Category Archives: Al Shabab

Eastern Kenya living in fear of Somali Islamists

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Expatica:

Fear of Islamist rebels grips this region close to the Somali border, a fear heightened by the abduction last week of two Spanish aid workers from a refugee camp.

Police officers, some on foot, others in Landcruisers, the only vehicles that can negotiate these tracks after heavy rain, fan out over all the trails that lead into Somalia as two helicopters hover overhead.

“We’re trying to find the two Spanish women who were kidnapped,” explained Philip Ndolo, deputy police chief of North East Province.

“We’ve patrolled in Dadaab, then in Kulan, in Damajaley; we’ve been to Liboi and to Hattar (on the Somali border), but we haven’t found them.”

In all of these towns, the police chief, accompanied by some 20 officers, has gathered the residents together to ask for information and and have received contradictory answers.

“We ask questions but we’ve no way of knowing who is telling the truth and who isn’t because the Shebab Islamists have the support of some Somali refugees and also of some Kenyans of Somali origin,” said one of his officers who said he has “exchanged fire with Shebab on several occasions” in the region.

This region of dense thorny scrub is inhabited mainly by Kenyans who are indigenous ethnic Somalis.

They have been joined by several generations of Somalis who, since the opening of the Dadaab refugee camps in 1991, have been fleeing war and famine in their country.

The vast majority of the inhabitants, their faces emaciated, say they have been forgotten by Nairobi.

“The Shebab have informers and accomplices everywhere,” a local administrator in Liboi told AFP.

The administrator, a traditional Somali wrap around his waist, explained that many residents “live in fear and dread of the Shebab.” Continue Reading →

Car bomb kills over 60 in Somalia

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I think the lesson here to take home with us is,

‘The more Islam, the more terror, violence and horror’. After all, it does seem that the more ‘Islamic’ a country is, the more the ‘hijra’, or demand that people personally become more and more authentically Muslim as well as the territory they live in, requires violence for the job. After all, you know when you lose a jihad right? But how can you know you won? When do you stop fighting for Allah?

FINNISH POLICE FINALLY ADMIT TERROR SUSPECTS LINKED TO SOMALIA’S AL-SHABAB

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Well, at least that confirms what the Tundra Tabloids reported over a week ago, that they were Somalis. We also now know, officially, what the TT knew and reported over five years ago, that Somalis in Finland are waging jihad in the homeland with al-Qaida terrorists. KGS

Police: terrorist suspects linked to al-Shabab

The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confirmed that two persons detained on suspicion of engaging in the recruitment and financing of terrorists are Somali citizens.

Finnish police say that a man and woman arrested on suspicion of financing terrorism and terror recruitment are linked to al-Shabab, Somalia’s most powerful militant group.

The suspects say they sent small amounts of money to Somalia. The 34-year-old man is also suspected of recruiting at least one person abroad to commit an act of terrorism overseas.

The male suspect has lived in Finland since 2005 and has applied for Finnish citizenship. He has held a number of jobs in Finland and has also been self-employed. The 28-year-old woman, a student, arrived in the country in 2008.

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