News and Stuff (Sept 22th 2008)
September 22, 2008
- Exiled: War Nerd – Islamablog: Day 3.
- AlJazeera: Taliban denies role in hotel attack.
- AlJazeera: Blast kills Pakistani soldiers.
- Telegraph: French troops ‘ran out of ammunition’ in Afghanistan – Did France lost 10 soldiers in Afghanistan a month ago because the troops were ill equipped?
- AlJazeera: France to bolster Afghan mission.
Another War Nerd Article About the Blast in Islamabad
September 21, 2008
This is a start of a small series of articles covering the blast.
"Here’s the deal: I’m going to blog this Islamabad blast every day for a while, try to talk honestly about how to sift through the crap to try to figure out what’s really going on."
War Nerd: The Islamabad Marriott: Rooms Available
September 20, 2008
Somalia: Twice the Fun during Ramadan.
September 3, 2008
During Ramadan the fighters of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) want to double their attacks on Ethiopian forces and government installations.
The ICU was pushed back in 2006 by Ethiopian forces intervening in the Somali civil war which lasts about 20 years now. Since then the ICU is slowly gaining back territory. A few days ago they claimed to have captured the third largest city of Somalia Kismayo.
After bigger military defeats in 2006 the Islamic Courts Union is gaining back its power and momentum. AlJazeera reports that the rebels have captured Kismayo Somalia’s third largest city.
The fun never stops at the Horn of Africa.
Fighting on the Philippines
August 11, 2008
Fighting between government troops and the Muslim guerilla movement MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) started on the Philippines after the Muslim guerilla refused to leave land of Catholics. The group of Muslim guerilla is headed by a former MILF commander but he is not following orders from the MILF leadership anymore. The MILF is one of several Muslim guerillas on the Philippines. It fights for an independent Moro nation on the Philippines since the 1980s after it split from the MNLF which was formed in the 1960s.
