The Missing: Somali Men Off Twin Cities Streets, Back in Somalia with the Al-Shabaab Who Recruit on Their Website Based in Vancouver WA, USA !
wwwwbipicomlink.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — last week, five families went to the FBI, worries their kids were part of some jihad in Somalia. For their part, the FBI would not confirm or deny whether they have an ongoing investigation. Shiek Imam Abdighani Ali is on of the few religious leaders who would discuss The Missing. He believes ...

How Bush Failed Somalia
prospect.org 12/20/2008 — Two years ago the United States intervened in East African politics in a way that has been responsible for the deaths of untold thousands of people, has created the pirate problem, and is breeding a new generation of anti-American jihadists.

Somali jihadists reaping benefits of piracy
jihadwatch.org 11/21/2008 — That by itself is nothing new , but the increasingly brazen attacks on increasingly high-value targets are. "Pirates 'working with Islamists'," by Martin Plaut for BBC News , November 19: Somali pirates have been accused of forming what is ...

Reports concerning Somalia - 751
littlurl.com 12/20/2008 — Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) concerning Somalia UN SITE SEARCH: Home Resolutions Committee Guidelines Annual Reports Selected Documents Monitoring Group on Somalia Press Releases Sanctions Committees ...

News Analysis: Situation in Somalia Seems About to Get Worse
nytimes.com 12/7/2008 — With the government on the brink and the Islamists about to seize control again, the question is: Now what? >

Former Islamic Courts Leader elected president of Somalia
longwarjournal.org 1/31/2009 — Sheikh Sharif Ahmed (left) and Sheikh Yusuf Indohaadde during a news conference iin June 2006. Indohaadde, the former Defense Minister for the Islamic Courts Union, appeared on al Qaeda propaganda tapes . Somalia's newly ...

Shabaab takes control of Somalia's seat of government
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. Shabaab leaders Mohamed Mohamed Salad and Mohamed Yusuf Nur were "martyred" in the town of Guriel ...

Good News: Shabaab to Officially Join al Qaeda
mypetjawa.mu.nu 3/11/2009 — An image from Shabaab's website shows bin Laden They already pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden, so I'm not sure how the relationship isn't already official. But, let's just call the relationship up to now unofficial. And it's a...

Islamists’ Advance: No Effect on U.N. Aid to Somalia
warisboring.com 11/25/2008 — There were some alarmist headlines when Islamist fighters seized the strategic port of Merka in southern Somalia this month. “The threat the [Islamic Courts Union] posed in late 2006 has thus re-materialized: that Islamists will Talibanize ...

Russia seeks new missiles due to U.S. shield plans — Reuters: Politics 11/28/2008
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military said on Friday it had intensified efforts to develop new ballistic missiles in response to U.S. plans to deploy an anti-missile system in Europe and Russia's navy test fired a new generation rocket.

U.S., EU fear Syria "sanitized" alleged nuclear sites (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 11/28/2008
Reuters - The United States and the European Union said on Friday they were disturbed by apparent Syrian efforts to "sanitize" sites U.N. inspectors want to examine in a probe into alleged covert nuclear activity.

Three U.S. citizens dead in Mumbai, more "at risk" — Reuters: Politics 11/29/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At least three U.S. citizens, including a Brooklyn rabbi, were killed in militant attacks in Mumbai, India, and the State Department said more Americans were at risk.

Trace Levels of Melamine In Formula Called Safe — Wash Post Federal Page 11/29/2008
Federal health officials have changed their guidance on the health risks of melamine in infant formula, saying trace amounts of the industrial compound alone are not harmful.

Qaeda's Zawahri says U.S. wars behind financial crisis — Reuters: Politics 11/29/2008
DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command said in an Internet video the U.S. financial crisis was caused by Washington's military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and taxpayers were paying the price.