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Democracy Now Headlines March 8, 2010.

The real newsflash? Around 2 minutes Amy Goodman mentions the New York Times report that the US will aid the Somali government with a major offensive against al Qaeda linked terror group al Shabaab (which means, The Youth). A US official told the paper that “What you’re likely to see is airstrikes and Special Ops moving in, hitting and getting out.”

Al Shabaab responded through its spokesperson Spokesman Ali Mahmoud Rajhi said: by saying they are ready for the US:

“This decision will not affect al-Shabab movement. Actually, it makes us more certain that we are on the right path; the path that was chosen for us by God.

“We also become more certain that we have to keep going despite the animosity of the disbelieving nations. The Americans want to scare us. But, we are not afraid.”

“If they come to Somalia, they need to know that those who fought them in 1993 and dragged their bodies in the streets of Mogadishu are still present and ready to drag their dead bodies again,” Rajhi said. (Al Jazeera)