America’s attack on Somalia

America’s attacks in Somalia only provide al-Qaeda with more volunteers, says Matt Ford. First Post

Mere hours before he is expected to go before the US Congress and ask for 20,000 more troops for Iraq, President Bush has just opened a brand new front in his 'War on Terror'.

Yesterday, he sent a USAF AC-130 aircraft to pummel an isolated Somali village, supposedly containing an al-Qaeda cell US forces had been tracking for some time.

Al-Qaeda could not have stage-managed a better recruitment advert for the jihad they're determined to start in the Horn of Africa.