Possible Other Fronts of the War on Terror, Notspots to watch that possibly harbour significant terrorist agendas Options

[Hellfighter]

It's a fact the Sudan government is hiring bands extremist islamists to openly terrorise the Darfur population. Clinton had bombed a 'suspected' terrorist sponsored chemical plant in Sudan a decade ago.
I'm making this thread so that we can observe if similar threats are evolving elsewhere;
First one to post is Somalia and Ethiopia... as this link mentions, Ethiopians and Somali government forces have allied to push out extremist Islamists from the Somali capital. They are assumed to have al quaeda links.
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStorie...showbyline=True

[Stickman]

Clinton had bombed a 'suspected' terrorist sponsored chemical plant in Sudan a decade ago.

Better also tell the rest of the story (from this wikipedia article):


Officials later acknowledged, however, "that the evidence that prompted President Clinton to order the missile strike on the Shifa plant was not as solid as first portrayed. Indeed, officials later said that there was no proof that the plant had been manufacturing or storing nerve gas, as initially suspected by the Americans, or had been linked to Osama bin Laden, who was a resident of Khartoum in the 1980s."[2]. Unfortunately the factory was Sudan's primary source of pharmaceuticals, covering the majority of the Sudanese market. Werner Daum (Germany's ambassador to Sudan 1996–2000) wrote an article [3] in which he estimated that the attack "probably led to tens of thousands of deaths" of Sudanese civilians. The U.S. State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research wrote a report in 1999 questioning the attack on the factory, suggesting that the connection to bin Laden was not accurate; James Risen reported in the New York Times: "Now, the analysts renewed their doubts and told Assistant Secretary of State Phyllis Oakley that the C.I.A.'s evidence on which the attack was based was inadequate. Ms. Oakley asked them to double-check; perhaps there was some intelligence they had not yet seen. The answer came back quickly: There was no additional evidence. Ms. Oakley called a meeting of key aides and a consensus emerged: Contrary to what the Administration was saying, the case tying Al Shifa to Mr. bin Laden or to chemical weapons was weak."[4] The Chairman of El Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries, who is critical of the Sudanese government, more recently told reporters, "I had inventories of every chemical and records of every employee's history. There were no such [nerve gas] chemicals being made here."[5] Sudan has since invited the U.S. to conduct chemical tests at the site for evidence to support its claim that the plant might have been a chemical weapons factory; so far, the U.S. has refused the invitation to investigate. Nevertheless, the U.S. has refused to officially apologize for the attacks, suggesting that some privately still suspect that chemical weapons activity existed there.[6]

[Hellfighter]

Clinton had bombed a 'suspected' terrorist sponsored chemical plant in Sudan a decade ago.

Better also tell the rest of the story (from this wikipedia article):


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You just told it better than I could