Chaos and War Has Been Restored in Somalia …

Thanks to the U.S., Ethiopia and others.

Peace and stability is not acceptable to the U.S. if it has been fostered in by Islam, and what we see in Somalia today are the worst conditions have been for 15 years.

Hundreds of civilians are being killed by relentless indescriminent bombing by Ethiopian forces. Many are left in the streets, unretrievable due to the shelling.

Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy In Focus Wrote the following:

When the Bush administration recently unveiled its new African military command— AFRICOM—Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Theresa Whelan said that the initiative was aimed at “promoting security, to build African capacity to build their own environments and not be subject to the instability that has toppled governments and caused so much pain on the continent.”

And yet hardly was the announcement made when the Bush administration organized the overthrow of the first stable government Somalia has had since 1991, stirring up a hornet’s nest of regional rivalries in the strategic Horn of Africa. U.S. Special Forces accompanied the Ethiopian Army when it stormed across the border in late December to support the besieged and isolated Transitional Federal Government. The United States also provided the Ethiopians with “up-to-date intelligence on the military positions of the Islamist fighters in Somalia,” Pentagon and counterterrorism officials told The New York Times.

The target of the invasion was the Islamic Courts Union, which over the past year had brought a modicum of peace to the warlord-riven country. Since the poorly armed ICU militias were routed, fighting in the capital, Mogadishu, sharply escalated. Nor have matters improved in recent months. “The situation here [Mogadishu] is out of control,” Ali Said Omar, chair of the Center for Peace and Democracy, told The Guardian in late February.

The ostensible reason for U.S. participation in the invasion was the ICU’s supposed association with al-Qaida, a charge that has never been substantiated. U.S. warplanes and ships shelled and rocketed parts of southern Somalia where, according to Oxfam and the United Nations Refugee Center, 70 civilians died and more than 100 were wounded.

Civilian deaths mount in Mogadishu

 Violence has continued in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, for a third day, in what the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called “the worst fighting in more than 15 years”.

Corpses lay in the streets on Saturday, as ongoing fighting and mortar fire made it difficult to retrieve bodies or tally the dead. Read more here.

The Lancet Study which found 655,000 Iraqi Civilian Deaths was ‘Robust’

 

Iraqi deaths survey ‘was robust’

The British government was advised against publicly criticising a report estimating that 655,000 Iraqis had died due to the war, the BBC has learned.

The Ministry of Defence’s chief scientific adviser said the survey’s methods were “close to best practice” and the study design was “robust”.

Another expert agreed the method was “tried and tested”.

President Bush said: “I don’t consider it a credible report.”

But a memo by the MoD’s Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir Roy Anderson, on 13 October, states: “The study design is robust and employs methods that are regarded as close to “best practice” in this area, given the difficulties of data collection and verification in the present circumstances in Iraq.”

One of the documents just released by the Foreign Office is an e-mail in which an official asks about the Lancet report: “Are we really sure the report is likely to be right? That is certainly what the brief implies.”

The reply from another official is: “We do not accept the figures quoted in the Lancet survey as accurate. “

In the same e-mail the official later writes: “However, the survey methodology used here cannot be rubbished, it is a tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones.” Read more here.

Afghanistan Updates

NATO has launched “Operation Achilles” attempting to slowdown the expected Taliban offensive by trying to regain control of Helmand province that has already been lost to the Taliban.

 

 KANADAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - Fierce fighting to clear a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan left seven police dead, the defence ministry said Friday after police earlier announced 40 Taliban deaths.

Afghan police and troops began a sweep of part of the southern province of Helmand on Thursday, when police announced the Taliban toll and said three policemen had died.

The operation had cleared about three villages near the town of Gereshk and was continuing Friday, the ministry said in a statement.

More than 40 Taliban bodies had been recovered and two vehicles and more than 50 insurgent weapons had been seized, it added.

“Unfortunately seven police were martyred and 12 were injured,” it said.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was lending air support and and medical evacuation capabilities, a spokesman said.

Police said Thursday that security forces had launched the operation from Gereshk and the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, to the southwest.

The area has already seen fierce fighting, including ISAF bombings on Taliban compounds.

Helmand, where ISAF has deployed thousands of British troops, is one of the most troubled and dangerous provinces of Afghanistan.

The small town of Musa Qala has been in Taliban control since early February and the Western military acknowledges that other remote areas are also in insurgent hands.

ISAF on March 6 launched a major operation involving 5,500 Afghan and foreign forces in the northern part of Helmand targeting Taliban, hundreds of foreign jihadists in the area and opium traders.

Taliban kills 15 pro-gov’t militias, two drivers in Afghanistan

 

KABUL, March 23 (Xinhua) — Taliban militants ambushed a convoy transporting logistics for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Friday, killing 15 pro-government tribal militias and two truck drivers, a local commander said.

The militants attacked the convoy in Shahwalikok district of the southern Kandahar province, Abdul Manan said, adding the killed tribal militias were guarding the convoy.

Four tribal militias went missing after the conflict and six trucks were set on fire, Manan said.

Taliban insurgents have frequently attacked convoys transferring logistics for foreign troops in this country and killed drivers.

Due to rising Taliban-linked insurgency, over 500 persons have been killed in Afghanistan this year.

U.S. Tank / Bradley Fighting Vehicle Blown up in Iraq

A 5 minute video by The Islamic State of Iraq shows a fighter placing exposives under a Bradley fighting vehicle / Tank with a soldier standing guard nearby. Then after some time had passed (possibly waiting for the crew) the vehicle is destroyed.

150 Fighters Freed in Daring Iraqi Jail Attack

Included in al-Karama(the dignity ) plan/ Breaking into Badoosh jail and releasing all captives

 In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

All Praise and thanks are Allah’s, the Lord of all that exists. And peace be upon our prophet Muhammad, his family and companions in entirety

As for what follows: Responding to Allah’s and the prophet’s order to release the Muslim captives in disbelievers jails and after the order of Emir al-Momeneen (the head of the Islamic state ) sheikh Abu-Omar al-Baghdadi –may Allah protect him- , The intelligence, planning and research office in the Islamic state began gathering data about best ways to enter and exit from the jail ,the watchtowers places and alternating security shifts times
All data delivered to military leaders then a special brigade of -breakers into- had been formed from carefully chosen best soldiers in al-Mosol , Salahuddin and Diala provinces , this brigade was given the name
“Hassan al-Zaidi “ brigade

On Tuesday 6/3/2007 the heroes of “Hassan al-Zaidi “ brigade broke into Badoosh jail and released more than 150 captives between migrants and supporters( native Iraqis) , The brothers withdrew safely by the grace of Allah and we shall provide you with more details and a meeting with the leader of the brigade and some released captives as well Allah willing

O Allah, defeat USL (Ex-USA) and its allies.
O Allah, make them withtheir equipments a booty for the Muslims.
O Allah Destroy them…
O Allah , the sky isyours, the earth is yours, the sea is yours, O Allah , drop all their forces insky, destroy all their forces in earth and sink all their forces insea..
O Allah, retaliate uponthem, afflict them like you did to Pharaoh and his nation, O Allah afflict theircountry with flood, make them in need of money and food and persons..
O Allah defeat them, destroy them O the All-Strong, the All-Mighty

Allah is the greatest.

“Honor, power and glorybelong to Allah, to his messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites know not.”

10 Ways To Tell if Your Empire is Falling

1. You know your Empire is falling when you preach human rights and you became the worst human rights violator on the planet.

2. You know your Empire is falling when you have to invent lies to sell an invasion of a tiny third world country ( which you already destroyed with crippling ten years of sanctions) so that you can control their resources and insert your military in the heart of the region where most of those resources are located to ensure your continued control over those resources, and fail miserably.

3. You know your Empire is falling when the above mentioned invasion is a complete and total failure and you spent $400 billion and lost thousands of troops and thousands more maimed for life. And you try the hated the world over dictator of that country in a kangaroo court, botch his execution turning him into a world hero.

4. You know your empire is falling when your national dept is $8.7 trillion and your spending your grand children’s money like a drunken sailor that’s been out to sea for six months.

5. You know you Empire is falling when your currency is so devalued that no one wants to trade it anymore.

6. You know your Empire is falling when all of the Latin American countries that once wanted to model themselves after you now blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist socialist governments.

7. You know your Empire is falling when nearly 50 million of your citizens can’t afford basic health care, and your health care system has been ranked #37 best in the world by the World Health Organization just above Slovenia and just below Costa Rica.

8. You know you Empire is falling when your military has the best trained troops with the best weapons, and their getting their asses handed to them by barefooted men with crude weapons and their belief in God.

9. You know your Empire is falling when one of your major cities drowns and you do nothing before, during, and after to help its inhabitants that are still displaced and homeless nearly two years later.

10. You know your Empire is falling when a hostile third world country develops and tests nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles that can reach your shores and your powerless to do anything about it.

Source: CW

The Islamic State of Iraq captures 18 Iraqi Interior Ministry Forces

The Islamic State Of Iraq has captured 18 Interior Ministry forces to avenge the rape of the Muslimah Sabrine by Al-Maliki’s security forces.

They issued the following statement:

The Islamic State of Iraq / Capturing eighteen members of the Interior Ministry in Dyala province

In the name of Allah the most Gracious the most Merciful

All Praise and thanks are Allah’s, the Lord of all that exists. And peace be upon our prophet Muhammad, his family and companions in entirety.

Allah enabled the soldiers of the Islamic State of Iraq to capture eighteen members of the Interior Ministry in Dyala province, this blessed operation happened as an answer for the crimes of these apostates against Sunnites including the rape of our sister “Sabreen al-Janabi” recently .

Therefore the Islamic State of Iraq grants to Maleki’s apostate government a delay of 24 hours (maximum) from the date of announcement of this statement, to respond to these requirements, otherwise they will be executed and the rule of Allah will be implemented on them.

1- Extradition of the officers who participated in this crime against our pure sister.
2- Freeing all our Muslim Sunnite sisters from the apostate Interior Ministry’s prisons.

O Allah , defeat the USL (Ex-USA) and its allies..
O Allah , make them with their equipments a booty for the Muslims..
O Allah destroy them ..
O Allah , the sky is yours, the earth is yours, the sea is yours, O Allah , drop all their forces in sky, destroy all their forces in earth and sink all their forces in sea..
O Allah, retaliate upon them, afflict them like you did to Pharaoh and his nation , O Allah afflict their country with flood , make them in need of money and food and persons ..
O Allah defeat them , destroy them O the All-Strong, the All-Mighty .

Their photos: