Al-Qaeda Somalia Abroad: A Threat to Israel and the U.S.
On November 28, 2002, terrorists on the ground in Mombasa launched a shoulder-fired missile at an Arkia Israel Airlines Boeing 757 as it was leaving the Mombasa airport with 261 passengers and ten crew members. The missile did not bring down the aircraft, but the Israeli government called it a near miss. Approximately 20 minutes after the missiles were fired, three suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Israeli-owned Mombasa Paradise Hotel at Kikambala. Thirteen people were killed and 80 injured. Most of the hotel’s guests were reportedly from Israel, and much of the hotel was reduced to rubble. The jihad group that posted his martyr’s biography stated that Nabhan was the commander of both attacks.
After the September helicopter attack, which killed Nabhan and his fellow fighters, al-Shabaab issued a statement vowing revenge against America. “They will taste the bitterness of our response,” an al-Shabaab commander told the Associated Press. A few weeks later, the group threatened Israel.
No doubt troubling for the White House is how much Somalia is now becoming like Afghanistan once was. Not only is it difficult for the U.S. and its allies to place intelligence assets there, al-Shabaab is showing an ever increasing ability to recruit Americans and U.S. residents and turn them into jihadists.
Al-Shabaab recently released a propaganda video featuring its new American spokesman Abu Mansour, also known as Omar Hammami. According to the NEFA Foundation, Hammami grew up in Daphne, Alabama, and majored in computer science at the University of South Alabama before he left during his sophomore year. The video he appears in is called “At Your Service O’ Osama.”
Equally problematic is that in the past 18 months, at least 20 young men from Minneapolis between the ages of 17 and 27 have traveled back to their native Somalia to join the jihad. Al-Shabaab is on the State Department’s list of terrorist organizations. Traveling to Somalia to train with them is illegal. Several have been confirmed by the Justice Department as having died in suicide bombings in Africa, and the FBI’s fear is that others will return to America and commit terrorist attacks here.
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