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Somali troops advance on rebel position
RTHK English ^ | 23-05-2011

Posted on 05/22/2011 2:26:14 PM PDT by Pan_Yan

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have advanced towards the main market in the capital Mogadishu, a stronghold of the Islamist rebels of al-Shabab. The government says it has taken several key locations in the city after heavy fighting.

It says it now controls around half of Mogadishu.

Correspondents say this marks a considerable change of fortunes -- earlier this year the Somali authorities held little more than a few roads around the presidential palace.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alshabab; mogadishu; somalia
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around an offensive by peacekeepers.
1 posted on 05/22/2011 2:26:17 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

Here's the Wikipedia map dated 10 days ago.


And here's a map showing the location of the Bakara Market that the 'peacekeepers' are advancing on.

2 posted on 05/22/2011 2:28:22 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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I'm still trying to wrap my mind around an offensive by peacekeepers

Did you see what they did in the Ivory Coast??

3 posted on 05/22/2011 2:30:24 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Pan_Yan

Wow, they have gained acres and acres of ground and may soon control a hald percent of the country. lol.


4 posted on 05/22/2011 2:31:13 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Pan_Yan

Doesn’t make sense strategically, of course, but I cannot wait when the Chinese get in there, and their solution for every little cultural problem is carpet-bombing.

I hope they shoot the heads off EVERYONE there.

Ancient Chinese Seclet..!! ^_^


5 posted on 05/22/2011 2:35:02 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Pan_Yan

The US military has actually helped them out a bit. Maybe if they can win it’ll stop the sea jihading Somalis.


6 posted on 05/22/2011 2:36:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Pan_Yan

The Bakara market again,we had some real trouble there back in ‘93.


7 posted on 05/22/2011 2:38:57 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: GeronL
Did you see what they did in the Ivory Coast??

Oh, indeed I did. That was a French/UN operation since the President of Cote D'ivoire was making them look like fools and holding up their financial and social engineering interests.

Somalia is a weird stalemate where the government, entirely paid the U.N., has sat in the 12 blocks they control for a decade behind mercenaries and passed laws and resolutions they can not enforce. Now something has prompted them, perhaps the new President who was a U.S. resident, to go on the offensive, and they have talked the countries that supply the troops to support them. I believe they have also started paying the Somali troops regularly, something that they were not very good at before.

8 posted on 05/22/2011 2:43:24 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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They literally installed the radical muzzies into power


9 posted on 05/22/2011 2:48:12 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Level every muzzie village and don’t stop until you get to Egypt. Then kill every dictator and give it all back to the people.

Then let them kill each other.


10 posted on 05/22/2011 3:00:18 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Who is John Galt?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks Pan_Yan.


11 posted on 05/22/2011 8:59:42 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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