SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS HOLY WAR

[Juje]

SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR

 

Robin Barnwell and Aidan Hartley provide an eye-opening account of the most successful Islamic revolution to happen in the world since 9/11, and the setting up of a new Taliban-style state which threatens to export war to the entire horn of Africa

Westerners are completely absent from Mogadishu, with the situation even more precarious for journalists following the murder of cameraman Martin Adler, shot by an unidentified hit man at an anti-American public rally in June. Barnwell and Hartley are forced to work under constant threat of assassination from various factions.

 

Beginning their journey in Mogadishu, it’s immediately clear that militants, known as the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) have seized the capital and are extending their power through both the gun barrel and religious persuasion. While Western powers failed to bring law and order to even a few blocks of Mogadishu and rescue Somalia from years of anarchy and 500,000 deaths, Unreported World shows how UIC has been winning the hearts and minds of ordinary Somalis by quickly brought about a real improvement to their lives.

 

Within weeks of taking control of Mogadishu earlier this year the UIC ended the anarchy in both the capital and hinterland. Backed by the Somali business tycoons who are their main financiers, they have reopened the seaports, airports and roads which were closed for more than a decade by vicious rival clan gangs. Unreported World reveals how the economy appears to be reviving, schools are full, hospitals seem quieter, mosques are being repaired, piracy on the high seas is being stamped out and streets are being cleaned of battle damage.

 

However the programme also reveals that Wahhabi hardliners who dominate the Jihadist movement are starting to establish a Taliban style state that is anathema to the moderate, mostly Sufi traditions of Somalia’s Sunnis. A centralised Sharia court system is sending murderers to the firing squad, and the militants are attempting to force women to wear the veil, banning public entertainment such as TV, cinema and music; and trying to outlaw the widespread use of the stimulant leaf qat and cigarettes, and even long hair.

 

The international community refuses to engage with the UIC because among its leaders are men linked to al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden has described the Islamic militia as an ally in his global jihad. Western intelligence fears they may also be radicalising young Somalis in preparation for terror attacks.

 

For his part, the UIC’s supreme leader Shaykh Hasan Dahir Aweys says that 9/11 was a legitimate military tactic of war. The Jihadists tell Hartley that their aim is to seize the rest of Somalia and expand jihad across Africa’s Horn.

 

In response, the Ethiopian government has deployed forces on a battle footing to the inland village of Baidoa. This pocket of territory, a few kilometres wide, is what Somalia’s legal, pro-Western and secularist ‘President’ Abdullahi Yusuf has made his last stand together with his warlord allies. Peace talks between the warring sides have collapsed and the United Nations blames 10 separate nations for pouring weapons and troops into Somalia. This fresh Horn of Africa conflict has already started, and it pits Jihadists against Western-backed Christians in a clash which threatens the whole stability of the region

[ElPunto]

^Adeer where and when is the program on? You can't leave us hanging like that.

[Tahliil]

Ninkii dhoof ku yimid beey geeridu dhibaysaa

Wakhtigii dhamayoo.....

 

This is not news..never been news..from the days of the Spanish and the Porteguse to the present day, Somalis and Somalia have been tested and tried: control, convert, and capture but that still remains the impossible...It could never happen...I say there must be something in the Camel's milk that is resistant to control and humiliation...The Program is already on, the revolution is being televized...BEHOLD

[Captain Xalane]

in the 90's when the qabiil thing was alot serious than it is now,wasn't it magool who used to sing the same tune that tahliil is singing now?Same shyt innit?

[RedSea]

^you are needed in Baydhabo soldier...lol

[Oromia]

Originally posted by Juje:

[QB]

SOMALIA: HEARTS, MINDS & HOLY WAR

 

Robin Barnwell and Aidan Hartley provide an eye-opening account of the most successful Islamic revolution to happen in the world since 9/11, and the setting up of a new Taliban-style state

which threatens to export war to the entire horn of Africa

Why do they always exonerate/free Ethiopia from exporting wars to her neighbours? Their dogs of war are in Somalia territory, they have repeatedly crossed into Kenya in 'pursuit of Oromo fighters, and they are terrorizing thier own population in Somali Galbeed and Oromia. Their logic is easy to understand: whatever Muslims do is blameworthy even when they fight occupiers.