethiopia, and then occupy the oil lands of Sudan and Nigeria.. that would solve a lot of problems.
Kaffirs CANNOT invade and occupy a muslim country, and any moron that thinks so should pay attention to the lesson (still unlearned) in Iraq..
Every poster of Jihad and Dhimmi watch should know that, in their gut.
But we can beat the shiite and sunni out of them when based in or working from a kaffir nation, like Ethiopia.
And the only way to really solve the problem is by ethnic cleansing or genocide...and me thinks that the Simon Weisenthal center and most Israelis and Jews aren't up to such drastic measures.
Southern Sudan and Nigeria can be secured by forceful, but humanitarian, eviction of all Muslims.
Sans "ethnic" cleansing there is no solution, for the muslim/arab will never, never, ever rest not so long as their is a kaffir neighbor..no different than Genghis Khan or even the Roman Empire..so long as their was a member who was not incorporated into the Empire, there was a threat.
Religion and "ethics" aside, there is no problem with neutralizing a threat with pre emptive action, but only if you can be 100% assured of success. Bush didn't have that when he invaded Iraq, only disinfo, misinfo and ideological morons who cooked the intelligence to fit their preconceived notions.
This is the same problem we face with Iran..any hostile act against Iran will result in suicide attacks against America, Israel and the West, attacks that can't be stopped, not even with a KGB/Gestopo like police state. Muslims love death..and we love life.. the will or desire to die in the sake of a cause, is more potent than any technology or firepower any nation may have.
And the ONLY recourse, the only really effective countermeasure, the only real route to victory is to give the Muslims the Khaybar/Banu Qurayza treatment, and then forbid the practice of their religion after annhilating all Imams and Islamic scholars.
I don't think the world, much less the west is up to such drastic measures, especially since Islamic countries are such an important market for our export goods and a source of our addiction (black crack). Look how Saudi Arabia has bailed out Boeing, McDonnell Douglass, Raytheon, FMC etc with their purchases of military hardware and civilian airliners..Pampers makes a fortune selling diapers to KSA and the mid east. Even hard core "Christian" companies depend on trade with Islamic countries.
And by the way, this Darfur situation. The land is called Dar Fur (or land of the Fur), the inhabitants of Darfur are muslim,,black (really black Muslims), and the Sudanese (who are an Arab Negroid Mixture themselves) do not consider the blacks (even though they be muslim) to be human..only fit to be slaves.
Quite a paradox, considering that Arab itself and the Arabs are a consequence of interracial breeding between Abyssinians and Nubians (Sudan) and caucasoid inhabitants of the peninsula.
Arabs won't permit DNA tests or the publishing of any tests, just as Egypt will not permit DNA testing of mummies, especially the Pharoahs, afraid of what they will find out...my suspicion is that if the tests were performed, they would discover that Arabs are indeed part negroid, and that the caucasoid contribution migrated to the Peninsula some 3 or 4 thousand years ago, probably originally Hittite.
Posted by: Nariz
at November 28, 2006 4:07 PM
These misguided fools will continue to slaughter innocent men, women, and children all in the name of a murderous pedophile until the world finally stands up to them. I'm ready! Enough of the Political Correctness...the writing is on the wall. Stand and be counted in defense of innocent lives.
Posted by: ScottFuson
at November 28, 2006 5:14 PM
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