SOMALIA'S JIHADISTS VOW REVENGE FOR OSAMA'S DEATH

DAILY STAR:

Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked rebels vowed Saturday to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden and said his death would not hurt their fight to topple the country’s Western-backed government.

Analysts have said bin Laden’s death is unlikely to dampen the insurgency waged by Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militants, who are regrouping amid infighting among the country’s politicians after a recent government offensive.

After news broke of bin Laden’s death in Pakistan some Al-Shabaab combatants in the Somali capital Mogadishu wore white as a sign of grief, residents said.

“We shall redouble our jihad and we shall overpower our enemies. Osama is not the first martyr, may God rest his soul,” Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told reporters Saturday.

THESE SOMALI MUSLIM SCUMBUCKETS SHOULD HAVE BEEN WIPED OFF THE MAP YEARS AGO FOR THEIR ISLAMO-PIRACY.

INSTEAD, WE NOW HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THEM ATTACKING US HERE OR OUR INTERESTS AND ALLIES OVERSEAS.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR A DECADE OF APPEASING JIHADISTS AND HALF-ASSED HALF-MEASURES IN WAR.

FDR AND TRUMAN WOULD'VE NEVER COUNTER-ATTACKED AS WEAKLY AS BUSH DID AFTER 9/11.

CASE IN POINT: BUSH'S WEAK ACTIONS IN 2007:

Before Sunday, the last time an American president thought he had Osama bin Laden in his sights was the late summer of 2007.

Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders, terrorist volunteers and insurgent foot soldiers would be meeting in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan, a stream of intelligence reports showed. And there were hints that Bin Laden himself might travel from his hiding place in Pakistan to rally militants training for large-scale suicide attacks in Europe or the United States.

"We thought we had 'No. 1' on this side of the border," said a senior American military officer involved in planning the operation. "It was the best intelligence we'd had on him in a long time."

The military set into motion one of the largest strike missions of its kind, with long-range bombers, attack helicopters, artillery and commandos all ready to pummel the rugged mountain valley along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, according to military officers and former government officials.

But just as the half dozen B-2 Stealth bombers were halfway on the 3,000-mile flight to their target, commanders ordered them to return to their secret base in the Indian Ocean, because of doubts about the intelligence on Bin Laden and concerns about civilian casualties from the bombs.

REPEAT:

NEITHER FDR OF TRUMAN WOULD'VE PASSED ON USING THE MOST EFFECTIVE MEANS NECESSARY TO KILL THEIR CHIEF ADVERSARY BECAUSE OF "... concerns about civilian casualties from the bombs. "

IT'S WIMPY APPEASING SELF-DEFEATING INSANITY TO FIGHT THE ENEMY WITH HALF-MEASURES. BUSH DID IT, AND SO IS OBAMA.

AND YES: SOMALIS IN THE USA ARE A VERY REAL THREAT.