Somalia - Osama's New Nest Of Vipers

So Osama bin Laden has taken over Somalia.

Addressing Somalia, which was largely taken over in June by an Islamic militant group, he urged Somalis to support the militants and said they were building an Islamic state in the Horn of Africa.

"You have no other means for salvation unless you commit to Islam, put your hands in the hands of the Islamic Courts to build an Islamic state in Somalia," he said.

The hard-line Muslim leaders of the Supreme Islamic Courts Council, who have seized control of much of southern Somalia, claimed authority throughout the country Thursday in another slap at the interim government, which sits powerless at its base in Baidoa, 90 miles from the chaotic capital of Mogadishu.

Bin Laden lashed out at the president of Somalia's secular interim government, Abdullahi Yusuf, calling him a "traitor" and a "renegade."

His comments on Somalia included a stern warning to leaders of any country, including Islamic ones, against getting involved in the conflict.

"We pledge that we will fight your soldiers on the land of Somalia and we will fight you on your own land if you dispatch troops to Somalia."

President Bush expressed concern last month that Somalia could become a haven for al-Qaida members like Afghanistan was in the late 1990s. The U.S. has accused the Islamic militias of harboring al-Qaida leaders responsible for the deadly 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Why are we so timid in fighting this murderous bastard and his cohorts? I say we just vaporize Mogadishu. Osama doesn't think we have the guts to fight back hard - a sheet of glass where his new Somali boys' club used to be would send the right message; and probably make him piss in his robes. What good is being the world's only superpower if you can't stop speaking softly from time to time and whack someone with a big ol' stick? I say we have some atomic fireworks on the 4th of July.