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Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida considered oil tankers as terror targets
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
Eulogies and fury: Jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden’s death
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Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American who is also known as Abu Mansoor al Amriki, spoke at a public rally in Afgoye for Osama bin Laden. Hammami vowed to avenge bin Laden and said the establishment of a global caliphate would come soon.
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American Shabaab commander speaks at rally for Osama bin Laden in Somalia
Omar Hammami appeared in public with other top Shabaab leaders and vowed to avenge the al Qaeda leader’s death. Hammami said that “the caliphate shall soon be reborn.”
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Shabaab mourns bin Laden’s death, vows to wage global jihad
“We shall never divert from the path of Sheikh Osama…” the Somali terror group’s spokesman said.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
Spies piece together al Qaeda playbook
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Al Qaeda
Somalia’s al Shabaab vows to avenge bin Laden
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Bin Laden ‘giving strategic direction’ to affiliates in Yemen, Somalia
The slain al Qaeda terror chief provided direction to “affiliates in Somalia and Yemen.”
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Shabaab
Protection fees, stolen ammo extend Somalia’s war
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Al Qaeda
FBI on war footing after Osama bin Laden’s death
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Somali human smuggler guilty in Texas
A Justice Department memo stated that authorities believed Dhakane facilitated the entry of “violent jihadists” into America.
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Somalia
Somalia, wobbly on ground, seeks control of its airspace
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Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American Shabaab military commander, released a nasheed glorifying death, and said he hoped to die as other senior al Qaeda leaders have died. Hammami’s tape refutes reports of his death from Somalia’s defense minister.
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American Shabaab commander Omar Hammami releases tape that mocks reports of his death
In Hammami’s latest rap-nasheed, he asks to die in a Predator strike, special operations raid, air strike, or cruise missile attack, like other top al Qaeda commanders.
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Shabaab
Somalia: Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a – We are ready to fight off al Shabaab
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Is the US launching airstrikes against Shabaab in Somalia?
Aircraft were spotted during an offensive against Shabaab in Dhobley in southern Somalia.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq
US sees few good options if Yemen government falls
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Aweys: Shabaab recruits ‘underage children to fight for us’
It isn’t every day that you get a terrorist leader to freely admit what an awful human he really is. Late last week, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a Shabaab commander and Specially Designated Global Terrorist with links to al Qaeda, proudly told how his organization recruits children to wage jihad. From Garowe: “We recruit underage children to fight for us, the children are ready to die for their country and religion” said Sheikh Aweys while addressing people in a mosque at Elasha Biyaha camps in outskirt of Mogadishu, the restive capital of Somalia. He adds they will continue recruiting underage…
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Shabaab
Somali Islamists could grab tankers for attacks
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American Shabaab commander alive, says US intel
US officials told The Long War Journal that Omar Hammami is believed to be alive. Somalia’s defense minister said last week that Hammami had been killed.
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Shabaab
Testimony doesn’t match furor over US terror hearing
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Shabaab commander Omar Hammami reported killed in Somalia
Somalia’s defense minister claimed today that the US citizen was killed during recent fighting, but the report is unconfirmed.
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Al Qaeda
In riven Somalia, Islamists dig in
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African Union
Somalia begins offensive against Shabaab
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Shabaab suicide attack kills 20 in Somali capital
The suicide bomber struck a police outpost near Mogadishu’s seaport. Six foreign fighters were reported to have been killed during clashes over the weekend.
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African Union
Peacekeepers in Somalia hit trenches of rebels
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Caucasus
Defection reveals foreigners’ role in Somali war
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Shabaab
Somalia’s toothless parliament votes itself another term
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Denmark
Denmark sentences cartoonist attacker to 9 years
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Shabaab executes deputy intel chief for ‘spying’ for US
Shabaab executed the group’s deputy intelligence chief yesterday after accusing him of spying for the US. Sunatimes.com has the story: Somalia’s extremist group of Al Shabaab has executed their intelligence chief’s deputy, accusing him of spying for FBI amid mounting disputes to suppress civilian harassments between the group’s leaders.. Ahmed Ali Hussein, known as Ahmed Keyse, who was serving as the militants chief of spy’s deputy, was charged with giving military information to FBI since 2004 and meeting with them. Meanwhile, Ahmed, 44-years-old, who was a close friend of the Al Shabaab’s reclusive leader Ahmed Abdi Godane [or Sheikh Muktar…
