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| Somali Insurgents: Obama Must Convert to Islam or Attacks on U.S. Will Come |
| 2010-12-27 |
| A leader of Somalia's Islamist insurgency threatened to attack America during a speech broadcast Monday. "We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country," said Fuad Mohamed "Shongole" Qalaf. Al-Shabab has not yet launched an attack outside Africa but Western intelligence has long been worried because the group targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment. About 20 have traveled to Somalia for training and at least three were used as suicide bombers inside Somalia. Al-Shabab holds most of southern and central Somalia and has the support of hundreds of foreign fighters, mostly radicalized East Africans. It seeks to overthrow the weak U.N.-backed government, which is protected by 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian African Union peacekeepers. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 The olde "Don't make me come over there!" threat. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2010-12-27 23:57 |
| #5 Fuad needs assisted FOAD. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-12-27 21:19 |
| #4 Whaddaya mean "convert"? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-12-27 21:08 |
| #3 The radio message was recorded in the town of Afgoye, near the Somali capital, during a meeting of Shongole and Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, formerly the leader of insurgent group Hizbul Islam. Well, if anything happens here, I'd say Afgoye wins the "smoking hole" contest. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-12-27 20:59 |
| #2 Whoa, SOMALIA haz AMISH - D ***NG, I KNEW IT??? 'Tis consistent wid DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PAKISTAN TELLS US: DO NOT CROSS "RED LINES". Among other, ARTIC = DENOTES THAT THE "EPICENTER OF TERRORISM" {Focii = Terror Operations] IS AGZ NORTH AMERICA [read, US of America = Amerika] + EUROPE. MOVE ALONG PEOPLE, ONCE AGAIN RADICAL ISLAM CLEARLY MISTAKES ITS GLOBAL JIHAD, ALLAH + SHARIA, ETC. WID THE SECULAR COMMIE-SOCS "FINAL STRUGGLE" + OWG CWO-SWO. Who knew? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-12-27 20:59 |
| #1 Didn't they get the memo? |
| Posted by: RamblerInNVrginia 2010-12-27 20:10 |