Posted on 06/10/2005 3:23:44 PM PDT by jmc1969
Security authorities in Kenya are on high alert following information that members of two Islamist militant groups, al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya and al-Takfir wal-Hijra, may have already entered the country. According to a report in the Kenyan East African Standard [www.eastandard.net], both organizations are linked with Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi and are held to be responsible for last month's attempt on the life of the Somali Prime Minister.
One of the above groups, al-Ittihad al-Islamiyya, was set up during the 1980s by a group of Muslim clerics seeking to establish an Islamic state in Somalia. The group took on an overtly militant form following the removal of President Siad Barre and the ensuing disintegration of the Somali state in 1991. It established its main base on the Somali island of Ras-Kiamboni. It is to about this time that al-Zarqawi's links with the Horn of Africa are traced. According to sources quoted in the East African Standard, al-Zarqawi established a foothold at Lamu in Kenya and on Ras Kiamboni in 1996. This was two years before the high profile twin attacks on American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam, for which al-Zarqawi is considered by Kenyan intelligence as the chief planner and financier [www.eastandard.net].
The prevention of the establishment of a central, recognized government is a crucial strategy for Islamist insurgent groups who are better able to operate in conditions of a failed state.
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I put the author of the articles name in the website name designation, ah well.
Just what Africa needs another terrorist organisation.
Hey let's give Africa a whole bunch of Aid Money right now....billions. That should really help boost the terrorism.Ooops, our politicians have already thought of that. And I better not complain because then I would be called a racist who doesn't CARE.
Exactly what I was thinking. These guys are committing suicide. And for what? They want to conquer Kenya? Ebola is eating at their brains.
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