Thursday, February 01, 2007

Ever Hear About Captured Marines?

Neither did I. But according to this Kavkaz Center report, eleven were taken prisoner during heavy fighting in southern Somalia three weeks ago.
It goes on to say the US ambassador and Somalia's islamic leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed have been in intense dicussion about the terms of release.

"According to Al-Khaleej, Sheik Sharif stipulated the release of the soldiers with several conditions. He said:

"Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia should be withdrawn immediately, America should halt the military action in south the country, I should be transferred from Kenya to another safe country (probably Yemen) and the United States should tell the world that 11 of its marine soldiers were seized in Somalia."


Since the US military now treats american citizens as possible enemy combatants and truth to be a relative concept as with that emerging massacre story outside of Najaf in Iraq, it wouldn't surprise me they'd want to stay mum about captured soldiers. After all, everywhere our infallible Deciderer sends american military is a wonderful success story, our intentions are pure, there's no need to talk about casualties and by jeebus we always win.

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