February 08, 2010

Via Somali reporter extraordinaire Rahm

Al-Shabab fighters have reportedly vacated their strongholds in Mogadishu ahead of a government offensive.According to sources, the group has been pulling out all its weapons and vehicles from its main stronghold ever since they heard the reports of an imminent government attack.

Other reports also suggested that other Al-Shabab strongholds, including the Daynile district, have witnessed large movements of military personnel and equipment. It is unclear if this is a military tactic that Al-Shabab is employing. In addition, five people were killed and dozens of others injured on Sunday in shelling that rocked parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu, medics and witnesses said...

Related:
Al Shabaab declares jihad on Kenya

February 01, 2010

Quite the propaganda piece you did akhi. Send money, join, etc. BTW, all your forums are belong to us.

Again...

Well yah BBC, we've known it all along.

Somali Islamist rebel group al-Shabab has confirmed for the first time that its fighters are aligned with al-Qaeda's global militant campaign.

The group said in a statement that the "jihad of Horn of Africa must be combined with the international jihad led by the al-Qaeda network".

January 26, 2010

Kenya charted a jet as several countries refused to grant the Revolution Muslim's(Yousef al Khattab) mentor a transit visa.
BBC

Kenya paid more than $500,000 to deport controversial Jamaican Muslim preacher Abdullah al-Faisal, according to Immigration Minister Otieno Kajwang.

He was finally expelled last week on a chartered jet, after Kenya had spent three weeks trying to deport him.

Meanwhile, two immigration officials have been suspended for letting Faisal into the country in the first place.

The cleric spent four years in a UK jail for soliciting the murder of Jews and Hindus.

Rahm, Terror Free Somalia

The Islamist group of Al Shabaab said it was behind the attack in revenge for what it called indiscriminate shelling of residential areas by AU peacekeeping forces in Mogadishu"We thank Allah for success of the mission....

Read the full report at above link, the go to guy for Somalia news.

January 24, 2010

Hussein Mohammed Ali, who was dressed in women attire and veil, has confessed before the court that he is among the Somalia’s hard-line insurgent group of Al-Shabaab and was planning to carry out attacks in the two regions.

January 22, 2010

A recording posted by a akhi on the forums wasn't really al Shabaab, really.

Must suck al Shabaab, all your forums are belong to us.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline al Shabaab rebels terrorists [FTFY...ed] denied Friday they had threatened to attack Kenya following a crackdown on Somalis in its capital Nairobi, and said a recording posted on the internet was a fake[...]

But al Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage told Reuters by telephone the group had not posted the recording.

"We didn't threaten Kenya. That story is a false one. We never posted that on the internet ... Everything needs to be checked first by the media to make sure they know what they are writing about," Rage said.

January 13, 2010

The planes are said to shuttle drugs between South American to areas where al Qaeda operates in Africa. Al Qaeda then helps funnel the drugs into Europe.

Al Qaeda with access to a fleet of jumbo jets. What could possibly go wrong?

The clandestine fleet has grown to include twin-engine turboprops, executive jets and retired Boeing 727s that are flying multi-ton loads of cocaine and possibly weapons to an area in Africa where factions of al Qaeda are believed to be facilitating the smuggling of drugs to Europe, the officials say....

An examination of documents and interviews with officials in the United States and three West African nations suggest that at least 10 aircraft have been discovered using this air route since 2006.

Officials warn that many of these aircraft were detected purely by chance. They caution that the real number involved in the networks is likely considerably higher. ...

The upshot, he said, is that militant organizations -- including groups like the FARC and al Qaeda -- have the "power to move people and material and contraband anywhere around the world with a couple of fuel stops."

January 11, 2010

Via Breitbart

COPENHAGEN (AP) - Prosecutors filed a preliminary charge of terrorism Monday against a Somali man accused of trying to kill a Danish cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.

The man had faced a preliminary charge of attempted murder for breaking into Kurt Westergaard's home in Aarhus, in western Denmark, Jan. 1 armed with a knife and an ax.

Prosecutor Marian Thomsen said investigators changed the preliminary charge to terrorism, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, after questioning the suspect over the weekend for the first time since his arrest.

Westergaard, 74, locked himself in a safe room and was not injured. The suspect was shot by police in the hand and knee, but was not seriously injured and is being held in jail pending the outcome of the investigation.

Related:The Somali has close ties to alQaeda linked al Shabaab

January 10, 2010

Hmmm, which one?

MOGADISHU, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A pro-government militia in Somalia executed a commander from the al Shabaab rebel group in public on Sunday, ramping up the stakes in battles for central regions of the failed Horn of Africa state.

The Ahlu Sunna Waljamaca militia, which is aligned with Somalia's weak Western-backed government, has been fighting al Shabaab insurgents in central Galagadud region. The United States says al Shabaab is al Qaeda's proxy in the country.

Ahlu Sunna's spokesman said it had captured many rebels during clashes last week around Galgadud's capital Dusamareb, including the commander who was sentenced to die by firing squad after he refused to renounce al Shabaab's hardline ideology.

January 05, 2010

Oops wrong image, I meant this:

Via terrorist mouthpiece Al Jazeera

An offshoot of al-Qaeda has emerged in the deserts of North Africa, claiming an area it calls the Sahara Emirate.

The group roams the border region of Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Morocco.

Update from famous Jawa friend Rahm.

One of the most visible leaders of an Al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist militia in Somalia spent a year in Toronto ingratiating himself into the Somali immigrant community as a convert to Islam.

The Toronto Somalia community are none too happy they were fooled by the bastage.

BTW, from a akhi "Al-Shabaab Military Parade - Graduation Of Trained Mujahideen In Brand-New Uniforms"

Another forum member commented "look at their wonderful new uniforms". Doofus!!

December 30, 2009

This was given little attention apparently until now. The flight was headed to Dubai.

Via FNC

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner, officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday[...]

A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident in Somalia is similar to the attempted attack on the Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day in that the Somali man had a syringe, a bag of powdered chemicals and liquid — tools similar to those used in the Detroit attack. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified because he isn't authorized to release the information.

December 18, 2009

The terrorist youths are blasphemers for doing Christmas shopping.

Via Mail&Guardian

Heavily armed al-Shabaab fighters stormed three Unmas compounds in Baidoa, a city that lies 250km west of Mogadishu, on Thursday.

"They took the computers and every piece of equipment they could find," a local elder, who asked to be named only as Ahmed, told Agence France-Presse. "We tried to stop the looting but al-Shabaab wouldn't listen."

December 06, 2009

He posed as a female....short but graphic vid:

December 3, 2009 -Mogadishu - A suicide bomber disguised as a veiled woman killed at least 19 people, including three Somali government ministers, on Thursday at a medical graduation ceremony in a Mogadishu hotel, witnesses and officials said.

It was the worst attack in the lawless Horn of Africa nation since June, when hardline al Shabaab insurgents killed the security minister and at least 30 More.. other people in a suicide bombing at a hotel in the town of Baladwayne.

December 02, 2009

Al-Qaeda linked al Shabab gave three young Somali forty lashes each for watching porn on their mobile phones. Another was given 10 lashes for listening to music.

Terrorists suckuth

November 30, 2009

Hopey Changey is feeling terrorists love.

The recruits gather in scorching desert hideouts in Somalia, use portraits of President Barack Obama for target practice, learn how to make and detonate bombs, and vow allegiance to Osama bin Laden.

Training camps in the lawless nation of Somalia are attracting hundreds of foreigners, including Americans, and Somalis recruited by a local insurgent group linked to al-Qaida, according to local and U.S. officials. American officials and private analysts say the camps pose a security threat far beyond the borders of Somalia, including to the U.S. homeland.

September 24, 2009

Did you know that the U.S. embassy in South Africa was closed this week? What a few years ago would have been news worthy of discussion has been relegated to the back pages.

Something known by those in our behind the scenes webgroup, but not something I've heard reported in the MSM until today: there are a lot of radical Islamists in South Africa.

This may even shock most South Africans, who over the past decade have become so hypersensitive at being labeled an apartheid sympathizer if not properly displaying the correct multicultural attitudes that they've turned a blind eye to the growing threat.

From Terror Free Somalia:

he security threat that led to all U.S. government facilities in South Africa being closed this week came from an al-Qaeda splinter group, a South African newspaper reported on Thursday.The U.S. facilities were closed from Tuesday following a threat that the U.S. State Department had said was based on "pretty credible information".The Star newspaper said that, according to "well-placed security sources", the group had telephoned the U.S. embassy in Pretoria on Monday warning of planned attacks against several of the country's buildings in South Africa.

September 14, 2009

Here's the FBI's page on Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan. He's wanted in connection with -- well, pretty much all of al Qaeda's activities in subsaharan Africa. He's also a key link between al Qaeda and the al Shabaab being both an al Qaeda operative and al Shabaab commander.

Or, make that was:

Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan and another person are thought to have been killed in the southern town of Barawe during a raid by what was originally reported to be French commandos; the raid is now said to have been carried out by US Special Forces.

Nabhan fires a rifle. Image by Nick Grace. Click to view.

Witnesses said foreign troops swept into the town on helicopters, fired missiles from an attack helicopter, killed Nabhan and another terrorist, and captured two others after wounding them, Mareeg reported. Nabhan's body was recovered, ABC News later reported.

More at Long War Journal.

I may have more on this later as I know of some Barawe centered resources, but something else is breaking. This one a little closer to home and to The Jawa Report.....

UPDATE: Looks like me and Newbie were blogging at the same time.

September 03, 2009

Looks like Somalia's US backed "President", Sheikh Sharif Ahmed -- leader of the Taliban-like Islamic Courts Union -- is back in talks with his on-again, off-again friend/rival Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys -- leader of the al Qaeda like Hizbul Islam.

Aweys is closely aligned with al Qaeda and is wanted in the U.S. for his role in the African embassy bombings.

Peace at all costs!

The story is here.

August 10, 2009

Apparently gold and silver teeth are at a premium.

August 06, 2009

About those Nigerian "Taliban". Just when you thought it was as bad as it could get, it gets worse:

“The pastors alongside one Ibo man were asked to change their faith to Islam like they did to other people taken as hostages. I think there was an argument by one of the pastors which gave the others some level of confidence to also resist accepting Islam.

“The Yusufiya men who were armed on that Tuesday afternoon were not comfortable with the pastors and they took one of them to the sect leader in his inner chamber. They came out later to the courtyard within the compound and cut their heads one after the other and thereafter, shouted allah akbar in wild celebration accompanied with several gun shots,” the eye witness disclosed.

UPDATE and RELATED: Over at Anwar al-Awlaki's site he publishes a letter praising the Nigerian Taliban. As a reminder, al-Awlaki is scheduled to be a key note speaker at an upcoming London fundraiser.

August 04, 2009

Update on Terrorist Attack On Aussie Army Base Thwarted

The four are Nayaf El Sayed, Saney Aweys, Yacqub Khayre and Abdirahman Ahmed. Apparently they heart alQaeda linked Somali group al Shabaab. They liked using the telephone and kept in touch with each other through text messaging all of which led to their arrest.

Times

Nick Robinson, prosecuting, told the court that the men, named as Nayaf El Sayed, Saney Aweys, Yacqub Khayre and Abdirahman Ahmed, planned to arm themselves and enter the Holsworthy base to try to kill as many soldiers as possible.

"To become self-proclaimed martyrs?" Peter Reardon, the magistrate, asked.

"Yes," Mr Robinson replied.

Text messages uncovered by investigators were read out to the court, including one sent from another suspect on March 24 that read: "Can you give me the address of the Australian A and the name of the train station."

Mr Robinson said another text message had been sent from a pay phone on March 27 giving directions to the Holsworthy base from the train station.

He said that CCTV footage showed that the suspect had "attended" the Holsworthy base on March 28. The man then allegedly sent a text message which read: "I strolled around... it is easy to enter."....

Operation Neath was launched after police intercepted a phone call between an Australian-Lebanese man they had been monitoring, and a Somali living in Melbourne, in which the Lebanese asked for help to travel to Somalia to fight with al-Shabaab, The Australian reported.

The Lebanese man’s calls had been monitored after he came to the attention of the authorities for espousing extremist views at his local mosque in Melbourne. Over the following months the police became increasingly concerned as the group discussed ways in which they could obtain weaponry and planned to seek a religious ruling supporting an attack on Holsworthy barracks.

Slide show from the Times. Image #8 is a suspect but unfortunately he has covered his face with a paper.

August 03, 2009

Apparently the supposed terror cell was inspired by alQaeda linked al-Shabaab.

The Australian - A PLOT by Islamic extremists in Melbourne to launch a suicide attack on an Australian Army base has been uncovered by national security agencies.
Federal and state police, armed with search warrants, swooped on members of the suspected terror cell this morning, as they seek to arrest Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese background in what will be the second-largest counter-terrorism operation in the nation's history.

The men are expected to be charged with a range of terrorism-related offences.

Authorities believe the group is at an advanced stage of preparing to storm an Australian Army base, using automatic weapons, as punishment for Australia's military involvement in Muslim countries. It is understood the men plan to kill as many soldiers as possible before they are themselves killed

Electronic surveillance on the suspects is believed to have picked up discussions about ways to obtain weapons to carry out what would be the worst terror attack on Australian soil.

The cell has been inspired by the Somalia-based terrorist movement al-Shabaab, with two Melbourne men, both Somalis, having travelled to Somalia in recent months to obtain training with the extremist organisation, which is aligned with al-Qa'ida.

One of those men has already returned to Melbourne. The other is still in Somalia.

July 30, 2009

National Post

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Nigerian security forces captured the leader of a radical Islamic sect responsible for days of clashes which have killed more than 180 people, police in the northern state of Borno said on Thursday.

"Mohammed Yusuf has been arrested. He is now at the Giwa barracks," Borno state police commissioner Christopher Dega told reporters.

Bursts of gunfire rang out in the city of Maiduguri and helicopters hovered overhead as the police and army went from door to door hunting followers of radical preacher Mohammed Yusuf, the leader of the Boko Haram sect.

The violence erupted when members of the group, which wants a wider adoption of sharia (Islamic law) across Africa's most populous nation, were arrested on Sunday in Bauchi state on suspicion of planning an attack on a police station.

Yusuf vowed revenge for this. Didn't work out the way you wanted did it Yusuf - heh

Update: Looks like Yusuf died while in custody - so sad - not!
h/t whocaresanymore in comments

July 29, 2009

On suspicion of aiding Alqaeda linked Al Shabaab.

Bartamaha. MOMBASA, KENYA (Reuters) – Kenyan police are questioning four Dutch passport-holders who were arrested on suspicion of aiding Somalia’s al Shabaab insurgents, a local government official said on Wednesday.

The four men — three who were born in Morocco and the fourth in Somalia — were stopped by police on Monday while on their way to Kiunga on the Kenya-Somalia border.

“The al Shabaab group has been receiving humanitarian and technical help from foreigners and we suspect the people we have in custody were in that area to do exactly that,” Stephen Ikua, Lamu district commissioner, said.

July 27, 2009

The Taliban in ..... Nigeria? Wow, I thought the fact that half of Nigeria was Muslim would insulate that country from evil groups like the Taliban. You know, since Islam is all about the love, peace, and harmony.

And just like the Afghan and Somali Taliban before them, this "Taliban" group has direct ties to al Qaeda and their propaganda machine.

I'm reading conflicting reports saying that the death toll is between a couple dozen all the way up to 150. The police say most of those killed are Taliban. The truth? Who knows.

Apparently they've been around since 2004. This weekend's attacks were apparently in response to the arrest of several bombmakers last week.

This is pretty troubling when combined with information I received from Chris over at Islam in Action that Nigerians were being spammed with emails directing them to view the recent release of a video from al Qaeda's Somali affiliate of an American inciting Muslims to jihad.

We know that recruitment of Americans to Somalia began years ago but that this was on no one's radar screen until last year --- after it was too late. One has to wonder the extent to which Islamists in Nigeria are reaching out to the diaspora in Europe, Canada, and the US? Not only on the recruiting front, but I'd be more concerned about how the diaspora is often tapped in fund raising efforts.

I hope somebody is watching this.

June 26, 2009

(Nairobi, Kenya) Yesterday, reports surfaced that al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab in Somalia was plotting to blow up a critical bridge in northern Kenya. In response, Kenya placed some military installations on high alert status with all leave time and off days cancelled.

Also, a Kenyan Police Rapid Response Unit has been dispatched to guard the bridge.

All vehicles and passengers are being thoroughly searched. "Our security is on high alert," government spokesman Alfred Mutua said during the weekly briefing in Nairobi on Thursday. [...]

In North Eastern Province, which borders Somalia, security forces were working to thwart possible infiltrations and cross-border movements by Islamist fighters. Most police stations and police posts across the barren frontier had been reinforced, according to police sources.

May 18, 2009

(Tripoli, Libya) In a ceremony last Wednesday, the flag of the United States was raised over the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli for the first time in 30 years.

Ambassador Gene Cretz was in attendance.

May 14, 2009

(Dem. Rep. of Congo) The Human Rights League of the Great Lakes (LDGL) has issued a report which indicates that Congolese soldiers are seeking out pygmies (pic) to sodomize in the belief that supernatural powers are gained.

"The village chief was stripped and (sodomised) in the presence of his wife, his children and daughter in-law," said the LDGL, which groups dozens of rights groups in Rwanda, Burundi and the DRC.

"The children in turn were stripped and raped in front of their father," said the group in a report.

April 18, 2009

Excellent article by Raymond Ibrahim @Jihad Watch

During the recent Somali pirate standoff with U.S. forces, when American sea captain Richard Phillips was being held hostage, Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer confidently concluded that “the good news is that these [pirates] are not jihadists. If it’s a jihadist holding a hostage, there is going to be a lot of death. These guys are interested not in martyrdom but in money.”

In fact, the only good news is that Richard Phillips has been rescued. The bad news is that what appears to have been a bunch of lawless, plunder-seeking Somalis “yo-hoing” on the high seas is, in fact, a manifestation of the jihad — as attested to by both Islamic history and doctrine. more...

April 17, 2009

Pirate helpers for alQaeda.

A senior Saudi Arabian al Qaeda operative has called on Somali jihadists to step up their attacks on "crusader" forces at sea in the pirate-infested Gulf of Aden, and on land in neighboring Djibouti, which hosts France’s largest military base in Africa.

"To our steadfast brethren in Somalia, take caution and prepare yourselves," Sa'id Ali Jabir Al Khathim Al Shihri (aka Abu Sufian al-Azdi) says in a new audiotape acquired by CBS News. "Increase your strikes against the crusaders at sea and in Djibouti."

Shihri warns Somali militants against a conspiracy led by "the crusaders, the Jews and traitor Arab rulers," to put an end to the Muslim extremists' progress in Somalia.

A maritime intelligence source tells CBS News correspondent Sheila MacVicar that interaction between pirate groups and Somalia's al Qaeda-linked groups was first noticed about nine months ago, and has been on the rise.

The source said it was now "inconceivable" to Western intelligence agencies that al Qaeda would not be getting some financial reward from the successful hijackings. The question, says the intelligence source, is whether that cut will remain sufficient to keep the Islamic extremist group satisfied as piracy gains public attention, and bigger ransoms.

Flopping Aces has a lengthy post on this. Check it out.

April 15, 2009

Pirates did promise they would beef up their attacks on French and US Vessels. Didn't work out well...heh.

April 15 (Bloomberg) -- The French Navy captured 11 pirates off Kenya and a U.S. cargo vessel evaded rocket fire as Somali hijackers followed through on a threat to increase attacks.

The pirates were seized after their attempt to hijack the Safmarine Asia, a Liberian-registered cargo ship, was thwarted by a helicopter from the frigate Nivose late yesterday, France’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. They were tracked overnight and were picked up along with their three boats at dawn, 900 kilometers (560 miles) east of Kenya’s port of Mombasa

“I am so pleased that an American ship is damaged but unfortunately I would be happier if American natives would die or be hijacked on that ship,” Mohamed Hashi Yasin, a self- declared pirate spokesman, said today in a mobile-telephone interview from the Somali town of Eyl. “I congratulate those who implemented the attempted attack but I am calling on all of my friends to redouble their operations against Americans.”

April 13, 2009

Terrorist showing their anger over release of Captain Phillips, good thing they were lousy shots.

NJ News: New Jersey Rep. Donald Payne flies from Mogadishu, depite[sic] mortar fire

Update: al-Reuters is reporting al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab behind attack.

Apparently al-Shabaab leader Abu Mansur has accused current interim President, Sharif Ahmed, of selling the sea to Kenya. I suppose this is the excuse he uses for praising the Somali pirates for protecting their coastline. Be sure to read it all, some crazy shite right there.

From Terror Free Somalia.

Terrorist leaders in southern Somalia associated with Islamist factions have hailed recent pirate attacks off the coast of the Horn of Africa region, Radio Garowe reports. In separate comments, Terrorist al-Shabaab,spokesman jehadist Muktar Robow "Abu Mansur" and Ras Kamboni Brigade leader Sheikh Hassan Abdullahi "Turki" have hailed ship-hijackings by Somali pirates.In Baidoa, capital of Bay region, Abu Mansur told reporters that the pirates are "protecting the Somali coast."

April 07, 2009

Fortunately?, he was busted in Somalia while driving a explosive laden vehicle. No virgin goats for him, yet.

April 06, 2009

Must be a follow up to the earlier alShabaab "Rap" jihadi propaganda video which featured another apparent American.

The FBI won't confirm if the two are missing Somalia American youths from Minnesota:

Two young Americans who left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia held a rare “press conference” in Southern Somalia on Monday, saying they want to be killed “for the sake of God,” according to a U.S. law enforcement official and a video posted on a Somali news Web site.

Last month, a source familiar with the FBI investigation told FOX News that “several” of the men had returned to the United States, while others “are still there [in Somalia]." Today is the first time any of these men have spoken publicly.

"We came from the U.S. with a good life and a good education, but we came to fight alongside our brothers of al-Shabaab … to be killed for the sake of God,” one man said in the video, as translated by Omar Jamal, the executive director of the Somali Justice Advocacy Center in St. Paul, Minn.

In the video, two men, identifying themselves as Abu-Muslim and Abu Yaxye, say they are “Somali youth” from the United States who are now stationed near the city of Kismayo, more than 300 miles southwest of Mogadishu, according to Jamal. The men say they are talking to media for the first time so others can learn why they joined al-Shabaab, he said.

At their press conference, the men did not say exactly how many other U.S. citizens have joined al-Shabaab, but they insisted that “many” Somali-Americans are now “all over Somalia to join the Jihad,” according to Jamal's translation.

“Some of us are still in training, others are on the frontline of the Jihad,” Abu-Muslim said in the video, according to Jamal. “Sadly a few of us are dead, one of whom carried out a suicide bombing.”

April 01, 2009

Via Terror Free Somalia
Interesting tidbit:

"Actually, it's very tough [for] law-enforcement agencies, especially the FBI, to go back and get information from Somalia," Ahmed(Osman Ahmed, a distant uncle of missing 17-year-old Burhan Hassan) said. "But as Somalis, we know each other, we have a tribe over there, we have friends, we are connected to the Somali government because we supported it. So we are trying in any way we can to get information."

Further reading of the article from the link Terror Free Somalia provided leads to this:

Another uncle of 17-year-old Burhan Hassan is constantly calling up his old friends about the fate of the missing men. Abdirizak Bihi said these friends from his homeland have told him that the missing men are being held captive in the southern part of Somalia that Al-Shabaab controls. He believes an unknown recruiter in Minnesota lured his nephew to Somalia under a false pretext.

"Someone here -- some people, some group, someone -- has been painting a perfect picture of Somalia," Bihi said. "That is being confirmed by some of the conversations we've been having with people on the ground in Somalia."

Bihi said his friends have told him that the young Americans "are being watched, they are heavily guarded, and heavily trained -- mentally and physically." He declined to explain how they were gathering such information, saying he didn't want to jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

A new radio that is said to be an Islamic station has been opened in Kismayo town (southern Somalia) which is controlled by al- Shabaab..... [W]we learnt that the radio is owned by the Islamist jehadist administration in the area though they agreed not make it public in order to make the station free for business.

This comes at a time when all other redio in the area are still closed after the station disagreed with the Islamists jehadist over airing of music programmes.This new radio station will be the only station operating in Kismayo

You can listen to the report on the missing men here:

March 28, 2009

TFS:

al Shabaab designated Somali alQaeda

jubaland region, composed of lower juba. Middle juba, Gedo provinces of Southwest Somalia.
Terrorist Hassan Al-Turki is military leader in jubaland Al-Shabaab

Terror Free Somalia is working on posting a complete list of the most dangerous jihadist in the Jubbaland region.

Read what they have so far here.

Certainly will be looking forward to the complete list.

March 25, 2009

Daily Nation

A Somali militant group has kidnapped four Kenya government officers in North Eastern Province.

The Al-Shabaab abducted the officials on their way to attend the Provincial primary school ball games tournament in Mandera town.

Wajir South District Education Officer Mr Moses Mwangi, his Quality Assurance colleague Mr Charles Nyakundi, the Provincial Quality Assurance officer Mr Onchiri Onyancha, their driver, a Mr Abdullahi, and an unnamed Wajir South based education officer were abducted at about 10 am.

The vehicle they were travelling in was reportedly intercepted by heavily armed Al- Shabaab militiamen terrorists[...ed] who commandeered it into Somalia.

The Al-Shabaab militiamen terrorists[..ed], who have taken over control of vast parts of Somalia are accused of entering Kenyan territory and abducting aid workers in exchange for ransom.

Intelligence and security officials are concerned about the recent increased Al Shabaab activity in North Eastern Province.

Possibly related:
Part I - A Mosque Under Fire
Part II - Relative of Missing Somalia Man Speaks