Al-Shabab Attack ICU, AU forces in Mogadishu
Mareeg Online is reporting that heavy fighting has broken out between al-Shabab forces and the combined forces of the Islamic Courts Union and African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, in retaliation for an assassination attempt on an al-Shabab leader. Stratfor confirms the fighting and says al-Shabab forces are moving several vehicles (probably the heavily armed pickup […]
Mullen: Afghanistan is New Strategic Focus
“Afghanistan has been an ‘economy-of-force’ operation for far too long,” Adm. Mike Mullen said. “The Taliban, aided by al-Qaida and other extremists and safe havens across the border, are recruiting through intimidation, controlling through fear and advancing an unwelcome ideology through thuggery.”
'Are We Winning?' Um, Not Really.
Sheesh. The State Department released a report today (big PDF) today that shows that terror attacks in Pakistan alone quadrupled between 2006 and 2008. Interestingly, the growth in Islamist terror attacks — 10 times more than there were in the 1990s — is in part a product of the success in Iraq. Would-be jihadists are staying at home […]
No Winners in Somalia
Posted by Christopher Allbritton on June 2, 2009 at 1:04 pm +0000 · 1 Comment
Somalia has become the war that nobody can win, at least not right now. None of the factions — the moderate Islamist government, the radical Shabab militants, the Sufi clerics who control some parts of central Somalia, the clan militias who control others, the autonomous government of Somaliland in the northwest and the semiautonomous government of […]
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