Dozens of foreign passports have been recovered from the bodies of islamist fighters who were not brisk enough while never running from their enemies. Several of the recovered passports are American, according to ABC News.
A senior official in the Somali government's new Ministry of the Interior told ABC News government forces had recovered "dozens of foreign passports," including several American passports, on the bodies of al Qaeda fighters killed in combat between forces affiliated with the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and Ethiopian forces in Somalia.
According to the same source, most of the foreign passports were Sudanese, Pakistani and Yemeni, but several American, British and Australian passports were also recovered.
The senior Somali government official told ABC News that the American passports found on the dead bodies near Baidoa, in Somalia, would be turned over to the American government.
Al Qaeda's plans to turn Somalia into another base of operations appear to have been destroyed. And not a few extremists from around the world killed in the process.
UPDATE: Here is the full text of the sniveling whine brave exhortation from al Qaeda's enormous number two begging for someone – anyone – to come save the islamist agenda in Somalia. Given that it is not at all certain that the brave islamists would not have run like rabbits briskly walked away from a troop of girl scouts, it is not at all certain that Zawahri's plea is not falling on deaf ears.
after all, they're all too far away to hear his speech.
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