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Sheikh Aweys denies terror groups operate in Somalia

1 posted on 06/24/2006 3:32:12 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Somalia ping!


2 posted on 06/24/2006 3:33:01 PM PDT by TexKat
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To: TexKat
The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts...

Hmmm. They're having the same problem as the Democrats coming up with a winning slogan...

3 posted on 06/24/2006 3:41:06 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Freedom isn't free, but the men and women of the military will pay most of your share)
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Somalia fundamentalist leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys stands inside a mosque in northern Mogadishu, in this Oct. 12, 2005, file photo. Aweys, who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator, was named Saturday, June 24, 2006, as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital. The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, said in a statement it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration says Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Osman Hassan,

4 posted on 06/24/2006 3:41:37 PM PDT by TexKat
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[ Suspected al-Qaida aide leads Somali group ]

He must have done something wrong to be cursed and appointed to Somalia.. Somalia is hopeing to become third world.. but is not up to third world standards..

8 posted on 06/24/2006 4:02:30 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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