Posted on 12/28/2006 7:42:48 PM PST by jdm
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi announced that between 2,000 and 3,000 Islamic Militia fighters were killed in battles in Somalia over the past few days.
Zenawi added that between 4,000 to 5,000 people were wounded during the clashes. (AFP)
And... let's not be pu**ies about this. This is incredibly good news.
2,000 islamic terrorists -- yes TERRORISTS -- are now DEAD. Ethiopia done did good.
Maybe we need em in Iraq?
2,000 dead terrorists is a good day, and often even a good week.
Prayers going out for the families...
Just kidding...;^)
Thanks Ethiopia. You, at least, recognize evil when you see it.
Who would have thunk http://www.usaforafrica.org/home.htm could have enabled this!
I always thought the term "Ethiopian army" was some kinda joke. Maybe not?
Probably intercepted phone calls. :)
With out a warrant? Shameful!:)
In countries like that, the army is probably the one thing that works somewhat.
Starving Africans are smarter than rich, fat Liberals! Sometimes it takes a bit of suffering to clear the senses.
Go Ethiopia!
Some of those militia guys were dressed like sidemen for Bootsie Collins and P-Funk. I wonder if terrorists have a B league.
Have any Ethiopian soldiers been charged by the Ethiopian military with murder yet?
["And... let's not be pu**ies about this. This is incredibly good news. "]
Rest assured - the US did not give a "Green Light" on this (if you know what I mean).
This is more like it....
Now - to kill between 2,000 and 20,000 per day, should start showing some effect in a decade or two...
Semper Fi
"What is best in life?" To crush the jihadists, to drive their minions before you and to hear the lamentations of their mullahs1 allahu fubar!
It's a start.
We get all excited when our guys get 2-3 of the baddies.
Fox News (I think that's where I saw it) says we have been training the Ethopians.
Apparently they are quick learners.
2000 out of 6-7000 - about 30% rate. Extremely good ratio. Best be attributed to the utter lack of battlefileld medicine.
GRRREAT NEWS! Thanks for posting.
Obviously I have hit on the key to the whole problem.
Let's send the Ethiopians to Sadr City.
I call this a good start...
And how did they accomplish this? Not with embedded journalists, nor carping political hacks back home nor ridiculously restrictive rules of engagement.
Nancy Peosi is deeply saddened;)
P-Funk. Yeah! The only good Clinton is George Clinton.
Careful there, Ethiopia is about 45-50% Muslim, only about a 35-40% Christian, and the rest are "animist". The long time Royal Family was IIRC Christian. A few decades ago there was a "lost tribe of Israel", who where flown out on C-130s to Israel. If you see a Black Israeli soldier, and if you see many photos of IDF troops, you will, that's where he or his ancestors came from.
"Fox News (I think that's where I saw it) says we have been training the Ethopians."
Perhaps the Ethiopians should be training our soldiers...and state dept.
Only Egypt, Libya, and South Africa have organized armies larger than Ethiopia's (although quality is another matter) and the Ethiopian Air Force is second only to Egypt's in the whole of Africa (Libya has higher numbers, but the combat readiness of many of their aircraft is highly questionable).
usa for Africa did what?
"Apparently they are quick learners."
I wonder if anyone in the Democratic Party is figuring out how to defeat Islamofascism yet??
You got that right! Especially when the U.S. comes out and tells Ethiopia to act with restraint. Really, how dedicated is the U.S. to eliminating the problem Islamists? Sounds to me like "restraint" is what our military has been having to deal with from Washington. Sad.
The American Tax-Payer.
The Ethiopian Military were Our Proxies... if you will.
(The US "outsourced". We are much to bureaucratic to strike this decisively...)
They delivered it with MiG aircraft. But we may have indeed paid for the bombs and bullets. Glad to see that our contingent in Djibouti is making such a contribution. They also launched the Predator drones that got the planner of the Cole attack. Djibouti is AKA the Armpit of the World. Or so says a Marine who was my wife's student before being activated and sent there for about a year.
2,000 islamic terrorists = yes TERRORISTS = yes Genocidists
I was a bit taken aback when I read the other day about the Ethiopian fighter jets that went into the fray.
More good news from the horn of Africa. GO ETHIOPIA!
Kill them all and let Allah sort it out.
No, but Ethiopian liberals are protesting, "NO BLOOD FOR SAND!"
Eritrea is now not part of Ethiopia and is ROP. Neither black Israeli soldiers or Ethiopian Christians are ROP. In any case, I was specific in using the word "jihadists". CAIR will file a complaint anyway..
"And... let's not be pu**ies about this. This is incredibly good news."
Apt phraseology. Yes, very good news.
Along with the Poles, some of the Brits and most of the Aussies, we can now add the Ethiopians as true stalwarts in the WOT.
[singing] Aloe-ha-oh-way, aloe-ha-oh-way...
Somali Troops, Allies Prep for Showdown
ABC News | 30 December 2006 | By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN
Posted on 12/30/2006 8:46:10 AM EST by bd476
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