Obama orders Assassination in Somalia.

[MKSheppard]

Of a terrorist leader

FOXWIRE:Navy Seals Kill Wanted Terrorist in Somali Raid
Monday, September 14, 2009
Justin Fishel

Navy Seals from US Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in southern Somalia on Monday that killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of 4 co-conspirators wanted in the 2002 bombing of an Israel owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, two senior U.S. military officials told Fox News.

Ten days ago President Obama signed the Execute Order for Nabhan, who since 2006 was on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists. He was also wanted for the attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998.

They called it operation Celestial Balance: at least two AH-6 Little Bird helicopters deployed from one of two U.S. Navy vessels near Somalia's coast strafed a vehicle Nabhan was using to go back and forth between meetings.

Intelligence operatives had been monitoring Sabhan prior to the attack. The helicopters passed once, firing on the vehicle, and then circled back around to retrieve the body so they could make a positive identification, according to an official.

The attack in Mombasa took place on Nov. 28, 2002 - involving a suicide bomber that blew up the lobby of the Israeli owned Paradise hotel. On the same day the attackers unsuccessfully attempted to shoot down an Israeli owned Boeing 757 civilian jetliner run by Arkia. They fired surface to air missiles and missed.

Nabhan's Somali group, Al- Shabaab, has links to Al Qaeda.

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Mmmm.......excellent.

[Big Phil]

How long until Fox News and Rush Limbaugh start bitching about Obama using assassination?

[tim31]

A serious question: how many terrorists would have been marked and signed off by now if Hillary had won the primary and then the presidency? Or is that too speculative for N&P?

[The Spartan]

I've been saying this for at least a couple years now: the idea that Democrats are somehow easy on terror and the Republicans are not is total bullshit. I won't bother posting my list of examples unless someone asks, since it's mostly the times when Republicans were not tough and I've been through it at least twice on this board.

[Wicked Pilot]

There is a difference between being tough on terror and smart on terror. The 'tough' guys are the ones who can run four miles with a hundred pounds of shit on their back. Anyone can sit in the White House and OK a particular military action, not any president can be smart about it though.

[Thanas]

Well, so far Obama's record has been excellent - considering the other succesful anti-pirates action....

[ArmorPierce]

How long until Fox News and Rush Limbaugh start bitching about Obama using assassination?

They already have, recall?
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/rush-lim ... e-shooting

[Yona]

There is a difference between being tough on terror and smart on terror. The 'tough' guys are the ones who can run four miles with a hundred pounds of shit on their back. Anyone can sit in the White House and OK a particular military action, not any president can be smart about it though.

What about the previous set ? They were neither.

I think it makes more sense to be specific in targeting these guys. It sure beats the hell out of having to rebuild whole countries.

[Simon_Jester]

Rush Limbaugh: soft on piracy.

I like it.

[Yona]

Rush says:

If only President Obama had known that the three Somali community organizers were actually young black Muslim teenagers, I’m sure he wouldn’t have given the order to shoot. That’s the correct way to look at it. If only Obama had known."

What a moron ! Does this asshat actually believe the lies he spews ? Or is this another drug induced dream.

I wish he'd hallucinate alone. That way we wouldn't be subjected to his mindless rants.

I wonder if the DEA is planning another visit to his home ?

[Ritterin Sophia]

What a moron ! Does this asshat actually believe the lies he spews ? Or is this another drug induced dream.

A lot American conservatives believe that if they're bigotted racists sectarians, their opposition must be equally bigotted.

[Yona]

What a moron ! Does this asshat actually believe the lies he spews ? Or is this another drug induced dream.

A lot American conservatives believe that if they're bigotted racists sectarians, their opposition must be equally bigotted.

Sadly, that's one of the fallacies of the current version of the Republican party/Conservative movement.

I had another poster (in another forum) try to tell me that racism, prejudice and bigotry were all natural feelings. He justified his insanity on these grounds.

There is nothing "natural" about them. They are behaviors that we learn, usually at an early age, from our parents and/or peers.

All you have to do is watch young children at play to see that there is no distinction made between for race, sex, or any other "difference". Not until someone teaches them that behavior.

[The Spartan]

There is a difference between being tough on terror and smart on terror.

I know. My comment was directed more at the rhetoric that's spouted, though I could have been more clear about that.

[Wicked Pilot]

I know. My comment was directed more at the rhetoric that's spouted, though I could have been more clear about that.

I wasn't objecting to anything you posted, just commenting in general. I certainly agree with you about the rhetorical inconsistency among the right.

[Bluewolf]

This is the sort of stuff that will work really. Snuffing out proper targets and acting in the shadows. Tougher a patrols of the coastline and protection of ships would go a long way too but at least this is a start. Frankly stamping out piracy is someone many nations can agree on (well not really but I'd hope so).

[Setzer]

I don't mind assassinating terrorist leaders. A few hundred spies and a dozen capable assassins could do more to shut down a terrorist network then hundreds of thousands of men occupying several countries. Bush's war on Terror was a sledgehammer being used when a scalpel was needed.

[Edward Yee]

I have to wonder though, when's the last time that "the establishment" (at least USG) really had the institutional knowledge on "the scalpel and how to wield it"? That anyone knows of publically, anyway...

[Lonestar]

I have to wonder though, when's the last time that "the establishment" (at least USG) really had the institutional knowledge on "the scalpel and how to wield it"? That anyone knows of publically, anyway...

Nixon.