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Woman gets probation for lying in al-Shabaab case

update on Woman who lied in Somali terrorism case can be deported, federal prosecutors say

A former Minnesota woman who lied to a grand jury about raising money for men who left the state to join a terrorist group in Somalia was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation and ordered to perform community service.

Saynab Hussein, 24, of Nashville, Tenn., showed remorse during the sentencing hearing in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. She pleaded guilty in August to one count of perjury in the government's long-running investigation into recruiting and financing for al-Shabaab, a terrorist group with links to al-Qaida.

"I wish I could go back and change it all if I could," Hussein told U.S. District Judge Michael Davis.

As part of her sentence, Davis ordered Hussein to perform 100 hours of community service each year she's on probation -- educating the Somali community about the threat of terrorism and the U.S. government's role in helping stabilize the community.

"This is extremely important," Davis said of the community service. He said he took many factors into consideration for her sentence, including the fact that she was 18 at the time and likely didn't understand the consequences of her crime and that she has provided assistance to investigators.

Since late 2007, at least 22 young men have left Minnesota to join al-Shabaab.

Some have died, some remain at large and others were among those prosecuted for their role in what the FBI said was one of the largest efforts to recruit U.S. fighters to a foreign terrorist organization. The investigation is active.

Hussein admitted she lied in June 2009 when she told a grand jury she didn't know anyone who raised money for the travelers; she actually helped raise money herself. Assistant U.S. Attorney LeeAnn Bell said Hussein lied again in 2012 and came clean only when investigators confronted her with evidence.

Prosecutors sought a two-year prison sentence, arguing Hussein was firmly rooted in the conspiracy, knew operational details -- such as code words the men used to keep the plan secret -- and even warned the men to be careful in case the FBI was listening. Prosecutors say in court documents that she helped raise money for a traveler.

But defense attorney Dulce Foster said Hussein was merely a naive teenager who came to the U.S. at 10 years old after living in a refugee camp and was trying to fit in with a group of peers who led her in the wrong direction.

"She is not and has never been a radical or extremist," Foster said, adding that her client lied because she was scared.

Hussein has since moved to Tennessee, married and has a young son. She is pursuing a career in nursing. She told Davis she would never harm "this great nation I call home" and she asked for a second chance so she can do positive work in the Somali community.

Hussein is not a U.S. citizen and could be subject to deportation. Foster said after Wednesday's hearing that no immigration proceedings are pending.

American Military landing in Somalia (Mogadishu international Airport)

Australians seize $123m drugs off Somalia coast

                                                 Narcotics confiscated by police

An Australian warship has seized heroin with an estimated street value of $123 million off the coast of Somalia, the Defence department said Thursday.

The 449kg haul was found on a dhow, a type of sailing vessel, intercepted by HMAS Darwin while patrolling the Indian Ocean some 40 nautical miles off Somalia's east coast.

The ship's commander, Mr Terry Morrison, said the seizure "removed a major source of funding for terrorist and criminal networks which included al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Al-Shabaab".

The drugs were hidden in 20 bags, each weighing between 20 to 25 kilogrammes each.

HMAS Darwin is part of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), a naval partnership involving 30 nations that patrols 2.5 million square miles of international waters.

The Australian ship enforces maritime security with a focus on terrorist activity in the Middle East and Indian Ocean regions as part of the British-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, which operates under the CMF.

The bust, the CMF's seventh "significant seizure" this year, came three weeks after the Australian and British navies jointly found 1,032 kilogrammes of heroin -- their largest-ever haul -- on a dhow off the coast of east Africa near Kenya and Tanzania.

Somalia: Security Forces Arrest Terror Suspects After Deadly Bombing in Baidoa Abdi Adan Hoosow, Former Governor of Bay region Among the terror suspects

 Abdifatah Mahamed Ibraahim 

Baidoa — Somali security forces operating in Bay regional capital of Baidoa of southwestern Somalia have arrested terror suspects in a massive security operation on Wednesday, terror free somalia  reports.

According to officials, intelligence briefings led to the arrest of three alleged organizers and the closure of garage.

"Definitely, the recent deadly suicide bombing was orchestrated at a garage in the town, we arrested three persons who have been linked to terror act and closed the garage," said Abdi Adan Hoosow, the Governor of Bay region. "Among the terror suspects are the owner of garage and two technicians".

Continuing, he added that one of the relatives of the suicide bomber was also seized during the security sweep. On Monday, a suicide bomber hit vehicles carrying politician and former governor of Bay region Abdifatah Geesey, killing a dozen including civilians and uniformed soldiers. Despite military offensives in south-central Somalia, Al Shabaab honed military-style ambushes, suicide bombings and planned assassinations.

Somali Al Qaeda Ally Sends ‘Friend Request’ to Would-Be Jihadists in US

WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda's Somali franchise is sending a “friend request” and offering a one-way ticket to martyrdom to young Americans this week with a new video urging potential recruits in rhyme to catch "the next flight to Mogadishu."

The short tape by al-Shabab extremists displayed an airline "boarding pass" originating from Minneapolis, where more than 24 Somali-Americans since 2008 have been recruited to join the group in East Africa, according to federal prosecutors.

Squatting amidst a gaggle of fighters in woodland camouflage brandishing Kalashnikov rifles and with their faces swathed in kaffiyeh scarves, an unidentified militant speaking what appeared to be American English read a short poem appealing to his countrymen.

"This is a message to the youth in the West; A caring brother sends you a friend request," the speaker begins, advising that tossing a few clothes in a backpack and joining their jihad "is the smart call, just like the brothers in the Westgate Mall.”

Last September, a small band of al-Shabab terrorists entered the upscale Westgate Mallfrequented by westerners in Nairobi, Kenya, and began killing shoppers.

"You’d make a fine troop," the American al-Shabab fighter concluded. "So, next flight to Mogadishu, what’s missing is you.”

Al-Shabab leader Mukhtar Ali Zubeyr, known as "Godane," has eliminated rivals within the group and, after finally being designated as an official franchise of al Qaeda in 2012 by al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, wants his foreign fighters "to stay relevant," said one Africa expert.

"All of his threats are out of the way. His foreign fighters are trying to stay afloat now that they're part of al Qaeda," Rudy Atallah, an Atlantic Council expert retired from U.S. special operations, told ABC News today.

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On top of those from the twin cities' large Somali community, more than three dozen other Americans -- not all of Somali descent -- in places such as Daphne, Alabama; Seattle, Washington; Portland, Maine and elsewhere also have joined Shabab, were nabbed while recruiting for the group or attempted to travel to Somalia to fight with their "mujahideen."

No other al Qaeda franchise -- much less the Pakistan-based “core” of the organization -- has accumulated so many radicalized Americans and other westerners, including Britons. Al-Shabab has leveraged this success to appeal to others.

The video released Tuesday was part of a series by Shabab called "Mujahideen Moments." The first "episode," released in February 2013, starred a disguised American jihadi calling himself "Abu Ahmed al-Amriki," who implored westerners to fight in Somalia, Mali, Afghanistan and Iraq or to “fight the enemies of Allah where you find them.”

“America is going down,” the man said. via ABC

AlShabaab, AlQaeda affil­i­ate in Somalia, calls on Mus­lims liv­ing abroad to under­take Lone Wolf mis­sion

A new English-language video issued by Al Shabaab, the Somali Al Qaeda affil­i­ate, calls on Mus­lims liv­ing abroad to either under­take “a lone wolf mis­sion” in their home coun­tries or to travel abroad to join for­eign ter­ror­ist organizations.

Al Shabaab has long been active in recruit­ing West­ern­ers, and par­tic­u­larly Amer­i­cans, to its cause. Between 2007 and 2012, over 60 U.S. cit­i­zens and per­ma­nent res­i­dents attempted to aid or join the ter­ror­ist organization.

The video comes in the midst of an upsurge in sophis­ti­cated English-language pro­pa­ganda dis­sem­i­nated by ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions over the inter­net that is aimed at encour­ag­ing Amer­i­cans and other West­ern­ers to under­take vio­lent actions.

Other Al Qaeda groups, such as Al Qaeda in the Ara­bian Penin­sula, have long advised their ide­o­log­i­cal adher­ents to under­take lone wolf attacks and domes­tic rad­i­cal­iza­tion rather than travel abroad.

How­ever, Al Shabaab had pre­vi­ously been more focused on strength­en­ing its orga­ni­za­tion in Soma­lia. By pre­sent­ing Mus­lims abroad with a choice between mate­r­ial sup­port and lone wolf action rather than only call­ing on them to travel to Soma­lia, though, this video may mark a shift in Al Shabaab’s strategy.

The video is the fifth in a series called “Mujahideen Moments” but is the first to be pre­sented exclu­sively in English.

In addi­tion to its call for vio­lent activ­ity, it also ref­er­ences Al Shabaab’s 2013 attack on the West­gate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, as a pos­i­tive exam­ple for those con­tem­plat­ing ter­ror­ism abroad.

Somali PM meets with Italian foreign military operation commander

A press statement from office of the prime minister says, “Italy has our friend for longtime. Italian government supported us many occasions. Our meeting was aimed smoothing bilateral relationship. They distributed dress and trainings to our forces. At this time military experts from Italy are in Somalia so they help us training programs”, the PM said.

Somali defense minister, Mohamed Hasan Hamud, briefed the outcome of the meeting saying, “General Batarooni, Italian foreign military operation commander visited us in Mogadishu. Somali Prime Minister and general Batarooni discussed how to develop or increase Italian military support to Somalia”.

“There are military experts in Somalia. They train our forces. The most important point of the discussion was combining military relationship. The official confirmed that Italy doubled its support to Somalia”, he added.

Italy colonies southern Somali regions and still has impact when it comes the on the instable policy

Somalia: Gedo Region Sees Second Day of Deadly Clashes

  Jubaland's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Security  Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur (Janan) 

Beledhawo — Heavy clashes for the second day broke out in Gedo regional district of Beled Hawo of southwestern Somalia, leaving six persons including civilians and fighters dead according to witnesses, terror free somalia e reports.

The deadly battle on Tuesday morning follows Monday fighting and erupted in the outskirts of Beled Hawo after local forces loyal to former Doolow Mayor and  Jubaland's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs and Security Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur (Janan)  Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur (Janan) commenced a clean-up operation near Beled Hawo.

The Governor of Gedo region Mohamed Abdi Kilil and a spokesman for the paramilitary group of Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamea Mohamed Hussein Al Qaadi said on Mogadishu-based radio station that Jubaland forces launched an attack on Beled Hawo.

"This fighting was planned from Doolow and it has been aimed at the takeover of Beled Hawo Town," claimed Kilil.

"I heard that many people, mainly civilians were affected [during the deadly clashes], also built up areas in Beled Hawo suffered blaze," Alhu Sunnah spokesman noted.

Independent sources in Gedo tell GO that Ethiopian-AMISOM troops tightened security around their military bases, firing mortars into the air in response to the nearby clashes.

Meanwhile in Gedo region town of Buur Dhuubo, Somali government forces along with Ethiopian peacekeepers yesterday clashed with Al Shabaab militants who targeted rocket propelled grenades with army bases.

On May 5, speaking on VOA Somali Service Abdirashid Janan declared that they are battling Al Qaeda-lined Al Shabaab fighters and anti-Jubaland elements.

"In step towards active decentralization in Somalia, I and a group of politicians in Gedo region lobbied for the formation of Jubaland forces," said Janan. "Jubaland administration is legitimate and enjoys international recognition, I arrived in Garbaharay to speed up Jubaland reconciliation and I am not satisfied with the ongoing deadly battles".

Jubaland, headquartered in the southern port city of Kismayo is composed of Gedo, Middle Jubba and Lower Jubba regions.

The fledgling administration struck a deal with Mogadishu-based Federal Government following intense bilateral talks in Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa in August 2013 under the auspices of IGAD.

Jubaland officials previously unveiled, they are committed to brushing anti peace elements including the terror group of Al Shabaab off the areas in the map.

Somalia: Dirty Blood Operating Inside the Architects of the Social System

                                                  culusow (tuug la qabtay talo ma leh)

OPINION

Every country is proud of its new generations who positively contribute to the well-being of their social changes. The society is benefiting greatly from the advancement created by their new blood in the values added to the development of the new products and services in technology, science, and social welfare. The new generations enrich the wisdom left by their preceding generations and enhance their failed efforts that are left behind. The main aim is that the new generation leads the society to go forward in the direction of a prosperous future.

A new generation is lost when they grow up in a disadvantageous situation where they inherit skills of social evils in a lawlessness environment. Malpractices of visionary corruption, clannish ideology, legitimized organized crimes of all kinds in the forms of armed factions, and ruthless autocratic rules all bring the society to backwardness. Such generations of destructive minds add dirty blood in the machinery of a social system and that is a critical contamination that leads to failure.

In Somalia, the current Somali leader presents himself as an innovative faction leader. He follows the footsteps of the armed oppositional religious leader and their organizational structure. The main aim of this approach is to infringe the intellectual properties of this organization and reform it in an unimpeachable, plausible association. Inexperienced, unskilled youth are mainly used as the bad force to carry out covert executions, corruptions, and mismanagement of public administrations. Selected defectors from the armed opposition are trained secretly in short time in certain countries in the Middle East. These elite youth take up all sensitive government positions and have been chosen not by job qualifications, but to the loyalty of the leader. Most of these privileged core groups end up working in secret services and in revenue making financial services known as NGOs. In addition, the process of their selection is a mixture of fitting the right clan lines or being estranged to their extended families.

The idea behind deploying unqualified young organizational cadres is their ability to do dirty jobs and in merit to be compensated to climb the carrier ladder in fast pace. You might notice that some of them have got the highest rank in the military in less than four years of being in the job. The current regime benefits by utilizing the youth who had no opportunity of formal education or jobs. In the past these young men were abused child soldiers in the warring clan factions and they committed as child soldiers atrocities and civil suffering during civil war. The right approach to those disadvantageous youth is to offer psychiatric help in rehabilitation camps.

Another view of using dirty blood in the governing system is to use them as the guardians of an autocratic leader. Their criminal activities are justified as they are obediently serving the duties assigned by their supreme political bosses and they have no concern of facing the justice in being accountable to their unlawful actions. It is a scary practice to employ the youth based on the extensiveness of their criminal background and their loyalty to a secret sect organization and its spiritual leader.

Since the current leader came to the office, the Somali society felt degraded in every aspect of their lives. The mainstream security forces and the people feel discontent with the president and his cohorts. The international community is astonished with the high extent of widespread corruption practices in every level of the Somali government and is skeptical to hand over aid money to the current Somali government leadership. The Somali government is very weak and not capable of collecting internal revenue from taxes due to the lack of government service delivery and the absent of public administrations in most cities of the country. The people are facing the loss of hope due to the lack of job creations and soaring economic hardships. These two factors combined together restrict the ability of the people to purchase essential commodities for their lives and as a result force their standard of living in far depth under the conventional poverty line. The challenging reality of famine, malnutrition, and tribal wars are on the rise in many parts of the country. The blame of these intentional serious consequences is the bad leadership skills of the Somali current president and his ambitious autocratic rule through energizing his influence with dirty blood in the bureaucratic machine of his regime.

The blame of catastrophic happenings in the Somali people in the near future is not exclusively that the president will be responsible solely, but also the parliament, executive council, and the international community are partnerships of accomplice too. Before it is too late we are all obligated to demand the president to step down and transfer the power peacefully to the parliament. No matter how much time he wants to remain in office, the situation will get worse and practically there is no chance of hope for getting better. It is in the best interest of the country that the president should admit his erroneous mistaken thinking and apologize to the Somali public for not delivering his promises and not meeting their expectations. It was a missed opportunity that the president did not listen to the outrages of public concerns that demanded to fire the team leaders of his close aides in the governmental cabinet positions who were identified as incompetent and a waste in the council of the executive power.

The Somali People's Party is very concerned about atrocities committed by Kenyan authorities and its police brutality against innocent Somali civilians in Kenya. We know that the current Kenyan leadership is alleged of violating in the past the human rights of its own citizens and it is unrealistic to expect them to respect the human rights of foreign nationalities. We are condemning the brutal campaign of hate against ethnic profiling of Somali nationalities in Kenya. We are asking also the international community to intervene in the indiscriminate collective punishment based on resentment to Somali ethnicity. The Somali People's Party is asking the Somali Government to terminate the presence of Kenyan military forces in the Somali Soil and verify to the Somali people an exact time frame of their clear exit plan.

The Somali People's Party is welcoming the recommendations of the members of the parliament who kindly asked the president to step down. We strongly support that the president reflects the request of the MPs and consider that their will is a voice of confidence. The voices of the MPs are endowed with highest power of the government and should not be considered as a personal view. We urge the president not to make the mistake of ignoring the general will of the parliament and to take the brave decision of accepting the bitter outcome of his unsuccessful leadership.

Dr. Said Mohamud

Chair of the Somali People's Party

saciidciise258@aol.com

Police nab member of Al-Shabaab Somalia terror group

KUALA LUMPUR: Members of a Somalian terrorist group known as Al-Shabaab have been entering Malaysia pretending to be private college students and tourists.

The Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Unit has been tracking six Al-Shabaab members who entered the country in the past few weeks, according to sources.

They said the group planned to set up a base in Malaysia to hide their members from the authorities.

Some of the members had left the country but police were monitoring those still here, the sources said.

Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter Terrorism Unit officers detaining the 34-year-old Somalian man, believed to be a member of Al-Shabaab terrorist group.

 

They added that Al-Shabaab had no links with the militants arrested in Selangor and Kedah recently.

Police achieved a breakthrough when they arrested a 34-year-old Somalian man, wanted by Interpol for alleged terror links, in Selangor yesterday.

“More arrests are expected soon. The police have to act fast before this terrorist group gains a foothold in the country,” one source said.

Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohd Bakri Zinin said the man, who was detained at about 4pm, was believed to be involved with the Al-Shabaab terrorist faction.

“He was previously charged with being involved in terror activities in East Africa and was listed in Interpol’s Red Notice (meaning he is being sought to be extradited to his country of origin).

“We are investigating his activities in Malaysia to uncover Al-Shabaab’s network whose members might be hiding or planning action that can threaten the country’s safety,” he said in a statement.

The man is being investigated under the Security Offences (Special Measures) Act 2012.

It is learned that police are still searching for a weapon cache the man may have.According to the US National Counter Terrorism Centre (http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/al_shabaab.html), the Harakat Shabaab al-Mujahidin – commonly known as Al-Shabaab – is the militant wing of the Somali Council of Islamic Courts that took over most of southern Somalia in the second half of 2006.

Despite the group’s defeat by Somali and Ethiopian forces in 2007, Al-Shabaab – which is clan-based – has continued its violent insurgency in southern and central Somalia.

The group has exerted temporary and, at times, sustained control over strategic locations in those areas, using guerilla warfare and terrorist tactics.

Its Slavery! Not Evil Western Slavery But Culturally Misunderstood Islamic Slavery

Its Slavery! Not Evil Western Slavery But Culturally Misunderstood Islamic Slavery

Somalia: Somali Legislators Call On the President to Resign

                                   Mr. Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari - (Speaker of the Somali Parliament)

 

press release

 

 

Almost 130 legislators gathered together at a hotel in Mogadishu, they called on the Somali President Hassan Sheikh to resign in a strongly worded letter:

Federal Republic of Somalia

Date: 05/05/14

To: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud - (President of the Somali Federal Republic)

CC: Mr. Mohamed Sheikh Osman Jawari - (Speaker of the Somali Parliament)

CC: Ambassador Nickolas Kay - (UN Special Representative of the Secretary General)

Re: Call for resignation

Dear Mr. President,

We, the Somali legislators listed below are fulfilling the duties expected of us to protect the state affairs of Somalia, and have therefore decided to call on you (President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud) to resign after we have found you incompetent of carrying out the pledges you made when you stood as presidential candidate in 2012. We have noted that if you had acted out the 6 pillars you stated in your presidential campaign, the country would be in a much better state than it is in now and overcome the years of anarchy following the fall of the central government in 1991, in terms of politics, security, economics, good governance, social development and reconciliation.

A considerate number of us have discovered that you Mr. President have failed in:

Strengthening peace in the country, creating high judiciary system and good governance

Reviving community and social spirit among the society

Enforcing peace and reconciliation

Enlivening the country's financial institutions

National unity and harmony

Creating international relations with foreign governments and agencies

These 6 pillars, announced by you Mr. President in your 2012 presidential campaign was the main and vital reason that we, the legislators of the Somali parliament elected you as our president.

Now that we have seen that your leadership has failed in:

Developing clear and reasonable plans in enforcing peace in Somalia build regional administrations for the Somali people; implement federalism based on justice and good governance.

Reviving public services for the society: higher education, health, water and energy.

Enforce safety in Somalia, form strong and obsolete security forces that have the ability and strength to protect the safety of all Somali citizens. Also in resolving clan tensions that have become consistent in Hiran, Lower Shabelle, Middle Shabelle regions & other poor regional administration governance.

Stopping political interference among politicians that might aggravate the armed enemy (al-Shabab), to know that to end this war against the enemy is not just using the military but political means and negotiations.

Battling corruption against senior officials in the government, developing functioning financial institutions and generate revenue from customs at the seaport, airport, etc.

Continuing the peace talks with Somaliland, but shortening them.

Refuting diplomatic relations with Kenya, closing the Somali embassy in Nairobi due to the persistent mistreatment of Somalis in that country (whilst you were there too).

Being successful in appointing regional governors and district administrations in regions/districts liberated from al-Shabab. This gave the terrorists a chance for them to recapture the towns and barricade government troops entering through the borders.

Your leadership has failed in implementing proper justice system in the country, and failing to carry out the topics agreed in the National Security Conference held in Mogadishu in April 2013. You also failed in founding the Constitutional Court which is a violation of the 109th article, 2nd sub-topic.

Appointing committees consisting of independent individuals to fight corruption, as listed in the constitution in 111th article, which caused government expenditure and property to be stolen through corruption.

Reconciliation among Somali clans/tribes and regional administrations, and appointing a reconciliation committee, on the 111th article in the constitution.

Your leadership failed to secure the safety of Somalia in where government institutions like courts, presidential palace and United Nations compound was attacked as well as murders of legislators, government officials as well as civilians.

Allowing national documentation and passports to be taken, this is violation of the 8th article in the Somali provisional constitutions.

That your leadership has shown incompetent in being able to participate in carrying out democratic elections in August 2016.

Because of the reasons we outlined above, we ask that you, the Somali President (Hassan Sheikh Mohamud), take this letter wisely and resign from your title.

Yours sincerely,

 

Somalia Cartoon of the day President Hassan of Somalia is finally in the ring, in struggle with the Somali PM's

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Maine House GOP News: GOP Leader Visits Lewiston Refugee Community

Maine House GOP News: GOP Leader Visits Lewiston Refugee Community

Could Somalis swing to GOP: In the Twin Cities, a shifting Somali alliance

By Omar Jamal

                                                       Abdimalik Askar rising star in the GOP

Though the intriguing trend in the Somali community toward an advocacy for Republican and conservative ideas and a defection from the DFL camp is worrisome to some, it is not surprising.

During the recent election the DFL undertook to bus Somali immigrants to polling station, employing rhetoric that the party would fight for them against the Republican push to cut benefits. But this claim simply doesn't work anymore. The DFL gospel that accuses the Republicans of being elitist, snobbish, selfish, obscenely rich and out of touch of our reality is finally now being carefully scrutinized.

In the 1990s, Somalis began to trickle into the Twin Cities, and most of the broader population did not take notice. Since then, the Somali community has grown tremendously, and the Twin Cities now boasts the largest Somali population of any urban area in the country.

Somalis now populate the center of Minneapolis, the Cedar Riverside area and beyond into suburbs and small towns throughout the state. They have slowly developed social networks, odd jobs here and there with very limited language capability. More Somali children are enrolled in elementary and high schools, and Somali business centers went up first mostly in Minneapolis, later spreading to other areas.

Having lived through years of strife and civil war, life once again has started to blossom, with the exception that the Somali community is now politically schizophrenic. The lives of immigrants in general, particularly Somalis, are not in line with DFL political views. Somalis are generally conservative in aspects of social issues and yet are tied to the DFL by the simple notion that Republican are out there to take away their rights and means of living. This polemic disarmed the community and reduced them to a voting bloc for the DFL. But this kind of discourse, advocating for perpetual government dependence and handouts without any tacit instruction of how to move away from this situation, is perplexing.

The paternalistic attitude of DFLers toward the Somali community -- as a voting bloc rather than as individuals who bring something to the table -- is harmful. Graduation rates of immigrants in Minneapolis high schools are deplorable, and city taxation and business regulations are stifling entrepreneurial spirit.

Furthermore, the recent 300-page report by Advocates for Human Rights, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit, disclosed the worst racial disparities in health, education and other sectors of public services to immigrant populations living in Minnesota. The grueling question is, who is behind all these failed policies?

The Somali community is going through transformative ideological shifts and is edging into the electoral system. Having unseated senior city council member Robert Lilligren by a wide margin, it is now engaged in political combat with another senior legislator, longtime DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn of Minneapolis, District 60B.

The debate about political affiliation now rages inside the coffee places, living rooms and mosques, and one thing everyone seems to agree is that the DFL thus far is keeping the community isolated in a revolving door of poverty and government dependence.

Omar Jamal of the Twin Cities has long been active on issues relating to Somalia and the Somali-American community.
Ex Speaker & GOP Pres candidate Newt Gingrich working on a novel that centers on the Somali community in Minnesota

 

 

Newt Gingrich On Minnesota's Somali Community

Minnesota Republicans &Tea Party endorsed Abdimalik Mohamed Askar running for District 60B,state House in Minneapoli Minnesota(conservative values head-to-head left wing Arab-American ) Watch Abdimalik Askar Give a knockout punch Left-wing Talk Show Host Inside the Lion's Den 2014- BELAHDAN WITH ASKAR GOP THE RISE OF SOMALI ACTIVISM

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"History In The Making" Tea Party endorsed candidates is try a neck-down  42years incumbent Democrat  Representative Phyllis Kahn (DFL) District: 60B  His Mateo "We Are Not Like Them"- "Please don't pretend to be like the them.

Abdi Askar GOP Candidate for Minnesota House in 60B

So You Wanna Be Somali (101 ways you know your Somali )

1.You go to drop off one person to the airport, but you take 50 extra people with you

2.Your entire family runs the marathon when they see a dog (calmly walking on the other side of the road)

3.Your cousin is said to have "gone abroad to get married", but you know he’s been musaafird.

4.You were taught never to talk to strangers at primary school, yet your parents force you to call a complete stranger "Auntie"
5.you think you are so funny
6."The doctor" is your cure to every illness (evern though u curse them)
7.You somehow think you’re related to Puff daddy/naz/any black rapper
8.Your remote control is still in two pieces and u blame or cell taped together.
9.You use your religion to get yourself out of almost anything e.g. P.E, class discussions, debates, sex education, etc.
10.You secretly meet your boyfriend/girlfriend in the most obvious places (e.g. like at the mall) and expect NOT to get caught by your parents
11."GET INTO FIGHTS" and "KNOCK THE F**K OUT OFF PPL!" is your solution to every problem
12.You studied A’ Level Maths and your seen as one in a million in the Somali population
13.You make conversations in high pitched voices and the person is standing in front of you
14.You accuse the shopkeeper of being racist when he kindly asks you to pay for your packet of crisps
15.Your mobile phone "just happens to ring" when you see a member of the opposite sex
16.You think that u can drive and you don’t need a licence, insurance or tax plate
17.BOYS: You secretly do shopping or house work but act as if you dont
18."My mate wants to check ya!" is secretly your chat-up line
 19.Your can tell a Somali home by it’s curtains
20.You think you’re part of the MAFIA, yet you hang on corner streets.
 21.You seem to think that this list DOES NOT apply to you
 22.You become obsessed with a member of the opposite sex, ring mobile all day…and get rejected (you then ask out their best mate)
23.You class them as geeks if they are still in education
24.It’s quiet common to still be in college or school at the age of 30.
25.At the adult age, you still think you can get away with paying child fare on the bus
26.You have a telephone at home but nobody is (ever) allowed to use it
27.You call each other xalimo and farahs(diss)
28.Your wear designer labels, but still aint got credit in your phone.
29.You don’t think it’s worth going for driving lessons
30.In primary school you was always the rebel and the bully31.You’re related to your husband/wife even before you’ve married them
32.The bus never stops for you
33.You invite the world to your wedding night but no one starts at the time written on your invitation card
34.you talk a lot in your language
35.You dance at a complete stranger’s wedding (and claim you are a distant relative)
36.You somehow think you invincible when you see an older Somali women with loads of shopping bags
37.You drive your car around the same spot for 10 years
38.You achieve A*’s in every subject and your parents tell you to STUDY HARDER
39.You should be a nurse or a doctor
40.You always look for bargains
41.You are offended by this list coz it’s true
42.At home you never can use the bathroom coz theirs about ten ppl leaving with you who needs it too.
43.South hall or Wembley is common t go if you want to find us
44.There is a tub of "PRIDE GHEE" and a sack of "TILDA BASTMATI" in your hallway (arabic air freshener)
45.You tell your mum it’s your birthday and she adds on a few years to what you have become
46.At least one family member sell khat (SOMALI WEED)
47.You think you’re life is just going to rewiiyads(PARTY) getting as much numbers as you can, then getting married and becoming religious.
48.You all love the singer hassan aden samartan
49.You seem to think that the car your driving is a racing car and ordinary roads are racing tracks, thus explaining why you speed around thinking you’re Damon Hill
50.When watching Somali videos, you spend most of your time asking what they said or what something means
51.You are always in competition with other girls at wedding and rewiiyads
52.You hardly ever take prescribed medicines because your parents have them all
53.Unknown "relatives" start ringing your house asking for money
54.You are unable to open your front door because of the pile of shoes blocking the way
55.you get phone calls a 6 in the morning and your Parents wake you up ‘WHO IS IT!'
56.Your parents have a PANIC ATTACK when something dirty comes on TV.
57.you always take the piss out of each other
58.You have 3 hobbies: eat, sleep and complain
59.You have to offer guests tea even before they’ve stepped into your house
60.You address every other Somali person on the planet as "your cousin"
61.You think you have the ability to take on the entire police force
62.You dress identical to your friends and your favourite colour is black
63.Girls: Your brother thinks he’s your dad
64.Your wedding takes place in either a community centre or a common hotel that everyone has used
65.You know that all Somali music songs are about LOVE but you still listen to it.
66.67.You go to a wedding with an empty car, but on the way back you end up giving the entire population of the wedding a lift home (and you haven’t seen half of these people in your life)
68.At school, your parents were never aware of Parents’ Evening (…and if they did attend Parents’ Evening and you got a bad report, you told them that the teachers were all racist)
69.You arrive late at every party
70.At weddings the cameraman only ever cameras you when you’re eating
71.Your phone line has been cut off at home, your mum only wants incoming calls, yet you have a mobile phone
72.In primary school, your parents forced you to give her a kiss because the English mother was doing it to
73.In high school, your teacher kept asking you if you were "forced to do things"
74.In college, you either witnessed or were involved in a fight
75.you went to enjoy yourself in a rewiiyad but end up in a fist fight with your own people
76.Your dad always kicks you out the house and keeps you knocking on the door for HOURS! 77.The only business we are most successful with is CALL SHOPS
78.Your parents tell you "Eastenders" is haram
79.At parties, you wear the same clothes as others and hate each other for it
80.You get over-excited when you see another Somali person on TV.
81.You have a limited variety of food recipes
82.You accuse a Somali boy of fancying you because he asked you if you needed help
83.You lie to your parents about where you’ve been
84.You see another Somali friend and you shout and make a seen just to greet each other.
85.The lads love their girls in diir’s (SEE THROUGH DRESSES THAT GURLS WEAR AT WEDDINGS)86.You come home to the sounds of screaming (you have guest)
87.Your parents still listen to old Somali songs
88.You spend all day in Somali café’s (maqaax)
89.You are constantly being compared to every other Somali kid on the Planet
90.You pronounce English words in a typical accent when speaking to your parents e.g. toilet: "Toylatka"
91.You never go to the library "to work"
92.Your phone number is x-directory
93.A member of the opposite sex simply says "hello" and you accuse them of stalking you
94.You receive phone numbers from complete strangers and you start chatting to them and then you find out they like you but just gave you a fake name
95.GIRLS: You own a gold set
96.Guys: you want to knock out the lad who clocks your sister yet your clocking next mans sister 97.You have cousins that you’ve never even heard of
98.Everyone goes to Somali at the same time
99.You wonder why people stare when you hire out a car, because they saw you yesterday with a banger
100.You call some one then put it down so they can call you back (you don’t want to waist the £10 credit you have)
101 When celebrating a religious festival, you take this as an excuse to come back wot ever time you please

jawa/terro​r free Somalia Cultural Affairs Exchange Program"- By Rahm
 

Gulf of Aden Security Review - April 30, 2014 | Critical Threats

Yemen: Suspected AQAP militants ambush Yemeni military convoy and take fifteen soldiers hostage in Abyan governorate; Yemeni security forces detain gunmen with explosive devices in Abyan governorate; Nigerian citizen pleads guilty to U.S. charges for supporting AQAP in Yemen

Horn of Africa: Puntland police detain suspected al Shabaab militants in Bari region; unidentified assailants kill Jubbaland security officers in Lower Jubba region; AMISOM and SNA forces clash with al Shabaab militants in Galgudud and Gedo regions; Somali security forces conduct search operation in Mogadishu

Yemen Security Brief

• Suspected al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) militants ambushed a Yemeni military convoy en route to joining a military offensive on April 29 in the town of al Saeed in Shabwah governorate. The militants attacked the convoy with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades and captured a troop transport vehicle, taking 15 Yemeni soldiers hostage. The militants released two of the Yemeni soldiers shortly following the ambush, and reports indicate that the released soldiers had been “severely beaten.” In addition to the death of at least 12 militants, at least 15 Yemeni soldiers were killed, and 12 were wounded in the fighting. On April 30, suspected AQAP militants executed three of the remaining 13 Yemeni soldiers taken hostage in the April 29 ambush, and left their bodies near a road intersection in the city of Ataq in Shabwah governorate.  Following the discovery of the three Yemeni soldiers, all of whom bore signs of torture, Yemeni security forces reportedly withdrew from the al Saeed area. The status of the final ten Yemeni soldiers held hostage remains unknown.[1]

• Yemeni Security Forces seized a group of ten armed gunmen in possession of weapons, ammunition and explosive devices in Abyan governorate on April 29. One of the gunmen may have links to AQAP, although further details regarding the event remain unclear.[2]

• Nigerian citizen Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, also known as Ayatollah Mustapha, pled guilty in U.S. Federal Court to charges of “providing material support to an al Qaeda affiliate, and participating in its media and recruitment campaigns,” on April 29 in New York. Babafemi is accused of traveling to Yemen and working directly with AQAP’s media arm, al Malahem Media Foundation, to help publish its English-language magazine, “Inspire,” as well as recruit English-speaking Nigerians to join AQAP.[3]

Horn of Africa Security Brief

• Puntland police detained 12 suspected al Shabaab militants and sympathizers, including three women, during a security operation in Boosaaso in Bari region on April 29. The police launched the security operation after a suspected militant prematurely detonated an improvised explosive device (IED). The intended target of the IED remains unclear, since no casualties were reported from the blast. Separately, a landmine explosion killed four people and injured three others in Daboole Weyne near Dhabad in Galgudud region on April 30. It remains unclear whether the landmine was planted recently or a remnant of past conflict.[4]

• Unidentified assailants killed three Jubbaland security officers in Kismayo in Lower Jubba region on April 29. Four assailants armed with pistols and assault rifles fired upon the security officers in the Via Afmadow section of Kismayo. The motivation behind the attack remains unclear as no group has yet claimed responsibility for the killings.[5]

• Al Shabaab militants attacked an AMISOM and Somali National Army (SNA) military base in Garbaharey in Gedo region on April 29. Reports indicate that the leader of SNA forces in the El Ade area of Gedo region, Mohamed Qojof, was among those killed during the fighting. Separately, al Shabaab militants attacked a base occupied by Ethiopian AMISOM forces in Elbur in Galgudud region on April 30. The Ethiopian AMISOM contingent responded to the attack by confronting the militants and firing mortar shells at suspected al Shabaab locations throughout Elbur. Although the confrontation reportedly inflicted casualties to both sides, the exact figures remain unclear.[6]

• Unspecified Somali security forces conducted a search operation throughout the Heliwa district of Mogadishu on April 30. A Heliwa district official reported that “dozens of people were arrested” by the security forces, citing general insecurity as prompting the operation.[7]

 

Gulf of Aden Security Review - April 30, 2014 | Critical Threats