"Al Shabab leader confirmed dead" New York Times September 06, 2014
NEWPORT, Wales — The US airstrikes Monday against Al Shabab, the militant group linked to Al Qaeda’s network in Somalia, succeeded in killing the group’s leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, the Pentagon announced Friday.
“We have confirmed that Ahmed Godane, the cofounder of Al Shabab, has been killed,” the Pentagon press secretary, Rear Admiral John Kirby, said in a statement.
He called the death of Godane “a major symbolic and operational loss” to Al Shabab.
Also known as Al-CIA-Bob (pronounced Al-Sha-Bob).
Military officials had waited several days to confirm that Godane was killed in the strikes, on an encampment and a vehicle south of Mogadishu, the Somali capital. The strikes were carried out by Special Operations forces using both manned and unmanned aircraft, and they were launched, Pentagon officials said, based on intelligence that Godane was at the encampment.
The warplanes dropped a number of Hellfire missiles and precision bombs on the encampment, and Pentagon officials said they believed that everyone there was killed. But they were wary of declaring victory only to have him emerge later, alive. Pentagon and intelligence officials monitored cellphone conversations and other intelligence to verify his death.
The exhumations are part of the propaganda psyop with these CIA-created ghosts.
It was unclear Friday afternoon what prompted the Pentagon to announce that it had confirmation that Godane was dead.
The administration needed a public relations victory to wave in the face of such defeats across the Globe.
Kirby said that the United States was working “in coordination with its friends, allies, and partners to counter the regional and global threats posed by violent extremist organizations.”
General Carter Ham, the retired head of the US military’s Africa Command, said of the death: “The effect will be positive, but not decisive.”
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Related: The Drone Wars: Somalia
"Somali extremists name new leader
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s Islamic extremist organization, al-Shabab, named a new leader Saturday after confirming the killing of their previous leader, Ahmed Abdi Godane, by a US airstrike, a commander of the group said. The rebels unanimously selected Ahmad Umar, also known as Abu Ubaidah, at a meeting in an undisclosed location in Somalia, said commander Abu Mohammed. (AP)"
"US looks at path of two Minn. men turn jihadis" by Jack Healy | New York Times September 07, 2014
All the shit that's print to fit.
MINNEAPOLIS — It was a friendship that began in high school and ended in militant jihad.
As Minnesota teenagers growing up in the 1990s, Troy Kastigar and Douglas McAuthur McCain shared almost everything. They played pickup basketball on neighborhood courts, wrote freewheeling raps in each other’s bedrooms, and posed together for snapshots, a skinny white young man with close-cropped hair locking his arm around his African-American friend with a shadow of a mustache.
They walked parallel paths to trouble, never graduating from high school and racking up arrests. They converted to Islam around the same time and exalted their new faith to family and friends, declaring that they had found truth and certainty. One after the other, both men abandoned their American lives for distant battlefields.
“This is the real Disneyland,” Kastigar said with a grin in a video shot after he joined Islamist militants in Somalia in late 2008. McCain wrote on Twitter in June 2014, after he left the United States to fight with Islamic State extremists. “I’m with the brothers now.”
It's sure is, all this fantasy. I'm not doubting the death and destruction; I'm just doubting the agenda-pushing cover story of the lying war jew$media, sorry.
Today, both are dead.
Oh. Then we need not worry about them anymore.
While their lives ended five years and more than 2,000 miles apart, their intertwined journeys toward militancy offer a sharp example of how the allure of Islamist extremism has evolved, enticing similar pools of troubled, pliable young Americans to conflicts in different parts of the world.
That the cartoon script we are being given?
The tools of online propaganda and shadowy networks of facilitators that once beckoned Kastigar and Somali men to the Horn of Africa are now drawing hundreds of Europeans and about a dozen known Americans to fight with the Islamic State, according to US law enforcement and counterterrorism officials.
HA-HA-HA-HA!
Out of the mouths of propagandists that stuff is cartoonish!
“Troy and Doug fit together in some ways,” Kastigar’s mother, Julie Boada, said. “They’re both converted Muslims. They both have had struggles.” She added, “They’re connected through that.”
Investigators are looking into what led a handful of other people from Minnesota to follow the same path, said Kyle Loven, an FBI spokesman in Minneapolis.
Officials say McCain, 33, and a second American believed to have been killed while fighting for the Islamic State traveled in the same circles in Minneapolis and knew each other.
Related: Obama Announces Wider Invasion of Middle East
Looks like Africa is also going to be included.
Officials have not publicly confirmed the identity of that man, but he has widely been reported to be a Somali immigrant in his late 20s who went by at least two names, calling himself Abdirahmaan Muhumed on Facebook. He spent much of his life around Minneapolis, worked at the airport during several years, and ended up in Syria this year, saying in a text to a friend, “With out jihad there is no islam.”
There you go, a sure giveaway that this is all propaganda with these guys being intelligence assets. Equating Islam (small i from a jihadi?) with the US-created ISIS, ISIL, whatever, is the tell.
To law enforcement officials and community leaders here, the pathway for many recruits remains murky and difficult to uncover, but the latest wave of volunteers is a chilling replay of recent history.
Anytime the intelligence agency front called a newspaper uses the word murky it means it is covering up the covert role of the U.S. in all this. I've been reading them long enough to know that murky is a code-word for cover up.
Beginning in 2007, more than 20 men, mostly of Somali origin, left Minnesota to join Al Shabab militants who seized territory in Somalia and besieged the capital, Mogadishu.
Then wage war on Minneapolis.
The radicalization of the men prompted federal inquiries and brought scrutiny to the Somali population in Minneapolis, which is the largest in America, with about 30,000 people.
Questions like "Whose his case handler?" and "Which intelligence agency is he working for?"
As Al Shabab forces withdrew from Mogadishu under pressure from African forces supported by the United States, people here held anti-Al Shabab rallies, and prosecutors eventually won convictions against eight men on charges stemming from the flow of money and recruits to the militants.
But now, Somali community leaders say they fear they are losing a battle to keep another round of young people from turning to another Internet-savvy and brutal group, the Islamic State.
Well, if they are "Internet-savvy" the NSA has collected all their stuff so go get 'e.... HEY!
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"Somalia offers amnesty to militants" by Abdi Guled | Associated Press September 04, 2014
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s government on Wednesday offered amnesty to fighters with al-Shabab, the Islamic extremist group whose leader was targeted Monday night in a US airstrike.
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Somali authorities are giving al-Shabab militants 45 days to take up the offer, Security Minister Khalif Ahmed Ereg told reporters in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
He said the government ‘‘will create a better livelihood to build their future for those who meet the deadline.’’
Somali forces, backed by African Union troops, last week launched an offensive on al-Shabab’s last strongholds in the south, where the militants are believed to plot attacks across Somalia that have left scores dead this year. Al-Shabab is believed to have thousands of fighters, who are seeking to impose Sharia law on Somalia, but the group faces increasing pressure from African Union forces that helped to oust the militants from Mogadishu in 2011.
Al-Shabab has since resorted to tactics that include suicide bombings and assassination of government officials.
There shall be no peace as long as Godane li.... oh, right.
Ahmed Abdi Godane, the group’s spiritual leader, claimed responsibility for a deadly attack a year ago on an upscale mall in neighboring Kenya, whose government has sent its troops to fight al-Shabab in Somalia.
As I pointed out in a link in the last post regarding Somalia, that whole mall siege was a staged and scripted hoax. And here the war-promoting deceiver of a pre$$ is flogging it again.
Somali authorities are trying to verify whether Godane, 37, was killed or wounded in the US airstrike that targeted him on Monday, government spokesman Ridwaan Abdiwali said Wednesday.
US confirmed dead.
Somalia’s government is certain the strike hit ‘‘a gathering’’ of al-Shabab leaders and is ‘‘in the process’’ of confirming who was hit in the attack, he said.
Abdiwali praised US support in the war on the militant group, saying close military collaboration had helped to weaken al-Shabab.
The United States confirmed on Tuesday the airstrike, conducted by special operations forces using manned and unmanned aircraft, targeted Godane.
The strike hit a car in which Godane was traveling after he left a meeting of the group’s top leaders in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region and Godane ‘‘might have been killed along with other militants,’’ a senior Somali intelligence official said Tuesday.
I was told it was an encampment and all the other people died, and now it looks like they dropped a missile or two on the town. Great.
At least six militants were killed in the attack, said a militant commander, Abu Mohammed, but he would not say if Godane was among the victims.
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Look whose back:
"Suicide bomb kills 12 in Somalia; extremist group claims responsibility" Associated Press September 09, 2014
MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 12 civilians were killed Monday in a suicide attack targeting African Union troops in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, the first serious assault by suspected Islamic extremists after the killing of Al Shabab’s top leader in a US airstrike last week, the police and a regional official said.
The attack happened near the Elasha Biyaha settlement, said Abdiqadir Mohamed Nor, Lower Shabelle’s governor.
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car next to a convoy of African Union forces moving near two minibuses, said Hassan Ali, a Somali police official.
Then, amid the confusion, another bomb went off when a second suicide attacker rammed his car into a convoy escorting Abdifatah Shaweye, the Mogadishu intelligence commander, who was in the area to inspect the scene of the first blast.
Shaweye suffered ‘‘slight wounds’’ and was rushed to a Mogadishu hospital. There were no fatalities from the second blast, Ali said.
What does Shaweye know, and why would western intelligence agencies want to kill him?
Two soldiers were wounded in the attack described as a ‘‘heartless massacre’’ by Ali Aden Houmed, spokesman for African Union forces in Somalia. Al Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack in a radio broadcast.
Hallmarks of an intelligence agency operation.
Somalia’s government warned over the weekend that there is a probability of attacks after the killing of Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was confirmed dead by the United States on Friday following an airstrike last Monday.
The confirmations keep piling up in every paragraph.
Possible targets include medical and educational institutions, said General Khalif Ahmed Ereg, Somalia’s national security minister, in a televised speech on Friday.
Mortar shells struck a Mogadishu neighborhood on Sunday, the day after Al Shabab named a new leader and vowed to avenge the death of Godane.
Godane had publicly claimed Al Shabab was responsible for an attack on a mall in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, in which 67 people were killed a year ago.
Really working hard to convince and remind you, 'eh?
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