No luxury cruise but a ticket to jihad was the prize for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. "The reason the young men were rewarded with weapons is to encourage them to participate in the ongoing holy war against the enemies of Allah in Somalia," Sheikh Abdullahi Alhaq said at a ceremony late Friday. The radio-broadcast quiz organised by the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab organisation in the southern Somali city of... Read Full Story
Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamists on Monday publicly executed two people accused of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the country's embattled government. They were killed by a firing squad in the capital Mogadishu after Shebab militia judge Sheikh Abdullahi Al-Haq pronounced a guilty verdict on them. "Hassan Moalim Abdullahi is found guilty of spying for the USA. He has been poven beyond any shadow of doubt that he belongs to the CIA," Al-Haq said of the first individual... Read Full Story
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Somali president: I’ve fired prime minister Somalia’s president said Sunday he has dismissed his prime minister for failing to do his job, a move that could threaten peace efforts in the the violence-ravaged African nation.
Abdullahi Yusuf said he would nominate a replacement for Nur... Read Full Story
Over the long months that federal investigators delved into the baffling recruitment of young men who left Minneapolis to fight with Islamic militants in Somalia, the city's Somali community grappled with the fear they would all be branded terrorists. But this week as the FBI netted its first grand jury indictments in the case, many hope the arrests of two Somali men will spell the beginning of the end of an investigation that has wracked their struggling community. Minneapolis is home about... Read Full Story
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Minneapolis indicted two men on Monday on charges of conspiracy and aiding terrorism overseas, according to court papers. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said on Monday that one of the men, Salah Osman Ahmed, 26, is of Somali descent and lived in a Minneapolis suburb. According to the indictment, Ahmed and Abdifatah Yusuf Isse were charged with two counts of providing material support to terrorists "and resources, namely personnel including... Read Full Story
Witnesses say three gunmen have stormed a mosque in an eastern Somali town and have killed five foreign preachers. Ismail Mohamud Hassan says the gunmen stormed a mosque in Galkayo on Wednesday and forced six Pakistani preachers and a Somali man out of the Tawfiq Mosque before shooting them. He says five of the Pakistanis were killed and the other Pakistani and the Somali injured. Another witness Abdullahi Ali Nur backs up the account. Officials at the Pakistan High Commission in neighboring... Read Full Story
Two men have been indicted in Minnesota on federal terror charges in the case of several missing young Somali men. The grand jury indictment unsealed Monday names Abdifatah Yusuf Isse and Salah Osman Ahmed. Both are charged with providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim and injure. Ahmed also is charged with making false statements to investigators. The indictment says Ahmed traveled to Somalia to fight with Islamic militants. An attorney for Isse didn't... Read Full Story
Somalia's President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed condemned Monday what he termed as an invasion by foreign fighters as rebels battle to oust him in weeks of clashes that have killed more than 200 people. The latest round of violence erupted on May 7 when hardline Islamist insurgents launched an offensive against government troops, wounding hundreds and forcing tens of thousands of others to flee. "Somalia is being invaded by foreign fighters, whose main purpose is to turn the country into an... Read Full Story
A lawyer for a Minnesota Somali man accused of traveling to Somalia to fight with Islamic terrorists says his client plans to plead guilty at a hearing Tuesday. Attorney Jim Ostgard (OST'-guard) says Salah Osman Ahmed (Sah-LAH' OZ'-man AH'-med) will plead guilty to one count of providing material support to terrorists. He says other charges will be dropped when Ahmed is sentenced as part of a plea agreement. Ostgard says Ahmed will tell the court that he met with others in Minnesota and made... Read Full Story
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Somali
fighters are reportedly urging pirates holding a Ukrainian ship
carrying tanks and military hardware to destroy the cargo and the
vessel if they are not paid ransom.
With US warships and other navies blockading the MV Faina
off Somalia's Indian Ocean coast, the pirates are insisting on being
paid $20 million to release the cargo and the 21-member crew.
"If
they do not get the money they are demanding, we call on them to either
burn down the ship and its... Read Full Story
