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http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/business/15025761.htm
Posted on Thu, Jul. 13, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SINGAPORE - Oil prices rose for a third day Thursday amid rising tension in the Mideast, including Iran being referred back to the U.N. Security Council over possible sanctions over its nuclear program and unrest in Israel and Lebanon.
"The key concern is Iran. The track it's on is not a positive one for the oil market," said Tobin Gorey, commodity strategist at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia in Sydney.
World power sent Iran back to the U.N. Security Council Wednesday after nuclear talks failed to yield agreements, stirring concerns about how OPEC's No. 2 supplier might respond."
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370058
Terrorism Focus
July 11, 2006
"New Islamist Leaders Emerge in Somalia"
By Sunguta West
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The celebrations that marked the overthrow of the warlords, who had controlled Mogadishu for about 15 years, by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) are nearing an end as the hard-line Islamic courts tighten their grip on most of southern Somalia. At the onset, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate, was the chairman of the ICU. Yet with power shifting to the hardliner Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, more extremism can be expected (Terrorism Focus, June 13). As these developments occur, new information is emerging on the many figures within the Islamic courts.
On the push toward Jowhar on June 12, reports said hundreds of Islamic fighters who left Hiilweyne military camp near the city had been organized by Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki, a member of the Somali militant group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (AIAI) (Shabelle Media Network, June 12). In 2004, the United States said al-Turki, born in 1944 in the Ogaden region in Ethiopia, had links to al-Qaeda. Subsequently, the United States imposed sanctions on him, as well as froze his economic resources. He had previously played a significant role in the Ethiopia-Somalia war over the Ogaden region in 1977. After Somalia lost the war, however, an observer of the conflict who wished to remain anonymous told The Jamestown Foundation that al-Turki defected to Somalia to fight for independence. This is one reason why al-Turki likes Sheikh Aweys; they both see Ethiopia as an enemy. Al-Turki is keen to see Ogaden secede from Ethiopia and become a separate state, according to this source. He sees the courts as a vehicle for achieving that end.
In addition to al-Turki, another Islamist leader is Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, also known as Yusuf Indha'adde. He is believed to be the person behind arming the courts' militias. Indha'adde, often referred to as a Somali Islamist warlord, is from the same Ayr clan as Aweys and Adan Hashi Ayro, the young strongman said to have undergone training in Afghanistan prior to the U.S. invasion. Indha'adde styles himself as a sheikh and the governor of the Lower Shabelle region. He was named the deputy of the executive committee of the Islamic Courts Council headed by Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. He started receiving arms from Eritrea together with Aweys around 2005 (Ethiopian Reporter, June 17)."