Leader's exit puts Somalia in limbo

Resignation offers faint hope of more inclusive rule in fractured African nation, or power grab by militants.
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned Monday, conceding that Islamist insurgents had overtaken much of the country and that he had been unable to unite the perpetually fragmented Horn of Africa nation. "Most of the country is not in our hands," Yusuf said in a speech before parliament in the town of Baidoa, describing the nation as "paralyzed." The 74-year-old leader was accused by his opponents of ruling like a warlord, encouraging clan divisions and blocking a U.N.-backed political settlement that many now see as a long-shot hope for salvaging Somalia's first central government since 1991. more..http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081230/NATION/812300324
New year heralds new Somali fears
Many soldiers loyal to Somalia's recently resigned President Abdullahi Yusuf have been fleeing the capital.
"I sold my gun and left Mogadishu on Sunday after I realised President Yusuf was going to resign," said 28-year-old Farah Abdi.
He is heading back to Mr Yusuf's semi-autonomous region of Puntland in the north because as a government soldier, he said, he would be a target "if the insurgents take the town". more..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7803564.stm

Al-Qaida-Linked U.S. Citizen Addresses Shabaab al-Mujahideen; Shabaab Responds

The NEFA Foundation has obtained a statement issued by Anwar al-Awlaki, an Al-Qaida-linked U.S. citizen, addressed to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen, as well as a communiqué Shabaab issued in response. On December 21st, al-Awlaki released a message titled "Salutations to al-Shabab of Somalia”, in which he stated, "We are following your recent news and it fills our hearts with immense joy. We would like to congratulate you for your victories and achievements. Al-Shabab not only have succeeded in expanding the areas that fall under their rule but they have succeeded in implementing the sharia and giving us a living example of how we as Muslims should proceed to change our situation. The ballot has failed us but the bullet has not.” However, he also urged Shabaab to "be kind and soft with the masses; to excuse them for centuries of ignorance and false beliefs; to teach first and hold responsible last. I would advise you to go by certainty and to leave doubts; to prefer forgiveness over revenge."
Al-Awlaki served as an imam in Colorado, California, and Washington D.C. and worked as the Muslim Chaplain at George Washington University. He was the “spiritual advisor” to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, and the Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 reported that “the FBI agent responsible for the September 11 investigation informed staff that ‘there’s a lot of smoke there’ with regard to…[al-Awlaki’s] connection to the hijackers.” Returning to Yemen, he was arrested in 2006 and held for over a year. He reports being interrogated by FBI agents about a number of subjects, including 9/11. A February 2008 Washington Post article notes that U.S. officials now "believe that al-Awlaki worked with Al-Qaida networks in the Persian Gulf after leaving Northern Virginia” and has been involved in planning attacks on the U.S. and its allies.
Responding to al-Awlaki on December 27, Shabaab blamed the media for purportedly misreporting events in Somalia: "[The media] are continuously throwing accusations at those who want to live by the law of the Creator. For example, we can take the issue of the stoning of the woman in Kismayo. The disbelievers have falsely reported that she was 13 years old, unmarried, and was raped. The reality and truth is that she was over 20 years old, married, and was practicing adultery. This is just one example of how they twist the news, so we would like to take this opportunity to advise our brothers not to believe any news reported about us except from our official Media Department.”
Copies of the two statements can be downloaded from the NEFA Foundation website

Somalia facing further power struggles

With few friends at home and abroad, Abdullahi Yusuf had little choice but to quit as Somalia's president.
His decision to go could not have come at a more critical point for Somalia.
In his nationally broadcast resignation speech, Mr Yusuf reminded Somalis of the promise he had made when he was elected more than four years ago.
"When I took power, I pledged three things," he said.
"If I was unable to fulfil my duty, I will resign. more..http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7803413.stm

US hails resignation of Somali leader

The United States hailed the resignation of Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed on Monday, but called for a swift election of his successor and formation of a national unity government.
The 74-year-old stepped down following a bitter power struggle, two weeks after his attempt to sack and replace Prime Minister Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein in defiance of lawmakers failed.
The move also came just days from a planned Ethiopian troop pullout.
Ethiopia sent in troops in late 2006 in a bid to rescue the internationally-backed transitional government and prevent the emergence of an Islamic republic on its doorstep, but has said it will withdraw its forces by January 5 at the very latest. more..http://rawstory.com/news/afp/US_hails_resignation_of_Somali_lead_12292008.html

President Abdullahi Yusuf, today's Receives Huge Welcome in Puntland Capital

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Hundreds flee hawiye jehadist town

Thousands of people have fled the hawiye clan town of Guriel, after days of intense violence said to be the worst, eyewitnesses reported.Many used a lull in the fighting to flee the city on Monday, after days of fighting between

hawiye jehadist Alshabab and Ahlu sunna waljamea group..

However, hundreds of extra Ethiopian troops have also arrived in Guriel today "It is really a horrible place to be, you can hear the sounds of heavy gunshots and wounded people are in a state of helplessness," Resident Muhudin Ghelle said."Thousands are fleeing carrying their belongings. Some have no money so they are in the streets crying for urgent help from other Somalis."But reports said that hundreds of Ethiopian reinforcements drove Al-Shabab Terrorist fought with a moderate local Islamist group Sunday in the central Somali hawiye town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of Mogadishu, leaving 10 dead, said witness Mohamud Jama Aden. The local militia accuses al-Shabab of harassing its members and destroying temples and tombs of respected clerics. A separate clash between hawiye jehadist rival militias left five dead Sunday in the central town of Galinsoor, said clan elder Guhad Yusuf Aw-nure. Meanwhile, Ethiopian troops in southern Mogadishu shot dead four civilians following a bomb blast near one of their bases, according to resident Abdi Haji Isaq.Any political solution would also depend on the powerful Hawiyre clan warlords and the businessmen who have profited from the chaos in Somalia, Somalia has not had a functioning government since hawiye warlords overthrew 1991, 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 into the town.

10 killed in renewed Sufi, Al Shabaab clashes in hawiye town Somalia
DHUSAMAREB, Somalia Dec 30 - Heavy fighting erupted again in central Somalia after Al Shabaab guerrillas attacked a town they withdrew from two days earlier, Radio Garowe reports. Al Shabaab fighters reportedly received reinforcements before attacking Guri El, a small town in the central Galgadud region along the key north-south highway that connects Somalia. The fighting ensued for four hours, leading to more than 10 deaths and wounded nearly a dozen people, according to hospital sources. Militias loyal to Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jamee'a, a Sufi group, took control of Guri El after overwhelming Al Shabaab guerrillas in the town on Saturday. Ethiopian soldiers arrived in Guri El later Monday, with the latest reports indicating that Somali fighters both groups withdrew from the town. Yesterday, the fighting spread further south to Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud, where the latest reports indicate that Al Shabaab maintains control

Kerry urges caution on 'hot pursuit' of Somali pirates

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a young Navy swift boat commander in Vietnam, Sen. John Kerry was no stranger to the perils of hot pursuit in combat.
He was awarded a Silver Star for beaching his boat after a rocket attack and racing ashore to chase down and kill a Viet Cong fighter armed with a rocket launcher.
Nearly 40 years later, as incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry favors using hot pursuit against pirates in the waters off Somalia, but urges a cautious approach before U.S officials consider sending American forces to chase them ashore. Kerry plans committee hearings next year looking at the problems posed by piracy.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who was on President-elect Barack Obama's short list to be secretary of state, said a hot pursuit policy on Somalia's coastline is "long overdue." But he warns against any "haphazard, sloppy" military missions.
"You gotta know what you're getting into and where you're going and under what circumstances," Kerry, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, said in a telephone interview Friday with The Associated Press. "I mean, if you send five police officers raging into the center of Mogadishu, you are asking for trouble. You gotta be smart." more..http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-12-29-somali-pirates_N.htm?csp=34

Islamist militants in Somalia begin to fight one another

NAIROBI, Kenya: Somalia's Islamist militants, long a bane of the country's weakening government, are now officially fighting one another.
On Sunday, a powerful, newly militarized Islamist group declared a "holy war" against other Islamist factions, and it seems to have the muscle to back up its intentions. Over the weekend, the group, the Ahlu-Sunna Wal-Jama, killed more than 10 fighters from the Shabab, a rival Islamist faction known as one of Somalia's toughest.
The group issued a statement calling on its followers to "prepare themselves for jihad against these heretic groups," referring to some of the other, more hard-line Islamist factions, and "to restore stability and harmony in Somalia and achieve a genuine government of national unity."
Many Somalia analysts had been predicting that this would happen: that as Somalia's transitional government headed toward collapse — it now controls just a few city blocks in a country almost as big as Texas — the Islamist insurgents of varying agendas would begin to slug it out themselves. This weekend's violence is a strong sign that the infighting is under way. more..http://iht.com/articles/2008/12/29/africa/29somalia.php

Somali President Yusuf resigns, appoints speaker

BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned on Monday, ending a deadlock at the top of the interim government and paving the way for a new administration in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.Yusuf told parliament that speaker Sheikh Aden Madobe would take over and blamed the international community for failing to support the government. Yusuf flew home to Puntland, Somalia's semi-autonomous northern region.A surge in sea piracy in the busy Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean off Somalia has seen some 110 ships reported to have been attacked and 42 hijacked this year. Fourteen of the hijacked vessels are still being held hostage by the pirates, along with 240 crew, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
"As I promised when you elected me on October 14, 2004, I would stand down if I failed to fulfill my duty, I have decided to return the responsibility you gave me," Yusuf said.
The president of Somalia's fractured, Western-backed government had become increasingly unpopular at home and abroad and was blamed by Washington, Europe and African neighbors for stalling a U.N.-hosted peace process. more.http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE4BS0TG20081229
Somalia's president resigns in frustration after 4 years
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Somalia's President to Quit After 4 Years in Power

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's president has told lawmakers he is resigning as the head of his country's U.N.-backed government.
Abdullahi Yusuf made the announcement in a speech Monday before parliament in Baidoa — one of the only towns controlled by the weak government.
He said he would hand in his resignation letter later Monday after four years at the helm of the administration. The government has failed to bring security to the war-ravaged nation http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,473484,00.html
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Somalia's president quits office
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Somalia's president resigns, ending 4 years in power of war-ravaged office
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Somalia's interim President Yusuf resigns

BAIDOA, Somalia Dec 29 - The i nterim President of Somalia, Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, has told the country's federal parliament that he is stepping down as head of state after four years in power.President Yusuf told lawmakers on Monday that his resignation was "a personal decision," but cited consultations with loyal lawmakers in Baidoa, the seat of parliament.Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf"As I promised before, when you [parliament] elected me, I cannot do the job any longer and so I have returned the duty [back] to you," said Mr. Yusuf, who offered a brief address declaring his resignation.He handed his resignation papers over to Adan "Madobe" Mohamed, the Speaker of parliament, who becomes the acting President under the transitional constitution.Mr. Yusuf told the MPs that he is "ready to work with" whoever becomes the country's next president.Security in Baidoa was extra tight, as Somali and Ethiopian troops roamed the roads, especially around ADC Hall where the parliament meets.
Yusuf's resignation was expected, after being labeled an obstacle to peace and pressured by the U.S. and regional powers to resign.The former Somali leader flew out of Baidoa on a private plane, but there was no information on the plane's destination.
Somali President Yusuf resigns
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf resigned on Monday and blamed the international community for failing to support the interim government in the Horn of Africa nation.
Yusuf told parliament that speaker Sheikh Aden Madobe would take over his duties and left for the airport. It was not clear where he was going. "As I promised when you elected me on October 14, 2004, I would stand down if I failed to fulfil my duty, I have decided to return the responsibility you gave me," Yusuf said. "Most of the country was not in our hands and we had nothing to give our soldiers. The international community has also failed to help us," Yusuf told legislators in Baidoa, Somalia's seat of parliament. more..http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/12/29/africa/OUKWD-UK-SOMALIA-PRESIDENT.php

Somali President Yusuf resigns
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Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed resigns

Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has told parliament he is resigning, reports say.
The news comes a few days after the resignation of the man he had recently appointed as prime minister.
Ex-Prime Minister Mohamed Mahamud Guled quit last week saying his appointment was destabilising the government.
Mohamed Mahamud Guled said he had chosen to resign "so that I am not seen as a stumbling block to the peace process which is going well now"the parliament after replacing the prime minister.
"I have handed over my letter of resignation to the speaker of parliament who will be the president in line with the transitional federal charter. I don't want to violate and never violated the charter," he added

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United States Providing $5 Million to Somalia Security Force

spokesman said.
The announcement, issued in a December 29 press statement by acting deputy spokesman Gordon Duguid, came on the same day Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf announced his resignation.The United States supports and respects Yusuf's decision to resign after four years as president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG,) Duguid said. He said the United States acknowledges "President Yusuf's contributions to long-term peace and stability in Somalia."Duguid said the United States welcomes Yusuf's commitment to continue supporting the Djibouti peace process. Members of the TFG and the Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS), an opposition party, met in Djibouti in June 2008 and agreed to take concrete steps toward reducing hostilities, including establishing a joint security force more..http://www.america.gov/st/peacesec-english/2008/December/20081231105841hmnietsua0.14526.html?CP.rss=true

Pressured To Join Radicals, Many Young Men Flee

DADAAB, Kenya - By the time Mohamed Abdi Ibrahim decided to leave Somalia, life in the southern city of Kismaayo had become, as he put it with consummate understatement, "complicated."
Young men there long had shouldered AK-47 assault rifles and joined clan militias. But as an Islamist militia known as al-Shabab took control this year, it had become a place where boys were paid $50 to throw bombs, soccer fields served as militia training camps and Islamist leaders walked into classrooms to take names of potential recruits.
Ibrahim and two friends fled several months ago, just after the Shabab began beating people not attending Friday prayers and just before the group stoned to death a 13-year-girl it had convicted of adultery.
The options for young men like them, it seemed, had narrowed to two: sign up or run.
"For us, it was not good to join," said Ibrahim, a lanky 22-year-old who fled to this overflowing refugee camp across the Kenyan border. "Because if we join one side, the other side will hunt us and kill us."
The scenario now unfolding in Somalia is the very one a U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion nearly two years ago had been intended to thwart: a takeover by radical Islamists.
At the time, Ethiopian forces ousted a relatively diverse Islamic movement that had briefly gained control of the capital, Mogadishu. In its place, they installed a transitional government headed by a warlord who allowed the United States to launch counterterrorism operations in the moderate Muslim nation. more..http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/dec/29/na-pressured-to-join-radicals-many-young-men-flee/news-nationworld/

Somalis in U.S. draw FBI attention

The FBI is expanding contacts with Somali immigrant communities in the U.S., especially in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, fearing that terrorists are recruiting young men for suicide missions in their homeland. FBI Special Agent E.K. Wilson, spokesman for the Twin Cities FBI field office, described the effort as community outreach. Many members of the Somali community are concerned over disappearances, he said. Officials would not provide the exact number of missing, but about 20 men in their late teens and early 20s have disappeared in recent months and are thought to have joined Islamist rebels who are on the verge of overthrowing the U.S.- and U.N.-backed government in Somalia. Most were from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, the site of the largest concentration of ethnic Somalis in the U.S., but other Somali communities have had young men go missing as well. The FBI assisted in returning the remains of one Somali man, Shirwa Ahmed, a naturalized U.S. citizen killed Oct. 29 in a suicide bombing in northern Somalia.
The FBI would not say whether Mr. Ahmed was a bomber or victim in the attack, in which five terrorists killed themselves and 29 others. In another incident, U.S. officials confirmed that a missile strike in Somalia had killed a Seattle man suspected of being an Islamist radical working with an al Qaeda-affiliated group. Ruben Shumpert, a Muslim convert who changed his name to Amir Abdul Muhaimin, had been wanted on federal gun charges. He was killed in Somalia sometime before Oct. 1, said U.S. officials who described the strike as part of anti-terrorist military operations carried out in recent months.
"The FBI is aware of the issue," said Richard Kolko, an FBI spokesman in Washington. "We know many in the Somali community are concerned about it."
Mr. Kolko declined further comment. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/dec/29/somalis-in-us-draw-fbi-attention/

President Yusuf's personal security force and Puntland Army force supporting the TFG leaving Mogadishu

MOGADISHU, Somalia Dec 28 More than 120 people including soldiers and their families flew out of Mogadishu Sunday, 3000 Puntland Army force supporting the TFG are about to leave from Mogadish , they are preparations begin for the expected resignation of interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf,African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers stood guard at Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport, watching as the plane loaded its passengers.passengers.Most of the passengers are members of President Yusuf's personal security force, who protected his residence at the Villa Somalia presidential compound.The plane reportedly landed in Galkayo, in the very peaceful region of Puntland, the Somali president's stronghold... NGO AND The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development has failed in somali peace- Some of the IGAD projects the regional body working include training on counter-terrorism, peace building. long-term agenda have been blackmail .. hawiye EX Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein.. Terror Sympathizer never have any power.responsible for successful dismantling TFG..The TFG has lost ground to Islamist insurgents since came to power .. YUSUF accused the IGAD regional body of sabotaging the TFG and trying to dismantle it before their term ended. IGAD does not want the TFG to function.. he said Negotiating with terrorists is not an option.. he call meeting in Djibouti political conspiracy against TFG and Hawiye clan deal.fraud. The prime minister and the leaders of the opposition groups who have negotiated a peace deal for Hawiye clan only.. he call self-interest groups belonging to one single clan, ..(HAWIYE)The Somali people had very high hopes in TFG and its o HAWIYE Own political power and tribal interest above that of the whole nation.Hawiye usc and SNM isaaq somaland have destroy our country

Key Somali official says president to quit Monday

MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia's president will resign Monday to try to end government infighting before the country's Ethiopian allies leave, a senior ally said Sunday in the latest in a series of conflicting statements on the leader's future.
President Abdullahi Yusuf will address a special session of the country's parliament to announce his retirement from politics, said Abdirashid Sed, a confidant of Yusuf and the most senior figure to comment so far on the president's plans."He decided to step down because he does not want to be seen as an obstacle to peace in Somalia," Sed told The Press. "He wants to give a chance to the younger generation The announcement came as 19 people died in clashes in the Horn of Africa nation that has been ravaged by 18 years of civil war.
The president's position has been in doubt since parliament last week blocked his attempt to fire Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein. The political infighting has crippled the Somali government, which came to power two years ago after Ethiopian troops attacked an mosty hawiye jehadist that had ruled much of south and the capital for six months. Terrorist insurgents now hold most of southern and central Somalia hawiye hartland . TFG administration only controls a few pockets of territory in the capital and one other town. The Ethiopian allies are due to pull out within days and the government will be forced to rely on their own unpaid and ill-disciplined fighters to tackle the insurgency. Terror Sympathizer Hussein a hawiye , a former humanitarian worker with broad international support, has welcomed talks with factions fighting in the civil war. He backed a peace deal signed with Islamic moderates that was criticized by Yusuf, a . Some analysts hope Yusuf's expected resignation and the departure of the Ethiopians may persuade the strongest and most hardline Islamic militia, al-Shabab, to enter peace talks. But some analysts say al-Shabab's Terrorist territorial gains have put it in a strong position and would have little incentive to talk with the pm hussein government.
Al-Shabab Terrorist fought with a moderate local Islamist group Sunday in the central Somali hawiye town of Dusamareeb, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) north of Mogadishu, leaving 10 dead, said witness Mohamud Jama Aden. The local militia accuses al-Shabab of harassing its members and destroying temples and tombs of respected clerics. A separate clash between hawiye jehadist rival militias left five dead Sunday in the central town of Galinsoor, said clan elder Guhad Yusuf Aw-nure. Meanwhile, Ethiopian troops in southern Mogadishu shot dead four civilians following a bomb blast near one of their bases, according to resident Abdi Haji Isaq.Any political solution would also depend on the powerful Hawiyre clan warlords and the businessmen who have profited from the chaos in Somalia, Somalia has not had a functioning government since hawiye warlords overthrew 1991, 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

Rival jehadist Militias seize town from jehadist al-shabaab Terrorist

GELINSOR .Local Somali militias jehadist have taken control of Gelinsor town 600 kilometers (360 miles) north of Mogadishu from jehadist known as Jabhal Islamia after heavy fighting that killed 8 people,witnesses said on Sunday.Spokesman for Jabhal Islamiya said a group that Ethiopia organized attacked them, he added the group used to rob and loot civilians in the town.
"Five battle wagons were captured from the Jabhal Islamiya insurgent group and were driven from the town," a resident, who did not want his name in print said.The Militias took control of the town after heavy fighting between the two sides.The clashes come as fighting is underway in Dhusamareb the provincial capital of Galgadug region in central Somalia between Al-shabab and allied local militias and Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a organization. Jabhal Islamia and Al-shabab jehadist are both insurgent groups that are fighting the Ethiopian troops in Somalia. There is power struggle among senior army commandants, .... divided between the three principal Hawiye Habar \Gidir clans cayr \ saleeb one side.e .and sacad from gal-mudug 'Other Side ..all of them of the SAVAGE hawiye clan\Habargidir... the Abgal subclan of the Hawiye clan. ..is Mogadishu- based faction of the Hawiye ..Government of Somalia [TFG], Nur Hasan .and.Djibouti-based Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia [ARS], Sheikh Sharif ..and Mogadishu shabaab

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Rival Islamist Militias Clash in Bloody Struggle for Somalia

Somalia al-Shabaab insurgents arrive in capital Mogadishu, Decemcer 27, 2008. Twelve people were killed on Saturday when an Islamist group seized control of a central Somali trading town in a battle with hardline al Shabaab militants, residents said. REUTERS

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Somalia Facing More instability as President Resigns

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Somalia at War – Between Radical Islam and Tribal Politics

The S. Daniel Abraham Center
for International and Regional Studies,
Tel Aviv University

Moshe Terdman
Research Paper No. 2
March 2008

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New rebel group formed to fight Al-Shabaab

An uprising against the armed religious al-Shabab group has begun in Dhoblei district in lower Jubba Region [southern Somalia]. The district is controlled by al-Shabaab. A group called the Jubba Resistance Front has been formed in the district Jubba Resistance Front spokesman Muhammad Adan told the press that the new group was set up by local people who could no longer endure the problems al-Shabaab were causing in the locality. "The group struggles for the restoration of rights of people living in Jubba regions as well as fights against those stirring strife among them," the spokesman said. He claimed that some local people were taken out of their homes and killed. He also stated that the group planned to establish in Jubba regions an autonomous administration called Jubbaland. He, however, said the group supports peace in Jubba regions and Somalia as a whole. This is the first time that war has been openly declared on al-Shabab, which is spearheading groups involved in armed resistance and has seized localities that had administrations. jubbaland consists Gedo, Lower Juba, Middle Juba region.
Analysis
Where is all of this leading?
For the foreseeable future, clan and intra-clan loyalties will continue to be the primary political forces in Somalia. The sub-“states” of Somaliland, Puntland, and Jubaland are all based on clan organizations. The most stable of these,
Somaliland, has the advantage of being controlled by a relatively homogenous clan, the Issaq, which dominates all of the other clans in the area Darood clans occupy the eastern border regions of Somaliland
jubbaland is for Two other Darood sub-clans, the Mareehan and Ogaden and the advantage of being controlled by a relatively homogenous clan mareehan.
Puntland is for Darood: (Sub-clans: Majeerteen, Mareehan, Dulbahante, Warsangali,) is controlled by majeerteen clan Those hawiye (usc\usc.sna\icu\shabaab\Islamist group of Ahlusunna .Government of Somalia [TFG], Nur Hasan ..Djibouti-based] Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia [ARS], Sheikh Sharif ..r Al Itihaad commander, Sheikh Hassan Dahir ‘Aways’Asmara-based wing of the Alliance for the R-libration .. (USC)Somali faction leader Already Dead Mohamed Farah Aideed http://www.netnomad.com/aydiidmort.html and
cayrow .http://terrorfreesomalia.blogspot.com/2008/05/background-about-adan-hashi-harahayrow.html savages are killing each other again, The Hawiye occupy central regions the The capital of Mogadishu

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Plans for a new state between the Juba River and the Kenyan border
Terror Free Somalia Foundation: Terrorist Islamist Al-Shabab ...
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Somalia: MP's Against Islamists
Condemnation of genocide in Kismay city (jubbaland state of somalia)
al- shabaab Terrorist official addresses residents of seized southern port city
Somali jihadists al-Shabaab Terrorist DEMOLISH church
Somali youth for peace workshop in Beled Hawa City (GADO) JUBBALAND
Barre Hirale steps up campaign against islamists