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Jun 21, 2009 – 6:16:51 PM

Somalia Islamists warn against foreign intervention

MOGADISHU (AFP) — Somalia’s Islamist armed group Shebab warned Sunday against any foreign military intervention after the embattled government pleaded for help from its African neighbours.
“We are sending our clear warning to the neighboring countries…. Send your troops to [...]

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June 18, 2009

Somalia President Shaikh Sharif Ahmed addresses a press conference at the Presidential palace in Mogadishu on June 18, 2009, that followed the assasination of Somalia Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden [R] killed today in a suicide bombing incident targeting a hotel he was staying in Beledweyne north of capital, Mogadishu. Aden`s killing today [...]

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18 Jun 18, 2009 – 2:37:53 PM

BELETWEIN, Somalia June 18 (Garowe Online) – At least 20 were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing in a provincial town in central Somalia, including the country’s Security Minister, Radio Garowe reports.
The explosion occurred midday in Beletwein, the capital of Hiran region in [...]

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Posted: 6/14/2009 3:08:00 AM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
DOLOW ( Sh. M. Network ) – The Islamic organization of Hisbul Islam in Gedo region has warned fighting against the Islamist forces in the region accusing that some of the transitional government are organizing fighting in the region, officials said on Saturday.
Mohamed Ibrahim Indabur, head of the interior affairs for [...]

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Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:11:54 GMT

Kenyan army unit at the border with Somalia.

Kenya has been placed on high alert as a Somali group threatens invasion if Nairobi does not reduce its military presence on the Somali border.

If Kenya does not stop its military movement along the Somali-Kenya border towns, ‘our troops will [...]

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Jun 10, 2009 – 2:52:15 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia June 10 (Garowe Online) - At least 30 soldiers have defected from Somalia’s interim government and joined the rebel group Hizbul Islam, Radio Garowe reports.
Ahmed “Lashin” Sheikh Muhiyadin, commander of the defecting soldiers, told reporters in the capital Mogadishu Wednesday that the soldiers [...]

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Jun 7, 2009 – 5:35:41 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia June 7 (Garowe Online) – A Somali human rights group has reported that 123 people were killed in a single-day battle in central Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.
Elman human rights group, based in the Somali capital Mogadishu, issued a report on Sunday citing unnamed sources in the central [...]

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Young Britons join jihadi extremists leading the fight for an Islamic state; The rise in attacks and new weaponry used against Government troops is blamed on Western fighters, Tristan McConnell writes

May 23, 2009

Al-Shabab militiamen fire on Somali government troops in the streets of Somalia`s capital, Mogadishu on May 22, 2009.
Up to a thousand foreign [...]

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

Shaykh Ali dheere is appointed the official spokesman of Shabaab al Mujahidiin

الحمدُ لله ربّ العالمين والصّلاة والسّلام على نبيّنا محمّد و على آله وصحبه أجمعين
On Thursday, May 21, 2009, the Supreme Council of Shabaab al Mujahidiin appointed Shaykh Ali Mahmud Ragi known as Shaykh Ali dheere , formerly the ruler of [...]

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Al-Sharq al-Awsat Online
Monday, May 18, 2009

Hizbul Islam fighters reload their weapons in the vicinity of the presidential palace in Mogadishu on May 14, 2009. Somalia`s president was holed up in his compound and residents fleeing Mogadishu today, as Islamist insurgents prepared for a final push to seize power, witnesses and officials said. Insurgents have [...]

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May 19, 2009

On this morning, I learned of the fact that the Ethiopian armed forces have been re-deployed in central Somalia. By all accounts, the Ethiopian army has taken the Kala-Beyr Junction, a strategic location in the Hiiraan province of Somalia. This news does not come as surprise to me, for I know that [...]

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Fighting in and around Mogadishu has
sparked a civilian exodus [AFP]

Ethiopian troops have reportedly crossed the border into Somalia as fighting there intensifies between government forces and Islamist fighters, witnesses said.
Although the Ethiopian government denied this, witnesses said on Tuesday that they saw troops in Kalabeyr, a town that links southern, central and northern Somalia to the Ethiopian border.
Tabane [...]

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Posted: 5/17/2009 6:02:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA JOWHAR (Sh. M. Network) –  Al-shabab Isalamists have captured the strategic town of Jawhar which connects Mogadishu and central Somalia towns, witnesses said on Sunday.   Jowhar is 90 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu and al-Shabab and the pro government Islamic Courts Union have fought in Garsale village about 25 kilometers south [...]

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May 13, 2009 – 11:39:19 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 13 (Garowe Online) – The reclusive leader of Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamist faction has spoken via a taped recording where he urged fighters to continue the ‘jihad,’ as at least 7 people were killed in renewed clashes in the capital Mogadishu Wednesday, Radio [...]

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May 12, 2009 – 9:53:33 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 12 (Garowe Online) – A senior member of Somalia’s Al Shabaab Islamist faction has defended the presence of foreign fighters from across the Muslim world who are fighting against the interim government in Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.
Sheikh Hussein Ali Fidow, the Al Shabaab head [...]

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May 12, 2009 – 8:26:57 AM

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 12 (Garowe Online) – The president of Somalia’s beleaguered interim government held a press conference at the Villa Somalia presidential compound Monday, as at least 10 people were killed in the capital Mogadishu in the fifth day of fighting, Radio Garowe reports.
President Sheikh Sharif [...]

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May 11, 2009 – 1:01:44 PM

KISMAYO, Somalia May 11 (Garowe Online) – Islamists in Somalia’s southern port of Kismayo have declared that the ongoing war in the capital Mogadishu will not stop, Radio Garowe reports.
Sheikh Abubakar Sayli’i, the Al Shabaab-appointed mayor of Kismayo, told a Monday press conference that the group had [...]

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

و إنَّ جُنـْدَنا لَهُمْ الغـَالِبُون
A great victory from Allah after four days of heavy fighting between the Soldiers of Allah and the soldiers of shaytan
الحمدُ لله ربّ العالمين والصّلاة والسّلام على نبيّنا محمّد و على آله وصحبه أجمعين
After four straight days
of violent fighting between the forces of Alla and the [...]

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May 9, 2009 – 1:36:59 PM

MOGADISHU, Somalia May 9 (Garowe Online) – At least five people were wounded Saturday in the Somali capital Mogadishu as pro-government forces and insurgent militias battled over control of a police station, Radio Garowe reports.
The fighting erupted in Mogadishu’s Yaaqshiid district, forcing local businesses to shut [...]

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Posted: 5-9-2009 12:10:00 AM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network)—At least one civilina was killed and two others were injured after fresh fighting between pro- government Islamist forces and al-Shabab started around Stadium Mogadishu witness said on Friday.
The two sides fought in Mogadishu on Thursday. Residents told Shabelle Media the two sides have used heavy machine guns [...]

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Posted: 5-9-2009 4:54:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – Sheik Ali Mohamed Hussein, an agent for the Islamic organization of Al-shabab in Banadir region has denounced the Somali clerics on Saturday that they sought refuge from what he described “the enemy of the people”.
Sheik Ali accused the Somali clerics for not coming the Mujahidin (Islamist [...]

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6 May , 2009 – 1:31:36 PM

KISMAYO, Somalia May 6 (Garowe Online) – Islamist hardliners in southern Somalia have vowed that the ongoing war will continue whether or not African Union peacekeepers (AMISOM) withdraw from Somalia, Radio Garowe reports.
Sheikh Hassan Yakub, spokesman for the Al Shabaab rulers in the southern port of Kismayo, [...]

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May 3, 2009

Cold War Origins

For the past seven months world news outlets have provided daily coverage on what has been described as escalating piracy off the coast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden and attempts by international, primarily Western, military vessels to combat it.
Absent from such reporting, as the exigencies of commercial news broadcasting [...]

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MYM Jihadist Magazine Presents Somali President`s Actions of Apostasy
Jihadist Websites
Friday, April 3, 2009

In this undated image provided Friday April 3, 2009, by IntelCenter, a man who calls himself an American appears on a video, recently posted on a web site of the Islamic militant group in Somalia, the Global Islamic Media Front, with an [...]

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Forum Member Accuses Somali President of Combating Islam, Deceiving Muslims

Jihadist Websites
Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Somalia`s President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed addresses a news conference at his palace in Mogadishu March 28, 2009.
Forum Member Accuses Somali President of Combating Islam, Deceiving Muslims on 3 April, a forum participant posted to a jihadist website an article entitled “The [...]

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Friday 9 Rabi’ Al-awal 1430 (6/03/2009)
We informing the Muslim Nation that the period of sending questions to the amiir/leader of the movement of the Mujahideen of Al-Shabaab, Sheikh Mukhtar Abdirahman Abu Zubeyr(ha) have ended.
The Media office of the Mujahideen of Al-Shabaab will convey the answers of the questions as audio tapes; on [...]

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Posted: 3/16/2009 4:11:00 PM

Shabelle: SOMALIA
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network)–al-Shabab Islamists claimed Monday victory over fighting in central Somalia which killed many people on Saturday and Sunday in Wabho and Dac Villages of Elbur district in central Somalia.
The spokesman of al-Shabab Sheik Mukhtar Robow Ali (Abu Mansur) claimed that they have killed more fighters from what he [...]

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Posted: 3/14/2009 3:39:00 PM
Shabelle: SOMALIA
BAIDOA (Sh. M. Network)–More than 13 dead bodies have been discovered by al-Shabab Islamists in Hassey Factory Building in Baidoa, which had been an Ethiopian base before they withdrew from the town in January, officials said on Saturday.
Some journalists and local elders were invited to the former factory of Hasey about [...]

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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

For the First Time Since the Fall of the Islamic Courts, the Hisbah Force Implements the Punishment for Illicit Sex on Four Youth in Mogadishu.

All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of all that exists, and may peace and blessings be upon our prophet, Muhammad, and upon all his family and [...]

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Posted: 3/10/2009 11:28:00 AM

Shabelle: SOMALIA

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Network) – Sheik Ali Mohamed Hussein, a representative of the Islamic Organization of al-Shabab for Banadir region has denounced Tuesday the Somali clerics’ travel to Qatari capital Doha.
Sheik Ali Mohamed said that the clerics traveled to Qatari capital Doha saying that it [...]

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