Who would have thought that throwing money at ruthless warlords would result in yet another Islamist government? Yes, Somalia is now under the control of an Islamofascist, nice job guys.

The sheik, Hassan Dahir Aweys, was appointed the leader of the Council of the Islamic Courts, the newly formed governing entity of the movement that ousted Mogadishu's secular warlords on June 5. Previously, the public face of the Islamists had been Sharif Ahmed, a more moderate sheik who had spoken of his desire to work with the West.

The emergence of Mr. Aweys may represent another setback for the Bush administration's policy in Somalia. Mr. Aweys, a former military colonel, was vice chairman of Al Itihaad, an Islamic group that Washington labeled a terrorist group in the weeks after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Still, Mr. Aweys, of the powerful Ayr clan, has publicly told followers that God would forgive them for spilling the blood of any foreign peacekeepers who set foot on Somali soil. He has also said Somalis who hand over their countrymen to American operatives in exchange for cash are guilty of "selling us to the Jews."

Really, helluva job guys.

At the same time we hear Karzai is losing control of Afghanistan. Maybe if we had focused on where Al Qaeda actually was rather than pissing off the entire world we would have done better for the Afghanis, who really could use a real government after all this time.