Posted on 04/28/2007 6:35:14 PM PDT by blam
Looting troops prey on Somalia's refugees
Fugitives are forced to pay to shelter in the shade
Sam Kiley
Sunday April 29, 2007
The Observer (UK)
During a lull in fighting in Mogadishu yesterday, survivors picked their way through the post-apocalyptic landscape of Somalia's capital, quickly burying bodies. The floors and stairs of the filthy hospitals were crammed with injured civilians and slick with blood. Up to 350,000 refugees from fighting were camped in the bush - easy prey for armed thugs and warlords. Almost two weeks of heavy fighting and indiscriminate shelling between Islamic militia and clan fighters battling Ethiopian and Somali government troops has turned Mogadishu into the front line in what Washington and al-Qaeda both call the 'clash of civilisations'.
Somalia's recent agonies are a direct consequence of the American-backed invasion by Ethiopia four months ago to topple Mogadishu's Islamic Courts Union and install the weak and largely secular transitional federal government.
But experts say Washington and its allies have driven many to look back on the recent times of Sharia law as a 'golden age' amid signs that warlords are now looking to exploit refugees in a gigantic protection racket.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.guardian.co.uk ...
Ooooh! The experts are at it again!
The Guardian portray Somalian and Ethiopian troops as EVIL while the peachy Islamists are the poor man's heroes. Did I mention how much I hate the "Guardian"?
Quagmire. Let’s pull out.
It’s opposite day every day at the Guardian and BBC.
Western civilization bad - third world warlords good. Christianity evil - Islamofacism and Sharia law goo.
goo = good and goo for that matter. Freudian typo.
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