"Somali insurgents from US get high profile" January 14, 2012|By Jason Straziuso and Julie Watson
NAIROBI - The October Al Qaeda video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African. He’s a Wisconsin native who grew up in San Diego.
This after we were told during the famine reporting that CIA-Duh was denying them food. But hey, it's whatever lie works at the moment when it comes to the mouthpiece media.
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I've sure learned a lot these last five years.
A handful of young Muslims from the United States are taking high-visibility propaganda and operational roles inside an Al Qaeda-linked insurgent force in Somalia known as Al Shabab. While most are from Minnesota, which has the largest Somali population in the nation, Al Shabab members include a Californian and an Alabaman with no ancestral ties to Somalia.
It's on the news rack every morning here in AmeriKa.
“They are being deployed in roles that appear to be shrewdly calculated to raise Al Shabab’s international profile and to recruit others, especially those from the United States and other English-speaking countries,’’ said Anders Folk, a former assistant US attorney who prosecuted suspected Al Shabab supporters in Minnesota.
Officials fear another terrorist attack in East Africa. Kenya announced on Jan. 7 that it had thwarted attempted Al Shabab attacks over the holidays.
Yeah, nothing much on the Kenyan invasion of Somali after what now turn out to be obviously false protestations by the U.S.
The same day, Britain’s Foreign Office urged Britons in Kenya to be extra vigilant, warning that terrorists there may be in the final stages of planning attacks.
Pffft!
More than 40 people have traveled from the United States to Somalia to join Al Shabab since 2007, and 15 of them have died, according to a report from the House Homeland Security Committee. Federal investigations into Al Shabab recruitment in the United States have centered on Minnesota, which has more than 32,000 Somalis.
At least 21 men have left Minnesota to join Al Shabab in that same time. The FBI has confirmed that at least two of them died in Somalia as suicide bombers. A US citizen is suspected in a third suicide bombing, and another is under investigation in connection with a fourth bombing on Oct. 29 that killed 15 people.
I'm sorry, readers, but I really am sick of this crap.
The star of the Al Qaeda video was Jehad Mostafa, 30, a Californian who handed out food using the name Abu Abdullah al-Muhajir, according to the SITE Monitoring Service. The Washington Post reported last year that Mostafa served as top lieutenant to Saleh Nabhan, a senior Al Qaeda operative killed by Navy SEALs in a helicopter attack inside Somalia in 2010.
Also see: Rita Katz's Jewish Media Group, SITE, releases the latest al-Qaeda recording
SITE Institute
IS ISRAEL CONTROLLING PHONY TERROR NEWS?
Yeah, and it is getting really old.
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What do you mean my newspaper is an intelligence operation?
Mostafa and the Alabaman, Omar Hammami, 27, are among about a dozen men who have been charged in federal court in the United States and are believed to be in Somalia.
The Americans appear to have been motivated by the Ethiopian army’s intervention in Somalia in 2006, which they saw as an invasion.
Another forgotten invasion at the behest of the United States.
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For a brief six months there Somalia actually had some semblance of relative peace. That's when the US told Ethiopia to go in.
But many observers believe it is only a matter of time before Al Shabab turns its wrath on the United States, which in February 2008 designated the group as a terrorist organization. Al Shabab killed 76 people in terrorist bombings in Uganda in 2010 during the World Cup final.
Related: "Al-CIA-Duh" Expanding Operations in East Africa
Sorry, but I just don't believe the globe-kickers are going to waste a false flag on the piece of dirt that is Somalia.
US military commanders fear that Americans inside Al Shabab could train as bombmakers and use their US passports to carry out attacks in the United States.
E.K. Wilson, the agent overseeing the FBI’s investigation in Minneapolis, said he cannot comment on whether there is an outstanding order to capture or kill Americans fighting for Al Shabab. The FBI has said the Americans in Somalia should return to the United States.
It is a mystery what caused Mostafa, a young man whom many remember as mild and friendly, to join an extremist group.
Not to me it isn't. He is simply an intelligence agency asset or a dupe.
Mostafa grew up in San Diego and graduated from the University of California San Diego. Imam Abdeljalil Mezgouri of the Islamic Center of San Diego, the city’s largest mosque, said Mostafa was a respectful teen and good student.
“He was a very quiet, very loving boy. He didn’t talk too much, but when he did talk, people liked him,’’ said Mezgouri.
Mezgouri said Mostafa got married in his early 20s to a woman he believed was from Somalia.
Public records show Mostafa was the president of the now-defunct Muslim Youth Council of San Diego, or MYCSD. The former organization’s website says the group was “dedicated to showing the world that Islam is a religion of peace and Muslims are a peaceful and productive part of society.’’
And now he is a terrorist, huh?
Mostafa’s father, Halim Mostafa, a Kurdish Syrian, is a prominent figure in San Diego’s Muslim community who has tried to build bridges with non-Muslims. He made a low-budget film released in 2008 called “Mozlym’’ to show how the true meaning of Islam is often lost amid the misconceptions of non-Muslims in America, according to the film’s website.
Mostafa’s father declined to talk.
“I just don’t want to get involved,’’ he said. “I’m really sorry, I cannot say anything. God bless you.’’
Edgar Hopida, a spokesman for the San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said Halim Mostafa believes in the most liberal interpretation of Islam.
“It’s ironic if his son is involved with Al Shabab,’’ Hopida said.
Mostafa is believed to have met American militant Anwar al-Awlaki about a decade ago at a San Diego mosque, according to The Washington Post. He went to Somalia in 2005. Federal officials declined to comment.
And THERE YOU GO!
The infamous intelligence asset Awlaki!
Mostafa was indicted in August 2010 on terrorism charges for allegedly providing material support to Al Shabab.
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And now they are making the movie into a lie!
More scripted s*** for you:
"Navy SEALs rescue aid workers in Somalia; Surprise raid kills 9 pirates Obama tuned in to operation" by Eric Schmitt and Jeffrey Gettleman | New York Times, January 26, 2012
KHARTOUM, Sudan - US Navy SEALs swooped into Somalia early yesterday and rescued two aid workers, an American woman and a Danish man, after a shootout with Somali gunmen who had been holding them captive in a sweltering desert hide-out for months.
Under a cloak of darkness, a couple of dozen SEALs parachuted in, stormed the hide-out, killed nine gunmen, and then whisked the aid workers into waiting helicopters, Pentagon officials said. The SEALs were from the same elite Navy commando unit - SEAL Team Six - that secretly entered Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden in May, senior US officials said, although the rescue mission in Somalia was carried out by a different assault team within the unit.
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Their constant repetition of official lies and conventional myths proves it.
President Obama was closely tracking the raid Tuesday night, which was yesterday morning in Somalia, and as he stepped into the House chamber to deliver his State of the Union address, he looked at Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta standing in the crowd and said: “Leon, good job tonight, good job.’’
Is that another lie? Last time he was looking at a blank video screen for the photo op.
Obama seems to have taken a special interest in this case, presiding over several high-level meetings on it since the two aid workers were kidnapped in October by gunmen whom Somali elders said were part of a well-established pirate gang.
Pirates operate with total impunity in many parts of lawless Somalia, which has languished without a functioning government for more than 20 years.
Except for the six months Islamists were able to rule the place after driving out the CIA-Duh warlords and pirates.
As naval efforts have intensified on the high seas, stymieing hijackings, Somali pirates seem to be increasingly snatching foreigners on land. Just last week, pirates grabbed another US hostage not far from where the SEAL raid took place.
US officials said they were moved to strike in this case because they had received “actionable intelligence’’ that the health of Jessica Buchanan, the US aid worker, was rapidly deteriorating. The gunmen had just refused $1.5 million to let the two hostages go, Somali elders said, and ransom negotiations had ground to a halt.
Somali pirates have held hostages for months, often in punishing conditions with little food, water, or shelter, and past ransoms have topped more than $10 million.
One British couple sailing around the world on a small sailboat was kidnapped by pirates from this same patch of central Somalia and held in captivity for more than a year.
Is that what their MI-6 cover was?
Obama said he had personally authorized the go-ahead for the operation Monday.
“As commander in chief, I could not be prouder of the troops who carried out this mission,’’ he said in a statement yesterday. “The United States will not tolerate the abduction of our people.’’
And you better tolerate our abductions of yours in the name of the war on terror.
On Oct. 25, Buchanan and Poul Hagen Thisted, the Danish aid worker, were kidnapped by two truckloads of gunmen as they headed to the airport in Galkayo, a central Somalia town on the edge of pirate territory. The two were working for the Danish Refugee Council, one of the few Western organizations still operating in that area. The aid workers had just finished a workshop on land mines when they were kidnapped.
Buchanan, 32, has been working in Africa for about five years and “could hardly talk about Africa without tears in her eyes,’’ said Don Meyer, the president of Valley Forge Christian College in Phoenixville, Pa., which Buchanan attended.
Somali officials immediately suspected that a local employee of the Danish aid group had tipped off the gunmen. Although US officials argued that the kidnappers were criminals with no direct links to any of the pirate bands that have attacked shipping lanes off Somalia, Somali elders said the men belonged to a well-known pirate gang drawn from local clans.
U.S. officials are incapable of telling the truth, aren't they?
Sometime late Tuesday night, elders in Galkayo said they began hearing the whirl of helicopters. Then a huge plane landed at the Galkayo airport, which is very unusual at night. Pentagon officials said the SEALs dropped into the area by parachute, around 2 a.m., and hiked nearly 2 miles to the encampment where the hostages were being held, near a small village called Hiimo Gaabo, south of Galkayo.
One pirate from the area who seemed to have especially detailed information about the raid said the SEALs used “an electrical net-trap, flattened into the land,’’ which presumably was the parachute.
“Then they started launching missiles,’’ said the pirate, who spoke by telephone and asked not to be identified.
According to Pentagon officials, within minutes of the SEALs reaching the encampment, shots rang out. The hostages were quickly located and freed. In the ensuing gun battle, the nine Somali gunmen were killed.
Yeah, whatever.
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"UN secretary general’s visit to Somalia is first since 1993" December 10, 2011|By Jeffrey Gettleman and Mohammed Ibrahim, New York Times
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Ban Ki-moon became the first UN secretary general to set foot in this war-ravaged country in almost 20 years yesterday, and he promised to relocate the United Nations’ political office for Somalia to Mogadishu next year, although other UN officials were skeptical.
Dressed in a black flak jacket with “United Nations’’ stamped across his chest, Ban met with leaders from Somalia’s Transitional federal government, a weak, divided, and thoroughly unpopular entity that the United Nations has been trying to prop up.
“We are now at a critical juncture - a moment of fresh opportunities for the future of Somali people,’’ Ban said. But, he warned, “we have a very limited window of opportunity.’’
Somalia has lurched from crisis to crisis since 1991 when the central government imploded and hundreds of thousands of people perished in famine and civil war. Since then, the United Nations has pumped billions of dollars into the country, trying to achieve some stability, though chaos and suffering continue as the norm.
Ban’s team kept this trip a closely held secret until the last minute. The last time a UN secretary general traveled here was 1993, when a visit by Boutros Boutros-Ghali set off menacing street protests.
This time, Somali forces and African Union peacekeepers - the backbone of security here - locked Mogadishu down, with checkpoints and roadblocks across the city. The battered minibuses that usually cruise the bullet-pocked streets were nowhere to be found. Instead, traditional dancers with spears and white gowns flooded the avenues, singing songs of praise.
The A.U. is known to be the U.N.'s arm in Africa.
Many Somalis were especially titillated by Ban’s pledge to relocate the UN political office from Nairobi, Kenya, to Mogadishu.
“Many jobless people will get jobs of different kinds, and our young educated people will have opportunity,’’ said Naasir Ali, a car mechanic.
But Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, remains one of the world’s most dangerous cities. During the past month, Islamist insurgents have killed several people with suicide bombs, adding to the thousands of lives lost here in recent years. High-ranking UN officials have promised several times before to relocate to Mogadishu. But it has not occurred because of the security concerns and the logistical effort it would take to protect expatriates living here.
Right now, the UN political arm for Somalia has a small office in Mogadishu, with about five people, but the bulk of the staff - which includes about 50 workers - remains in Nairobi.
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"Peacekeepers push Somali insurgents" January 21, 2012
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital yesterday, with African Union peacekeepers encountering resistance as they pushed to Mogadishu’s outskirts for the first time, the latest move against Islamist insurgents.
Hundreds of residents fled a northern Mogadishu neighborhood after waking to the sound of mortars and gunfire. AU troops have largely pushed Al Shabab militants out of the city over the last year, but pockets of resistance remain.
Resident Abdirahman Ahmed said Al Shabab fighters appeared to be moving back into the northern neighborhood of Heliwa.
The nearly 10,000-strong AU force was confined in previous years to small slices of Mogadishu, but the push to expand their zones of control over the last year have been largely successful. The AU force is working side by side with Somali troops, but most of the gains have been made by the better trained and equipped troops from Uganda and Burundi.
Al Shabab is also being pressured by Kenyan military forces in Somalia’s south and Ethiopian forces in the west.
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"Somali famine over, but crisis remains" February 04, 2012
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That's what passes for news here in AmeriKa.
El GENEINA, Sudan- A bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food deliveries have improved conditions in Somalia enough that the United Nations no longer considers a famine to be taking place, the organization said. The disaster has killed tens of thousands of people in the past year.
But conditions are still precarious, and about 2 million people in Somalia still need emergency rations, officials said.
“The crisis is not over,’’ said Jose Graziano da Silva, director-general of the Food and Agricultural Organization.
The United Nations is careful about using the word famine, and in the past 20 years, only a few humanitarian emergencies have qualified, including in Sudan in 1998, Ethiopia in 2001, and Niger in 2005.
But in July, the United Nations declared a famine in Somalia, based on malnutrition and death rates, and said that Somalia was suffering its worst drought in more than 60 years.
Maybe the U.N. could have the Somalis over for lunch?
Aid organizations are now focusing on recovery efforts, such as distributing seeds and digging irrigation canals.
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Hey, look, if anything eases Somali suffering I'm for it, 'kay?
"Progress demanded for lawless Somalia" by David Stringer | Associated Press, February 24, 2012
LONDON - World leaders pledged new help to tackle terrorism and piracy in Somalia, but said yesterday that the troubled East African nation must quickly form a stable government and threatened penalties against those who hamper its progress.
Nations pledged new funding, more training for soldiers and coast guards, increased cooperation against terrorism, and a drive to root out those involved in piracy, after the shipping industry paid out $135 million in ransoms last year....
Yeah, too bad the pirates are being protected by western intelligence agencies.
Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain warned that Somalia’s Al Qaeda-linked militant group Al Shabab could export terrorism to Europe and the United States....
PFFFFFFFFT!
In a communiqué, leaders hailed tentative signs of progress - with pirate attacks in decline and Al Shabab largely driven out of Mogadishu by an African Union peacekeeping mission.
Clinton said the mandate of Somalia’s transitional government must end as planned in August and warned that travel bans and asset freezes could be imposed against anyone who attempts to stall political progress.
Both a new president and new legislators are due to be elected.
“It’s time to buckle down and do the work that will bring stability to Somalia for the first time in many of its people’s lives,’’ Clinton told the conference.
Save for those six months in 2006 before the U.S. ruined it.
Al Shabab denounced the conference, claiming it was “aimed at carving up the Somali nation,’’ and vowed to wage war against what it described as a crusade by Western powers.
Did you hear something, readers?
Yeah, pass me that salt shaker -- and then give it to the Somalis.
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