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Somali pirates kidnap aid workers: Swedish NGO

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This is a brilliant example of whit is critical that the USA maintains global hegemony of the oceans. Piracy can and will end world trade. Collapse civilizations and move millions from affluence to poverty and disease. If you don’t believe it, research Roman roads and brigands. Might be interesting to see who those brigands were as well while you are at it.

From The Local:

Soldiers of the Somali National Army (SNA) patrol near the town of Afgoye.

Published: 13 Jul 12 15:42 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation

Sweden’s International Aid Services (IAS) confirmed Friday that three of its employees kidnapped in Somalia this week were in the hands of pirates and called for their release.

The two Kenyan aid workers and a Somali doctor were kidnapped in northern Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Wednesday.

“It has now been confirmed that a certain pirate group was involved. The hostages are reported well and have been taken to a known location under the control of pirates,” IAS said in a statement Friday.

“No demands have so far been presented by the group.”

IAS said it was in talks with several groups in Kenya and Somalia but refused to name either the kidnappers or where its employees were being held.

The agency “condemns this serious act of aggression against humanitarian staff in the strongest terms,” it said.

“We urge the attackers to immediately and unconditionally release our staff,” it said.

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H/T Fjordman

So, who kidnapped them?

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Is it my imagination? did I miss it? Or is there not ONE mention of who actually kidnapped these people in this entire 3:41 second news report on the rescue of these hostages. Not one mention. There are details of the victims and the rescue and everyone who said thank you from the friends servants tennis partners and their pets but not one mention of who did the kidnappings.

Staggering.

Gunmen kidnap aid workers from Kenya camp, driver killed

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Yahoo News:

  • People move around near makeshift homes, or "tukuls", in the outskirts of Dagahaley settlement at Kenya's Dadaab Refugee Camp, situated northeast of the capital Nairobi, near the Somali border, August 31, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan ErnstPeople move around near makeshift homes, or “tukuls”, in the outskirts of Dagahaley …

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Gunmen kidnapped four aid workers and killed a driver at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp near the border with Somalia on Friday, in the first kidnapping of foreigners since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in October to try to crush Islamist militants.

The gunmen are suspected sympathisers of Somalia’s al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents, regional deputy police chief Philip Ndolo, told Reuters.

In Somalia, al Shabaab said it was not aware of the attack.

“So far we are not aware about any aid workers kidnapped from Kenya’s refugee camps,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the spokesman for al Shabaab’s military operations, told Reuters.

Kenyan police said the four were nationals of Norway, Canada, Pakistan and the Philippines. A Kenyan driver in a second vehicle was killed during the attack.

They were working for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the group’s secretary general, Elisabeth Rasmusson, was also in the convoy and was unharmed, the aid group said.

A Kenyan driver was shot in the attack had died of his injuries while being treated, Ndolo said. Two other Kenyans were also shot, another driver and a contractor for the NRC, he said.

Police and the military were now pursuing the kidnappers who drove towards the Kenya and Somalia border, police said.

“I can confirm that military helicopters have been dispatched,” Colonel Cyrus Oguna of the Kenya Defence Forces told Reuters.

Ndolo said the car in which the aid workers were travelling had been abandoned by the attackers, and that the group were probably using another vehicle or were on foot.

He could not say if they had already crossed into Somalia.

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Here is a stunningly pathetic sanitized and politically correct video from CTV news on this issue. Get ready for this. Look at your watch when the woman is asked who did the kidnappings. You can hear something snap inside as she figures out how to avoid answering that question. While she mentions Al Shabab, she never mentions the fact that they are an orthodox Muslim group. Hell she doesn’t even use the laughable and synthetic term, ‘Islamist’. The rest of the clip she attempts to try and defer attention from them and make it look like maybe it was an organized crime gang that did it. (Although certainly not a Chicago one cause then, you know, maybe Obama might be involved)

Somali refugee who stabbed girlfriend 57 times with shard of broken mirror is jailed for life

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Daily Mail:

  • Zakaria Mohamed was on probation when he killed Amina Adan in south London
  • Old Bailey told he had assaulted her twice before during their year-long relationship

By Leon Watson

PUBLISHED: 11:42 EST, 22 June 2012 | UPDATED: 13:49 EST, 22 June 2012

A violent refugee was jailed for at least 26 years today for stabbing his girlfriend 57 times.

Somalian Zakaria Mohamed, 29, was on probation when he killed television recruitment consultant Amina Adan, 32.

He had assaulted her twice before during their year-long relationship, but magistrates put off sentencing him so he could take part in a domestic abuse programme.

Zakaria Mohamed who was jailed for at least 26 years today for stabbing his girlfriend
Television recruitment consultant Amina Adan, who was stabbed 57 times to death

Zakaria Mohamed (left) who was jailed for at least 26 years today for stabbing his girlfriend Amina Adan 57 times

But she took him back and he killed her with three knives and shards of glass from a broken mirror before the counselling sessions were implemented, the Old Bailey heard.

Judge Anthony Morris said he did not know why the sessions were not prioritised before Mohamed served an unpaid work element of a community order.

Mohamed pleaded guilty to murdering Miss Adan on November 6, last year, at the home they shared in Walworth, south London.

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Al-Shabab plotting attack in Netherlands

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RNW.NL:

 

H/T Snaphanen.dk

A former commander of the Somali al-Qaeda-linked organisation al-Shabab has said that dormant cells in the Netherlands are secretly preparing terrorist attacks.

The commander, who left al-Shabab because of a dispute with its leaders, said the militant Islamist group is actively recruiting and training members of the Somali diaspora in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States to launch attacks in the countries where they have a residence permit.

Dutch public broadcaster VPRO spoke to a BBC reporter, Mary Harper, on its radio programme Bureau Buitenland. Ms Harper had interviewed Mohamed Farah al Ansari who said Somalia was becoming the new hub of jihadism. Al Ansari joined up with government forces and entered a protection programme with the interim government after he stopped activities with Al Shabab.

The Somali commander was questioned by US security officials at the American embassy in Nairobi.

Waging jihad
Al-Shabab is an offshoot of the Islamic Courts Union, which splintered into several smaller factions after its defeat in 2006 by the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the TFG’s Ethiopian military allies. The group describes itself as waging jihad against “enemies of Islam”, and is engaged in combat against the TFG and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM).

The outfit controls large swathes of the southern parts of the country where it is said to have imposed its own strict form of Sharia Law. Its strength is estimated at around 14,000 militants. The group also targets foreign aid organisations, leading to a suspension of humanitarian operations and an exodus of relief agents.

The UN Security Council voted earlier this year to increase AU peacekeeping forces in Somalia. The fighting has shifted away from the capital Mogadishu and government troops have managed to take a strategic al-Shabab stronghold in south-western Somalia.

(jn/rn)

© Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Terrorists threaten to attack UK if Qatada is deported

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Telegraph: 

Al Qaeda militants have warned the UK it will be attacked if it deports firebrand cleric Abu Qatada.

Tom Whitehead

By , Security Editor

10:10PM BST 20 Apr 2012

Al-Shabaab, the Somali based group linked to the terror network, said there would be “disaster” for the British public if Qatada is sent back to Jordan.

Last week al Qaeda itself warned it would “open the gates of evil” if the Government continues with the deportation.

The warning came as it emerged Theresa May could learn next month whether the Home Office blundered over the appeal deadline for Qatada.

A panel of European judges is expected to sit in May to decide whether the cleric’s application was in time – and whether he has a case for an appeal, sources said.

Liberal Democrats said the deadline fiasco, which has allowed Qatada to further delay his deportation, had been an “Olympic-standard screw up”

And Labour piled the pressure on the Home Secretary to explain what assurances were sought from Strasbourg that the Home Office was working to the correct time frame.

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Major pedophile Muslim sex gang busted in the USA

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Muslim pedophile sex slave and rape gangs. Not just for England anymore!

The video is originally from SDAMAT’s youtube page where there is a great deal more information on this bust. I fixed the aspect ratio and audio levels above.

Here is a link on information on this dated yesterday April 17th

Explosion in Somali city of Baidoa kills at least 12

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AGL.IT:

8:50 09 APR 2012

(AGI) Mogadishu- At least 12 people were killed as a bomb went off in the Somali city of Baidoa. Al-Shebaab Islamists have claimed responsibility for the explosion, whose target consisted of Somali and Ethiopian troops which took over the city from al-Qaeda associated Islamic fundamentalists in February. . .

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Somalia: Sad day as celebration turns to tragedy

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Article19.org:

 

ARTICLE 19 condemns the heinous attack on civilians and journalists which took place earlier today at Somalia’s National Theatre, during the first anniversary of the re-opening of the country’s national television station. The suicide bomb, the fourth since the beginning of the year, left scores of civilians and public officials dead and seven journalists amongst the critically wounded.  

“This is a shocking and unacceptable act. The targeting of journalists, civilians and public officials in today’s attack sends a chilling message to all those who want to support the fledgling process of restoration,” said Henry Maina, Director, ARTICLE 19 Eastern Africa.

As a key member of the East Africa Journalists in Distress Network, ARTICLE 19 will work directly with all international journalists’ organisations to offer as much assistance as is practically possible to the injured.

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Shabaaz Hussain: Somalia terrorism funder jailed

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BBC:

Shabaaz Hussain

Shabaaz Hussain had 26 speeches by extremist preacher Abu Hamza

A former teaching assistant has been jailed for five years and three months for donating £9,000 to fund terrorism in Somalia.

Shabaaz Hussain, 28, gave the money in 2010 to three of his friends who left the UK to allegedly become involved in terrorism in the east African country.

Extremist material was also found in his flat in Stepney, east London.

Evidence was gathered against Hussain when police secretly recorded conversations he had in his car.

Passing sentence at Woolwich Crown Court the judge, Mr Justice Calvert-Smith, said: “These were, as you realised, substantial sums for people living, most likely, in basic conditions in countries like Somalia and Kenya.

“You certainly realised, in my judgment, that some of it would be used either directly or indirectly to help to resource acts of terrorism.”

‘Somali Three’

Hussain confessed to seven counts of fundraising for terrorists.

In total he donated £9,114 which went to Muhammed Jahangir, Tufual Ahmed, and Mohammed Shahim, known as “The Somali Three”.

At a previous hearing, prosecutor Sarah Whitehouse described Hussain’s home as “practically dripping” with extremist material.

The hoard included 26 speeches by extremist preacher Abu Hamza, the court heard.

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Somali sex-slave ring faces trial in Tennessee

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 Examiner:

Timothy Whiteman's photo

Wilmington Conservative Examiner
 

Twenty three accused defendants will face a Federal judge and jury in Tennessee next month on charges of slaving girls as young as 12-years-old.

A Somali immigrant gang kidnapped children, then trafficked them into the horrific world of sexual slavery in the very heartland of America — Minnesota, Tennessee and Ohio.

Real Clear Politics reports that in the indictments handed down, “the Somali gangsters who ran these sex trafficking rings used them to finance their lifestyle — and to provide for their own sexual satisfactions as well.”

The article went on to state the indictment also read:

“One defendant, Haji Osman Salad, nicknamed “Hollywood,” later made Jane Doe Two ‘his girl.’
He would pick her up from public school, take her to an apartment for sex, and then order her to have sex with other men.”

FINNISH SECURITY POLICE ARREST ANOTHER SOMALI IN TERROR RELATED CASE

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This is connected to a prior arrest of Somali nationals in Finland on terror related charges.

H/T: Kumitonttu

New arrest in the terrorism case

HS: Finland’s first counter-terrorism investigations have been made yet another arrest. Police have arrested one person in the morning the metropolitan area, who is a Finnish national and an ethnic Somali.

In addition, the Central Criminal Police and Security Police have made home searches and seizures related to the case.

There are now six people people suspected of a crime, one of whom is in custody. Police estimate that the pre-trial of the case will last for months yet.

UPDATE: YLE, the Finnish state broadcaster is stating that :

Related to the same case, is the continued imprisonment of one person. He has been imprisoned since the early autumn of 2011. He is also an ethnic Somali. In total there are six suspects, including two on a travel ban. […] Two of the suspected can be reached abroad, and one can not be found.

NOTE: This is an example of the mainstream media not being able to report a story correctly. The say in both article that 6 people in all, are suspected of involvement, though they speak of seven individuals.

– 2 are in fact in custody

– 2 are on a travel ban

– 2 are abroad and 1 can not be reached.

That adds up to seven in my thinking.

‘7/7 widow’ and the bomb factory found in a house: Fugitive mother of three in terror inquiry is pictured at border

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The Daily Mail:

By Rebecca Evans

Last updated at 11:40 PM on 4th March 2012

 

Terror plot: The woman pictured at the Tanzanian border has been issued by Kenyan policeTerror plot: The woman pictured at the Tanzanian border has been issued by Kenyan police

This is the first photograph of the fugitive terrorist Kenyan police suspect is using the identity of 7/7 widow Samantha Lewthwaite.

The image was taken by an undercover officer as the woman crossed the border from Tanzania with her three children using a forged passport.

Anti-terror police have launched a huge hunt for the mother of three, who they believe was a ‘key financier and bomb-making tutor’ for the Somalian Al Qaeda affiliate Al Shabaab.

Officers on the case have found a devastating arsenal of bomb-making equipment which they suspect was for a planned attack on Western tourist targets in the coastal city of Mombasa.

They discovered batteries, hydrogen peroxide and other chemical ingredients during a raid on one of several Mombasa houses where they believe the woman had stayed until she disappeared in December.

The raid followed a tip-off that Al Shabaab was planning to blow up hotels and shopping centres over Christmas and New Year.

The suspect fled with her three children following the arrest of her co-conspirators, Briton Jermaine Grant and Kenyan Foaud Abubakar.

The house was also used as an impromptu bank where police say the suspect would dole out dollar bills to Al Shabaab recruits – funded by ransom money handed to pirates targeting ships off the Horn of Africa.

Shown photographs of Home Counties mother Lewthwaite, Muslim leaders from the mosque closest to the building said it bore a resemblance to a white woman who had been praying there.

Married to a bomber: Lethwaite with Jermain Lindsay who blew himself up in the 2005 terror attack near Russell Square which claimed 26 lives
Married to a bomber: Lethwaite with Jermain Lindsay who blew himself up in the 2005 terror attack near Russell Square which claimed 26 lives

 

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Somali terrorists warn of reprisals on British streets

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The Independent:

Islamist fighters in Somalia last night warned of deadly reprisals on Britain’s streets if the West mounted military action in the war-torn east African state.

As a conference on Somalia’s future closed in London, the country’s President appealed for bombing raids on the positions of al-Shabaab, which recently merged with al-Qa’ida. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed said he would welcome air strikes against the “menace” of the insurgents, warning: “This isn’t a Somali problem, it has to be addressed globally.”

David Cameron left open the option of authorising action against al-Shabaab, which controls much of Somalia, but he made clear his preference for a lasting political settlement.

Last night the spokesman for the Islamist group, Sheikh Ali Dhere, warned it could launch terror attacks in the West if countries such as Britain and the US intervened in Somalia. “Your peace depends upon us being left alone,” he told Channel 4 News. “If you do not let us live in peace, you will not enjoy peace either.”

Al Shabaab was not invited to yesterday’s conference, but Mr Cameron insisted its fighters could be brought into the tentative political process if they laid down their weapons and genuinely renounced violence.

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