Recruited For Jihad? --- About 20 young Somali-American men in Minneapolis have recently vanished.

Jan 26, 2009 - Dan Ephron and Mark Hosenball NEWSWEEK From the magazine issue dated Feb 2, 2009 It didn't trouble Burhan Hassan's mother that her son had been spending more time at the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center, Minneapolis's largest mosque. A 17-year-old senior at Roosevelt High, Hassan and his family had fled civil war in Somalia when he was a toddler. Some of the other Somali immigrants in the Cedar-Riverside housing project where he lived got drawn into gangs with names like Murda Squad and Somali Mafia. - 0 Comments

US men joined Somali Islamists

Mar 12, 2009 - US officials say several cases of US citizens of Somali origin returning to their homeland to join the Islamist al-Shabaab militia are being investigated. A Senate committee heard most of the young recruits came from Minneapolis city in the US state of Minnesota. Al-Shabaab leaders have admitted having links to al-Qaeda but the officials said there was no evidence of Somali-Americans planning to attacks the US. - 17 Comments

Somalia: Alshabaab—“If Your Breasts Ain’t Bouncing, You Must Get Whipped”

Oct 20, 2009 - HARGEISA, 17 October 2009 (Somalilandpress) – Ridiculous! You would think. Welcome to Alshabaab’s world. - 4 Comments

Somalia's Pirates A Sad Truth

Oct 01, 2009 - When I first read about this matter I exclaimed "this is what I'm talking about, it's not always black and white" pounding my fist on the desk, my partner looked at me and said you're thinking way to hard again. To the contrary this really takes very little thought. It only takes desire, the desire to observe every angle of a problem even if it means you may find some blood on your own hands. - 14 Comments

Maersk Alabama repels 2nd pirate attack with guns

Nov 18, 2009 -   By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer Jason Straziuso, Associated Press Writer – 32 mins ago Source NAIROBI, Kenya – Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months, though private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship repelled the attack with gunfire and a high-decibel noise device.   A U.S. surveillance plane was monitoring the ship as it continued to its destination on the Kenyan coast, while a pirate said that the captain of a ship hijacked Monday with 28 North Korean crew members on board had died of wounds. - 7 Comments

Can't Teach the 10 Commandments in School - But OK to Teach 5 Pillars of Islam?

Nov 14, 2009 - Written by JihadWatch.org SATURDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2009 An Ongoing problem - Do you know what they are teaching YOUR children? "California schools are pushing an unbalanced religious agenda that favors Islam and minimizes Christianity and Judaism," Accuracy in Academia warns in its latest Campus Report. Christianity isn't given equal time, either. - 9 Comments

Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How

Nov 06, 2009 - Counterterrorism: Shifting from 'Who' to 'How' November 4, 2009 | 1918 GMT Global Security and Intelligence Report By Scott Stewart and Fred Burton In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant, intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim countries). Related Special Topic Pages Surveillance and Countersurveillance Terrorist Attack Cycle Al-Wahayshi, an ethnic Yemeni who spent time in Afghanistan serving as a lieutenant under Osama bin Laden, noted these simple attacks could be conducted with readily available weapons such as knives, clubs or small improvised explosive devices (IEDs). - 1 Comment

A Sudden Exit Driven By An 'Irrational' War

Oct 30, 2009 - A former Marine captain who became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan says staying in the country is not in America's interest. "The losses of our soldiers do not merit anything that comes in line with our strategic interests or values," Matthew Hoh, who signed on as a foreign service official in Afghanistan after fighting in Iraq, tells NPR's Melissa Block. Hoh resigned last month after spending five working months in Afghanistan. - 1 Comment

From The financial Times of London on Obama

Oct 13, 2009 - Obama must start punching harder By Gideon Rachman Just five years ago, Barack Obama was still a local politician in Illinois, preparing for a run for the US Senate. His office wall in Chicago at the time was decorated with the famous picture of Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston, after knocking him out in a heavyweight title fight. Ali famously boasted that he could “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” But now that Mr Obama is president, he seems to float like a butterfly – and sting like one as well. - 2 Comments