Thursday, March 5, 2009
Moderate Islamists declare Jihad against Al-Shabab
The Islamist moderate group Áhlu-Sunna Waljamaca’ on Thursday declared jihad against what they called ‘the Islamist strangers’ which they mean the Islamist hardliners Al-Shabab after one of Ahlu-Sunna’s prominent clerics killed on Wednesday evening in Galkaayo town, of Mudug province in central Somalia.In an interview with mogadishu Media, Sheik Abdulahi Sheik Abdurrahman Ábu Yusuf, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna three unknown men armed with pistols shot dead Sheik Ali Afyare as he was coming out of a mosque after maqrib prayer where they escaped unharmed.The spokesman said the men carried out were sent by Al Shabab group who also injured Sheik Shurie night before. “what we know is that the strangers earlier were behind the killing of Sheik Hussein Sheik Harun and other clerics. “Why they killed the Sheik is for his Islamic belief which is confronting their un-Islamic ideology, we beg from Allah to die for his righteous way,” said Abdirahman.He called for all Somalis supporting their Sufi group to join the jihad aimed to clear Al-Shabab Strangers from the territory of Somalia.He dismissed any attempt to reach agreement with Al-Shabab and underlined all out war with he called ‘the misguided men’ who are accustomed to killed the society’s clerics.
KENYA: CHURCH STRUGGLING AFTER ISLAMISTS DESTROY BUILDING
GARISSA, Kenya, March 5 (Compass Direct News) – Six months after a gang of Muslim youths ruined a church building in this town in northern Kenya, Christians still worshipping in the sweltering heat of the open air say they feel disillusioned that officials have done nothing to punish the culprits or restore their structure.
On a sunny afternoon last Sept. 14, when angry Muslim youths threw more than 400 members of the Redeemed Gospel Church out of their church building, the Christians hoped they would be able to return to the ruins of their former structure. That hope is quickly giving way to anger, hopelessness and despair.
“After six months in the open, the church feels tired and cheated,” said pastor David Matolo. “We are fed up with the empty promises from the government administration.”
He said the church, which began worshipping in Garissa in early 2001 with only a dozen members, is fast shrinking.
“Our church membership has decreased, which is of great concern to me,” he told Compass. “The church thinks that the government has decided to buy time – almost every month I do book appointments with the relevant authorities, who on several occasions have given us a deaf ear.”
Since the attack, church members have been meeting at the town show grounds. Just a few miles from the Somali border, the site has few trees to protect the congregation from the scorching sun, with temperatures ranging from 92 to 104 degrees F (30 to 40 degrees C).
Asked why he thought government officials were reluctant to grant the church a permhttp://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=&backpage=&critere=&countryname=&rowcuranent place of worship as promised, an irritated Matolo did not hesitate to reply. ..more..
On a sunny afternoon last Sept. 14, when angry Muslim youths threw more than 400 members of the Redeemed Gospel Church out of their church building, the Christians hoped they would be able to return to the ruins of their former structure. That hope is quickly giving way to anger, hopelessness and despair.
“After six months in the open, the church feels tired and cheated,” said pastor David Matolo. “We are fed up with the empty promises from the government administration.”
He said the church, which began worshipping in Garissa in early 2001 with only a dozen members, is fast shrinking.
“Our church membership has decreased, which is of great concern to me,” he told Compass. “The church thinks that the government has decided to buy time – almost every month I do book appointments with the relevant authorities, who on several occasions have given us a deaf ear.”
Since the attack, church members have been meeting at the town show grounds. Just a few miles from the Somali border, the site has few trees to protect the congregation from the scorching sun, with temperatures ranging from 92 to 104 degrees F (30 to 40 degrees C).
Asked why he thought government officials were reluctant to grant the church a permhttp://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=lead&lang=en&length=long&idelement=&backpage=&critere=&countryname=&rowcuranent place of worship as promised, an irritated Matolo did not hesitate to reply. ..more..
Terrorist group recruits in Midwest
As people crowded into the capital for Barack Obama's inaugural celebration, senior counterterrorism officials huddled in the White House situation room, frantically trying to unravel intelligence about a possible attack on Washington.
By the afternoon of Jan. 20, as Mr. Obama took the oath of office, the threat of a terror plot by the Somalia-based al-Shabab organization had been debunked, but the flurry of activity underscored growing worries about this Islamic militant group.
"I think they are a serious problem, and I don't think that we should be glib and take it lightly," said Theresa Whelan, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs. "Are they the ones that are going to plan the next major terrorist attack in the United States and carry it out? Probably not. But could they provide some of the foot soldiers for it? Yes."
The State Department considers al-Shabab a terrorist organization with links to al Qaeda, something the group denies. Al-Shabab, which means "the Youth," has been gaining ground as Somalia's Western-backed government crumbles. The group's goal is to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.
U.S. counterterrorism officials say they detect a disturbing pattern, one that mirrors al Qaeda methods and could spawn homegrown insurgents and suicide bombers in the U.S.
Counterterrorism officials suspect that al-Shabab is recruiting young men from Somali communities in Minnesota and other Midwestern states, luring them back to their home country for terror training and creating cells of fighters who could travel to other countries, including the United States, to launch attacks.
Four months ago, a young Somali man left Minneapolis to become a suicide bomber. He detonated a bomb he was wearing - one step in a series of coordinated attacks targeting a U.N. compound, the Ethiopian Consulate and the presidential palace in Somaliland's capital, Hargeisa.
It was the first known time that a U.S. citizen was a suicide bomber.
In response, the FBI stepped up efforts to reach out to community leaders in the Minneapolis area, where young Somali-American men have disappeared and are thought to have traveled to Somalia to fight along with militants. FBI spokesman E.K. Wilson said that since the disappearances, the bureau has worked to expand relationships with community elders, religious leaders and others active in the local Somali population, which numbers about 80,000.
"We want them to come forward with concerns about their young people," Mr. Wilson said. "We share the same concerns. We want to help, and we need people with concerns to come forward with information."
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Web site run by a Somalia militia shows undated pictures of Ahmed Shekhdoon Fidow (left) and Abdi Nur Mohamed, who are suspected of carrying out the suicide attack on Africa Union peacekeepers late last month in Mogadishu, Somalia. The group, al-Shabab, is trying to establish an Islamic state in Somalia...more.http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/05/terror-group-finds-recruits-in-midwest/
By the afternoon of Jan. 20, as Mr. Obama took the oath of office, the threat of a terror plot by the Somalia-based al-Shabab organization had been debunked, but the flurry of activity underscored growing worries about this Islamic militant group.
"I think they are a serious problem, and I don't think that we should be glib and take it lightly," said Theresa Whelan, deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs. "Are they the ones that are going to plan the next major terrorist attack in the United States and carry it out? Probably not. But could they provide some of the foot soldiers for it? Yes."
The State Department considers al-Shabab a terrorist organization with links to al Qaeda, something the group denies. Al-Shabab, which means "the Youth," has been gaining ground as Somalia's Western-backed government crumbles. The group's goal is to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.
U.S. counterterrorism officials say they detect a disturbing pattern, one that mirrors al Qaeda methods and could spawn homegrown insurgents and suicide bombers in the U.S.
Counterterrorism officials suspect that al-Shabab is recruiting young men from Somali communities in Minnesota and other Midwestern states, luring them back to their home country for terror training and creating cells of fighters who could travel to other countries, including the United States, to launch attacks.
Four months ago, a young Somali man left Minneapolis to become a suicide bomber. He detonated a bomb he was wearing - one step in a series of coordinated attacks targeting a U.N. compound, the Ethiopian Consulate and the presidential palace in Somaliland's capital, Hargeisa.
It was the first known time that a U.S. citizen was a suicide bomber.
In response, the FBI stepped up efforts to reach out to community leaders in the Minneapolis area, where young Somali-American men have disappeared and are thought to have traveled to Somalia to fight along with militants. FBI spokesman E.K. Wilson said that since the disappearances, the bureau has worked to expand relationships with community elders, religious leaders and others active in the local Somali population, which numbers about 80,000.
"We want them to come forward with concerns about their young people," Mr. Wilson said. "We share the same concerns. We want to help, and we need people with concerns to come forward with information."
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A Web site run by a Somalia militia shows undated pictures of Ahmed Shekhdoon Fidow (left) and Abdi Nur Mohamed, who are suspected of carrying out the suicide attack on Africa Union peacekeepers late last month in Mogadishu, Somalia. The group, al-Shabab, is trying to establish an Islamic state in Somalia...more.http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/05/terror-group-finds-recruits-in-midwest/
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Missing Somali-Americans May Be Terror Recruits
IN THE SOMALI-AMERICAN COMMUNITY IN MINNEAPOLIS ... THERE IS FEAR ... SOT: Some of them are even crying when they come to me and confused and scared ... YOUNG SOMALIS IN THE UNITED STATES *SCARED* AFTER GETTING GRAND JURY SUBPOENAS ... FEDERAL AUTHORITIES INVESTIGATING WHETHER SOMALI-AMERICANS WERE RADICALIZED HERE ... RECRUITED TO FIGHT WITH TERROR GROUPS IN THEIR HOMELAND ... A PLACE WHERE UNREST ... AND PIRATES RULE. SOME IN THE COMMUNITY HERE SAY QUESTIONING STARTED AFTER A HANDFUL OF YOUNG MEN LEFT FOR SOMALIA ... AUTHORITIES SAY ONE MINNEAPOLIS MAN CARRIED OUT A SUICIDE BOMBING, PART OF A SERIES OF ATTACKS THAT INCLUDED A U-N COMPOUND. FEDERAL AUTHORITIES WILL NOT CONFIRM THE INVESTIGATION ... THE GRAND JURY WILL DETERMINE IF THERE IS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BRING CHARGES. THE PROSPECT OF EXTREMISTS RECRUITING YOUNG MEN IN MINNESOTA HAS THE ATTENTION OF WASHINGTON ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cw6wsgpD0I or ..http://www.jambotv.com/Missing-Somali-Americans-May-Be-Terror-Recruits/590860
Documents of interior ministry handed to Islamist leader
MOGADIHU -the documents of the Somali interior ministry has been has been handed officially to jehadist Sheik Abduqadir Ali Omar Wednesday by former interior minister Muse Nur Amin at a ceremony in the capital, Mogadishu. The new minister Sheik Abdulqadir Ali Omar who has been the leader of the Islamic Courts Union jehadist for past two years said he would start the job of the ministry immediately.jehadist Sheik Abdulkadir“A country which has been experiencing insecurity and lawlessness is ahead of us, there are a lot of things to do so we pray to Allah???? to help us accomplish our job” the new minister said at the handing over ceremony.“We have been engaged in heavy fighting for the past two years and we were doing this to oust the enemy forces of Ethiopia???? from our country and we reached
that target so I think there is no need to wage war after the Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia,” the minister added. Muse Nur Amin, the former TFG interior said there are difficult obstacles ahead of the interior ministry and hoped for good future. The ceremony of handing power was held in the ministry of Information Building in the capital
that target so I think there is no need to wage war after the Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia,” the minister added. Muse Nur Amin, the former TFG interior said there are difficult obstacles ahead of the interior ministry and hoped for good future. The ceremony of handing power was held in the ministry of Information Building in the capitalHearings on Violent Islamic Extremism: Al Shabaab Recruitment
March 4, 2009
Todd Stein, Esq.Majority CounselU.S. Senate Homeland Security& Government Affairs Committee340 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510
Ref: Hearings on Violent Islamic Extremism: Al Shabaab Recruitment, March 11, 2009
Dear Todd:
We are pleased that the Committee has scheduled a Hearing on this important matter: Recruitment of Naturalized American Somali Youths for the Al Shabaab militia in Somali- a foreign terrorist group designated by the U.S. State Department. Doubtless the Committee is responding to reports in mainstream media such as USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Jerusalem Post involving possible recruitment by radical Imams in Somali émigré communities across the heartland of America, including your hometown of Atlanta...more..http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/19848
Todd Stein, Esq.Majority CounselU.S. Senate Homeland Security& Government Affairs Committee340 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510
Ref: Hearings on Violent Islamic Extremism: Al Shabaab Recruitment, March 11, 2009
Dear Todd:
We are pleased that the Committee has scheduled a Hearing on this important matter: Recruitment of Naturalized American Somali Youths for the Al Shabaab militia in Somali- a foreign terrorist group designated by the U.S. State Department. Doubtless the Committee is responding to reports in mainstream media such as USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Jerusalem Post involving possible recruitment by radical Imams in Somali émigré communities across the heartland of America, including your hometown of Atlanta...more..http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/19848
New Somali talaban President guaranteed nightmares
With the Islamists Al-Shahaab and the Islamic party killing AU peacekeepers and vowing to rout out President Sheikh Sharif’s nascent government, the Somali crisis has just entered another phase writes Monitor correspondent Abdul Kadir Khalif in SomaliaThe mortars exploding in Mogadishu have a recent precedent.A month ago, artillery shells preceded the arrival of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Islamist leader recently elected as President of Somalia. He was flying into Mogadishu for the first time as head of state and the shells were meant to hit Villa Somalia, the state house in the capital. The attack was not surprising at all considering the buildup of opposition to Sheikh Sharif.On February 3, a group of radical Islamists opted to join forces and aggregate their political vision against him. A Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) group affiliated with the Asmara-based exiled Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir formed the Xisbu Islaami (Islamic Party) after uniting with three other Islamist groups namely Mucaskarka Caanoole (Anole School), Somali Islamic Front and Ras Kamboni Brigade.
The declaration was communicated at a ceremony in Kismayu town, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu.Dr Omer Iman Abubakar, a hardliner Islamist was chosen to lead the Islamic Party. Observers immediately pointed out that the group would be an obstacle in the way of Sheikh Sharif. (A Transitional Federal Parliament meeting in Djibouti on January 31 had elected him president.) Neutralising radical groupsBesides, Al-Shabaab, the Islamist movement that controls most of the Southern Somalia, is in no mood to support the man who was once the undisputed leader of the Islamist movement in Somalia. Confronting such formidable opposition is a task waiting, not only the new president, but also his choice for prime minister and the Cabinet. Many people expected the naming of Omar Abdirashid All Sharmarke on February 13 as prime minister and his endorsement by the Parliament a day later to tilt the balance in favour of the national unity government. Others wonder how President Sheikh Sharif, a local moderate Islamist and Sharmarke, a typical Diaspora Somali from North America could step out together to neutralise radical groups...more..The mortars exploding in Mogadishu have a recent precedent.A month ago, artillery shells preceded the arrival of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Islamist leader recently elected as President of Somalia. He was flying into Mogadishu for the first time as head of state and the shells were meant to hit Villa Somalia, the state house in the capital. The attack was not surprising at all considering the buildup of opposition to Sheikh Sharif.On February 3, a group of radical Islamists opted to join forces and aggregate their political vision against him. A Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) group affiliated with the Asmara-based exiled Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir formed the Xisbu Islaami (Islamic Party) after uniting with three other Islamist groups namely Mucaskarka Caanoole (Anole School), Somali Islamic Front and Ras Kamboni Brigade. The declaration was communicated at a ceremony in Kismayu town, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu.Dr Omer Iman Abubakar, a hardliner Islamist was chosen to lead the Islamic Party. Observers immediately pointed out that the group would be an obstacle in the way of Sheikh Sharif. (A Transitional Federal Parliament meeting in Djibouti on January 31 had elected him president.) Neutralising radical groupsBesides, Al-Shabaab, the Islamist movement that controls most of the Southern Somalia, is in no mood to support the man who was once the undisputed leader of the Islamist movement in Somalia. Confronting such formidable opposition is a task waiting, not only the new president, but also his choice for prime minister and the Cabinet. Many people expected the naming of Omar Abdirashid All Sharmarke on February 13 as prime minister and his endorsement by the Parliament a day later to tilt the balance in favour of the national unity government. Others wonder how President Sheikh Sharif, a local moderate Islamist and Sharmarke, a typical Diaspora Somali from North America could step out together to neutralise radical groups...more..http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/features/New_Somali_President_guaranteed_nightmares_80869.shtml
The declaration was communicated at a ceremony in Kismayu town, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu.Dr Omer Iman Abubakar, a hardliner Islamist was chosen to lead the Islamic Party. Observers immediately pointed out that the group would be an obstacle in the way of Sheikh Sharif. (A Transitional Federal Parliament meeting in Djibouti on January 31 had elected him president.) Neutralising radical groupsBesides, Al-Shabaab, the Islamist movement that controls most of the Southern Somalia, is in no mood to support the man who was once the undisputed leader of the Islamist movement in Somalia. Confronting such formidable opposition is a task waiting, not only the new president, but also his choice for prime minister and the Cabinet. Many people expected the naming of Omar Abdirashid All Sharmarke on February 13 as prime minister and his endorsement by the Parliament a day later to tilt the balance in favour of the national unity government. Others wonder how President Sheikh Sharif, a local moderate Islamist and Sharmarke, a typical Diaspora Somali from North America could step out together to neutralise radical groups...more..The mortars exploding in Mogadishu have a recent precedent.A month ago, artillery shells preceded the arrival of Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the Islamist leader recently elected as President of Somalia. He was flying into Mogadishu for the first time as head of state and the shells were meant to hit Villa Somalia, the state house in the capital. The attack was not surprising at all considering the buildup of opposition to Sheikh Sharif.On February 3, a group of radical Islamists opted to join forces and aggregate their political vision against him. A Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) group affiliated with the Asmara-based exiled Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir formed the Xisbu Islaami (Islamic Party) after uniting with three other Islamist groups namely Mucaskarka Caanoole (Anole School), Somali Islamic Front and Ras Kamboni Brigade. The declaration was communicated at a ceremony in Kismayu town, 500 kilometres south of Mogadishu.Dr Omer Iman Abubakar, a hardliner Islamist was chosen to lead the Islamic Party. Observers immediately pointed out that the group would be an obstacle in the way of Sheikh Sharif. (A Transitional Federal Parliament meeting in Djibouti on January 31 had elected him president.) Neutralising radical groupsBesides, Al-Shabaab, the Islamist movement that controls most of the Southern Somalia, is in no mood to support the man who was once the undisputed leader of the Islamist movement in Somalia. Confronting such formidable opposition is a task waiting, not only the new president, but also his choice for prime minister and the Cabinet. Many people expected the naming of Omar Abdirashid All Sharmarke on February 13 as prime minister and his endorsement by the Parliament a day later to tilt the balance in favour of the national unity government. Others wonder how President Sheikh Sharif, a local moderate Islamist and Sharmarke, a typical Diaspora Somali from North America could step out together to neutralise radical groups...more..http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/features/New_Somali_President_guaranteed_nightmares_80869.shtml
Somali talaban Parliamentarians to Hold First Meeting in Mogadishu
Somalia's parliament will hold its first meeting today in the capital, Mogadishu after relocating from neighboring Djibouti and electing new Somali Taliban Sheik Sharif . Somali parliamentarians left to Djibouti as a result of peace negotiations between the former Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS)???. Under the agreement parliament was expanded to more than 500 accommodating members of the moderate Islamic ARS led by Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. But the hard-line Islamic insurgent group Al-Shabaab seized the temporary parliament building in Baidoa when parliamentarians left for Djibouti. Somali parliamentarian Ahmed Hashi tells reporter Peter Clottey that Mogadishu will be the permanent place for parliamentary meetings..more.http://www.voanews.com/english/Africa/2009-03-04-voa4.cfm
“We shall confront the media” deputy premier
The deputy prime Minister of Somalia professor Abdurrahman Hajji Adan best known as (Ibi) has violently verbally attacked the Somali local media on Monday and condemn them adding petrol into dying fire. Hornafrik radio a (hawiye habar-gidir radio)which is among the local radio stations in the Somali capital Mogadishu has on Monday had an exclusive interview with the deputy premier. “The radio stations in Mogadishu are part of the uncertainty, and the chaotic scenario in Somali, they are the once that are creating odium and abhorrence among the Somali politicians and the other sectors of the community,our government of national unity will fight with the media just like the warlords who have been opp
ressing the innocent Somalia population, it is the media of every nation that can build and take part of the development of its country and on the other hand it is the media that can annihilate it is own country and undermine it is country the media is the third power of every country” said Professor Abdurrahman Hajji Adan (Ibi)More on the Iran-Somalia-Gaza Weapons Route
The more one looks into it, the more Elliott Abrams’ rendition of how Iran allegedly smuggles weapons to Hamas in Gaza via Somalia and Eritrea just gets weirder and weirder. Remember: he was Bush’s top Middle East adviser from December, 2002, until January 20 and, as such, had access to the most sensitive information available to the U.S. intelligence community. Yet he seems to be lending himself to an extraordinarily crude Israeli disinformation campaign in which Somalia, which is some 1500 miles from Gaza, is depicted as a key trans-shipment point for the alleged supply of weapons from Iran to Hamas.The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has now posted the Abrams transcript, including the relevant passage on the alleged Iranian-Gaza smuggling routes. Among other things, he says that “the bulk” of Iranian-origin weapons for Hamas travel the Gulf of Aden route to Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea or “places like that” before moving by land through Sudan and Egypt to the Sinai. By “the bulk,” I assume he means most. Yet it seems that the only sources who have spoken of such a land route are unidentified Israeli officials. Last week, I spoke with three experts on Somalia and piracy there, and all three said they had never heard of such a route and considered it fanciful, to say the least.
Here is the relevant passage in the interview:..more.http://www.ips.org/blog/jimlobe/?p=233
German navy foils Somali pirate attack
The German navy has foiled a pirate attack on a container ship off the Somali coast and arrested nine pirates. A military spokesman in Berlin said the frigate Rheinland-Pfalz received a distress call in the Gulf of Aden early on Tuesday from a German-owned ship that reported to be under fire from pirates armed with rocket-launchers and machine guns. The German frigate, with the assistance of a nearby US naval ship, was able to halt and board the pirates' boat. More than 100 vessels were attacked last year by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, which is now patrolled by naval warships from the United States, European Union and other countries including China.
Yemen: New terror camps as a city falls to jihadists
In January, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh asked his network of loyalist jihadists to prepare for offensive operations against domestic “enemies of the state.” In return, Saleh has ceded authority to fundamentalist fanatics who seek to impose a neo-Salafi theocracy in the religiously pluralistic country. It is unclear if this is the full extent of the quid pro quo.
For nearly a decade, Yemen’s counter terror strategy has hinged on deal-making with Yemen’s jihadists. Counter terror operations are sporadic and often driven by US or Saudi intelligence. President Saleh has negotiated agreements whereby hundreds of militants’ jail terms were suspended in exchange for a loyalty pledge. Convicted and suspected al Qaeda operatives were given state jobs, cash payments, cars, and land.
High-profile terrorists have repeatedly broken out of jail and then were pardoned for their original crime as well as the escape. This is Yemen’s terrorist rehabilitation program, and these appeasements are staunchly defended by Yemeni officials as necessary to gain intelligence and ensure security. Recently, however, Saleh began to activate this army of militants to target his political foes. ..more..http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/yemen_new_terror_cam.php
For nearly a decade, Yemen’s counter terror strategy has hinged on deal-making with Yemen’s jihadists. Counter terror operations are sporadic and often driven by US or Saudi intelligence. President Saleh has negotiated agreements whereby hundreds of militants’ jail terms were suspended in exchange for a loyalty pledge. Convicted and suspected al Qaeda operatives were given state jobs, cash payments, cars, and land.
High-profile terrorists have repeatedly broken out of jail and then were pardoned for their original crime as well as the escape. This is Yemen’s terrorist rehabilitation program, and these appeasements are staunchly defended by Yemeni officials as necessary to gain intelligence and ensure security. Recently, however, Saleh began to activate this army of militants to target his political foes. ..more..http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/yemen_new_terror_cam.php
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
FBI Watching Somali Muslims In Minneapolis
CBS Evening News: 20 From Same Mosque Have Repatriated, One Became A Suicide Bomber; Mosque Officials Deny Radical Agenda
more..http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/03/eveningnews/main4841761.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4841761
more..http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/03/eveningnews/main4841761.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._4841761
Wanted Dead or Alive? When We Don't Get Our Man
On his first day in office, President Barack Obama issued a dramatic series of executive orders intended to symbolize a change of direction in America's "war" on terrorism. Despite the headlines these orders generated, a more significant policy shift may have been the one signaled the week before his inauguration, when Obama declared: "My preference obviously would be to capture or kill (Osama bin Laden). But if we have so tightened the noose that he's in a cave somewhere and can't even communicate with his operatives, then we will meet our goal of protecting America." This is a significant break from his vows during the presidential debate - "We will kill Bin Laden" - and in a post-election interview with CBS that killing or capturing Al Qaeda's mastermind is "critical" for the United States. As visceral as the urge may be to bring Bin Laden to justice - dead or alive - history shows that Obama's redefinition of "success" is correct. At least 10 times since 1900, the United States has launched sustained military or covert campaigns in which the strategic objective has been to kill or capture an individual.
Although the failed campaigns (i.e. the Mexican rebel and bandit Pancho Villa, the Somali warlord Farah Aideed, and, to date, Osama bin Laden) remain prominent in our collective memory, more often than not American forces have successfully tracked their quarry, from capturing the revolutionary General Emilio Aguinaldo in the Philippines in 1901 to the aerial targeting of the Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq in 2006. Nevertheless, killing or capturing the targeted individual frequently has not achieved the intended outcome. For example: In 1901, American forces captured the Filipino insurgent leader Aguinaldo, but fighting continued for nearly a decade and the most brutal phase of the counterinsurgency campaign occurred after he had sworm a loyalty oath to the United States. U.S. intelligence and Special Forces assisted indigenous forces in tracking and eventually killing the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, yet neither Communist insurgencies nor narco-trafficking in Latin America abated after their deaths. U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein and killed al-Zarqawi, but neither success marked the turning point in defeating the Iraqi insurgency that was hoped for at the time. Conversely, there are cases where the United States failed to apprehend the targeted individual, but the mere act of pursuing them led to strategic success, such as: General John Pershing failed to apprehend Pancho Villa in 1916, but Pershing's expedition forced Villa into hiding, and cross-border incursions from Mexico were never again a strategic threat to the United States. From 1927 to 1933, American forces failed to capture the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino, but the U.S. military presence led to the establishment of a stable, pro-American government. To be sure, there are cases where the success or failure to apprehend the targeted individual corresponds with broader strategic success. The invasion of Panama and the arrest of Manuel Noriega in 1989 allowed that country to make a successful transition to democracy, and the failure to capture Aideed helped further the descent of Somalia into its present Hobbesian nightmare. Yet these cases are exceptions.
This is not to say the United States should not target individuals, or more specifically, should stop devoting military and intelligence assets to hunting Osama bin Laden.
Although some argue that elevating a single figure to such prominence makes the United States look impotent should we fail to catch him, our persistence in targeting Bin Laden has resulted in the deaths of numerous secondary Al Qaeda leaders. more..http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/03/03/IHT.html
Although the failed campaigns (i.e. the Mexican rebel and bandit Pancho Villa, the Somali warlord Farah Aideed, and, to date, Osama bin Laden) remain prominent in our collective memory, more often than not American forces have successfully tracked their quarry, from capturing the revolutionary General Emilio Aguinaldo in the Philippines in 1901 to the aerial targeting of the Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq in 2006. Nevertheless, killing or capturing the targeted individual frequently has not achieved the intended outcome. For example: In 1901, American forces captured the Filipino insurgent leader Aguinaldo, but fighting continued for nearly a decade and the most brutal phase of the counterinsurgency campaign occurred after he had sworm a loyalty oath to the United States. U.S. intelligence and Special Forces assisted indigenous forces in tracking and eventually killing the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara and the Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, yet neither Communist insurgencies nor narco-trafficking in Latin America abated after their deaths. U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein and killed al-Zarqawi, but neither success marked the turning point in defeating the Iraqi insurgency that was hoped for at the time. Conversely, there are cases where the United States failed to apprehend the targeted individual, but the mere act of pursuing them led to strategic success, such as: General John Pershing failed to apprehend Pancho Villa in 1916, but Pershing's expedition forced Villa into hiding, and cross-border incursions from Mexico were never again a strategic threat to the United States. From 1927 to 1933, American forces failed to capture the Nicaraguan revolutionary leader Augusto Sandino, but the U.S. military presence led to the establishment of a stable, pro-American government. To be sure, there are cases where the success or failure to apprehend the targeted individual corresponds with broader strategic success. The invasion of Panama and the arrest of Manuel Noriega in 1989 allowed that country to make a successful transition to democracy, and the failure to capture Aideed helped further the descent of Somalia into its present Hobbesian nightmare. Yet these cases are exceptions.
This is not to say the United States should not target individuals, or more specifically, should stop devoting military and intelligence assets to hunting Osama bin Laden.
Although some argue that elevating a single figure to such prominence makes the United States look impotent should we fail to catch him, our persistence in targeting Bin Laden has resulted in the deaths of numerous secondary Al Qaeda leaders. more..http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/03/03/IHT.html
Will Islamists Terrorist stop fighting if Sharia is imposed?
MOGADISHU --After two years of fighting in Mogadishu things seem to be different. People are busy with shopping in the main Bakara market in Mogadishu. Mogadishu residents who fled from the fighting between the Ethiopian and government troops and al-shabaab jehadist insurgents started trickling back to the capital Mogadishu. People are talking about peace and progress while some Islamist hardliners are vowing to keep on fighting until foreign troops withdraw from the country and the sharia is imposed. New Somali talaban President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed bowed Saturday to demands from Islamist insurgents, agreeing the introduction of sharia law. Ahmed, a former Islamist rebel leader who was elected president on January 31, said he had accepted proposals by local and religious leaders mediating between his government and the hardliners, but the question is that are the Islamists ready to stop the fighting if sharia is imposed. Somali religious organizations are divided the kind of Islamic version which is to be practiced and that is yet another obstacle which is to be solved before any thing else. Al-Shabaab, for example, banned the commemoration of Prophet Muhammad (peace of Allah Be Upon him), while Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca condemned the act. The Islamic clerics who have been mediating between the government and the Islamists jehadist called the Somali government to rule the country by the Islamic Law and also asked the government to tell the African union troops to leave the country with in hundred and twenty days which they described as an imperative step. The hawiye jehadist clerics also called for the Islamist insurgents to stop the fighting but the Insurgents did not listen, they suddenly launched fresh offensive to the bases of the government and AU troops in the capital.At least 50 people were killed and 180 others were injured in the bloodiest clashes since talaban president Sheik Sharif was elected. Al-Shabaab Islamists also fired mortars to the presidential palace.There are new voices from many intellectuals who are against any wars in Mogadishu. Somalis have been fighting for the last 18 years. The capital city has been destroyed by civil wars.
“We have to obey the calls by the clerics, that is the only solution,” said Abshir Nor Farah, a Somali poet. “Shame on those who started the fighting,” he added.
Many people believe that the Islamists would never stop fighting until they take over the country by force.
Navy to Send Anti-Piracy Ships to Somalia in March
South Korean naval unit for anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia was inaugurated Tuesday after a motion for deployment was approved by the National Assembly a day earlier, the Navy announced.After days of operational training in the waters off Busan, the unit, named ``Cheonghae,'' will be dispatched to the troubled waters as early as mid-March, the service said in a news release. The unit's name comes from ``Cheonghae-jin,'' a naval base established by famed Korean General Jang Bogo of the ancient Silla Kingdom (57 B.C.-668) that became a major trading hub
, it said. Jang pushed for building a military complex to protect Silla's merchant fleets and coastal residents from pirates. ``The inauguration of the Cheonghae unit this year, which marks the 100th anniversary of the Navy's founder, the late Adm. Sohn Won-il, will serve as a starting point for our Navy to make history and build a naval power to sustain us over the next 100 years,'' Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jung Ok-keun said in a speech at a ceremony at Naval Operations Command, in Busan. The planned dispatch of a warship to the Somali waters will mark the first-ever overseas combat deployment of the South Korean Navy, which is confident in its counter piracy operations, based on close-range combat skills accrued from decades-long training exercises to deter North Korean ships. The unit consists of a 4,500-ton KDX-II destroyer commanded by Cmdr. Jang Sung-woo, a Lynx anti-submarine helicopter and 300 personnel, including 30 UDT/SEAL special naval forces, according to the release. UDT refers to the Underwater Demolition Teams, while SEAL stands for the Sea, Air and Land forces employed in special reconnaissance, unconventional warfare and counter-terrorism operations. The KDX-II destroyer is equipped with an Mk. 45 127mm gun, Harpoon ship-to-surface missiles, RAM Mk 31 ship-to-air guided missiles, a 30mm Goalkeeper system for engaging sea-skimming anti-ship missiles and torpedoes..more..http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/116_40629.htmlWFP talks with somali jehadist ???
NAIROBI - The spokesman of the World Food Programme (WFP) for Somalia Mohamud Hassan Guuleed, said Tuesday delegation from WFP signed an agreement with the jehadist Islamist administrators in Middle Jubba region in southern Somalia. Mr. Guuled said that the agreement was about how the World Food Program would work again in Middle Jubba region. The Islamist administrators in the region accused the aid agencies for supplying an expired food for the people in the region. He said that both sides talked more about the accusations against the agency saying that they did not supply any expired food ?? for the people but will investigate the accusations. The agreement signed by the jehadist Islamist administrators in Middle Jubba region and WFP comes as the aid agencies were accused supplying expired ration and bringing aid food for the people when they get crops from their farms.
“THE PIRATES HAVE SEIZED THE SHIP”
Even as gunboats from across the globe move into their waters, the desperate, well-armed, and increasingly bold bandits of Somalia keep swarming the decks of the world’s largest ships. They take what they want, they don’t leave until the (higher and higher) ransoms are paid, and they won’t stop until a modern-day war against piracy breaks outThanks to Somalia, the world is in the midst of the greatest piracy epidemic since the Barbary Wars in the early nineteenth century. From Boosaaso and rocky little coves up and down the 1,900-mile coast, Somalia’s pirates are threatening to choke off the Gulf of Aden, through which 20,000 ships pass each year. The economic consequences of all this piracy are potentially catastrophic. The world’s biggest shipping companies are detouring their vessels thousands of miles around the Cape of Good Hope, at the bottom of Africa, rather than risking a voyage through Somalia’s pirate-infested seas. Insurance costs are shooting up. Security bills are skyrocketing. The cash-starved Egyptian government could collapse if more ships avoid the Gulf of Aden and the Suez Canal, which provides Egypt with billions of dollars each year.
“We’ve never seen anything like this,’’ said Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau in London. When we spoke in December, he told me that more than a dozen hijacked ships, with 300-plus hostages, were anchored just off the coast of Somalia. “You can see the images of these ships on Google Earth,’’ he said. “Nowhere else in the world would this be tolerated.’’ Somalia was gripped by “a national criminal ethos,” Mukundan went on, and only now that pirates were threatening global trade did the world seem to care about it.
Since December, warships from China, India, Italy, Russia, France, the United States, Denmark, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Greece, Turkey, Britain, and Germany have all joined the hunt for Somalia’s pirates. But the pirates keep eluding them, keep hijacking merchant ships, and keep making millions in ransom payments. In the past year, they netted $120 million, an astronomical amount of money in a country where a fifth of the population is on the brink of starvation.
It’s easy to think of the pirates as modern-day Robin Hoods, and in some respects they are. In Somalia, a whole mythology has grown around them. I’ve been told—though I haven’t seen them—that entire malnourished villages along Somalia’s coast are now being well-fed by the loot they bring in. Women bake bread for them; young men from the coastal villages board the ships once they’re docked and act as extra muscle to guard the hostages; others serve as scouts, accountants, mechanics, and skiff builders. There’s no doubt that in Somalia, crime pays—it’s about the only industry that does—but this goes beyond just the money. With their black scarves covering their faces and submachine guns slung over their arms, Somalia’s pirates are the real Jack Sparrows of the twenty-first century, minus the eyeliner. One young woman who lives near Boosaaso bragged about going to a pirate wedding that lasted two days. A band was flown in from neighboring Djibouti. There was nonstop dancing and an endless supply of goat meat. “They drive the best cars, they throw the best parties,” she gushed. “We all want to marry them.” She claimed that her own pirate boyfriend had just given her a small gift—$350,000 in cash. For young Somali men, pirate life is becoming too much to resist. Fishermen all along the coast have traded in their ragged fishing nets for rocket-propelled grenades.
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Press Release:An Open Letter to Mr. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Dear His Excellency mr Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, U.N special representative for Somalia, The office of Somali People's Party, (S.P.P.) refutes statements made by you during the 14th meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia in which was held under your chairmanship of the Special Representative for Somalia in the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels on February 26-27th,2009. You said "Certain elements of the Diaspora that support Spoilers to the Peace Process". Sir with all respect, Are you deviating the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights? History should taught us some lessons when it comes to Somalia’s Transitional Government a U.N.-sanctioned creation that was deathly ill from the moment it was born four years ago in Nairobi, Kenya, because of the International Community thought to be inclusive with Somali warlords was the right formula but it was dead wrong to began with and this one you recited in Djibouti is dead wrong formula too. As Martin Luther King, Jr. Once said “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” so Somalia is our concern as well as the world. To the contrary,the challenges of this new century require Somali Peoples Party to summon the full range of human talents to move Somalia's nationhood and the world forward. Guaranteeing the right of every man, woman and child to participate fully in society and to live up to his or her God-given potential is an ideal that has animated Somalia since its founding. It is also enshrined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and was reflected in President Obama’s Inaugural Address when he reminded us that every generation must carry forward the belief that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. Somali Peoples Party (S.P.P.), believe our foreign policy must advance these timeless values which empower people to speak, think, worship and assemble freely, to lead their work and family lives with dignity, and to know that dreams of a brighter future are within their reach. Now, the promoting of human rights is essential in Somalia if the International Community needs it to succeed as viable state, but as a Organizational aside, We have worked for many years and in various capacities on the issues that are encompassed under the rubric: human rights. It is of profound importance to our organization and has informed us views and shaped our belief in ways large and small. Somali Peoples Party, strongly believe that we must rely on more than one approach as we strive to overcome tyranny and subjugation that weakens the human spirit, limits human possibility, and undermines human progress. We must make this a global effort that reaches beyond governments alone. I strongly believe the International Community must work with nongovernmental organizations, businesses, religious leaders, schools and universities as well as individual citizens, all of whom can play a vital role in creating stability in Somalia, where human rights are accepted, respected, and protected. Another word, Somali Peoples Party (S.P.P.) commitment to human rights is driven by our faith and our moral values, and by our belief that Somalis must first be an exemplar of our own ideals. But we also know that our security and prosperity and progress is enhanced when people in other places emerge from the shadows to gain the opportunities and rights that we enjoy and treasure as Muslims. Sincerely YoursHon: Sharmar'arke Mohamed Hashi Gaani Director of Foreign RelationSomali Peoples Party Email:sgaani@gmail.com
Piracy brings rich booty to
After the ransom for the Sirius Star, the highest-profile victim of Somali piracy, was delivered in January, an impromptu beach party started near Hobyu, the southern Somali town where it had been moored.According to crew members of the Vella Gulf, a US warship which spent months watching the Sirius Star and the Faina, another captured ship, children ran around the beach, bonfires were lit and the pirates’ associates brought four-wheel drive vehicles on to the sand,,..more..http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0c99d484-0751-11de-9294-000077b07658.html
Monday, March 2, 2009
al- shabaab jehadist Offer Only Instability
mostly hawiye wing al-shabaaab fighters continue to battle police and peacekeepers from the African Union in mogadishu .. an effort to disrupt the peace process in beleaguered Somalia. They have stepped up their attacks since the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops last month and the installation of a new unity government, indiscriminately killing both soldiers and civilians. They say their aim is to end corruption, bring stability and impose jehadist law on the long-troubled East African nation, but instead they bring only instability and death. February 22, suicide bombers attacked an AU peacekeeping base in Mogadishu, killing 11 soldiers from Burundi and wounding 15. Meanwhile, more than 16,000 civilians have been killed since the insurgency began 2 years ago, one million people have been driven from their homes and sections of the capital lie in ruins from frequent shelling. The A.U. force, comprised of soldiers from Uganda as well as Burundi, is a key element in the effort to stabilize Somali as the new talaban government of talaban President jehadist Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and UN technocrat as premier takes hold. The United States whole-heartedly supports the mission for the benefits it can bring the Somali people, and it will continue to do so with equipment, training and deployment. The U.S. also supports the political process playing out there now in a Somali-led effort to bring stability to the nation. Attacks on the government at this stage are an attack on stability, the acts of desperate hawiye shabaaab wing extremists who would deny the Somali people the opportunity to determine their own future. With their attacks on foreign aid workers and the AU peacekeepers, they are also hindering the delivery of critical humanitarian assistance.
Missing Somali men may have romanticized ??? their homeland
Young Minnesotans of Somali descent have tried to make sense of the disappearances of about a dozen men from the Twin Cities And they may have an inside perspective: Teens and 20-somethings who were born in the Horn of Africa -- but spent most of their lives in the United States -- share a generational past with the young men whose families fear are fighting with Islamic militants. . more..http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/02/somali_youth/?refid=0
Billionaire paid ransom to pirates
A Ukrainian business magnate paid a ransom to secure the release of 20 crewmen held on their ship by Somali pirates for five months, his office said yesterday. The office of Viktor Pinchuk, who runs a variety of businesses from industrial pipes to media and engages in a wide range of philanthropic activities, did not say how much was paid in exchange for the release last month of the crew of the Faina. It gave no details of conditions attached to the deal to free the vessel and its cargo of 33 Soviet-era T-72 tanks and other weapons after long negotiations off Africa's east coast. "Viktor Pinchuk did, in fact, provide the sum required to secure the release of the sailors being held hostage aboard the Faina," his press office said in a statement. It quoted Pinchuk as saying: "No one in Ukraine was indifferent to the fate of our sailors. The hijacking of the Faina was a challenge to the whole country."The pirates released the ship after receiving a ransom initially estimated at $3.2 million from the ship's owners. Ukrainian media later said the sum was about $4 million. The Faina's Russian captain died in the first days of the hijacking. Representatives of the ship's owners said talks complicated by differences among the pirates.Pinchuk, the son-in-law of former President Leonid Kuchma, owns Interpipe, Ukraine's largest producer of pipes, as well as television channels and other businesses. He engages in high-profile charitable works, running a modern art gallery in Kiev and bringing to Ukraine well-known artists to perform at free open-air concerts. ..more..http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/billionaire-paid-ransom-to-pirates-1636019.html
Nine suspected pirates set free; others could face trials
Weeks after two Norfolk-based ships captured more than a dozen suspected pirates in two separate raids, the Navy returned nine Somali men to their lawless homeland on Monday.Seven others remain in U.S. hands and could be transferred to Kenya for prosecution.
A defense official said the nine men were moved off the Lewis and Clark, a Navy supply ship that served as a floating brig for the Navy's newly created anti-piracy task force.
A coast guard vessel from Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region ferried the men to shore, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The nine were captured Feb. 12 after a merchant ship reported gunshots and requested help fending off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden.
The destroyer Mahan and the cruiser Vella Gulf responded. A helicopter from the Vella Gulf chased the 35-foot skiff. Small-boat teams apprehended the men and said they recovered a grenade launcher, AK-47 rifles and ammunition..more..http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/nine-suspected-pirates-set-free-others-could-face-trials
Somali premier meets with hawiye elders
Somalia's UN technocrat as premier has met with Hawiye Council Chairman elders in his office in Mogadishu on Monday and discussed with them the security situation of the capital.Mohamed Hassan Haad, the chairman of terrorist sympasizer hawiye Clan said they talked about the prime minister the security situation of the capital and suggested the prime minister to rule the country by the sharia law or Islamic law. “We asked the prime minister to implement the Islamic law which is the only solution for the country and we told him that the withdrawal of the foreign troops (the African Union troops) is crucial,” said Mohamed Hassan Haad. He added that the prime minister accepted their proposals. Al-Shabaab Islamists have vowed to fight on until all foreign forces in Somalia withdraw and sharia law is imposed. The African Union peacekeepers whom they have also repeatedly hawiye attacked are the only foreign troops in the country after Ethiopian soldiers pulled out last month.
Guinea-Bissau president shot dead
Renegade soldiers have shot dead the president of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira. The news comes just hours after the killing of the army chief of staff, who had fallen out with Mr Vieira. Gunfire has sounded in the capital Bissau, but the army has insisted no coup is under way. Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's poorest states. It has a history of coups and has become a major transit route for smuggling cocaine to Europe. ..more,...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7918061.stm
Guinea-Bissau president killed just hours after it's military chief was killed.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — Renegade soldiers killed Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira in his palace on Monday, hours after a bomb blast took the life of his rival, the fragile West African nation's armed forces chief.It was not immediately clear whether a coup was under way, and the capital, Bissau, was tense but calm.
Luis Sanca, security adviser to Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr., confirmed the president's death but gave no details.
A bomb blast Sunday night killed armed forces chief of staff Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie at his headquarters in Bissau, according to a state radio report.
The two men were considered staunch political rivals.
Guinea-Bissau has suffered multiple coups and attempted coups since 1980, when Vieira himself first took power in one. The United Nations says the impoverished nation on the Atlantic coast of Africa has become a key transit point for cocaine smuggled from Latin America to Europe.
Just hours after Waie's death late Sunday, volleys of automatic gunfire were heard for at least two hours before dawn in Bissau and residents said soldiers had converged on Vieira's palace...more..http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,503005,00.html
Ahlu Sunna aka.. suffi muslims condemns the commemoration ban of Prophet Muhammad
The spokesman of Ahlu Sunna(suffi) Waljmaca religious organization, Sheik Abdirisaq Mohamed Ali( Ashari) strongly condemned Monday the commemoration ban of Prophet Muhammad by Al-Shabaab . Terrorist ban commemoration of Prophet Muhammad The Islamist group of al –Shabab has barred the memorial ceremonies of Prophet Muhammad (peace of Allah Be upon him) in Bardhere town in Gedo region south Somalia and the port town of Marka 90 km south Mogadishu last Friday. This can worsen the dispute between Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca religious organization and al-Shabaab Islamist group. Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca recently fought shabaab Terrorist in central Somalia and captured all central Somalia towns from the Shabaab. “Those who are refusing the commemoration of our prophet do not understand the meaning of this month, which is the month when our prophet was born,” said Ashari. “We will not tolerate these actions” Ashari added. Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca adherents often commemorate the Islamic month of Rabicula Awal. Rabicul Awal( Mawliid to Somalis) is the month when Prophet Muhammad (Peace of Allah Be upon Him) was born. Sufism, a mystic form of Islam, has centuries old roots in Somalia but is considered heretical by conservative factions of Islam, especially Salafism and Wahhabism. Since the fall of Somalia's last functioning government in 1991. Dark Day .history of Somalia .January 26, 1991.Collapse of the somali nation( Key Plays) The Horn of Africa nation has been plagued by chaos and clan-based civil war since when hawiye Warlordism, terrorism. PIRATESM ,(TRIBILISM) Replaces the Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre administration .While the terrorist threat in Somalia is real, Somalia’s rich history and cultural traditions have helped to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for international terrorism. The long-term terrorist threat in Somalia, however, can only be addressed through the establishment of a functioning central government Videos: Jihad Camp in Somalia; English-Speaking Recruits Most of the Terrorist are from Hawiye tribe (al-shabaab) The leadership is mostly sub-clans of Hawiye (Habar Gidir clan) With The Exception Of NEW Al-Shabab jehadist Leader Abuu Zubeyr jehadist from Somaliland. Accusations And Sheikh AbdiRahman Janaqow Reply OGADEN CLAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB2mnoXLoec&feature=related (ONLF )own hassan turki(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_Hersi) and Abu Mansur a foot soldier from al-Qaeda any talks with Al-Shabab which is opposed to both the TFG and the Union of Islamic Courts. most of Mostly Hawiye Insurgents are from Somali clan of ,Habar Gidir group (itself a Hawiye subclan). Hawiye subclan).-
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Somali leader agrees Sharia law.. We Told You So..DayOne!
Somali Taliban President,name "illegal alien Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke new somali prime minister, President names UN technocrat as premierhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7889330.stmSomali Taliban, Somali al Qaeda Agree to Get AlongNew jehadist president primed to practice sharia law ...wooowwww new government led by moderate ???Sharif Sheik.
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habar-gidir .. hawiye al-shabaab wing warns government against deploying troops in certain areas
Somali leader agrees Sharia law.. We Told You So..DayOne!
Somali Taliban President,name "illegal alien Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke new somali prime minister, President names UN technocrat as premierhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7889330.stmSomali Taliban, Somali al Qaeda Agree to Get AlongNew jehadist president primed to practice sharia law ...wooowwww new government led by moderate ???Sharif Sheik.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
In the wake of the terror attacks of 9/11, President George W. Bush, in a vain attempt to persuade the world’s Muslims to side with America against the murderous jihadists, famously declared, "Islam means peace."That’s as linguistically correct -- and just as genuine -- as saying, "Pravda means truth."In fact, a literal interpretation of the Qur'an would justify the idea that a more accurate statement would be "Islam means slavery."A close reading of works by Darwish, the Egyptian-born author of Cruel and Unusual Punishment, and Ayan Hirsi Ali, the Somali refugee who became a Dutch legislator, shows that a literal interpretation of the Qur’an means that whatever "peace" results from Islam is that of the master and the non-rebellious slave.Americans, however, shy away from such offensive talk. We are brought up drinking the tolerance Kool-Aid that all religions basically have the same moral goals and are just different ways to get to the same place. Thus, we project the specifically Judeo-Christian perspective of the Fatherhood of God -- and, therefore, the brotherhood of man — onto such faiths as Islam, too. As a result, it's easy for us to fall for the line that militant Islamists have "hijacked a noble religion" or "are taking passages in the Qur’an out of context to justify violence."But those who try to argue Islamic theology with jihadists find there is a reason why no Muslim countries have developed Western-style democracies or human rights from within. The undeniable fact is that the so-called "extremists" have a better textual basis in the Qur’an for their methods and beliefs than do the "moderates." The Qur’an, after all, simply does not give reasonable Muslims a textual leg to stand on.In her autobiography, Now They Call Me Infidel, Darwish writes of the shock she felt when she realized Christian marriage was about two equals becoming one, with rights and responsibilities going both ways. When she learned that Christians taught that God is their Father, it was about as religiously alien to her as the practice of shrinking heads...more..http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=97BCC9CD-265F-4C23-83FD-190303B77A73
A land of despair
It's been a bad week for Somalia. It would also be accurate to say it's been a bad few decades, but last week was particularly bad when it comes to international efforts to bring peace to the country.The week started out with 11 Burundian soldiers killed in an explosion triggered by a Somali suicide bomber. The Burundians are in the capital Mogadishu with soldiers from Uganda who make up the African Union's peacekeeping mission to Somalia (Amisom). It's sad for the peacekeepers and it's sad for peacekeeping. In the world of peacekeeping missions Amisom is the poor cousin. It's in a part of the world most people don't care about and more importantly it's in a part of the world most people don't want to go to.The fact that Burundian and Ugandan troops are in Somalia at all is a small miracle. Both the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) have made appeals to member states to contribute to Amisom, with the call falling, for the most part, on deaf ears. A Ugandan soldier based in the small part of Mogadishu that is controlled by the AU told me that the absence of oil or any other strategic commodity on or under Somali soil is, as far as he can see, the reason Amisom doesn't get the troops. The only real interest in the region is offshore, and that's not because of oil trapped beneath the ocean floor; rather it's because of the oil and other goods passing by Somalia in tankers and ships -- the world tends to know much more about Somali pirates and the efforts to stop them than it does about the chaos on the mainland. The pirates have only one motive and that's to make as much money as possible from either the ransoms they collect in return for freeing the vessels they board or the money they make by selling whatever they happen to loot from the cargo holds...more..http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-03-02-a-land-of-despair
Somalian coin causes some need for concern | Adele Ferguson
I don’t want to alarm anybody but I’ve been a little apprehensive over what I found in the change kicked out by the till at one of the local stores the other day.It was a 10-shillings coin from the Republic of Somalia dated 2002. It has a dromedary camel on one side and a coat of arms on the other.
No, I have never been to Somalia. All I really know about Somalia is that it is the home base of a gang of pirates who prey on the 18,000 ships that travel through the Gulf of Aden each year. And piracy is on the rise, according to the Wall Street Journal, which ran a report the other day from the London-based International Maritime Bureau, a group that tracks piracy. Worldwide, there were 293 piracy acts in 2008, to the point that maritime academies in this country are training merchant seamen on how to fend off attacks.
In the Gulf of Aden alone, IMB says, there were 50 attacks in the last three months of 2008. Biggest prize taken by the pirates so far was the tanker MV Biscaglia loaded with 25,000 tons of palm oil that belonged to Saudi Arabia. It was captured the day after Thanksgiving by five men in a speedboat with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades.
No one was hurt. The pirates so far have emphasized that they are interested only in money, although if the intended prey puts up a fight, obviously some people may be killed or injured. These are fairly tame pirates, known to have engaged caterers to prepare homestyle food for foreign hostages...more..http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/kitsap/pat/opinion/39511474.html
Somalia a land of chaos, awash in weapons
Country is centrepiece of Toronto filmmaker's connect-the-dots study of global arms tradeSo much blood has drenched the red dust of Somalia that it forms a dry river of death beneath the feet of the latest killers and victims.
Last week, another 80 people died in battles between African Union peacekeepers and Islamist rebels, as terrified civilians fled the capital Mogadishu and the town of Hudur to the south.
During the Islamists' two-year struggle to dislodge a teetering transitional government, some 16,000 people have been killed, a million others forced from their homes and more than one-third of the country's 9.5 million people surviving only with the help of outside aid.In spite of a UN arms embargo, Somalia is awash in weapons. It is a land where chaos reigns supreme, fuelled by an arms trade that begins in capitals half a world away.The trade is directed by profiteering middlemen who depend on pilots and truckers willing to take on some of the world's most dangerous assignments. The deadly connections are documented in Running Guns: A Journey into the Small Arms Trade, airing tonight on History Television.The film, by Toronto-based Shelley Saywell, recounts a three-year investigation of a trade that stretches unchecked from the Horn of Africa to Bosnia, Paris, the former Soviet Union and beyond.This week in New York, international diplomats are meeting to work out an arms treaty aimed at plugging some of the legal loopholes that allow an unfettered gun trade so prolific that 8 million new weapons a year are added to a massive global stockpile that already supplies one gun to every 10th person on the planet.In Somalia, shipments of weapons arrive by sea from Yemen. The Mandera Triangle – where Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet – is a conveyer belt that moves arms to and from all three countries, and across the African continent. After two decades of anarchy, guns have become ingrained in Somali society."There's no economy ... so we use guns to rob people to feed our families," a militia member in a Somali border town admitted to Saywell. Another added chillingly: "We steal things and rape women with them."..more..http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/594793
Last week, another 80 people died in battles between African Union peacekeepers and Islamist rebels, as terrified civilians fled the capital Mogadishu and the town of Hudur to the south.
During the Islamists' two-year struggle to dislodge a teetering transitional government, some 16,000 people have been killed, a million others forced from their homes and more than one-third of the country's 9.5 million people surviving only with the help of outside aid.In spite of a UN arms embargo, Somalia is awash in weapons. It is a land where chaos reigns supreme, fuelled by an arms trade that begins in capitals half a world away.The trade is directed by profiteering middlemen who depend on pilots and truckers willing to take on some of the world's most dangerous assignments. The deadly connections are documented in Running Guns: A Journey into the Small Arms Trade, airing tonight on History Television.The film, by Toronto-based Shelley Saywell, recounts a three-year investigation of a trade that stretches unchecked from the Horn of Africa to Bosnia, Paris, the former Soviet Union and beyond.This week in New York, international diplomats are meeting to work out an arms treaty aimed at plugging some of the legal loopholes that allow an unfettered gun trade so prolific that 8 million new weapons a year are added to a massive global stockpile that already supplies one gun to every 10th person on the planet.In Somalia, shipments of weapons arrive by sea from Yemen. The Mandera Triangle – where Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia meet – is a conveyer belt that moves arms to and from all three countries, and across the African continent. After two decades of anarchy, guns have become ingrained in Somali society."There's no economy ... so we use guns to rob people to feed our families," a militia member in a Somali border town admitted to Saywell. Another added chillingly: "We steal things and rape women with them."..more..http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/594793
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Trials of Somali pirates are putting Kenya at risk
An agreement between Kenya and the US to try pirates arrested in the Indian Ocean in Kenyan courts could have unwittingly exposed the country to terror attacks. The risk of Somali-based terrorists, including al Qaeda-affiliated groups, launching attacks against Western interests in Kenya has risen significantly. The agreement, announced by Prime Minister Raila Odinga, will see dozens of Somali pirates transported to Mombasa, before being arraigned in Kenyan courts. Over the past three weeks alone, more than 30 pirates have been apprehended. A Kenyan court in Mombasa is already trying eight pirates apprehended last year by the British navy. “The active involvement of Kenya in the anti-piracy campaign will strengthen perceptions among Somali extremists of Kenya as an ally of the Americans and the West in the so-called war on terror,” Dr Adams Oloo, a lecturer at the University of Nairobi’s political department, told The EastAfrican. “Because the extremists cannot reach the US directly, they could settle for a symbolic attack on its interests in the region,” he added.Over the past year, the pirates are thought to have made about $100 million in ransom after hijacking nearly 5
0 ships. ..more..http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/-/2558/535926/-/rk8kexz/-/index.htmlSomali Pirates http://www.squidoo.com/somalipirates
Somali hardliners reject truce offer
Hardline Islamists in Somalia rejected on Sunday a ceasefire offer which had been accepted by new President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and vowed to keep up their attacks on government forces.The president, elected on January 31, reached out to hardliners on Saturday by accepting mediators' requests for a ceasefire and offering to introduce sharia law across the war-torn country.. But Hizb al-Islamiya (Islamic Party) ake..shabaab, a group of hardline Islamists who claimed bloody attacks in the capital last week, rejected the proposals."The information regarding a ceasefire plan between our group and the government is baseless. We will attack the enemy and their stooges anytime we want," spokesman Muse Abdi Arale said.Ahmed said on Saturday that he had accepted proposals by local and religious leaders mediating between his fledgling government and the hardliners."I met with religious leaders and elders and accepted their demand for a ceasefire and reconciliation with the opposition members, and I call on all opposition parties to halt the unnecessary violence," Ahmed told reporters."The mediators asked me to introduce Islamic sharia law in the country and I agreed," he added.
However, Arale, the rebel spokesman, said his group had met with the mediators but only discussed plans for a partial withdraw of its fighters.Foreign and local religious leaders have launched a peace bid to reconcile rival Somali groups and bring an end to their leaders' bickering and rivalry that has blocked numerous attempts to end the conflict.Ahmed, a former Islamist rebel leader, became president in January following a United Nations-brokered reconciliation between his opposition group and the transitional government.He pledged to form an inclusive government and reach out to hardline opponents.But the Islamist forces opposed to UN-sponsored reconciliation bids have launched several deadly attacks against the government and African Union forces in recent days.At least 30 people were killed last week in the worst clashes since the president was elected on January 31.Hizb al-Islamiya.. aka.. shabaab and the radical Shebab militia are the two main groups opposed to the government in Mogadishu...more..http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Somali_hardliners_reject_truce_offe_03012009.html
Somali-American Suicide Bomber Raises Questions about Terrorist Recruiting in the U.S.
The FBI has made public the news that a Somali-American man participated in a suicide attack in Somalia in 2008. The attack killed at least 30 people. As reported in the New York Times, Shirwa Ahmed immigrated to Minneapolis, home to the country's largest Somali population, in the mid-1990s. He, as well as a number of other of young Somali immigrant men, returned to Somalia after their recruitment by Islamist militants.
The FBI identifies the recruiters as members of Al Shabab, who gained ground when fighting against Ethiopian troops who backed a U.S. supported transitional government installed in early 2007. In the U.S. press, Al Shebab is almost always identified as being linked to Al Qaeda. Al Shebab, however, is far from a unified group in Somalia, as Human Rights Watch pointed out in December 2008: "Al Shabaab is...plagued with internal divisions and even more radical groups have splintered off from it. It has also spawned a broad range of localized imitators who claim to be Al Shabab fighters even though they are operating largely on their own." Somalis themselves are reported to be uninspired by the strict form of Islam advocated by Al Shebab; most would prefer a moderate Islamist government.
In Minneapolis, the families of other young men who appear to have departed to fight have expressed deep concern and puzzlement over their missing young. The FBI estimates that from a dozen to up to twenty men have returned to Somalia to do battle, according to the LA Times. Although it is clear from the little evidence there is that recruitment takes place in an Islamic idiom, headlines announcing systematic "radicalization" of these Somali immigrants are overstated.
The exact motivations that prompt action is likely to include a mix of loyalties to clan and nation, as well as Islam. The men who have left are immigrants who may have minimal education or anchoring in their new communities. They are in late adolescence. It is unlikely that their motives are entirely clear to themselves. Preventing further recruitment may be less a matter of either counterterrorism tactics or focusing on Islamic centers or mosques, than one of encouraging better integration of vulnerable immigrants into American communities.
The Muslim community in Minneapolis, along with American Islamic organizations, has responded quickly to the news by seeking to strengthen ties with the local law enforcement and with the rest of the community.
Terrorism Issues Blog
From Amy Zalman, Ph.D., for About.com
The FBI identifies the recruiters as members of Al Shabab, who gained ground when fighting against Ethiopian troops who backed a U.S. supported transitional government installed in early 2007. In the U.S. press, Al Shebab is almost always identified as being linked to Al Qaeda. Al Shebab, however, is far from a unified group in Somalia, as Human Rights Watch pointed out in December 2008: "Al Shabaab is...plagued with internal divisions and even more radical groups have splintered off from it. It has also spawned a broad range of localized imitators who claim to be Al Shabab fighters even though they are operating largely on their own." Somalis themselves are reported to be uninspired by the strict form of Islam advocated by Al Shebab; most would prefer a moderate Islamist government.
In Minneapolis, the families of other young men who appear to have departed to fight have expressed deep concern and puzzlement over their missing young. The FBI estimates that from a dozen to up to twenty men have returned to Somalia to do battle, according to the LA Times. Although it is clear from the little evidence there is that recruitment takes place in an Islamic idiom, headlines announcing systematic "radicalization" of these Somali immigrants are overstated.
The exact motivations that prompt action is likely to include a mix of loyalties to clan and nation, as well as Islam. The men who have left are immigrants who may have minimal education or anchoring in their new communities. They are in late adolescence. It is unlikely that their motives are entirely clear to themselves. Preventing further recruitment may be less a matter of either counterterrorism tactics or focusing on Islamic centers or mosques, than one of encouraging better integration of vulnerable immigrants into American communities.
The Muslim community in Minneapolis, along with American Islamic organizations, has responded quickly to the news by seeking to strengthen ties with the local law enforcement and with the rest of the community.
Terrorism Issues Blog
From Amy Zalman, Ph.D., for About.com
Somali deputy jehadist speaker welcomes the Terrorist clerics’ demand
MOGADISHU - Osman Elmi Boqorre, the deputy speaker of the Somali talaban government has welcomed the Somali jehadist clerics’ demand on Sunday about the parliament for approving the Sharia law.somali jehadist Mr. Boqorre who is in the Somali capital Mogadishu said that the legislatures welcomed greatly for the call and demand of the Somali clerics about implementing the Sharia law and he called for the legislatures to take and accept the suggestion of the religious clerics.The deputy speaker urged the other Somali people who are fighting and want to rule the country with a Sharia law to stop the fighting asking them to give the government chance to carry on its duties.On the hand the deputy speaker Mr. Boqorre said that there is no discussion or consultation between the Somali talaban parliament at the current.“There is no any consultation among the parliament even our trucks have been halted by the government soldiers when we landed in Mogadishu airport and heading to the government centre in the capital,”The statement of the jehadist deputy speaker of the Somali talaban parlaiment comes as most of the government members relocated to the Somali capital Mogadishu.
habar-gidir .. hawiye al-shabaab wing warns government against deploying troops in certain areas
The spokesman for Islamic-party aka.. habar-gidir- shabaab wing.. which is a coalition of four groups that are opposed to the talaban Government of Somalia [TFG] has issued a warning to government forces against coming into areas that are under the control of groups that are part of Hisbul Islam.. aka.. habar-gidir clan,, shabaab wing . The spokesman for the group, jehadist Sheikh Hasan Mahdi, has said some officials of the Federal Somali talaban government are planning to deploy there troops in areas that are under the control of members of their group. He said if such plans are not halted, they will view it as measure to disrupt the attainment of peace and security in Somalia."You are very well aware of the areas that are under our control. We have heard that there are plans to deploy troops in areas that are under control and others that are surrounding it. We view such measure as plans to oppose the stability of these areas," said the spokesman for Hisbul Islam. He added that plans to deploy government forces in these areas that are under their control are an invitation to conflict.Mahdi also speaking on possible reconciliation talks with the Somali said it was not possible to do so at this time, until officials of the government repent their sins???. He added that his group will not go attacking any group in Somalia.There aren't any [reconciliation] talks [with the government]. The religious leaders who have come to visit did not ask us to talks to Sheikh Sharif's government, and we will not do so because you are aware of what they did. They have embarked on steps that we view as opposing to Islam, said the spokesman for Hisbul Islam.. aka shabaab .The warning by Islamic-party .. aka.. shabaab comes at a time when many Mogadishu residents are concerned that fighting might break out between government forces and groups that are opposed to them. Mogadishu residents have also said it is now apparent that there is a looming confrontation unless something urgent is done to change the situation from the way it currently is.
Foreign minister says security is crucial
Somalia’s foreign minister Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar said Sunday restoring security is the firs step that his government is planning. The minister said that the Somali government now wants to understand the international community, Mr. Omaar attended the meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) representing Somalia as a member. A Communiqué issued in Brussels pledged to provide continued financial support to the Djibouti Process and to support key transitional institutions if the Somali government. “Our first priority is to restore the peace and security and that can not be done with out strong Somali police forces so we asked the international community to support us,” said Somalia’s foreign minister Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar speaking to BBC Somali service. Mohamed Abdulahi Omaar is the elder brother of the famous Somali journalist Rageh Omaar The BBC's Rageh Omaar in Baghdad BBC Iraq War Reporter.. and he is in London with reporter with Al Jazeera tv He is from tribal enclave of sepretist Somaliland Hargeisa Somaliland . He indicated that he would be different from the previous Somali foreign ministers who used to wander outside the country and would come the capital. The ICG particularly welcomed the relocation of the Government and Parliamentarians to Mogadishu and their commitment to continuing the Djibouti Peace Process. The Somali Taliban Government of Somalia had their first meeting in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday. They discussed about the security situation in the capital and Somali TALABAN president Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed said the cabinet would officially start their work in the capital.new somali government fragments further,minister of energy and petrol Abduwahid Elmi resigned
A wake up call for the people of jubbaland !
Somali leader agrees Sharia law.. We Told You So..DayOne!
Somalia's talaban President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has agreed to a truce and the introduction of Sharia law to try to defuse clashes with tribal leaders. The deal came after talks between the Somali government and its clan opponents, and mediation by regional religious leaders. The government has been in clashes with the Islamist group al-Shabaab, which has links to al-Qaeda.Sheikh Sharif, a former moderate rebel leader, was elected only last month. The agreement has yet to be passed by Somalia's parliament, but the president said there was no problem from the government's side if people wanted to be governed by Sharia law. Heavy fighting "The mediators asked me to introduce Islamic Sharia in the country and I agreed," Sheikh Sharif told reporters. The truce comes after militants fought government and African Union forces in clashes which killed at least 30 people in the last few days. Al-Shabaab recently seized the town of Baidoa, which had been the seat of the Somali parliament. The Islamist militia has declared Sharia law in the town, and parliament now works from neighbouring Djibouti. Some 16,000 civilians have been killed in the recent conflict and a million more have been forced from their homes. The Horn of Africa country has not had an effective central government since 1991. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7916937.stm
Somali capital of Mogadishu fell to the forces of the Hawiye dominated USC in January 1991. Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre fled Mogadishu ...When the civil war erupted, the USC (Hawiye rebel group) went on a quest of onslaught against innocenent Darod civilians in mogadishu . estimated 15,000 unarmed darod civilians were killed,mostly women and children On January 26, 1991, the USC stormed the presidential palace in Mogadishu, ...... were burned to the ground, and tens of thousands of people were massacred, hawiye's are finally paying for what they did in 1991. killing thousands of darood,Only armed cars were on the streets. In areas that the Hawiye already controlled, gunmen were going door to door rounding up Darod men, woman, children.strategic points in the city. The sprawling suburbs of. west and northwest Mogadishu became strongholds of. Hawiye-based resistance ,Mogadishu by now had become a city of torture and murder, ... Fighting eventually broke out between the competing factions within the Hawiye ...Mogadishu has become so dangerous since Islamists were ousted in 2006 that the majority .... The Hawiye backed the warlords who first controlled the city, ...abgaal and habar gidir, 2 subclans of hawiye, have destroyed the city ,As the city descended into complete anarchy, looting became a way of life ,Mogadishu , the capital of Somalia, is a city living a clandestine nightmare ... In that year Hawiye militia burned, raped and killed any person of Darood ...Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, is a city living a clandestine ... every one of these belongs to only one Somali tribe (hawiye) .. today..hawiye leader agrees to sharia law . NOT SOMALI
.. PEOBLE..hawiye are responsible downfall of the Somali nation , Special the usc hawiye leaders. The forces of the two rival warlords, Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Muhammad ... Alliance (SNA) and (Ali Mahdi Muhammad) the two rival warlords (terrorist groups usc) the mother The The Islamic Courts Union (ICU). icu is the mother that produced Al-Shabab ,that is why SOMALILAND AND JUBBALAND region of somalia don’t recognize the current TALABAN hawiye somali government ..
United Nations WILL subsidies Wahhabi warlords ,HAWIYE Wahhabi TALABAN Hard-line clerics Government OF SOMALIA.. Your tax dollars at work
..Your Tax Dollars Funding Terror
Who is fighting in Mogadishu ??hawiye . Islam is political tool.to Destroy Somalia . todaythe are Fighting Each Other.Habar Gidir v. Abgaal subclan
People & Power - The toxic truth - -Part 1 hawiye criminal Ali Mahdi Mohammed (USC Mahdi) until the foundation of the USC/SNA toxic waste
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Ex-Somali Police Commissioner General Mohamed Abshir
Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre with general Mohamad Ali samater
Somalia army parade 1979
Sultan Kenadid
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Sultanate of Obbia
President of the United Meeting with Prime Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of the Somali Republic,
Seyyid Muhammad Abdille Hassan
Sultan Mohamud Ali Shire
Sultanate of Warsengeli
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre
Siad Barre ( A somali Hero )
MoS Moments of Silence
honor the fallen
Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie
Beautiful handshake
May Allah bless him and give Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre..and The Honourable Ronald Reagan
Honorable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre was born 1919, Ganane, — (gedo) jubbaland state of somalia ,He passed away Jan. 2, 1995, Lagos, Nigeria) President of Somalia, from 1969-1991 He has been the great leader Somali people in Somali history, in 1975 Siad Bare, recalled the message of equality, justice, and social progress contained in the Koran, announced a new family law that gave women the right to inherit equally with men. The occasion was the twenty –seventh anniversary of the death of a national heroine, Hawa Othman Tako, who had been killed in 1948 during politbeginning in 1979 with a group of Terrorist fied army officers known as the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF).Mr Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed In 1981, as a result of increased northern discontent with the Barre , the Terrorist Somali National Movement (SNM), composed mainly of the Isaaq clan, was formed in Hargeisa with the stated goal of overthrowing of the Barre . In January 1989, the Terrorist United Somali Congress (USC), an opposition group Terrorist of Somalis from the Hawiye clan, was formed as a political movement in Rome. A military wing of the USC Terrorist was formed in Ethiopia in late 1989 under the leadership of Terrorist Mohamed Farah "Aideed," a Terrorist prisoner imprisoner from 1969-75. Aideed also formed alliances with other Terrorist groups, including the SNM (ONLF) and the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), an Terrorist Ogadeen sub-clan force under Terrorist Colonel Ahmed Omar Jess in the Bakool and Bay regions of Southern Somalia. , 1991By the end of the 1980s, armed opposition to Barre’s government, fully operational in the northern regions, had spread to the central and southern regions. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled their homes, claiming refugee status in neighboring Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. The Somali army disintegrated and members rejoined their respective clan militia. Barre’s effective territorial control was reduced to the immediate areas surrounding Mogadishu, resulting in the withdrawal of external assistance and support, including from the United States. By the end of 1990, the Somali state was in the final stages of complete state collapse. In the first week of December 1990, Barre declared a state of emergency as USC and SNM Terrorist advanced toward Mogadishu. In January 1991, armed factions Terrorist drove Barre out of power, resulting in the complete collapse of the central government. Barre later died in exile in Nigeria. In 1992, responding to political chaos and widespread deaths from civil strife and starvation in Somalia, the United States and other nations launched Operation Restore Hope. Led by the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), the operation was designed to create an environment in which assistance could be delivered to Somalis suffering from the effects of dual catastrophes—one manmade and one natural. UNITAF was followed by the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). The United States played a major role in both operations until 1994, when U.S. forces withdrew. Warlordism, terrorism. PIRATES ,(TRIBILISM) Replaces the Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre administration .While the terrorist threat in Somalia is real, Somalia’s rich history and cultural traditions have helped to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for international terrorism. The long-term terrorist threat in Somalia, however, can only be addressed through the establishment of a functioning central government
The Honourable Ronald Reagan,
When our world changed forever
His Excellency ambassador Dr. Maxamed Saciid Samatar (Gacaliye)
Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels from 1963 to 1966, to Italy and the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] in Rome from 1969 to 1973, and to the French Government in Paris from 1974 to 1979.
Dr. Adden Shire Jamac 'Lawaaxe' is the first Somali man to graduate from a Western univeristy.
Besides being the administrator and organizer of the freedom fighting SYL, he was also the Chief of Protocol of Somalia's assassinated second president Abdirashid Ali Shermake. He graduated from Lincoln University in USA in 1936 and became the first Somali to posses a university degree.
Soomaaliya الصومال Somali Republic
Somalia
