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Somalia
Somali govt jails suspected al Qaeda operatives™ wives
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Somalia
One soldier and 8 civilians were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. A police station was also attacked. The government is blaming the Islamic Courts for the violence. Foreign terrorists from Yemen, Jordan, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Syria, Comoros, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Morocco and Somalia were arrested in Kenya. Yemen has detained 240 suspected Islamists fleeing Somalia.
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Somalia
Five were killed and 4 wounded during skirmishes in Mogadishu. Five Islamists, including an American and French national, were detained at the Kenyan border. Alsharq Alawsat reports American soldiers may be missing in the southern tip of Somalia. South African will not send troops.
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Somalia
US Won’t Rule out a Last-ditch Strike in Somalia
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Somalia
US ready to fund fast AU force for Somalia
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Somalia
Ethiopian troops have begun to withdraw, and the TFG says the first AU peacekeepers will arrive by Friday. The US would like to talk to ICU leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. A US Air Force AC-130 gunship has launched a second air strike against suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia.
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Somalia
Ethiopian Troops to begin leaving Mogadishu
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Somalia
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the former leader of the ICU, has surrendered to the Kenyan government. Ethiopian troops captured two Islamic Courts backers in a targeted raid. The commander of Ethiopian forces in central Somalia survived an ambush.
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Somalia
Americans captured in Somalia fighting for the ICU
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Somalia
Blackhawk Up: America’s return to Somalia
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Somalia
The African Union approved a plan to send nine battalions of African peacekeeping troops to Somalia. Gunmen in Mogadishu attacked a convoy of Ethiopian troops. The president’s palace was unsuccessfully assaulted.
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High Value Targets
Muhammad Hanif, in Afghan custody Senior Taliban, Abu Sayyaf detained, killed in Afghanistan and the Philippines; Islamic Courts leader possibly captured in Kenya, another killed in an airstrike; Pakistan on the hunt for al Qaeda leader Coalition forces have made some strides in degrading the leadership of the global Islamist movement. Two senior Taliban commanders were captured in Afghanistan, while the Philippine military continues to dismantle Abu Sayyaf’s leadership on the island of Jolo. Kenyan officials believe the Islamic Courts’ second in command was detained and another killed in an airstrike, while Pakistan is on the heels of an al…
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Somalia
Parliament Votes to Oust the House Speaker Aden
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Somalia
Kenya: Country Sends Ministers to Seek Troops for Somalia
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Somalia
Reports indicate Sheikh Ahmed Sharif, the leader of the Islamic Courts, has been captured in Kenyan (unconfirmed). Ras Kamboni, the Islamic Courts and al Qaeda base in the south, has fallen. Anti-government protests are occurring in northern Somaliland.
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The Fall of Ras Kamboni
Satellite map of southern Somalia. Click image to view. An unnamed senior Islamic Courts leader is captured in Kenya after Ras Kamboni is taken following five days of heavy fighting The al Qaeda and Islamic Courts base in Ras Kamboni, which sits on the southernmost tip of Somalia, has fallen to the joint Ethiopian and Somali assault force, according to Colonel Barre “Hirale” Aden Shire, the Somali Minister of Defense. After five days of heavy fighting, “Ethiopian forces and MiG fighter jets chased fleeing Islamic fighters into nearby forests and the fighting would continue,” reports Shabelle.
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Somalia
Somalia War Widens — Eritrea Sides with Al Qaeda
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Somalia
Somalia’s defense minister said Ras Kabomi has been taken, and the Islamists have fled into the woods west of the base. Parliament has approved a 3 month state of emergency, but the Speaker, who has ties to the Islamic Courts, opposes it. Warlords have agreed to merge their forces with the military.
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Somalia
Warlords join forces with Somalia’s army in quest for peace
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Somalia
Pentagon Sees Move in Somalia as Blueprint
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Somalia
Somali leader asks for US boots on the ground
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Somalia
US ground forces entered Somalia after an airstrike killed 8 to 10 terrorists. A Marine Special Operations Company is deploying the CENTCOM theater. Warlords in Mogadishu agreed to lay down their weapons after fighting with government forces in Mogadishu killed 8 and wounded 9.
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Kenya has detained the wives and families of al Qaeda operatives Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan while they ncrossed the Kenyan border at Ras Kamboni. Ethiopian and Somali troops are said to be heavily engaged with ICU forces outside Ras Kamboni. Al-Sudani, Mohammed and Nabhan are still alive. The Somali Deputy PM said a large part of the Islamic Courts funding comes from Britain.
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Somalia
US reportedly targeted 20 in Somalia
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Somalia
A Somali Jihadist: We’re Not al Qaeda
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U.S. Airstrikes Continue in Southern Somalia
(Jan. 8, 2007) – An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the “Wildcats” of Strike Fighter Squadron One Three One (VFA-131) lands aboard the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Click image to view. Reports of al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed have yet to be confirmed The U.S. is continuing to pound Islamic Courts and al Qaeda targets in southern Somalia. Reuters reports four towns “in an area close to Ras Kamboni,” – Hayo, Garer, Bankajirow and Badmadowe – were struck by U.S. air assets. Ras Kamboni is the location of the al Qaeda and Islamic…
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Somalia
Will the US Win in Somalia?
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Somalia
Britons held in Somali clash
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U.S. Helicopters Pound al Qaeda Targets in Southern Somalia
U.S. conducts second overt strike in Somalia, USS Eisenhower on station Satellite map of southern Somalia. Click image to view. As we noted yesterday, the AC-130 gunship attack on al Qaeda leaders in Somalia, followed by the movement of the Eisenhower carrier group from the Persian Gulf region to the Somali coast, indicated the U.S. entry into the fight in omalia was entering a new, active phase. Today, U.S. helicopters struck at al Qaeda targets in the southern tip of Somalia. The hunt for al-Qada and senior Islamic Courts leaders has expanded beyond Ras Kamboni. While the location of the…
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Somalia
America™s Boots on the Ground in Somalia
