nytimes.com - 12/29/2008
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Islamist Militants in Somalia Begin to Fight One Another
telegraph.co.uk - 12/26/2008
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com - 12/27/2008
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Telegraph.co.uk 12/26/2008.... Hardline Islamists (Al-Shabaab) are poised to
take control of large areas of southern Somalia, opening...
a possible new front in the war on terrorism as Al-Shabaab terrorists are driectly linked to Al-Qaeda. The Dotster Web company in Vancouver WA has allowed ...
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Radical Islamists, Al-Shabaab, linked to al-Qaeda set to ...
floppingaces.net - 12/28/2008
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Ya just gotta love the nutjobs that not
only make this crap up, but also the morons...
they think believe it (morons who too often DO believe it!) In their defense, I’ll admit that #3 was probably an easy sell. Global warming was blamed for ...
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Top 10 Things Global Warming Caused in 2008
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Somali President Yusuf resigns
The Agonist - thoughtful, global, timely —
... . Fighting has continued in central Somalia where the militants are now fighting each other. Some feel with the Ethiopians leaving there is a ...
Somalia: The Forgotten Front of the War on Terror
Antiwar.com Original —
... a few months ago. Al-Shabaab's reign, though, won't last long, as Somalis are both fiercely independent and anti-statist, not to mention rather moderate Muslims. (Indeed, the resistance against al-Shabaab has already begun .) The ...
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longwarjournal.org 1/26/2009 —
Click map to view. Southern Somalia is now under the control of Shabaab and other Islamist groups. Map created by Bill Raymond for The Long War Journal .
Al Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia took control of the last stronghold of ...
Shabaab and rival Islamist group clash in central Somalia
longwarjournal.org 1/14/2009 — Two commanders of the al Qaeda-backed As Shabaab were killed during heavy fighting with a government-supported Islamist militia in central Somalia.
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mypetjawa.mu.nu 1/13/2009 — We reported last month that Washington state jihadi Ruben Shumpert (a.k.a. Amir Abdul Muhaimeen) was recently killed in Somalia fighting for the al Qaeda linked al Shebaab. You'll recall that Shumpert actually called the FBI from Somalia mocking their ...
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