Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S.
Earlier this month al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s dangerous Somalian proxy, threatened to attack Israel. “The Jews started to destroy parts of the holy mosque of al-Aqsa and they routinely kill our Palestinian brothers, so we are committed to defend our Palestinian brothers,” an al-Shabaab commander named Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansur declared in a firebrand sermon delivered from a small village in Somalia. A local radio station broadcast the sermon and then CNN picked up the story, focusing on the fact that the African-based terror organization was “far from its normal base” in threatening Israel.
In fact, al-Shabaab is very much on the international threat radar these days. So much so that just last month the White House authorized a daring, dangerous, and successful attack against the al-Shabaab/al-Qaeda partnership in Somalia, killing an estimated nine operatives including Saleh Ali Nabhan, who was wanted by the FBI.
The raid, called Operation Celestial Balance, remains officially unconfirmed by the White House. According to eyewitnesses, it took place on September 14 and involved two attack helicopters that were deployed from a nearby Navy ship. The raid echoed the “Black Hawk Down” incident of 1993, but with entirely different results. Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal reports:
A car transporting [Saleh Ali] Nabhan and five other foreign fighters was escorted by another car carrying three Shabaab escorts; the vehicles were hit as they stopped for breakfast as they traveled to Kismayo.
According to one witness, upwards of six helicopters were involved in the raid. At least two AH-6 Little Bird special operations attack helicopters strafed the two-car convoy. Other helicopters dismounted Navy SEALs, who seized the body of Nabhan and another, and purportedly took two other wounded fighters captive. An unconfirmed report indicated that Sheikh Hussein Ali Fidow, a senior Shabaab leader, was among those killed.
On October 12, 2009, a jihadi website posted Nabhan’s biography, confirming his death and calling him a “martyred commander.”
In life, Saleh Ali Nabhan’s terror goals were anything but local. He was originally placed on the FBI’s Seeking Information-War on Terrorism list for his role in the East Africa embassy bombings in 1998. In the years since, Nabhan is believed to have been involved in several international terror plots and attacks, including the 2002 Mombasa, Kenya, attacks, which specifically targeted Israeli interests there.
i am proud of my country!
to our brave men and women who planned, executed,and eliminated these scum!
These events (and others) are starting to make FDR’s internment of the Japanese look wise!
If all Muslims are potential terrorists (can anyone say this is not true?) and if there is no way to differentiate between the terrorists and the peaceful people, does it not start to make sense that we need to take action against the whole community and begin a weeding-out process?
I don’t hate Muslims, but I sure hate what some of them are doing!!!
#1,
Great post!
End immigration from Middle Eastern and Muslim-dominated African countries….its time to consider whats ultimately good for America. Remember the Somali welfare caravans a few years back? If you want diversity and the “fun” of seeing Somali’s, travel to their native habitat.
Bubblehead: I am glad some one here is just not blindly a muslim hater… I am a muslim and I hate those people as much as I hate Pat Robertson…
Fred: look sonny… either you are 10 years old or high school drop out… this is a global economy and you just can’t end immigration from muslim countires… if you do they then stop the flow of oil and you will be forced to ride a donkey to your $10.oo an hour jod at Burger King!!! come to think of it, you will save a lot of money!!!!
MR…
Watch us end immigration from muslim countries..just watch.
The game is over. There are no “moderate” muslims…there
only those who really believe what their psychotic bloodthirsty cult commands and ready to kill for it. And people like you using Western ideals of tolerance to hide behind. But the mask slips..the hatred spews out and you prove that there really that all Muslims are walking timebombs…which we have got to keep penned up in there third world cesspools