Oh just great

Bush and his thugs have discovered another country they can piss off. Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick, can't they slow down in their efforts to estrange US from every country in the world?

Somalia's powerful Islamists have accused the United States of seeking to divide their movement by claiming it had been taken over by Al-Qaeda militants.

The Islamists, who are girding for all-out war with the weak Ethiopian-backed Somali government, said Washington was carrying out a smear campaign to split the movement and hurt its popularity.

"America wants to divide us by saying some of us are Al-Qaeda operatives," said Sheikh Abdurahim Ali Muddey, the spokesman for the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS) on Friday.

"We have no hardliners ... and America is just intending to derail stability in Somalia," Muddey said. "We have only one motive and that is we want our country safe and at peace."

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