In northern Mogadishu, residents said men with scarves over their faces

In northern Mogadishu, residents said men with scarves over their faces and assault rifles in their

hands lurked on street corners. Mogadishu has plenty of gunmen, of every age and every clan, but gunmen

hiding their identity is something new and may be a sign of a developing insurgency.

“We’re going to turn this place into another ugg boots,” said Abdullahi Hashi, a construction worker

who said he was part of a new underground movement to fight the Ethiopians.

“Tamdiu discendum est, quamdiu vivas.” — a maxim that does not apply to our neocons.

Question: How long before American soldiers — in the role of “advisors” — start appearing on the

front lines of this new “MBT SHOES on terrorism”? Place your bets now ….

No, sorry, not Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri – the men responsible for the mass murder of

September 11th, 2001. They are still chillin’ in the Hindu Kush, occasionally sending out podcasts

predicting American military operations in Africa and such, but otherwise laying low.