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On New Year's Day:
- Somalia Spokesman: Video Shows Laptop Handed To Bomb Suspect
From the San Francisco Chronicle: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security video footage taken at Mogadishu airport shows two men handing what looks like a laptop computer to the suspected suicide bomber after he passed through the security checkpoint, Somalia's...
- File Under....no Compulsion?
AP - Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days. Public places such as shops and tea houses in Bulo Burto, about...
- The Crisis In Mogadishu
It has been a while since my last post and I thought I would update you on the crisis in Mogadishu. The leader of Somalia's Islamic movement has urged his countrymen to wage a "holy war" against Ethiopia. The call from Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, head...
- War On Terror Reaches Somalia
Since the 11 September attacks on the United States Somalis have feared that their lawless country could become the setting for a battle between US-backed anti-terror forces and al-Qaeda sympathisers. Now it seems as though their worst fears may be coming...
- Somalia: Sure Humanitarian Crisis And Possible "talibanization"
FOXNews.com - At Least 130 Dead in Fight for Somali Capital - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe NewsMOGADISHU, Somalia — A fundamentalist Islamic force poured dozens of troops into the battle for a strategic road in...
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Islamic Terrorism In Mogadishu
On New Year's Day:
Mogadishu (AFP) - Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab said on Thursday it carried out a twin bombing of a hotel in Mogadishu that killed 11, boasting it was the start of its campaign for the new year.The mainstream media are avoiding coverage of this Islamic terrorism.
"This is the beginning of 2014," Shebab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage said in a New Year message, a day after the hotel attacks.
"The fate of foreigners and local mercenaries will remain the same until they leave the country... they will have no safe haven in Somalia."
The first car bomb exploded outside the Jazeera hotel, near the international airport. It is one of the seaside capital's most upmarket and its clientele includes Somali politicians and visiting foreign officials....
- Somalia Spokesman: Video Shows Laptop Handed To Bomb Suspect
From the San Francisco Chronicle: MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Security video footage taken at Mogadishu airport shows two men handing what looks like a laptop computer to the suspected suicide bomber after he passed through the security checkpoint, Somalia's...
- File Under....no Compulsion?
AP - Residents of a southern Somalia town who do not pray five times a day will be beheaded, an Islamic courts official said Wednesday, adding the edict will be implemented in three days. Public places such as shops and tea houses in Bulo Burto, about...
- The Crisis In Mogadishu
It has been a while since my last post and I thought I would update you on the crisis in Mogadishu. The leader of Somalia's Islamic movement has urged his countrymen to wage a "holy war" against Ethiopia. The call from Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, head...
- War On Terror Reaches Somalia
Since the 11 September attacks on the United States Somalis have feared that their lawless country could become the setting for a battle between US-backed anti-terror forces and al-Qaeda sympathisers. Now it seems as though their worst fears may be coming...
- Somalia: Sure Humanitarian Crisis And Possible "talibanization"
FOXNews.com - At Least 130 Dead in Fight for Somali Capital - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe NewsMOGADISHU, Somalia — A fundamentalist Islamic force poured dozens of troops into the battle for a strategic road in...