Reuters: Somali militant siege ends, at least 29 civilians dead
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali government troops shot dead three Islamist militants holed up in a building in central Mogadishu on Friday, police said, ending a day-long bomb and gun attack that killed at least 29 civilians.
Islamist al Shabaab fighters launched the assault with a suicide car bomb outside the Maka Al-Mukarama hotel on Thursday evening, destroying other structures, igniting a huge fire and leaving people wounded in the rubble.
The militants - who are fighting to overthrow the Western-backed government - fled to a neighboring building and opened fire on special forces and other soldiers sent to flush through out throughout Friday.
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More News On Today's Terror Attack In Central Mogadishu
The Latest: Siege in Somali capital ends, attackers killed -- AP
Somali forces end day-long Mogadishu siege -- BBC
Deadly siege in Somalia's capital ends, attackers killed -- ABC News/AP
Siege ends after deadly Al Shabaab attack in central Mogadishu -- France 24
Gun Battle in Somali Capital Ends in Death of Shabab Attackers -- The New York Times
Somalia: Many killed in al-Shabab attack in Mogadishu -- Al Jazeera
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Brought to you by Lutheran Social Service, Catholic Social Services, other VOLAGs (that sound s so nice and helpful) and the Democrat Party.
Two nations, one stone. Who knew Democrats could be so thrifty?
I'm not a fan of Democrats, but that comment was a bit stupid? Or do you care to explain?
What is there to explain?
1) VOLAGs are organizations.
2) Sociologists tell us organizations like organisms do not like to die.
That is they will not declare victory; they will not sunset their organization. When you can make good white collar salaries where you biggest safety concern is a paper cut, which is a thing of the past in the computer age, why you dissolve your organization? To work retail, fast food or in a factory? To meet production quotas and sales goals? Being an NGO, charity, or VOLAG is a cush gig.
VOLAGs will import people into the nation and not consult citizens. Sure they talk to the State Department and that is run by the President. Most people are too busy with just making a living or whatever cause de jour someone is trying to stir up to know about VOLAGS and stuff.
I the past they might have laid low and let the spotlight shift elsewhere, but now if you shine the light on them now, they just get indignant and call you the problem.
3) The Minnesota Somali community has a significantly way higher rate of people going on jihad than other groups.
4) Would Al Shabab be as well financed or have enough recruits to keep going or keep growing if not for the American connection?
Would the Al Shabab be on the downslope heading toward extinction except for the American contribution?
The VOLAGs are making things worse. They have not leaned.
Other charities have learned. Famine relief agencies have learned that their famine relief had in the past destroyed local farmers. So famine relief efforts made food insecurity grow over time. Doctors use to fly overseas for charity work fixing cleft palates, eyesight and other life altering surgeries. They took their just deserved bows and moved on. All good. Nowadays, they train local doctors and they do not make so many trips. They get less kudos are more humble and it is all good. They deserve all the applause they get.
But VOLAGs have not learned. They do business the same way. Importing their 'cargo'. you cannot make big time CEO wages as a nonprofit with low stress unless you keep moving your product.
So yeah I hate VOLAGs. They are evil Bastards.
If you make Somali more inhabitable by going after warlords that use UN food as a weapon, the ass fuckers of the Left come after you.
If you use a drone to go after a warlord who uses stolen UN food as weapon, the Left comes after you.
When George Clooney asked for intervention int Darfur, I thought "fuck that shit, now way!"
First CBS, CNN or some rat fink network will show staving children with distended bellies and flies crawling around their eyes. then they will ask for money for famine relief. Famine relief will get there and be stolen by the people who cause the famine. So you send soldiers to go after the warlords. There are casualties and the execrable LEFT comes after you. Then they decide to ship 1/2 of them to your country to replicate the problem.
Rinse Repeat
I like George Clooney movies, almost all of them. Then he started whining about Dharfur for along, long time and after Somalia I thought "NO WAY!"
Now I loathe George Clooney movies. On the bright side there is less to buy to want to buy.
So we get the Somalia politicians and we get anti-Semitism by national level politicians and parrot still dutifully pull the lever for Democrats. More $$$ than sense. Way, way more. Most classic case of white privilege I have ever seen.
All about the Benjamins
"CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The estate of a 5-year-old Cleveland boy whose body was found in late 2017 buried behind his mother’s house has filed a lawsuit against the social services arm of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland that employed the worker who was supposed to keep tabs on the family."
https://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/2019/01/estate-of-cleveland-boy-found-buried-in-back-yard-sues-catholic-charities.html
Thanks for clarifying
George Clooney was so stupid and tone deaf after Somalia to call on intervention in Dharfur.
There was no mandate for it. It would look like Somalia but worse. America would get a black eye for trying to help. I know the leader of Sudan and the the rest of the leadership are evil rat bastards. But trying to fix Dharfur, a noble cause, would lead to strife in the US by shock troops of the Left such as ANSWER coalition and the rest of the Leftists dogs. They do not give a fuck about the people in Sudan. but they would use any casualties of US soldiers, Dharfurians or slavers as reason the hater the US and attempt a take over.
We have Mother Russia to thank for those misfits. To be clear they would exist with or without Russia existing at all. they are a natural sociological phenomena. Still Russian support bent the curve on what was and what might be., They provided ammunition to these misfits since the 1930s if not before.
Beside going into Darfur would have gotten the 57 OIC states (or the 57 states as Obama likes to say) after us. the 57 OIC countries need to be confronted about their supremacist beliefs, but one does it from a position of power if possible.
If we went into Dharfur Nancy Pelosi and other poobahs would talk to their staff, who would talk to middle men, who would call out their war dogs, ANSWER. They would do this at the 1st sign of trouble. They would be on record as supporting freedom for the Dharfurians, but would demand that the reins of power be handed over to them at the 1st hiccup, delay, or speed bump.
Going to Dharfur would be good tax free money. It would suck for the politician fabric of the nation.
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