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"The action we started carrying out yesterday will continue." I'm sure it will. "Insurgents target AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu," by Sahal Abdulle for Reuters, with thanks to Morgaan Sinclair:
MOGADISHU, March 7 (Reuters) - Gunmen fired rockets near Mogadishu's airport on Wednesday, witnesses said, apparently heeding an Islamist call to fight African Union peacekeepers arriving to help the interim government restore order.Rival Islamist leaders, defeated in a brief offensive by government troops and their Ethiopian allies late last year, have vowed to wage guerrilla war against any foreign forces.
Hospital sources said one civilian was killed and at least four others wounded when insurgents launched rockets and grenades at a white AU armoured car and two trucks carrying Ethiopian soldiers, loyal to the government.
A senior AU official said no peacekeepers were hurt.
"When the attack happened, they had already passed and were not involved," he told Reuters.
A witness said the AU troops returned fire after two rocket-propelled grenades were launched at them, hitting a nearby restaurant.
The explosions lit up the dusk sky and tracer bullets fired by the Ethiopians flashed overhead. Government troops based nearby also opened fire, witnesses said....
The attacks took place in a busy part of the city where dozens of minibuses were loading passengers....
Insurgents fired mortar bombs at Mogadishu's airport on Tuesday shortly after several hundred Ugandan troops landed as the vanguard of the proposed 8,000-strong AU force.
"The action we started carrying out yesterday will continue," an Islamist source told Reuters.
Posted by Robert at March 7, 2007 1:48 PM
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The Ugandans were welcomed yesterday with mortar rounds at the airport and a street battle between jihadists and Ethiopian/Somalian forces.
Thank God George Bush is providing air power and letting this mob fight it out.
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at March 7, 2007 2:21 PM
Hopefully, the African Union peacekeepers will retaliate more brutally than ones typical UN force. Also hopefully, few, if any, of those peacekeepers are Mohammedans.
Posted by: Infidel Pride at March 7, 2007 3:57 PM
The Muslims must have attended the same school of rocketry as the Gaza Palestinians....no particular skill needed...just point in the general direction of the target...If you a civilian that is good, if you hit a parked vehicle , that is good. if you manage to hit the broad side of the building , that really good, and if you actually hit what you are aiming for well....Praise Allah...Alllaaaaah Akkkbarrrr...
Posted by: exsgtbrown at March 7, 2007 4:25 PM
'Fire at will'...Ok, which one of those guys is Will?
We know the jihadists wont quit. It is not enough to step on them, they must be ground down to nothing and then kept that way. They must be aggressivly sought out and either captured or...We know their history...'by their works you shall know them'. We have seen the Islamic works, we know who, and what, they are. They have exposed themselves to us, so that we may see through a thousand years plus of deception, we can see their lethal materialism, and we can see where they get their ideas. Because we 'do' know them, we know they wont quit untill forced to. There are not many muslims, there is only one, and its name is Islam. There are not many jihadists, there is only one, and its name is Islam also.
Behind it all is Allah and the puppet master Mohammad. This then is the unholy trinity...Allah, Mohammad and Islam. A perversion of the Christian trinity and that of the Qabalistic supernals.
This then is the enemy. Active jihadists need to be dealt with activly. Allah needs to be 'groung out', or 'rubbed out', Mohammad needs to be discredited, and the halls of Islam (mosques) closed. Otherwise, as the terrorist said: "The action we started yesterday will continue".
at March 7, 2007 5:26 PM
Bukhari
Volume 9, Book 89, Number 256:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle said, "You should listen to and obey, your ruler even if he was an Ethiopian (black) slave whose head looks like a raisin."
Bukhari
Volume 1, Book 11, Number 664:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said to Abu-Dhar, "Listen and obey (your chief) even if he is an Ethiopian with a head like a raisin."Posted by: A_Plague_on_Both_Houses
at March 7, 2007 5:30 PM
"The explosions lit up the dusk sky and tracer bullets fired by the Ethiopians flashed overhead"
....Someone should inform these Ethiopian dolts, if your tracer bullets are flying high in the sky and overhead, you are aiming too high...lower your line of fire ...fool...then you might just hit something....
at March 8, 2007 10:06 AM
My sympathies to any African Union peacekeepers (Ugandans in this case) who may be killed or wounded trying to save the shithole that is Somalia.
Posted by: johnb at March 8, 2007 10:22 AM
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