Al Shabab Final offensive to take place on the same date of "Battle of Badr"

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamist rebels pushed towards the presidential palace late Tuesday but were repelled by heavy shelling by government troops, an army officer said Wednesday.

More than 80 people have been killed in the latest escalation of violence in the capital Mogadishu, which began on Monday when the al Shabaab group vowed to intensify its holy war against the fragile government.

The al Qaeda-linked militants said they were behind a shooting rampage in a hotel Tuesday that killed at least 33 people including members of parliament.A military officer said the insurgents attacked government troops based near Villa Somalia, the presidential palace, in large numbers but were outgunned by the African Union's AMISOM peacekeeping force."They came close tonight but behind us are AMISOM tanks and at last we drove them away," army officer Issa Ali, who had been fighting in the frontline overnight, told Reuters.Residents said bursts of automatic gunfire and the thuds of mortars could be heard throughout Wednesda An ambulance service worker said that at least 83 people had been killed in clashes in the last three days.

Tuesday night's fighting was centred on the government-controlled neighbourhoods of Hodan and Wardhiglry. Al Shabaab and a second militant group, Hizbul Islam, control much of the capital, hemming President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed's beleaguered government into just a few blocks.The AU's peacekeepers from Uganda and Burundi concentrate their efforts on shielding the president and guarding the port and airport."Al Shabaab will never overrun the government as long as we (AMISOM) are here," AMISOM spokesman Barigye Ba-Hoku told Reuters.He said the hotel shooting was a hit on a soft target and illustrated mounting frustration and desperation within al Shabaab's ranks. Some residents feared the hour-long killing spree was a prelude to a sustained bout of fighting.Analysts say the presence of foreign troops in Somalia allows militants to pose as nationalist champions with a mandate for the kind of devastating attacks Mogadishu witnessed on Tuesday. Some argue the outside world should disengage militarily and lament the decision by AU members to deploy an additional 4,000 troops to the anarchic nation.But supporters of the AMISOM force say al Shabaab will not simply evaporate if foreign troops exit.

The insurgents control large areas of central and south Somalia, and have attracted a large number of foreign fighters to their cause.

Al Shabab extremists murder 21 MPs and 10 people in Muna Hotel,Mogadishu

Al Jazeera

Tuesday, August 24, 2010







Al-Shabab fighters have attacked a hotel in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, reportedly killing legislators who live there.



At least 15 politicians are believed to have been killed in the attack on Tuesday, with another 40 dying in fighting earlier in the day, Al Jazeera's reporter in the city said.



The hotel is known to be hosting many Somali government officials and politicians.



The flare-up came after al-Shabab fighters declared a "massive" war against what they called "invaders" and attacked army barracks in several districts of Mogadishu on Monday.



At least 29 Somali civilians were killed in clashes between African Union-backed government troops and al-Shabab fighters in the fresh outbreak of violence, medics said.



There was an overnight lull before the battle resumed on Tuesday morning.



"The death toll increased from 11 to 29 civilians since yesterday," Ali Muse, head of Mogadishu ambulance services, said concerning Monday's fighting.



"Our medical teams have also collected 98 injured from a number of neighbourhoods."



Sheikh Ali Mohamoud Rage, al-Shabab's spokesman, had said on Monday that fighters were starting a new war against "invaders", an apparent reference to the 6,000 African Union troops deployed in the country to support government forces.



Ugandan troops



The fighting came days after hundreds of Ugandan troops began arriving in the Somali capital to strengthen the current AU peacekeeping force.



Uganda said last month that it was willing to send 1,200 troops to Somalia, in addition to the 6,000 strong AMISOM mission sent by African Union countries.



"The additional troops began arriving last Friday, they were airlifted to different areas and of course they will continue to arrive," Wafula Wamunyinyi, the AU deputy special representative for Somalia, said on Monday.



Al-Shabab, which has been fighting Somalia's UN-backed government since the start of 2007, recently claimed responsibility for a twin bombing attack in Uganda, which killed more than 70 people who were watching the World Cup.



The group has said that it will continue to undertake strikes in Uganda and Burundi, in east-central Africa, as long as those countries provide troops for the AU peacekeeping force in Somalia.



Somalia has not had an effective central government for nearly 20 years and al-Shabab controls significant portions of the country.



The US and other countries say al-Shabab is linked to al-Qaeda and consider the group a terrorist organisation.



More than 21,000 Somalis have been killed in fighting since the start of the uprising, 1.5 million have been uprooted from their homes and nearly half a million are sheltering in other countries in the region.



Source: Al Jazeera

Ahlu Sunnah Mujahideen conduct operations capture two suspects

ABUDWAQ ( TF.SF) – The Islamist fighters of Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a have Saturday conducted operations in Abudwaq district of Galgudud region and seized two men charging for crimes of killing committed in the district, officials say.The officials of the administration said that their security forces continued operations in Abudwaq district of Galgudud in central adding that they had arrested the men in prison of the district.The forces said that the men were two and accused for killing against a woman called Nuro Yusuf Ahmed who was murdered in a displaced camp in out of Abudwaq district adding that the forces continued search operations since the woman killed in her house in the camp.Another woman was reportedly killed in the same camp recently which most of the people in the displaced camp to expressed concern over the killings against the women in out of the district.The officials of Ahlu Sunna Waljam’a said that they would continue searching the two murderers pointing out that they would be brought before a court to be sentenced the Sharia law if found a guilty.

Anti-terror police arrest 12 with bomb materials

Standard

Monday, August 23, 2010

byCYRUS OMBATI







Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU) are holding 12 suspects they found with materials for making bombs and instructions in Mpeketoni, Lamu Isla.



The suspects include three Tanzanians who allegedly arrived from Somalia with maps of buildings in Nairobi, and instructions on assembling a bomb.



The others are Kenyans, and police said they are still interrogating them to know their mission.



The three Tanzanians had arrived in Lamu from Somalia aboard a speedboat they hired, after paying Sh20,000.



They also had bomb-making materials, which detectives believe they got from Somalia.



"We do not know their mission, but all I can say is that we have averted something," said a source that declined to be named.



The suspects were arrested on Saturday morning and later brought to Mombasa, where they were being grilled on Sunday.



And after interrogation, the suspects are said to have disclosed the location of their accomplices who were picked up from Malindi Town.



Police said they got tips on the arrival of the Tanzanians before they moved into action.



linked to Al-Shabaab



The arrests came barely a month after terrorists linked to Al-Shabaab detonated bombs in Kampala, Uganda, killing more than 80 people.



At least ten Kenyans are being held in Uganda over the bombings.



The latest arrest was of Suleiman Abdul Hamid who was arrested from his South C house, in Nairobi, in an operation mounted by tens of hooded police led by detectives. The arrest came three days after three Ugandans arrested in Mombasa over the same crime confessed to getting training in Somalia.



Anti Terror Police Unit said the arrests came after a month of thorough investigation.



Source: The Standard

http://hiiraan.com/news2/2010/Aug/anti_terror_police_arrest_12_with_bomb_materials.aspx

Jubbaland Military leader Barre Hiiraale start moving troops

[2010-08-23 09:04:10] saacadihii la soo dhaafey waxa degaano ku xeeran gobolka Gedo laga soo sheegayaa dhaqdhaqaaqyo ciidan kuwoodii ugu awooda badna oo ay halkasi ka wadaan cidamo uu hogaaminayo Col bare aadan shire [ bare hiraale .




Dhaqdhaqaaqan ciidan ayaa ah mid u bare hiraale sida la sheegey uu ku doonayo inuu dib ugula wareego gobollada Gedo & jubooyinka oo ay hadda maamulaan Xarakul shabab Mujaadihiin oo uu dagaalo kula galay goboladaasi mudo badan.



Bare hiraale ayaa la sheegey inuu shalay dib ugu soo laabtey magaalada doolow ka dib kulamo uu madax dawlada kmg ah & itoobiya kala soo yeeshey magaalada addis ababa ee dalkaasi itoobiya.



Ciidan shalay galinkii dambe la sheegey inay dhaqdhaqaaqyo ciidan halkaasi ka bilaabeen ayaa la sheegey inay gaarayan kumaaan ciidan ah oo ku wajahan gobolada jubooyinka & Gedo.



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