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Subject: Piracy.
gf0012-aust    5/3/2009 4:45:28 PM
I thought I'd start one here to get away from the heat in the other threads on this subject
 
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BLUIE006       8/4/2009 9:15:24 AM

Since Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia earlier this year, al Shabab has taken control of important towns inland and along the coast, including the port towns of Kismayo and Marka. The group has also reportedly entered into financial arrangements with pirates operating from port cities under al Shabab's control.
 

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To this day, al Shabab's leadership is closely linked to al Qaeda. Many in the current leadership cadre are graduates of al Qaeda training camps. Al Shabab leader Ibrahim Haji Jama trained with al Qaeda in Afghanistan (his nom de guerre in Somalia is al-Afghani). Another leader, Abu Taha al-Sudani, known also as Tariq Abdullah, was al Qaeda's leader in East Africa and is believed to be the main financier of its African operations.


Veteran al Qaeda terrorists help make up al Shabab's ranks.

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Bin Laden himself has described al-Shabab as "one of the most important armies in the Mujahid Islamic battalion." And in a recording last February, bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, devoted the bulk of his message to praising al Shabab in Somalia, calling their recent activities "a step on the path of the victory of Islam."
 

 


 

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Hmmm... ( what's that thing you turn on, before you turn a corner)


 Now we discover al Shabab on Australian soil ......
 
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Volkodav       8/4/2009 9:53:00 AM
Through out history the Western Worlds reaction to both genuine and perceived threats to its existence has been genocide. Ironically it is this genocidal reaction that destroyed the golden age of Islam leading to much of the hatred exhibited by the extremist today.
 
The more successful the terrorists are in their war against western civilisation the more they erode the very reluctance of democratic, egalitarian societies to sanction total war against a specific group or culture.
 
The day the average westerner believes it is "them or us", is the day we turn back towards the bad old days where is was perfectly acceptable to kill people for their race, religion or culture.  
 
 
 
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Arty Farty       8/4/2009 10:39:11 AM
 Highly recommendy this NY Times article a few week back:
 

A Call to Jihad, Answered in America

nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/12somalis.html
 
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