Two articles on Christoislamism in Africa:
http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/buitenland/a...n/ja/index.html has the original.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Somalia: pray five times or be beheaded</b>
Thursday 7 December 2006
In Bulo Burto, a city in the south of Somalia, all inhabitants have to lead the life of a good muslim. That means, pray five times a day on pain of death.
'As muslims we must practise our religion completely and not in part, that is what our religion spurs on on to do,' sheikh Hussein Barre Rage, the leader in the Somalian city of the fundamentalist Undion of Islamic courts, has said to the pressbureau Associated Press on Wednesday.
During prayer time, it must be quiet on street: shops and theerooms must close. <b>Inhabitants of the town who do not kneel before Allah five times a day are beheaded.</b>
(Hear that? It's Teesta Seetalwaddle jumping around to live in her islamic pardees of Somalian city Bulo Burto.)
<b>Militias</b>
Fundamentalist militias, united in the Union of Islamic Courts, are on the verge of bringing down the internationally recognised interim government of Somalia. Last summer the islamists got the capital Mogadishu in hands.
Everywhere where the militias have their say, strict islamic laws are brought in, such as in Bulo Burto. The courts establish public executions and corporal punishments and in some places, women are no longer allowed to swim in the sea.
The situation in Somalia threatens to become a regional issue because neighbouring country Ethiopia is supporting the government, while Eritrea is supporting the militias. <b>The Security Council of the UN has in the meantime adopted a resolution that allows a African peaceful power?/peacekeeper? to act.</b> Neighbouring countries Ethiopia, Kenya and Dyibouti may not take part of the peacepower [peacekeeping? peacecorps?], <b>that might possibly come under leadership of Uganda</b>. The peacekeeping/corps/power must prevent that the islamists will completely bring down the Somalian government.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What the? Christian theocracy Uganda - in near-constant civil war thanks to its various holy-moly christian militias threatening and murdering the populace - is some sort of benign, impartial force of peace for the fast-islamising Somalia?
Did I go to sleep, and wake up in the twilight zone? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Uganda is very nearly a Christian theocracy, where militant Christian terrorist armies like the <i>Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)</i> and <i>Uganda Democratic Christian Army (UDCA)</i> go around killing people.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The LRA is fighting for a Christian theocracy.
-- <i>Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict Research (Germany), report</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> ( http://freetruth.50webs.org/Overview4.htm )
While the UN didn't want Ethiopia to get involved (see above), the US thought it rather expedient:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/24107.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>US used Ethiopia base to look for al-Qaeda in Africa</b>
New York Times
Posted online: Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 0000 hrs Print Email
WASHINGTON, February 23: The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top al-Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighbouring Somalia, according to US officials.
The largely clandestine relationship with Ethiopia also included significant sharing of intelligence on the Islamic militantsâ positions and information from American spy satellites with the Ethiopian military. Members of a secret American Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, were deployed in Ethiopia and Kenya, and ventured into Somalia.
The counterterrorism effort was described by US officials as a qualified success that disrupted terrorist networks in Somalia. This led to the death or capture of several Islamic militants and involved a collaborative relationship with Ethiopia.
But the tally of the dead and captured does not as yet include some al-Qaeda leaders â including Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam â whom the US has hunted for their suspected roles in the attacks on American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
It has been known for several weeks that American Special Operations troops have operated inside Somalia and that the US carried out two airstrikes on al-Qaeda suspects. But the American cooperation with the recent Ethiopian invasion into Somalia and use of an airstrip have not been reported.
When Ethiopian troops first began a largescale military offensive in Somalia late last year, US officials denied that the Bush administration had given its tacit approval to the Ethiopian government. Over the past weeks, officials from several American agencies have described a close alliance between Washington and the Ethiopian government.
The Pentagon declined to discuss details of the US operation, but some officials agreed to provide specifics because they saw it as a relative success story. John D Negroponte, the director of national intelligence at the time, then authorised spy satellites to be diverted to provide information for Ethiopian troops.
The deepening American alliance with Ethiopia is the latest twist in the USâ on-and-off intervention in Somalia, beginning with an effort in 1992 to distribute food to starving Somalis and evolving into deadly confrontation in 1993 between American troops and fighters loyal to a Somali warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid. The latest chapter began last June when the Council of Islamic Courts, an armed fundamentalist movement, defeated a coalition of warlords backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and took power in Mogadishu, the capital. The Islamists were believed to be sheltering al-Qaeda militants involved in the embassy bombings, as well as in a 2002 hotel bombing in Kenya.
While Washington resisted officially endorsing an Ethiopian invasion, American officials from several government agencies said that the Bush administration decided last year that an incursion was the best option to dislodge the Islamists from power.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What a mess everyone has made of Africa. Wish the christoislamaniacs would leave Africa and its still-African-minded people (that is, the non-converts) in peace.
<b>More news on Somalia fighting the islamists at</b>
http://www.einnews.com/somalia/newsfeed-...-al-quaida
http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/buitenland/a...n/ja/index.html has the original.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Somalia: pray five times or be beheaded</b>
Thursday 7 December 2006
In Bulo Burto, a city in the south of Somalia, all inhabitants have to lead the life of a good muslim. That means, pray five times a day on pain of death.
'As muslims we must practise our religion completely and not in part, that is what our religion spurs on on to do,' sheikh Hussein Barre Rage, the leader in the Somalian city of the fundamentalist Undion of Islamic courts, has said to the pressbureau Associated Press on Wednesday.
During prayer time, it must be quiet on street: shops and theerooms must close. <b>Inhabitants of the town who do not kneel before Allah five times a day are beheaded.</b>
(Hear that? It's Teesta Seetalwaddle jumping around to live in her islamic pardees of Somalian city Bulo Burto.)
<b>Militias</b>
Fundamentalist militias, united in the Union of Islamic Courts, are on the verge of bringing down the internationally recognised interim government of Somalia. Last summer the islamists got the capital Mogadishu in hands.
Everywhere where the militias have their say, strict islamic laws are brought in, such as in Bulo Burto. The courts establish public executions and corporal punishments and in some places, women are no longer allowed to swim in the sea.
The situation in Somalia threatens to become a regional issue because neighbouring country Ethiopia is supporting the government, while Eritrea is supporting the militias. <b>The Security Council of the UN has in the meantime adopted a resolution that allows a African peaceful power?/peacekeeper? to act.</b> Neighbouring countries Ethiopia, Kenya and Dyibouti may not take part of the peacepower [peacekeeping? peacecorps?], <b>that might possibly come under leadership of Uganda</b>. The peacekeeping/corps/power must prevent that the islamists will completely bring down the Somalian government.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What the? Christian theocracy Uganda - in near-constant civil war thanks to its various holy-moly christian militias threatening and murdering the populace - is some sort of benign, impartial force of peace for the fast-islamising Somalia?
Did I go to sleep, and wake up in the twilight zone? <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Uganda is very nearly a Christian theocracy, where militant Christian terrorist armies like the <i>Lord's Resistance Army (LRA)</i> and <i>Uganda Democratic Christian Army (UDCA)</i> go around killing people.
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The LRA is fighting for a Christian theocracy.
-- <i>Heidelberg Institute on International Conflict Research (Germany), report</i><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> ( http://freetruth.50webs.org/Overview4.htm )
While the UN didn't want Ethiopia to get involved (see above), the US thought it rather expedient:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/24107.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>US used Ethiopia base to look for al-Qaeda in Africa</b>
New York Times
Posted online: Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 0000 hrs Print Email
WASHINGTON, February 23: The American military quietly waged a campaign from Ethiopia last month to capture or kill top al-Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, including the use of an airstrip to mount airstrikes against Islamic militants in neighbouring Somalia, according to US officials.
The largely clandestine relationship with Ethiopia also included significant sharing of intelligence on the Islamic militantsâ positions and information from American spy satellites with the Ethiopian military. Members of a secret American Special Operations unit, Task Force 88, were deployed in Ethiopia and Kenya, and ventured into Somalia.
The counterterrorism effort was described by US officials as a qualified success that disrupted terrorist networks in Somalia. This led to the death or capture of several Islamic militants and involved a collaborative relationship with Ethiopia.
But the tally of the dead and captured does not as yet include some al-Qaeda leaders â including Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam â whom the US has hunted for their suspected roles in the attacks on American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
It has been known for several weeks that American Special Operations troops have operated inside Somalia and that the US carried out two airstrikes on al-Qaeda suspects. But the American cooperation with the recent Ethiopian invasion into Somalia and use of an airstrip have not been reported.
When Ethiopian troops first began a largescale military offensive in Somalia late last year, US officials denied that the Bush administration had given its tacit approval to the Ethiopian government. Over the past weeks, officials from several American agencies have described a close alliance between Washington and the Ethiopian government.
The Pentagon declined to discuss details of the US operation, but some officials agreed to provide specifics because they saw it as a relative success story. John D Negroponte, the director of national intelligence at the time, then authorised spy satellites to be diverted to provide information for Ethiopian troops.
The deepening American alliance with Ethiopia is the latest twist in the USâ on-and-off intervention in Somalia, beginning with an effort in 1992 to distribute food to starving Somalis and evolving into deadly confrontation in 1993 between American troops and fighters loyal to a Somali warlord, Mohammed Farah Aidid. The latest chapter began last June when the Council of Islamic Courts, an armed fundamentalist movement, defeated a coalition of warlords backed by the Central Intelligence Agency and took power in Mogadishu, the capital. The Islamists were believed to be sheltering al-Qaeda militants involved in the embassy bombings, as well as in a 2002 hotel bombing in Kenya.
While Washington resisted officially endorsing an Ethiopian invasion, American officials from several government agencies said that the Bush administration decided last year that an incursion was the best option to dislodge the Islamists from power.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->What a mess everyone has made of Africa. Wish the christoislamaniacs would leave Africa and its still-African-minded people (that is, the non-converts) in peace.
<b>More news on Somalia fighting the islamists at</b>
http://www.einnews.com/somalia/newsfeed-...-al-quaida