[Oorang]

Thanks for putting those two articles together Cindy.

[Cindy]

You're welcome Oorang.

[Oorang]

British nationals accused of funding Islamist fighters in Horn of Africa
10 January 2007

British and American nationals are fighting with Islamist militias in Somalia and the fundamentalist movement is being chiefly funded by sympathisers in the UK, it has been claimed.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the country's transitional government accused Britain of being the main source of money and men for the fighters of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).

Hussain Mohammed Aideed said: "The ICU's main support was coming from London, paying cash to the ICU against the government. Those who died in the war with the ICU were British passport-holders and American passport-holders. "

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2140275.ece