The Youth are Older:The Iraqization of the Somali Mujahidin Youth Movement

By Reuven Paz Introduction – Al-Tawhid wal-Jihad

In 30 September 2008, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), one of the principal media functions of global Jihad, posted on Jihadi Internet forums a new Jihadi magazine titled "Millat Ibrahim" (The Religion of Abraham), published by the Somali Mujahidin Youth Movement (Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahidin).1 The new magazine is the first of its kind by this Jihadi movement. As all the MYM publications—statements, interviews, video and audio tapes—this magazine was posted by GIMF. In recent years, the latter became the sole publisher of publications by the various groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda out of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Arabia, primarily the MYM, AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb), and the Islamic Army in Gaza.
The new magazine, in 51 pages, was also published by a new title of a "research center" – The Zarqawi Center for Studies and Research in the Horn of Africa (Markaz Al-Zarqawi lil-Dirasat wal-Buhuth fi al-Qarn al-Ifriki), a supposedly research center of MYM. Its entire content is in accordance with the doctrines of the traditional Al-Tawhid wal-Jihad. This trend, which emerged from Wahhabiyyah and has been primarily shaped through the Jihadi-Salafi writings of the Jordanian-Palestinian Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, became an integral part of Al-Qaeda under his best known follower, Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi. The title—Millat Ibrahim—is also one of Al-Maqdisi’s most
1 See the magazine in: http://www.e-prism.org/images/Millat_Ibrahim_1_-_Oct08.pdf
Somali insurgents vow to keep fighting
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/world/BO100032/
Insurgents vow to fight until Islamic law governs
Somalia
An insurgent group that appears set to seize control of Somalia said on Wednesday it will not stop fighting until Islamic law governs the country.The vow to continue fighting came from the leader of al-Shabab on Wednesday as thousands of troops from neighbouring Ethiopia prepared to leave the country after two years propping up the government, and days after the Somali president resigned.
"We will not stop fighting even if the Ethiopian troops withdraw because our aim is to implement Islamic law across Somalia," said Sheik Muktar Robow, whose group is considered the most aggressive of the Islamic insurgency groups fighting in Somalia.
Al-Shabab, which the U.S. accuses of having links to al-Qaeda, already controls most of the country after making major territorial gains over recent months.
Nine civilians were killed and 15 others injured in the capital Mogadishu Tuesday after al-Shabab fired mortar shells at government and Ethiopian bases. more..http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/12/31/somalia-ethiopia.html