Sunday, May 24, 2009
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US counter-terrorism official on Saturday said US nationals had likely joined the ranks of insurgents in Somalia, where Islamist rebels are waging a bitter war against the Western-backed government.
“There is reason to believe that nationals of Western countries, including the United States, have joined up with terrorist groups in Somalia,” the official said.
Dozens of people have been killed in recent days as the government tried to drive Islamist insurgents from the capital. Aid agencies said two weeks of fighting had displaced 49,000 people.
The violence erupted amid rumors that the insurgents have been buoyed by support from foreign Al-Qaeda-linked fighters from Europe, North America and the Muslim world.
On Saturday in London, The Times reported an intelligence report on the trend is expected to be presented to the US Congress in the coming week.
The daily said security officials have seen more than 290 fighters from Britain, the United States, Canada, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia enter Mogadishu in recent weeks.
The violence also comes as evidence grows that some Western-based Muslims have funded jihadi groups operating in Somalia.
Last week a naturalized Canadian man of Somali descent pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to the extremist network Al-Qaeda.
Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 35, who lives in Minneapolis in the US state of Minnesota, gave material support to Al-Qaeda by providing training at camps, supplying personnel and providing funds to the group.
In March 2000, according to his plea agreement, Warsame joined an Al-Qaeda training camp near Kabul, and months later traveled to the Faruq training camp where he met Osama Bin Laden.
In March 2009, US lawmakers heard testimony from top security authorities who warned that growing numbers of Somali youths in the United States were being recruited by Islamic terror groups.
Senator Joseph Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told a hearing on the issue that Al-Shabaab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, “has radicalized and recruited young Somali men” in Minneapolis to return to Somalia for training and fighting.
“Perhaps as many as 20 Somali-American teenagers and young men have vanished from their homes in Minneapolis and turned up in Somalia,” Lieberman said.
Somalis began emigrating in large numbers to the United States during the beginning of the 1990s to flee civil strife at home.
Since then, they have come to number as many as 200,000, with the largest concentration having settled in the US heartland city of Minneapolis.
Source: AFP, May 24, 2009
baghdad bob
sxb,waxaa haboon in somalidu ka hadasho danheeda oo faraha kala baxdo meelo aan laga rabin.somalidu ayagaa qar ka lusha oo ilaahay xaalkooda og yahay,waa laga fiican yahay in messhii aan ka hadli lahayn danaha somalida iyo dib u soo celinteeda in aan ka hadalno Palestine iyo Israel iyagaa wada dhashay,haday wada noolaadaan iyo hadday is xasuuqaan mid inoo taalo maahan haddeer,marka ugu horaysa waa inaynu eegnaa wadankeena ulaha boocda ah ku tukubaayo,badaheena la fuuqsaday,ka bacdina la sumeeyay.oo iska iloownaa diidgaal oo quraanak si qaldan loogu fasiray oon ilaahay u barinaa in wadaadkan xayxaytay ilaahay wadada saxda ah tuso.
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war anagaa yaab aragnay.
diidgaal,war maxaa kaa galay danaha yuhuuda iyo tan maraykanka?goormay yuhuudi soo weerartay somaliya,mise carab u dirir ayaad tahay?
duqa,adeer,somali meesha ay taalo iyadaa is dhigtay,mana u haboona inay dad ka fog,hadday jirto iyo haddaysan jirina dan iyo heelo aaan ka lahayn inaad eed aysan lahayn dhakada ugu tuurto,qofki ku saxana aad daba dhilif iyo gaalo raac ugu yeerto.maraykanka markuu yimaaday somaliya 1993,wuxuu uyimi inuu kuu quudiyo maatadaada iyo ubadkaad dayacday,meesha mahadsanid ka oran lahaydna aad gooysay gacantii ku quudinaysay!!!!adeer inta aadan yuhuuda iyo maraykan afkaaga la galin oo carab walaalaysan ,sxb dantaada garo,taadana ka hadal.one million somali ah ayaa west ka jooga,waana life line kaliya ee somalidu haysato haddeer,kuwii carabta tagayna waa taqaan in xeryaha qoxootiga ee lagu haayo looola baxay AL JAXIIMA.runta cidkuu sheegta ayaad wayday sxb,gaalo ha ahaadaan laakiin wanaagooda u qir,mindida aad daabkeeda haysatana iska dhig oo fasaadka aad wado ,adiga iyo saba joojiya,iyo kuwan kale ee arab lovers ka ah.nimanka wax ku yeelay waa carab oo dadkaaga duleeyay ee maahan yuhuuda faro ku gabadka ah ee rabta kaliya to survive.haddii aad tiraahdo carabta ayay xasuuqaan,sxb ,carab hadduu dhagax tuur iyo bumbo qarxis dayn waayo,waa la dilaa,waana sidaas sida laga yeelo doono alshabaab iyo kuwa la halmaala.
liberman,dadkiisa ayuu dantooda ka hadlaa,maraykan ha ahaadaan ama yuhuud,adiga somali,marba dhinac u orodka inta dayso,dhan uun ku hagaag...
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diidgaal
My stand against all forms of extremism is the same. Practicing jews are just as extremists as al-shabab they know they are absolutely right so are the shabbabs and hence no room for discussion. Liberman is alot closer to the state of Israel than USA and yet he sits in the senate. For him his take is not against shabab but a try to brush all muslims in the same paint. I have more freedom and justice and better atmosphere to practice my religion in the USA than any muslim country or for that matter Israel.
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Diidgal Nabaday ina adeer. Waad ku filan tahay Dabadhilf
kaligaa. I am preparing for a "special test" therefore
need some isolation , away from offices and the net.
Good luck.
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I agree with Bobby
on his take towards Leiberman.
Diidgaal, dadka arinta Somaliya waa isku qilaafi karaan
laakiin ma aha dadka inaad iskuy mid ka dhigto.
People are not informed equally, and Somalia's crises
went through many different stages, therefore confusing .
That said.
What Bobby wrote about Leiberman is ACCURATE.
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mar hadii loo digay oo la yiri waxaad ku wadaan wadankan waxay keenayaan ayaa ka darane ka daaya qaska wadanka oo dariiqa loo maro maamulka wadanka waa dadkaaga haku doortaane taas raaca oo dowladnimo doorta duligana iska daaya iyo gafuur xirashada io kuwa idinka hagaya boholada afganistan oo noqda dad isku filan kana socda caqligooda iyo caqiidadooda ,
mar haday xirteen dharka laga xirto afganistaan iyo hindiya oo xita ay xirtaan singesingaha ooy moodeen in haday dharkaas xirtaan ay diini tahay xataa iska tuureen macawiistii moolada ahayd ee sida aad u xirantahay ay dabadooda marka u danbeysa muuqanaysay ay tuureen .
waxa u harey waa markii bad iyo bariba laga garaaco ayey cabaadaan oo ku baroortaan maxaa inagala rabaa waa diinteena ku beeensheegtaan.
maxaa loo aadi waayey wadamada kale ee muslimka ah oo loo beegsanayaa somalia waliba koonfurta waa kuwan gafuur xumayaasha ah ee ka been abuuranaya diinta nabadgalyada ah ee illaah ku manaystay aduunkan tasoo somaliya ay soo gashay qarniyadii ugu horeeyey somaliduna ay si kal iyo laab ku qaadatay .
suàashu waa ma diintii aan ku qaadanay sidaasbaa maanta gafuur duubtayaashu na barayaan mise nagu qasbayaan.
waxaanu leenahay diidnay waxad wadaan .dhiig nin ama haweenka somalida daadintiisa diidnay,
oo waan oganahay inaad danaha dalal shisheeye aad ku shaqeynaysaan kuwasoo doonaya inay ka daawadaan shashadaha tv adunka dhiiga somalida .
waan taageersanhaay in wadankan laga suuliyo qawaarijta qarniga iyo kuwa u adeega.
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AFP writes "Western backed government".
So, question is ,who is closer to Somalis?!!
WESTERNERS or NEIGHBORING co RELIGIONIST SAUDIS?!!
If Leiberman a Jew has a say about Somali affairs,
why is he complaining of MUSLIMS having an interest
in Somalia as well.
We see now, the terror card is being pulled.
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Baghdad bob,
Waxa ku kaalmeynaya waa dadkaan aad cayneysidee iska
daa jisaarnimada. Kuwa aad baryeysaa oo ku calaa caleysaa
waa iyaga oo wax walba ku siiyaa oo aad u shaqeysaa.
Marka adaa gaalo raac ahee ha kaa saarto.
Yuhuud baad rabtaa inaad halkaan ku ceysid oo yaad ka fili
inuu akhristo? Fuleynimada jooji oo haddii aad geesinimo
leedahay ku qor meelaha gaaladu ka akhrisan karto.
Haddii kale waa fuleynimada lagu yaqaan dabadhilif iyo
gaalo raaca.
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Liberman a staunch practicing jew is having a field day at the predicament of the somali community whose perception is based on faith and not on the interest of the USA. I would have been more worried where liberman's allegiance lies? is it with the state of Israel or that of the USA? If USA has to survive in this turbulent times the need is there to watch closely the enemy within and without and all those with ulterior motives be they politicians or not. In the real interest of the USA shabab and those who work from within as lobbysts for other nations are all but the same.
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