Al Qaeda Terrorist urges attacks on US soil to avenge Gaza war

AFP - A prominent al Qaeda figure, Abu Yahya al-Libi, on Thursday urged Islamist militants to launch attacks in the West, naming the United States and Britain, to avenge Israel's onslaught on Gaza. "Sacrifice what you can to deliver to the capitals of the infidel West, the criminal America, and the agent tyrants a taste of what they deliver to our brothers and our oppressed brothers and people in Palestine," Libi said in a videotape posted on the Internet, according a translation by SITE monitoring group. "Deliver to them the bitter taste of war, tragedies of displacement, and the bitterness of terror," he said. "It is time for this criminal state, and I mean Britain, to pay the price for its historic crime, which we have not and will not forget," added Libi, blaming Palestinian suffering on Britain's Balfour Declaration of 1917 which promised a homeland for Jewish people. more.http://www.france24.com/en/20090122-al-qaeda-attacks-us-soil-avenge-gaza-war
Mogadishu Violence Claims 35 Lives
Clashes between Somali government forces and Islamist rebels claimed the lives of at least 35 people in southern Mogadishu over the last three days, Iran's Press TV reported.The renewed fighting occurred a few days after Ethiopian troops, who came to aid of the Somali government in January 2007, left the country.More than 7,000 families escaped the southern districts of the capital, where the violence erupted. Islamist fighters in Somalia, many of whom are affiliated with A-Shabab Al-Mujahidun, have regained control over most of central and southern Somalia, including entire districts in the capital itself.The withdrawal of the American-backed Ethiopian troops from Somalia earlier this month has further weakened the government's fragile control over the African nation.more..http://newsblaze.com/story/20090122081743zzzz.nb/topstory.html