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Mikael · 11-28-2008, 03:10 PM

A man sleeps inside the ruins of a Mogadishu building. The depopulated Somali capital is awash in threats,
intimidation and political assassinations.

By Paul Salopek | Tribune correspondent
4:39 PM CST, November 24, 2008

BERBERA, Somalia - To glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali Isse.

Isse, 36, is a convicted murderer and jihadist. He is known among his fellow prisoners, with grudging awe, as "The Man with the American Thing in His Leg."

That "thing" is a stainless steel surgical pin screwed into his bullet-shattered femur, courtesy, he says, of the U.S. Navy. How it got there — or more to the point, how Isse ended up in this crumbling, stone-walled hellhole at the uttermost end of the Earth—is a story that the U.S. government probably would prefer to remain untold.

That's because Isse and his fancy surgery scars offer what little tangible evidence exists of a bare-knuckled war that has been waged silently, over the past five years, with the sole aim of preventing anarchic Somalia from becoming the world's next Afghanistan.

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The Artist · 11-28-2008, 11:11 PM

Tragic..
A result of lack of knowlegde..
And i dont only mean on the somalian side..but very much also on the american..

11-28-2008, 03:10 PM	#1
Mikael Fanatic Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,836 Thanks: 828 Thanked 415 Times in 233 Posts	"Nobody is watching" - America's hidden war in Somalia A man sleeps inside the ruins of a Mogadishu building. The depopulated Somali capital is awash in threats, intimidation and political assassinations. By Paul Salopek \| Tribune correspondent 4:39 PM CST, November 24, 2008 BERBERA, Somalia - To glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali Isse. Isse, 36, is a convicted murderer and jihadist. He is known among his fellow prisoners, with grudging awe, as "The Man with the American Thing in His Leg." That "thing" is a stainless steel surgical pin screwed into his bullet-shattered femur, courtesy, he says, of the U.S. Navy. How it got there — or more to the point, how Isse ended up in this crumbling, stone-walled hellhole at the uttermost end of the Earth—is a story that the U.S. government probably would prefer to remain untold. That's because Isse and his fancy surgery scars offer what little tangible evidence exists of a bare-knuckled war that has been waged silently, over the past five years, with the sole aim of preventing anarchic Somalia from becoming the world's next Afghanistan. Continue reading...

11-28-2008, 11:11 PM	#2
The Artist Shaolin Shadow Boxer Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sweden Gothenburg Posts: 9,171 Thanks: 41 Thanked 334 Times in 242 Posts	Re: "Nobody is watching" - America's hidden war in Somalia Tragic.. A result of lack of knowlegde.. And i dont only mean on the somalian side..but very much also on the american..

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