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Somali Islamist claims he's uniting insurgents
Associated Press ^ | 06/02/2009 | Mohamed Olad Hassan

Posted on 06/02/2009 6:49:05 PM PDT by george76

A hardline Somali leader on a U.N. list of terror suspects claimed Tuesday to be making progress in uniting two Islamist insurgent factions as a single front against the Western-backed government.

Militiamen loyal to Islamic Party leader Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys have been fighting side-by-side in recent weeks with al-Shabab, an extremist Islamist group considered by the U.S. State Department to be a terrorist organization with links to al-Qaida. Al-Shabab denies that.

"Talks to unite al-Shabab and the Islamic Party are at an advanced stage,"

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; alshabab; aweys; hassandahiraweys; islam; islamicparty; mogadishu; somali; somalia

1 posted on 06/02/2009 6:49:05 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
SIGH!!
I wish we could have cleaned that mess up when we had the chance. (see Tagline)
2 posted on 06/02/2009 8:16:46 PM PDT by marine86297 (I'll never forgive Clinton for Somalia, my blood is on his hands)
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To: marine86297

Good tag line.

Sad that we are leaving so much to future generations.


3 posted on 06/02/2009 8:19:18 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

They have Sharia law, that makes them enemies of the free world. I don’t care if they unite or not.


4 posted on 06/02/2009 8:53:11 PM PDT by Islaminaction
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