Sheikh Aweys Won't Go Away (At least by Himself)

Family Security Matters ^ | July 6th, 2006 | J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.

[jrossol]

While America’s attention has been elsewhere, the troubled country of Somalia has just fallen to a terrorist group that seems to be modeling itself on the terrible example of the Taliban.....

Then there is the “inconvenient truth” of the arms being stockpiled by the Somali Islamists. According to the Monitoring Group set up under United Nations Security Council Resolution 1407 embargoing arm shipments to the former Somalia, on March 5 of this year, the Islamists were shipped, via Eritrea, 200 boxes of Zu-23 anti-aircraft ammunition, 200 boxes of B-10 anti-tank ammunition, 200 boxes of DShK anti-aircraft ammunition, 200 boxes of Browning M2 50-caliber heavy machine gun ammunition, ammunition for the ZP-39 anti-aircraft gun, 50 rocket propelled grenade launchers, 50 light anti-armor weapons, 50 M-79 grenade launchers,

[jrossol]

--I wonder what the possibilities are that Al Qaeda might even form its own state in Somalia. It would be good in some respects... someone to hold responsible... but it is unsettling nontheless

[Democratshavenobrains]

Can someone tell me why we should spend one dollar on warlords who, even if they won back Somalia, would keep it as a hellhole?

[PsyOp]

Somalia - Bill Clinton's true legacy.

The shinning example of the Democrat "Cut & Run" doctrine.