October 30, 2008
(Update)Suicide Attacks Kill Dozens in Somalia
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Al-Shabaab, alQaeda's front in Somalia, was likely behind the bombings.
Al-Shabaab is the youth arm of the Islamic terrorist movement. February of this year al-Shabaab were designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224.
Apparently Shabaab terrorists didn't like the condition of the "peacetalks" held Tuesday.
Three car bombs attack UN, diplomatic and government institutions in the breakaway Somaliland region[...]Analysts believe the timing of the bombings was no accident. Regional heads of state, including Somalia's president, Abdullahi Yusuf, were meeting yesterday in Nairobi to discuss the country's future. Peace efforts had received a boost over the weekend when Yusuf's government and the opposition Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia (ARS) signed a deal in Djibouti agreeing to a ceasefire, and a phased withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
But a breakaway wing of the ARS, as well as the Shabaab, rejected the deal. They refuse to enter negotiations before the complete withdrawal of the Ethiopian forces that invaded Somalia in December 2006 to oust an Islamist authority from power.
Previously during peace negotiations the Shabaab has launched large attacks, mainly in Mogadishu, to demonstrate that they have control on the ground.
Negotiating with terrorists works so well - not.
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Update by Howie: They still have a US based website hosted by Dotster.
Update II: Muslim cleric, Sheikh Mohamed Ismail arrested in connection to attacks.
