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| U.S. Blacklists Two Shebab Leaders after U.N. Bus Attack |
| 2015-04-22 |
| [AnNahar] The United States blacklisted two top leaders of Somalia's Shabaab on Tuesday, a day after the Islamist group killed seven people, including four U.N. workers, in a huge bus bombing. Ahmed Diriye, who took over as the Lion of Islam group's leader in September 2014, and intelligence chief Mahad Karate, were both designated as faceless myrmidons by the State Department. U.S. officials said the group was behind several atrocities, including the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi and the April 2 massacre at Garissa University in Kenya in which 148 people were killed. Monday's attack on a U.N. staff bus in the northeastern Somali town of Garowe killed seven people including four staff working for the children's agency UNICEF. Four other UNICEF workers were in a serious condition. Somalia's al-Qaeda-affiliated Shabaab turbans grabbed credit for the attack, branding the United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... a "colonization force in Somalia." Dirye, also known as Amhad Umar and Abu Ubaidah, took over from Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a U.S. air strike in September. "He shares Godane's vision for Shabaab's terrorist attacks in Somalia as an element of al-Qaeda's greater global aspirations," the State Department said in a statement. Karate, also known as Abdirahim Mohammed Warsame, "played a key role in the Amniyat, the wing of Shabaab responsible for the recent attack on Garissa University College in Kenya," it added. The Shabaab was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the United States in 2008. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 a FAE explosion generally clears most moles in a wiiiide radius. Rinse, repeat..just because I wanna see the LiveLeak vids :-) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-04-22 20:31 |
| #1 Dirye, also known as Amhad Umar and Abu Ubaidah, took over from Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a U.S. air strike in September. Clearly illustrating once again that whack-a-mole is a failed strategy. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-04-22 01:48 |