jihadwatch.org - 4/24/2009
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Reconciler
In 2007 I wrote this in the Journal of International Security Affairs: "Aweys, who became the [Islamic Courts Union] group's leader around the same time it began to gain significant power in Somalia, struck an explicitly anti-American posture and spoke of the Islamic Courts' ...
mudvillegazette.com - 4/22/2009
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mudvillegazette.com —
Hot on the heels of "the guy who
talks to SEALs in Virginia" comes the "report I...
got from a guy who got it from the parent of someone who was there." That qualifies the email floating around from a crew member of the Boxer as an urban legend. But there are reasons to believe the source is ...
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There I was...
directorblue.blogspot.com - 4/23/2009
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directorblue.blogspot.com —
Papa B forwards this one.Your "Real" story is
not exactly the way I heard it, and probably...
has a few political twists thrown in to stir the pot. Rather than me trying to correct it, I'll just tell you what I found out from my contacts at NSWC Norfolk and at SOCOM Tampa.First though, let me ...
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Behind the Scenes at the Rescue Off Somalia
latimes.com - 4/23/2009
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latimes.com —
Buoyed by the remarkable marksmanship of U.S. Navy
SEALs against Somali pirates, a debate has emerged about...
the wisdom of bombing the pirates' support infrastructure onshore in Somalia. Given the painful memory of 18 U.S. soldiers killed in 1993 in ...
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Bombing Somalia is a dud - Los Angeles Times
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It's Official: Obama Administration Now Supporting Terrorists
The Jawa Report —
... [image] You know how Leftists are always making the (false) claim that the US sponsored Osama bin Laden during the 1980s -- the inference being that somehow we are morally culpible for "making" bin Laden and therefore that 9/11 somehow is our own fault? Well, unlike that false urban legend about US sponsoring Islamist terrorists, it's my sad duty to report that today the US is sponsoring Islamist terrorists. Directly. I've mentioned Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys in the past, but today he officially returned to Somalia to join the US and UN sponsored reconciliation government, but ...
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