So our military succeeded this time, where it did not in 1998, but because Bush is President it is a bad thing. Gimme a freaking break….

The U.S. officials discounted reports that [Fazul] Mohammed had been killed.

I’m tellin’ ya…this is a trend. Fazul, like UBL, is now just the way we like our terror kingpins: Whereabouts and status unknown.

From the London Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2540484,00.html

Comment: Claims of al-Qaeda death mask danger of civil war
Jonathan Clayton, Africa correspondent of The Times

Claims that a senior al-Qaeda suspect believed to have been the mastermind behind terror attacks against US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has been killed in the current wave of air strikes against Islamist strongholds in southern Somalia have been greeted with scepticism in the region.

News agencies reported Somali government officials saying that Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, who is accused of the joint 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam which killed 262 people, was dead. The Somali President’s Chief of Staff said he had received the information from the Americans.

However, reports from the area said Fazul Abdullah had left the hardline Islamist hideout of Ras Kamboni and slipped over the porous border to Kenya, where his wife and many members of his family live, several weeks ago. Regional analysts said they believed reports of his death were misinformation intended to give the impression the operation was a success and mask the danger of the country slipping into an all-out civil war.

Local sources said the Ethiopian forces, who had cornered fugitive Somali Islamists in the area since they were driven out of the capital two weeks ago, had suffered high casualties and called on the US for air support. That support now needed to be justified.

“I suspect we are seeing some classic misinformation going on here… The truth is the American and Ethiopian intelligence from the area has always been suspect,” said one expert on Somalia based in Kenya. “Unless, we are shown the bodies of these alleged al-Qaeda operatives, no-one will believe it.”

Regional analysts say Somalia’s Islamists were largely made up of members of the Hawiye clan while the US-backed weak transitional government is dominated by the Darod and its sub-clans, historic foes of the Hawiye and former backers of the deposed dictator Mohamed Siad Barre whose fall from power ushered in 15 years of rule by warlords.

They said the situation in Mogadishu, which saw its first period of calm for more than a decade after it was taken by the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) last June, would be the true test of whether the military operation against the Islamists and hardline al-Qaeda sympathisers was a success or not.

“There are several thousand UIC supporters in Mogadishu, what they do is more important for long-term stability in Somalia than whether these al-Qaeda operatives are killed or not,” the source added.

Someone from the island nation of the Comoros, which is in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa near Madagascar.

Thanks shooter and ReubenJCogburn … It’s amazing Bush Jr’s 2003 invasion of Iraq was so insidious that it drove residents of Islands near Madagascar to bomb our African embassies in 1998? Those neocons have scary superpowers. If they would only stop creating terrorists for a while until we sort this out.

If Somalian culture calls for Fazul Abdullah Muhammad’s body to be dragged through the street so people can pelt it with their sandals, then who are we to question?

BohicaTwentyTwo on January 10, 2007 at 11:22 AM

Who says we don’t embrace multiculturalism? It’s just another way of life.

Solid enough for a celebratory 9:15 a.m. beer, though? I think so.

6:56AM here and a mimosa does nicely! Along with an western omlet, home fries, and black tea. Or a MacDonnalds Egg Mac sandwich.

The Ethiopians had this menace on their border. If they didn’t act, then they would have had something like what our border is with Mexico.

Maybe we can learn a lesson, but with the noise levels like Kennedy fouling up the air and the MSM not reporting this, it will probably fade….

Thank God for the Ethiopians who had the malkins to defend their homeland in spite of having little organization, materiel, or “international support”. Thank God we did the right thing and pitched in with some DFA.

I believe we have a template for success, if only others will follow it.

I really can’t believe Italy (you know, conquerors of Ethiopia) actually used the word ‘unilateral’ in it’s response to this – After all, it’s so 2003..

Official: Bomb Suspect in Somalia Killed…

See previous: U. S. attacks al Qaeda in Somalia — AgainOfficial: Bomb Suspect in Somalia KilledSomali Official: Top al-Qaida Suspect Killed in U.S. Airstrike MOGADISHU, Somalia Jan 10, 2007 (AP)— The suspected al-Qaida militant who planned the 1998 …

Patience is a virtue.

As Islam is a scourge.

So this guy was a mastermind and has been ‘involved’ since 19 (In 1993)years old? We need to eliminate all of these career islamofascist terrorists.
Keep up the good work boys and girls.
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Can someone please tell me who / what a Comorian is?

carlitos on January 10, 2007 at 10:38 AM

Someone from the island nation of the Comoros, which is in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa near Madagascar.

Good News: The reason he wasn’t dragged through the streets was because were no recognizable body parts large enough.