UN Investigating Theft of Somali Famine Aid
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UN Investigating Theft of Somali Famine Aid
MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Somali militant group al-Shabaab has received a cache of weapons in preparation for an assault to coincide with the holy month of Ramadan, a source said. Al-Shabaab has declared war on the African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia. The transitional government in Mogadishu is struggling to exert control over a country dominated by the terrorist group, an affiliate of al-Qaida. Sources in the African Union told CNN that al-Shabaab had hundreds of fighters staged outside the Somali capital in preparation for a Ramadan assault. Monday marks the start of the Muslim holy month. Sources to CNN said al-Shabaab may have received a shipment of weapons from its Yemeni allies in preparation of the Ramadan assault.
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I’m sure he’ll have a blast in federal prison. (IPT) — A second man has been charged in connection with threats made last year against the producers of the Comedy Central program “South Park.” Jesse Curtis Morton, (aka Younus Abdullah Mohammad) is charged with communicating threats. Morton helped run a website, RevolutionMuslim, with Zachary Chesser. Chesser is serving a 25-year prison term after pleading guilty to a similar charge and to trying to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab. After a “South Park” episode in April 2010 mocked the violent reaction of radical Islamists by portraying the Prophet Mohammad covered by a bear suit, Chesser posted a statement warning producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker that they “will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show.” Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who was killed on an Amsterdam street after producing a short film protesting the treatment of women in Islam. According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Paula Menges, Chesser then collaborated with Morton on a “clarification statement” triggered by media inquiries. “The Clarification Statement contained pages of justification under Islamic law for the death of those who insult Islam or defame its prophet, and for Muslims to bring about such deaths,” Menges wrote. “In it, Morton and Chesser asserted in pertinent part that ‘we will never tolerate the mocking or insulting of any one of the prophets,’ and explained that the Islamic ruling on this situation was that ‘the punishment is death.’” Keep reading…
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Filthy animals. NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — It’s a gruesome display seen many times over the years in Mogadishu. The bodies of dead soldiers dragged through the streets. Somalis angry over 20 years of violence say they do it in hopes of driving out African Union forces. The latest incident happened Thursday, when the body of a fighter who appeared to be a member of the AU’s peacekeeping mission was pulled through the streets by a rope. The spokesman for the country’s most dangerous militant group, al-Shabab, also displayed a body alongside documents that identified the man as a Ugandan soldier. “Today we are celebrating the death and blood of your sons,” Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage said at a news conference Thursday. The most infamous occurrence happened in 1993, when fighters dragged a U.S. soldier through the streets after a disastrous U.S. military assault into the Somali capital described in the book and movie “Black Hawk Down.” The deaths and grisly scene were widely used by media outlets who had to weigh the images’ news value against their violent nature. The incident hastened the U.S. withdrawal from the East African nation. In 2007, Somalis dragged the bodies of Ethiopian soldiers through the streets. Ethiopia withdrew after two years of war.
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It’s the Islamic way. (Daily Mail) — Life can be lonely on the high seas and one pirate has decided enough is enough, it’s about time he got himself a wife. But the Somali pirate chief has taken a fancy to his 13-year-old Danish hostage — and he is so besotted with her he’s willing to let the rest of her family go free, and even forget the $5million dollar ransom his pirate colleagues demanded. According to The Times, the pirate made the bizarre proposal during a conversation with a Danish reporter, who visited the African nation to track down the Johansen family who were taken hostage in the Indian Ocean more than a month ago. Jan Quist Johansen, his wife Birgit Marie Johansen, their sons Rune and Hjalte and their daughter Naja, were kidnapped along with their two crewmen. Keep reading…
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