Published: 06/29/09, 2:21 PM
Beslan Child-Murderers Strike Again, Hit Ingushetia's President
by Malkah Fleisher
(IsraelNN.com) The president of Ingushetia is fighting for his life following a June 22 assassination attempt by the same Chechen Muslim jihadist cell which slew over 330 children in a Beslan elementary school in 2004.
Hospital officials in Moscow say Yunus Bek Yevkurov, the president of the former-USSR state of Ingushetia, neighbor of the volatile Islamic state of Chechnya, is in critical condition with burns, brain injuries, and damage to internal organs. A disparate report from Yevkurov's spokesman, Kaloi Akhilgov, said the president suffered only a serious concussion and broken ribs.
The official's convoy was attacked in the provincial center of Nazran by a car rigged with explosives. Yevkurov's sedan was ripped to pieces and two of his bodyguards killed, with shrapnel and blood scattered for hundreds of meters.
The Riyadh-as-Saliheen, a Muslim terror cell, claimed responsibility for the attack on a Chechen separatist website, approximately five years after jihadists from the group attacked an elementary school, holding children and staff hostage, and ultimately murdering more than 300 people.
Link to Gaza terror
Although the violence is taking place far from the Middle East, a 2006 pamphlet put out by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (ITIC), a project sponsored by an NGO (non-governmental agency) erected in memory of fallen members of the Israeli intelligence community, revealed a strong link between Chechen rebels and the Gaza-based jihad organization Hamas.
Yevkurov took leadership of the small Muslim country at the behest of the Kremlin in October, as part of its claim to have brought stability and compliance back to the region.
Yevkurov was the third top official to be attacked in the last three weeks in the Muslim separatist area, a zone of Islamic uprising and anti-Western warfare twice in the past 15 years.
A decade ago, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin conducted a major crackdown on Islamic revolutionaries, killing 100,000. However, the assault did not crush the movement. Instead, Islamic insurgency spread to outlying provinces.
Kremlin helpless
Analysts say the attack illustrates the Kremlin's inability to stem the proliferation of Islamic defiance in the area. The attack on Yevkurov took place five years to the day after Chechen and Ingush jihadists broke into Nazran police offices, slaying approximately 90 civilians and police officers, stealing two truckloads of arms, and burning down the Nazran train station and Interior Ministry building.
Since Yevkurov's assumption of power, border security sweeps and crackdowns have been frequent between Chechnya and Ingushetia. The leader was in the process of giving pardons to some jihadists in exchange for an agreement not to resume terrorist work.
The resurgence of Islamic rebellion has claimed three lives in the last three weeks. The deputy chief justice of Ingushetia's Supreme Court was gunned down by terrorists while dropping off her children at a Nazran kindergarten, the former deputy prime minister was shot outside of his Nazran home, and a top police officer was shot and killed by a sniper in Dagestan, as the official attended a wedding.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Opium trade continues to support Afghan Taliban
Opium trade continues to support Afghan Taliban
Updated June 30, 2009 12:53:16
Taliban insurgents are forcing farmers in southern Afghanistan to grow opium poppies and imposing a tax on the crops, according to reports.
Afghanistan produces over ninety-percent of the world's opium, helping to fund Taliban and other militant activities, even though production dropped worldwide by 19 per cent last year. A local farmer in southwestern Farah province told the UN-linked IRIN news that by growing opium, they are demonstrating support for 'jihad' against the Americans.
Gregor Salmon is a writer based in Sydney. His new book is called 'Poppy: Life, Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade'.
Presenter: Sen Lam
Speakers: Gregor Salmon, author.
Updated June 30, 2009 12:53:16
Taliban insurgents are forcing farmers in southern Afghanistan to grow opium poppies and imposing a tax on the crops, according to reports.
Afghanistan produces over ninety-percent of the world's opium, helping to fund Taliban and other militant activities, even though production dropped worldwide by 19 per cent last year. A local farmer in southwestern Farah province told the UN-linked IRIN news that by growing opium, they are demonstrating support for 'jihad' against the Americans.
Gregor Salmon is a writer based in Sydney. His new book is called 'Poppy: Life, Death and Addiction Inside Afghanistan's Opium Trade'.
Presenter: Sen Lam
Speakers: Gregor Salmon, author.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Saudi Arabia's Terror Challenge
By OLIVIER GUITTA (Middle East Times)Published: February 23, 2009
Saudi Arabia recently released a list of 85 most wanted terrorists. Eighty-three of the individuals are Saudi nationals, the other two are Yemenis. These individuals are suspected of wanting to revive al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia, attack oil facilities inside the kingdom and overthrow the monarchy. Because of the nationality of the suspects, the Saudi regime is taking this threat very seriously.
Interestingly out of the 85 men, 14 had been previously detained at Guantanamo Bay and undergone the Saudi rehabilitation program for jihadis.
A telling example is that of Abdullah Thabet, a 34-year-old literature teacher. Thabet was born in a tribal world, in a village in the Assir region near the Yemen border. He wanted to restore the caliphate and views al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden as one of his heroes. Thabet left his family to head into clandestine cells that launched raids against "non-believers."
Inspired by his jihadist years, Thabet wrote a novel entitled "The 20th terrorist." Out of the 19 terrorists involved in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, 15 were Saudi, many of whom came from the Assir area. Thabet wanted to show in his book how so many young Saudis plunged into terrorism. Indeed, in the real world, some of his former companions are or were fighting in Iraq, or clandestinely preparing attacks in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi authorities are realizing the hugeness of the problem. The tipping point came when some of its own citizens joined al-Qaida, determined to overthrow the monarchy. Saudi Deputy Minister of Education and Teaching Mohammed Said Maliss, ordered the removal of certain radical and extremist books from school libraries and education centers. Among these books is one about Sayyed Qutb, one of the most influential Islamist thinkers who serves as a reference to al-Qaida and other Islamist groups. Another book now banned clearly calls for jihad, in the name of Islam.
The second step taken by the regime was the reshuffling of the government that took place on Feb. 14. Most importantly was the replacement of the hardcore Wahhabi Education Minister Abdullah Bin Saleh al-Obaid by prince Faisal bin Abdullah, who is viewed as more moderate.
King Abdullah wants the system reformed, but has to proceed with caution so as not to upset the conservative base. Faisal will have at his disposal huge amount of funds since the education minister gets about one-fourth of the Saudi budget.
King Abdullah also fired the head of the religious police, the Mutawaa which ensures proper application of the Islamic Sharia law. The Mutawaa has often been criticized for its heavy handedness. indeed, the king is cognizant of some of the excesses committed by the religious police and his recent changes in the cabinet reflects his thinking.
The recent moves implemented by the regime are certainly small steps to tackle the problem of extremism in the kingdom. But they are a start.
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Olivier Guitta is an Adjunct Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a foreign affairs and counterterrorism consultant. You can read his latest work at
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Photo Essay: Pashtun anti-Taliban Rally in Toronto
February 16, 2009
Photo Essay: Pashtun anti-Taliban Rally in Toronto
A peace rally which seemed to have started as a way to condemn the killing of civilians by all sides in the conflict rapidly degenerates into condemnation of the Taliban. At least, the general condemn them all attitude adopted by the peace faction of the Left seems to be the general gist of the press releases about the rally I was sent. However, early reports from those at the rally seem to indicate that it had a distinct anti-Taliban bent to it.
I can't speak to whether or not Pakistani forces routinely kill civilians. It certainly wouldn't surprise or shock me. What I can say is that the Taliban does routinely -- and proudly -- kill civilians.
For our part we do reluctantly kill civilians when we use Predators to fire on HVTs within Pakistan. And inasmuch as some segments of the Pashtun community within Pakistan harbor the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other related groups within the compounds which often also house extended families, I expect that we will continue to kill civilians.
There is really only one way to end this: defeat the Taliban. I'm sorry about that, but that is how wars are ended.
And in the context of Pakistan, the demands of "peace" and "schools for girls" are rather mutually exclusive demands. At least, these demands cannot both be met when peace is bought through allowing the adoption of sharia law in majority Pashtun regions. Like the Pakistani government has over the weekend.
Especially given that the kind of sharia familiar to Pashtuns in the area is of the Deobandi-Hanafi strain. A kind of Islamic law so strict and backward looking, that it spurred al Qaeda's leading early philosopher, Abdullah Azzam, to warn Arabs coming to Afghanistan for the jihad to prepare for culture shock. Can you imagine Saudis shocked that the local version of Islam was so strict?
Anyway, it's interesting to see the images from the rally below. They were sent to me by Zbig. He reports that even though it was well below zero, that about 250-300 people attended the rally. In an interesting twist, at least one of those at the rally brought an Israeli flag.
By Rusty at February 16, 2009 11:30 AM
Photo Essay: Pashtun anti-Taliban Rally in Toronto
A peace rally which seemed to have started as a way to condemn the killing of civilians by all sides in the conflict rapidly degenerates into condemnation of the Taliban. At least, the general condemn them all attitude adopted by the peace faction of the Left seems to be the general gist of the press releases about the rally I was sent. However, early reports from those at the rally seem to indicate that it had a distinct anti-Taliban bent to it.
I can't speak to whether or not Pakistani forces routinely kill civilians. It certainly wouldn't surprise or shock me. What I can say is that the Taliban does routinely -- and proudly -- kill civilians.
For our part we do reluctantly kill civilians when we use Predators to fire on HVTs within Pakistan. And inasmuch as some segments of the Pashtun community within Pakistan harbor the Taliban, al Qaeda, and other related groups within the compounds which often also house extended families, I expect that we will continue to kill civilians.
There is really only one way to end this: defeat the Taliban. I'm sorry about that, but that is how wars are ended.
And in the context of Pakistan, the demands of "peace" and "schools for girls" are rather mutually exclusive demands. At least, these demands cannot both be met when peace is bought through allowing the adoption of sharia law in majority Pashtun regions. Like the Pakistani government has over the weekend.
Especially given that the kind of sharia familiar to Pashtuns in the area is of the Deobandi-Hanafi strain. A kind of Islamic law so strict and backward looking, that it spurred al Qaeda's leading early philosopher, Abdullah Azzam, to warn Arabs coming to Afghanistan for the jihad to prepare for culture shock. Can you imagine Saudis shocked that the local version of Islam was so strict?
Anyway, it's interesting to see the images from the rally below. They were sent to me by Zbig. He reports that even though it was well below zero, that about 250-300 people attended the rally. In an interesting twist, at least one of those at the rally brought an Israeli flag.
By Rusty at February 16, 2009 11:30 AM
Two Muslims arrested in Granada for producing videos inciting terrorism
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By h.b. - Feb 18, 2009 - 8:48 AM
Christian Peso Ruiz Coello and Maria Choubina - Ministry of the Interior
Both aged 23, the man is a Granadino and his girlfriend comes from Russia
A Muslim soldier and one other have been arrested in Granada, accused of inciting jihad against Spain.
The two are alleged to have placed videos with jihadist content on the internet which called on people to carry out terrorist attacks in Spain, mixed with nostalgia calls for the liberation of Al Andalus.
23 year old Christian Peso Ruiz Coello is from Granada, and Maria Choubina who is the same age is Russian. He has been working in the Air Force in wing 78 base in Armilla, and both practice Islam.
His father says the whole affair is a misunderstanding.
By h.b. - Feb 18, 2009 - 8:48 AM
Christian Peso Ruiz Coello and Maria Choubina - Ministry of the Interior
Both aged 23, the man is a Granadino and his girlfriend comes from Russia
A Muslim soldier and one other have been arrested in Granada, accused of inciting jihad against Spain.
The two are alleged to have placed videos with jihadist content on the internet which called on people to carry out terrorist attacks in Spain, mixed with nostalgia calls for the liberation of Al Andalus.
23 year old Christian Peso Ruiz Coello is from Granada, and Maria Choubina who is the same age is Russian. He has been working in the Air Force in wing 78 base in Armilla, and both practice Islam.
His father says the whole affair is a misunderstanding.
Listen to moderate Muslims
Farid Ghadry
Published: 02.18.09, 11:07 / Israel Opinion
The Middle East is engaged today in a battle for its soul and the decisions acted upon by the new Obama and Israeli administrations will either defer a Muslim Renaissance by offering an olive branch to violent dictators like Assad or institute a sensible strategy to help usher a new era in the region. Real peace - not the ceremonial one intended to decorate resumes - is only possible by helping free the people of Syria to embrace their democratic neighbors.
Middle Eastern countries with violent dictators, such as Syria and Iran, have brought the region to a boiling point because our non-evolutionary civilization is accelerating backwards on steroids of a deadly combination of hate and pride; hate administered against those who surpassed us in knowledge and pride because we do not seem to accept that reality. In order to hide their weaknesses, Syria promotes "resistance" and Iran promotes religious zealotry, and both rely on nuclear weapons to defend their existence as their regime heaps misery upon their own people spiraling further into the abyss of ignorance.
Combine this inseparable Syrian-Iranian cocktail and is it a wonder that extremism is flourishing in the Middle East heartened by their perilous policy of staying in power at all costs? A policy that is causing directly the rise of Islamic extremist ideology of Jihad. Yet Assad is either manipulating or promoting Jihadi actions to advance the notion that instability stops at his door when in fact he is its cause. The US and Israel have a choice: either to return to stabilizing dictators thus fueling further Islamic extremism due to oppression or push forward with an agenda of freedom and human rights by taking advantage of the findings of the International Tribunal into the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
Sunni extreme Islamists born to the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahabbi ideologies of Bana and Abdul Wahab will, sooner or later, turn their attention to the legitimacy of Damascus as the historic Sunni capital to launch a counter-offensive against the Iranian Wilyaat al-Faqih so entrenched in Syrian politics. Under the present circumstances, Syria and Iran have successfully deflected the anger of the Palestinian Islamists, represented by Hamas, towards the State of Israel, but it is a question of time before Hamas peels away from both regimes only to converge its attention unto Damascus. And although the Op-Ed published by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ex-intelligence chief, in the Financial Times on January 23 was meant to start that peeling process, Hamas is ahead of the game on that score.
When al-Zahar, a senior Hamas political operative, was asked in an interview on al-Jazeera whether he viewed his movement as a resistance group or as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, he gave away Hamas’ position: “This is not the issue. Syria has very good relations with Hamas, but terrible relations with Muslim Brotherhood group. More than 24,000 people were killed in 1982 by the Syrian regime.” referring to the killing of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the destruction of Hama by Hafez and Rifaat al-Assad.
And although Hamas is basking today in the glorious support of Assad and Ahmadinejad, it is already realizing that in order to succeed as an umbrella political organization over the Arab Sunnis, it needs to legitimize its existence through geography as well as ideology by coercing all Sunnis to turn to Damascus. With Damascus, their battle cry for Jerusalem has a wider appeal and will result in rallying the leaderless Sunnis to embrace not only the destruction of Israel but the adoption of the Muslim Brotherhood principles in the whole region.
Concrete, plausible plan
With this prediction in mind, it is ill-advised for the US and Israel to rely on the stability of Assad, represented by an Alawite minority bitterly at war with Sunni extremist Muslims throughout their history, to impede the extremists from advancing towards Damascus. Many of the Saudi Wahabbis believe that the Sunni capital Damascus is occupied by the Iranians and Syria may face the Iranian template of 1979 with a Khomeini-like Sunni extremist figure to return soon to dislodge Assad, by force if necessary.
The world community has an opportunity today to thwart this scenario by upstaging both Assad and the extremists. Either that or welcome Assad and wait for the fanatic Sunni Muslims to ravage the Levant region like locusts on a farm.
Moderate Syrian Muslims have a concrete and plausible plan for change that represents the beginning of real peace in the region. Freeing the majority moderate Syrian people can happen without boots on the ground or bloodshed when the best minds grasp the opportunity we see in Assad’s Achilles' Heels. With a new and fresh perspective, brought forth by the Obama administration, it is imperative we all think outside the box and discourage diplomats from dictating stability as a prêt-a-porter solution to the ills of the region. So many Arab dictators and yet so much extremism. How does one explain that phenomena?
Inevitably, it is up to us to stymie the ever-ascending terror of other Sunni Muslims gone astray and not the trigger-happy Assad, an Alawite so closely tied to the religious fabric of Iran. One important element of stemming the tide of extremism is to build the Umma Islamic University in Damascus to shine its ray of hope against the backdrop of fanatic Islamic universities existing today in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The solution to Islamic extremism and coexistence with all the precious minorities of the Middle East is within our power and grasp and cannot be the brainchild of Assad, who survives on chaos, fear, and hate.
Yes, we can build the Umma Islamic University in Damascus to teach tolerance and embrace harmony. Yes, we can build a Holocaust Museum across the street to expose what hate can do to humanity. Yes we can build a Memorial for all US troops who perished defending or freeing Muslim countries. But not if President Obama and Secretary Clinton find comfort in forging their legacies upon the fleeting moment of success and yielding to the difficult choices confronted by an Arab generation on the brink of doom and strangled by lack of opportunities.
Our Arab civilization can no longer bear the darkness reflected in oppressive rulers. And in the global village we all share, another Sept. 11 is just around the corner if the surplus of hope resting on the shoulders of President Obama cannot exact lasting peace between the peoples of the Middle East by giving them the opportunity to be free from oppression.
Listen to us, we are the cause of the problem and we are its only solution.
Published: 02.18.09, 11:07 / Israel Opinion
The Middle East is engaged today in a battle for its soul and the decisions acted upon by the new Obama and Israeli administrations will either defer a Muslim Renaissance by offering an olive branch to violent dictators like Assad or institute a sensible strategy to help usher a new era in the region. Real peace - not the ceremonial one intended to decorate resumes - is only possible by helping free the people of Syria to embrace their democratic neighbors.
Middle Eastern countries with violent dictators, such as Syria and Iran, have brought the region to a boiling point because our non-evolutionary civilization is accelerating backwards on steroids of a deadly combination of hate and pride; hate administered against those who surpassed us in knowledge and pride because we do not seem to accept that reality. In order to hide their weaknesses, Syria promotes "resistance" and Iran promotes religious zealotry, and both rely on nuclear weapons to defend their existence as their regime heaps misery upon their own people spiraling further into the abyss of ignorance.
Combine this inseparable Syrian-Iranian cocktail and is it a wonder that extremism is flourishing in the Middle East heartened by their perilous policy of staying in power at all costs? A policy that is causing directly the rise of Islamic extremist ideology of Jihad. Yet Assad is either manipulating or promoting Jihadi actions to advance the notion that instability stops at his door when in fact he is its cause. The US and Israel have a choice: either to return to stabilizing dictators thus fueling further Islamic extremism due to oppression or push forward with an agenda of freedom and human rights by taking advantage of the findings of the International Tribunal into the assassination of Rafik Hariri.
Sunni extreme Islamists born to the Muslim Brotherhood and Wahabbi ideologies of Bana and Abdul Wahab will, sooner or later, turn their attention to the legitimacy of Damascus as the historic Sunni capital to launch a counter-offensive against the Iranian Wilyaat al-Faqih so entrenched in Syrian politics. Under the present circumstances, Syria and Iran have successfully deflected the anger of the Palestinian Islamists, represented by Hamas, towards the State of Israel, but it is a question of time before Hamas peels away from both regimes only to converge its attention unto Damascus. And although the Op-Ed published by Prince Turki al-Faisal, the Saudi ex-intelligence chief, in the Financial Times on January 23 was meant to start that peeling process, Hamas is ahead of the game on that score.
When al-Zahar, a senior Hamas political operative, was asked in an interview on al-Jazeera whether he viewed his movement as a resistance group or as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, he gave away Hamas’ position: “This is not the issue. Syria has very good relations with Hamas, but terrible relations with Muslim Brotherhood group. More than 24,000 people were killed in 1982 by the Syrian regime.” referring to the killing of members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and the destruction of Hama by Hafez and Rifaat al-Assad.
And although Hamas is basking today in the glorious support of Assad and Ahmadinejad, it is already realizing that in order to succeed as an umbrella political organization over the Arab Sunnis, it needs to legitimize its existence through geography as well as ideology by coercing all Sunnis to turn to Damascus. With Damascus, their battle cry for Jerusalem has a wider appeal and will result in rallying the leaderless Sunnis to embrace not only the destruction of Israel but the adoption of the Muslim Brotherhood principles in the whole region.
Concrete, plausible plan
With this prediction in mind, it is ill-advised for the US and Israel to rely on the stability of Assad, represented by an Alawite minority bitterly at war with Sunni extremist Muslims throughout their history, to impede the extremists from advancing towards Damascus. Many of the Saudi Wahabbis believe that the Sunni capital Damascus is occupied by the Iranians and Syria may face the Iranian template of 1979 with a Khomeini-like Sunni extremist figure to return soon to dislodge Assad, by force if necessary.
The world community has an opportunity today to thwart this scenario by upstaging both Assad and the extremists. Either that or welcome Assad and wait for the fanatic Sunni Muslims to ravage the Levant region like locusts on a farm.
Moderate Syrian Muslims have a concrete and plausible plan for change that represents the beginning of real peace in the region. Freeing the majority moderate Syrian people can happen without boots on the ground or bloodshed when the best minds grasp the opportunity we see in Assad’s Achilles' Heels. With a new and fresh perspective, brought forth by the Obama administration, it is imperative we all think outside the box and discourage diplomats from dictating stability as a prêt-a-porter solution to the ills of the region. So many Arab dictators and yet so much extremism. How does one explain that phenomena?
Inevitably, it is up to us to stymie the ever-ascending terror of other Sunni Muslims gone astray and not the trigger-happy Assad, an Alawite so closely tied to the religious fabric of Iran. One important element of stemming the tide of extremism is to build the Umma Islamic University in Damascus to shine its ray of hope against the backdrop of fanatic Islamic universities existing today in Saudi Arabia and Egypt. The solution to Islamic extremism and coexistence with all the precious minorities of the Middle East is within our power and grasp and cannot be the brainchild of Assad, who survives on chaos, fear, and hate.
Yes, we can build the Umma Islamic University in Damascus to teach tolerance and embrace harmony. Yes, we can build a Holocaust Museum across the street to expose what hate can do to humanity. Yes we can build a Memorial for all US troops who perished defending or freeing Muslim countries. But not if President Obama and Secretary Clinton find comfort in forging their legacies upon the fleeting moment of success and yielding to the difficult choices confronted by an Arab generation on the brink of doom and strangled by lack of opportunities.
Our Arab civilization can no longer bear the darkness reflected in oppressive rulers. And in the global village we all share, another Sept. 11 is just around the corner if the surplus of hope resting on the shoulders of President Obama cannot exact lasting peace between the peoples of the Middle East by giving them the opportunity to be free from oppression.
Listen to us, we are the cause of the problem and we are its only solution.
Somali Prime Minister wants dialogue with Islamists
February 18, 2009
London(Saylac.com-The new Somali Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, said he want to meet the Islamist insurgents and placed on the dialogue to end the violence that bloody the country for nearly 20 years.
Son of a former president assassinated, Sharmarke was chosen last week by the President of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, to head a national unity government whose priority is to restore order in the country of the Horn of Africa.
Islamist insurgents, especially the main rebel group Al Shabaab have declared the 'jihad' against the new unity government set up following a peace process in Djibouti under the observation of the UN. The conflict (Somali Prime Minister Mr Sharmarke)has claimed over a million displaced in recent years. "We need to know to what claims Al Shabaab fights today on what they refer to dismiss the President and myself," said Sharmarke Sunday evening in an interview with the press.
"I do not think they are now real reasons to fight, and we call on them to consider the difficulties the country has known these past 18 years. And, of course, we want to sit around with them ' a table, "he added.
According to Washington, Al Shabaab is over Al Qaeda in Somalia and has foreign activists in its ranks. Controlling a large part of the territory, especially in the South and parts of Mogadishu, the movement has long fought the forces allied Ethiopian and Somali government, which pulled out last month.
On the other hand, Ethiopia is not welcoming this announcement from the Somali Prime minister. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the press “It is not helpful the region to sit with what he called the Al-Qaeda wing of Somalia" referring Al-Shabbat fighters. Meles Zenawi tried to push diplomatic pressure to prevent Al-shabaab any Somali peace process, but this time that effort seemed to diminish at the region.
The president of Republic of Djibouti - Ismael Omer Guleid had an honor dinner with the Somali President Sheikh Sharif in which he congratulated any Somali Peace Process and development including talk with Al-shabab.
The Somali Prime Minister Announcement came after a lot of expectation from Somali communities and intellectual around the world with his government.
Saylac.com
London- Uk
London(Saylac.com-The new Somali Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, said he want to meet the Islamist insurgents and placed on the dialogue to end the violence that bloody the country for nearly 20 years.
Son of a former president assassinated, Sharmarke was chosen last week by the President of Somalia, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, to head a national unity government whose priority is to restore order in the country of the Horn of Africa.
Islamist insurgents, especially the main rebel group Al Shabaab have declared the 'jihad' against the new unity government set up following a peace process in Djibouti under the observation of the UN. The conflict (Somali Prime Minister Mr Sharmarke)has claimed over a million displaced in recent years. "We need to know to what claims Al Shabaab fights today on what they refer to dismiss the President and myself," said Sharmarke Sunday evening in an interview with the press.
"I do not think they are now real reasons to fight, and we call on them to consider the difficulties the country has known these past 18 years. And, of course, we want to sit around with them ' a table, "he added.
According to Washington, Al Shabaab is over Al Qaeda in Somalia and has foreign activists in its ranks. Controlling a large part of the territory, especially in the South and parts of Mogadishu, the movement has long fought the forces allied Ethiopian and Somali government, which pulled out last month.
On the other hand, Ethiopia is not welcoming this announcement from the Somali Prime minister. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told the press “It is not helpful the region to sit with what he called the Al-Qaeda wing of Somalia" referring Al-Shabbat fighters. Meles Zenawi tried to push diplomatic pressure to prevent Al-shabaab any Somali peace process, but this time that effort seemed to diminish at the region.
The president of Republic of Djibouti - Ismael Omer Guleid had an honor dinner with the Somali President Sheikh Sharif in which he congratulated any Somali Peace Process and development including talk with Al-shabab.
The Somali Prime Minister Announcement came after a lot of expectation from Somali communities and intellectual around the world with his government.
Saylac.com
London- Uk
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