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A group of terrorists operating from Somalia had planned three bomb attacks in Nairobi during the visit by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, the Sunday Nation can reveal.

http://www.nation.co.ke/News/-/1056/653584/-/umrw75/-/


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Thank God this was averted. I checked Wiki to find out more about Al Shabaab.

Al-Shabaab (Somalia)
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Leaders Moktar Ali Zubeyr
Years active: January 19, 2007–present
Headquarters: Mogadishu
Operating Areas: Parts of Mogadishu, Southern Somalia
Preceded by: Islamic Courts Union (ICU)

Allies: Hizbul Islam
al-Qaeda (allegedly)
Eritrea (allegedly)

Opponents: Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Ethiopia
AMISOM
United States, Australia


Al-Shabaab (Arabic: الشباب‎, "The Youth"), also known as Ash-Shabaab, Hizbul Shabaab (Arabic, "The Party of Youth")[1], and the Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of the Two Migrations (PRM)[2] is a group of Somali Islamists, primarily acting in Somalia. The group, which was founded in 2004, [1] developed in the wake of the loss of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) at the hands of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its backers, primarily the military of Ethiopia, in the War in Somalia (2006–2009). An estimated 3,000 or so members of the ICU went underground to form an insurgency and armed cells across Mogadishu and elsewhere in Somalia, and are conducting attacks against the government and the allied Ethiopian forces. The term Shabaab ("youth") is common in the Islamic world for youth groups, and the current movement should not be confused with other similarly named organizations.

The group was at least previously the hard-line militant youth movement within the Islamic Courts Union, [2]. Today Al-Shabaab is described as an extremist splinter group of the ICU. However, since the ICU's downfall, the distinction between the youth movement and the so-called successor organization to the ICU, the PRM, appears to have been blurred. Al-Shabaab recruits jihadists to wage war against "enemies of Islam". It is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Department of State,[3] is proscribed as a terrorist group by the Australian government, and is also described as a terrorist organization by the Norwegian Police Security Service[4] and the Swedish Security Service.[5] One of the group's primary objectives is the establishment of the rule of sharia.

Their core comprised veterans who fought and defeated the secular Mogadishu warlords of the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism (ARPCT) at the Second Battle of Mogadishu.[6] Their origins are not clearly known, but former members say Hizbul Shabaab was founded as early as 2004. Al- Shabaab also has various foreign fighters from around the world, according to an Islamic hardliner Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Manssor. [7] Before the losses sustained by the Islamic Courts Union in December 2006, estimates of their strength varied between 3,000 to 7,000 members. Training comprised a six-week basic course. A few were sent to advanced training in Eritrea for guerrilla tactics and explosives.[8] It has been alleged that some of the funding for Al-Shabaab's activities comes from Somali pirates.[9] an allegation denied by the International Maritime Organization in East Africa[10]


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OMG, when I read that article I was dying! cry

-- Edited by Angelica91 on Sunday 6th of September 2009 04:39:00 PM

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“The threats were neutralised a week to the Agoa meeting in combined efforts by the military and other security agencies,” the official said. “The operation in Nairobi netted five crucial suspects, one of whom carries Danish identification documents but is believed to be a Somali national. The other four, one of whom is a woman, hold Kenyan identification documents believed to be fake. Investigations into their identity and plan are on.”

The official added: “While in the past the real target of the attacks has been Western interests, the Al Qaeda leadership has since made Kenya a new target. So serious is the threat that during the Agoa meeting, the Al Qaeda intended to strike at the heart of Nairobi during the rush hours.”

According to the security official, the masterminds of the attack were in contact with Mr Saleh Nabhan, one of the most wanted men by the FBI, and whose personal assistant, a man identified as Anas, is believed to have been coordinating the plan.


 



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I am so glad that this was averted. 

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This is too scary to even think about.

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Here's a great article by a PUMA


http://www.examiner.com/x-19823-PostPartisan-Examiner~y2009m9d8-Holy-cow-Was-there-an-international-plot-to-kill-Secretary-of-State-Hillary-Clinton

Love this picture and Under the caption at the site it says something about a future time Here



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