longwarjournal.org - 3/22/2009
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Sheik Hassan Yacquub Ali, Shabaab's spokesman in Kismayo.
A senior leader of the radical Islamist group Shabaab in the southern city of Kismayo has welcomed Osama bin Laden's call to overthrow the government of President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, and also said Shabaab would ...
boston.com - 3/16/2009
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boston.com —
Somali pirates continue their attacks against international ships
in and around the Gulf of Aden, despite the...
deterrent of stepped-up international naval escorts and patrols - and the increased failure rate of their attacks. Under agreements with ...
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Pirates of Somalia
longwarjournal.org - 3/17/2009
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longwarjournal.org —
A Swedish citizen released by the government last
year is currently a senior leader of a Somali...
Islamist terror alliance currently fighting against the newly formed government. Swedish police arrested three Swedish citizens in February 2008 on ...
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Swedish citizen senior leader of Somali terror alliance
news.bbc.co.uk - 3/26/2009
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Bill Roggio: Shabaab leader admits links to al Qaeda
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... Sunday, 22 March 2009 The information minister for Shabaab in the southern Somali city of Kismayo welcomed Osama bin Laden's call to remove Somalia's new president and said the group would continue its links to al Qaeda. read ...
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longwarjournal.org 1/26/2009 —
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