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Somalia
Somali rebels unite, profess loyalty to al Qaeda
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Shabaab suicide bomber kills seven at Mogadishu medical clinic
A suicide bomber detonated his vest at a clinic at the Mogadishu airport that is used by African Union troops.
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Shabaab looks to the Somali North
The al Qaeda-linked group has initiated a terror campaign in Puntland and has threatened to take over the semi-autonomous region and the breakaway republic of Somaliland.
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Somalia
Stop hiding in Kenya, Somali MPs told
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Al Qaeda
US feared attack on Obama inauguration by Somali extremists from Canada
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Al Qaeda
I shall send hundreds of men to fight alongside our neighbours, vows al-Qaeda ally in Somalia
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Somalia
Wretched, jobless, invisible: are Britain™s Somalis the enemy within?
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Al Qaeda
Somalia™s chaos spreading far beyond its frontier and coastline
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Al Qaeda
Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs
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Somalia
Battle against piracy can only be won in Somalia itself, not at sea
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Al Qaeda
Cleric in Fort Hood probe grew more radical in Yemeni jail
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Somalia
Somalis rally against al-Shabab Islamists and bombing
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Suicide bomber kills 3 Somali ministers
The ministers of health, education, and higher education, along with two reporters from Shabelle and Al Arabia were among 19 killed in a suicide attack at a graduation ceremony for medical students at a hotel in Mogadishu.
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Arrest in Netherlands may yield insight into Shabaab recruiting networks
Yesterday the Star Tribune (published in Minneapolis-St. Paul) reported on a seemingly significant arrest in the Netherlands related to the al Shabaab recruiting networks that have centered on the Twin Cities area. From the Star Tribune: A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the recruitment of up to 20 young Somali men from Minnesota to train and fight with terrorists in their homeland…. The identity of the man, who was arrested Sunday at an asylum-seeker’s center 45 miles northeast of Amsterdam, was not released. But Special Agent E.K. Wilson of the…
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Al Qaeda names Fazul Mohammed East African commander
Fazul has replaced Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who was killed during a US special operations raid in southern Somalia in mid-September. Shabaab’s leader praised the appointment.
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Somalia
Somali rebels ban musical ringtones on cellphones
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Shabaab threatens to attack Burundi and Uganda
Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein (right), during a prior press conference in Mogadishu. One day after a vicious exchange of mortar fire in Mogadishu that killed more than 30 people, Shabaab threatened to carry the fight to the capitals of Burundi and Uganda, two countries that have provided the bulk of the African Union peacekeepers in the Somali capital. Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, the leader of Shabaab in Mogadishu, made the threat during the press conference in Mogadishu. From Shabelle: “When every they, (the mercenary infidels) are often killed or inflicted casualties, they [take] revenge [on] the Somali people. If the…
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Somali minister aided Shabaab suicide attack
State Minister for Defense Sheikh Yusuf Mohammad Siad, who is better known as Indha’adde, sold intelligence to Shabaab that allowed the terror group to conduct a suicide attack that killed the deputy AMISOM commander and 20 others.
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Shabaab claims American was one of last week’s suicide bombers
A website affiliated with Shabaab celebrated a Somali-American from Seattle as one of the suicide bombers who conducted a complex assault against the African Union peacekeeper base in Mogadishu last week. The suicide bombers easily entered the AMISOM military compound while driving two white vehicles with United Nations markings. “We thought they were real UN cars carrying white people,” a witness told Reuters. The drivers of the car “spoke English and identified themselves as being from the United Nations,” Somalia’s information minister said. Shabaab cannot rely on its usual, illiterate cannon fodder to target well protected objectives in Somalia, so…
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Somali al Qaeda leaders captured in last week’s raid?
Abu Mansur al Amriki (standing, background) at the Abu Suleim camp in Somalia. Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera has some interesting news on the covert raid conducted by US Special Forces, dubbed Celestial Balance, that targeted an al Qaeda leader in Southern Somalia on Sept. 14th. According to a local stringer for the newspaper, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was not killed but captured alive. Along with Nabhan, American commandos apprehended Abu Mansur al Amriki, the American convert to Islam who has become a commander in charge of military training for Shabaab. Amriki can be seen in Shabaab’s latest propaganda…
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Somalia’s Aweys calls for more suicide attacks
“Use suicide attacks to kill them,” al Qaeda-linked Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said during a sermon, referring to African Union troops.
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Shabaab suicide attack kills 9, including senior African Union commander
Two Shabaab suicide bombers drove cars with UN markings into an AMISOM compound in Mogadishu and detonated their explosives as senior African Union and Somali leaders met.
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Afghans accompanied Somalia al Qaeda leader
Nabhan fires a rifle in a videotape produced by al Qaeda’s media arm. Image by Nick Grace. Click to view. Daniele Raineri, an Italian journalist who writes for Il Foglio and a friend of The Long War Journal, passed along a tip about the commando raid that resulted in the death of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a senior al Qaeda leader in East Africa as well as a senior leader in Shabaab. According to Guido Olimpio, a security expert for Il Corriere della Sera, there were four Afghan nationals accompanying Nabhan when he was killed by US Navy SEALs in…
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Commando raid in Somalia is latest in covert operations across the globe
US special operations forces have conducted four other such strikes in Pakistan, Syria, and Madagascar since 2006.
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Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Somalia
Reports indicate Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed during a covert raid by US Special Forces in Barawe, a town in Southern Somalia under the control of Shabaab.
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Another American killed fighting for Shabaab
Image of a Shabaab fighter from the terror group’s website. The disturbing trend of US citizens being killed while fighting for al Qaeda-linked Shabaab in Somalia continues. From The Media Line, the fifth US citizen was killed during fighting in Mogadishu over the weekend: Al Shabaab fighters said Mohamed Hassan, a 21-year old American from Minnesota, was among the dead. At the time of printing it was not clear when Mr Hassan had arrived in Somalia. … U.S. officials believe that dozens of Americans have entered Somalia to join Al Shabaab’s ranks. At least three Americans have been killed fighting…
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Somalia’s Shabaab, Hizbul Islam seek merger
Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys told a crowd in Mogadishu that plans for a merger are moving forward.
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Sheikh Abu Mukhtar Robow
The senior Shabaab military commander has close links to al Qaeda.
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Somali security minister assassinated in suicide attack
More than 20 people, including the security minister and the former ambassador to Ethiopia, were killed in a suicide attack in central Somalia.
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Report: Shabaab leader wounded in Mogadishu explosion
Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohamed was wounded in an explosion during a meeting on the outskirts of the Somali capital. An unconfirmed report speculated he was killed.
