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Wednesday, November 15, 2006


Somali Bananas


A UN report alleges that Somali fighters have helped Hezbollah during the war. This is very unlikely.

I wonder who writes those reports. Forget the ideological differences between Sunni Somalis and Shiaa Hezbollah or the language barrier, what about the level of discipline and Hezbollah's main strength, namely its knowledge of the territory?

The report seems like a political message aimed at naive non-Middle-Easterns.

The report claims that those people:


Have tried to help those people:


Seems highly unlikely don't you think?