Somalia: “Al Qaeda Leader in East Africa is fighting in Somalia

MOGADISHU, Intelligence sources in Somalia said that Al Qaeda leader in East Africa “Najeh Fazul Abdullah Mohammed,” which is described as one of the most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders in the world, is fighting in the ranks of the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen Movement of Southern Somalia, RBC Radio reports.A source for the Somali “Islamists. website” that Fazul Abdullah existed in Somalia for years, but he was disguised, and it is likely to have “took over command of al Qaeda in East Africa, instead of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan.A Somali sources specialized in the affairs of Islamic groups told RBC Rafio that the new leader of the required U.S. base accused of taking part in bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 1998, stressing that it has survived several US attacks over the past years.The “Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan,” one of the key elements of “Al Qaeda” in East Africa, was killed in a U.S. air strike mid-September 2009 near the village of “Robo” south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, and the process carried out by U.S. helicopters called the (Celestial Balance), where Nabhan was killed and the number of of the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen, and was a blow to the base in this region. Relationship and return to East Africa
Fazul Abdullah returned to East Africa «base» back to 1991 when he created Osama bin Laden’s training camps in Sudan, before moving to Afghanistan, and recently picked up by the international media reports that Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq started thinking about packing up the Horn of Africa and Yemen, because of the blows received at the hands of American occupation forces there.
Al Shabab Mujahideen rebels of Somalia broadcast video on Islamist Websites after the assassination of Saleh Nabhan, a few days it confirmed its allegiance to Al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden, said the movement’s deployment of its wire in the capital Mogadishu, they will continue fighting against the government of Sheikh Sharif American-backed effort to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.
This was the first reaction to the tape bin Laden’s speech, which aired on March 19 and called on the Shabab Al-Mujahideen to overthrow the Somali President Sheikh Sharif and his government.
Observers say the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen Movement receive the support and backing from Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and foreign fighters battling the Somali government to the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen.
Somalia Environment repellent base.
While until they diminish in his speech for the “Islamists. Webiste” the amount of news that inflation of the size and the presence of Al-Qaeda in Somalia, it has become a safe haven for foreign fighters fleeing the battle zones, hot spots in Iraq and Afghanistan; and due to the difficulty of their work in the Somali environment.
Somalia - by until they - are not suitable environment for Al- Qaeda and stability of one ethnic Somalis, and similar colors and speak one language, and foreign fighters in particular Arabs and whites are difficult integration, and disappeared among the population easily, and will constitute a burden on the Al Shabab Mujahideen Movement and not supporting them, but the guerrillas descent from different African and blacks can be integrated into Somali society and easily hide among the population, and that the presence of Al- Qaeda and its work will be governed by a number of criteria and variables associated with the Somali environment.
And deny until they at the same time that there are organizational links between the Al Shabab group and al-Qaeda, saying that there is no information to confirm this organizational coherence, and that these relationships are on the ideological and emotional only, and that recordings distributed ...To read the rest of the piece .http://www.raxanreeb.com/?p=24540