Somali government soldiers have on the injury hours of Friday shot dead Ahmed Amir Roble the son of a famous Somali comedian Awkuku, in a place not far from the Somali presidential palace.
“I was witnessing when three Somali government soldiers haphazardly opened fire at the son of a very well-known Somali comedian Awkuku, they ordered him to stop and he told them that why should I stop you know me as the biological son of Awkuku, and I do live here, and the men dressed in the Somali military uniform ordered him to stop for the second time and the son of the comedian continued his walking ignoring their order and three of the soldiers simultaneously
opened fire at the son and he has died on the spot” said Abdifatah Mohammed an eyewitness who was at the scene where the son of Awkuku was killed speaking to Somaliweyn Website.
The genuine reason as to why the son of late Awkuku was shot dead is not apparent, though some independent sources say that he was a member of Al-Shabab an armed Islamist group which operates in Somalia.
According to the neighbours of Ahmed he was a very generous and introvert person who always liked to help his neighbours.
The late senior Awkuku has died in the Somali capital Mogadishu in the mid of 2009 after a prolong illness.
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Source:somaliweyn.org/
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
Sweden to receive more refugees from Somalia than Iraq
Sweden said on Thursday that it plans to give priority to refugees from Somalia and Eritrea to resettle about 1700 to 1900 United Nations (UN) refugees this year, according to a report from the Swedish Radio.
“Eritrean refuges in Sudan and Libya, who are fleeing the totalitarian regime in Eritrea, need the international community to make a contribution and do their part,” Dan Eliasson, head of the Swedish Migration Agency told Swedish Radio.
Sweden gave priority to refugees from Iraq and its surrounding areas last year. The shift will result in roughly 600 fewer Iraqi refugees coming to Sweden in 2010 said the report from Local.
Meanwhile, about 850 refugees will be transferred to Sweden from camps in Kenya, Sudan, and Libya.
The Swedish Riksdag (parliament) allocates funding for the Migration Board to bring about 1,700 and 1,900 refugees to Sweden under the UN’s quota program every year.
At present, Sweden is one of the 19 countries which accept quota refugees on an annual basis.
Source:english.people.com.cn/
“Eritrean refuges in Sudan and Libya, who are fleeing the totalitarian regime in Eritrea, need the international community to make a contribution and do their part,” Dan Eliasson, head of the Swedish Migration Agency told Swedish Radio.
Sweden gave priority to refugees from Iraq and its surrounding areas last year. The shift will result in roughly 600 fewer Iraqi refugees coming to Sweden in 2010 said the report from Local.
Meanwhile, about 850 refugees will be transferred to Sweden from camps in Kenya, Sudan, and Libya.
The Swedish Riksdag (parliament) allocates funding for the Migration Board to bring about 1,700 and 1,900 refugees to Sweden under the UN’s quota program every year.
At present, Sweden is one of the 19 countries which accept quota refugees on an annual basis.
Source:english.people.com.cn/
Somali terror suspect out of jail
A Somali man who admitted that he trained with terrorists in Somalia and helped construct a terrorist training camp was released from jail on Thursday pending sentencing.
Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 25, pleaded guilty to supporting terrorists and has been cooperating for months with investigators working on the case of up to 20 Minneapolis men who returned to jihad in Somalia. He was released after agreeing to pay $25,000 if he does not appear in court when required. U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum, who has been presiding over the cases of Isse and others indicted, agreed to Isse's release last Friday, according to court documents.
Isse is believed to be the first of the Somali men charged and jailed for aiding terrorists to be released.
He will be sent to a halfway house and will have to wear electronic monitoring equipment, according to conditions set by Rosenbaum.
Isse was one of the first men indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure. Since then, 14 men have been indicted or charged in one of this country's largest counterterrorism investigations since 9/11. Four of the men, including Isse, have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Others are missing and are presumed to have fled to Somalia.
Isse, of Seattle, Wash., was arrested Feb. 24, 2009, at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. At the time, he said he was going to Tanzania to participate in an internship. He had previously left Minneapolis for Somalia in December 2007.
His attorney, Paul Engh, argued in court papers for Isse's release, noting his cooperation with authorities and the seemingly endless time until sentencing.
On Thursday, Engh would only say: "This kind of case takes a lot longer to complete than the ordinary. His hard incarceration was no longer necessary, in light of the attendant delays."
Source:startribune.com/
Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, 25, pleaded guilty to supporting terrorists and has been cooperating for months with investigators working on the case of up to 20 Minneapolis men who returned to jihad in Somalia. He was released after agreeing to pay $25,000 if he does not appear in court when required. U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum, who has been presiding over the cases of Isse and others indicted, agreed to Isse's release last Friday, according to court documents.
Isse is believed to be the first of the Somali men charged and jailed for aiding terrorists to be released.
He will be sent to a halfway house and will have to wear electronic monitoring equipment, according to conditions set by Rosenbaum.
Isse was one of the first men indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure. Since then, 14 men have been indicted or charged in one of this country's largest counterterrorism investigations since 9/11. Four of the men, including Isse, have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing. Others are missing and are presumed to have fled to Somalia.
Isse, of Seattle, Wash., was arrested Feb. 24, 2009, at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. At the time, he said he was going to Tanzania to participate in an internship. He had previously left Minneapolis for Somalia in December 2007.
His attorney, Paul Engh, argued in court papers for Isse's release, noting his cooperation with authorities and the seemingly endless time until sentencing.
On Thursday, Engh would only say: "This kind of case takes a lot longer to complete than the ordinary. His hard incarceration was no longer necessary, in light of the attendant delays."
Source:startribune.com/
Action against Qaeda in Pakistan forcing terrorists into Yemen, Somalia: Brown
LONDON: Extremists squeezed out of Pakistan and Afghanistan will emerge in struggling states like Yemen and Somalia, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Sunday.
After the US and Britain agreed to finance a special counter-terror unit in Yemen, Brown said battling the “murderous ideology” of extremist Muslims would likely become “a feature of this decade”.
Brown also wants a bigger peacekeeping force in Somalia to tackle violent radicalism in the region.
“The weakness of Al Qaeda in Pakistan has forced people out of Pakistan and forced them into Yemen and Somalia,” Brown told BBC television.
Taking on the Al Qaeda terror network in the Tribal Areas has dispersed their organisation and limited their abilities in Afghanistan, he said. “Of course, that means that other centres will appear but they will not have the strength that Al Qaeda had in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“We’ve got to be vigilant in every part of the world where there is a failed state or a failing state which creates space for a terrorist group to operate.”
Though London and Washington have pledged to help the Yemeni authorities improve their counter-terror efforts, Brown said it was also a “battle for hearts and minds”.
“We’ve got to be very careful who we’re supporting and what we’re giving them support to do,” he added. Britain has called an international meeting on combating extremism in Yemen for London on January 28.
Brown said the Yemen sessions of the conference would help Sanaa “develop the means and will” to tackle extremism.
“Yemen has been recognised, like Somalia, to be one of the areas where we’ve got to not only keep an eye on but we’ve got to do more,” Brown said. afp
Source:dailytimes.com.pk/
After the US and Britain agreed to finance a special counter-terror unit in Yemen, Brown said battling the “murderous ideology” of extremist Muslims would likely become “a feature of this decade”.
Brown also wants a bigger peacekeeping force in Somalia to tackle violent radicalism in the region.
“The weakness of Al Qaeda in Pakistan has forced people out of Pakistan and forced them into Yemen and Somalia,” Brown told BBC television.
Taking on the Al Qaeda terror network in the Tribal Areas has dispersed their organisation and limited their abilities in Afghanistan, he said. “Of course, that means that other centres will appear but they will not have the strength that Al Qaeda had in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“We’ve got to be vigilant in every part of the world where there is a failed state or a failing state which creates space for a terrorist group to operate.”
Though London and Washington have pledged to help the Yemeni authorities improve their counter-terror efforts, Brown said it was also a “battle for hearts and minds”.
“We’ve got to be very careful who we’re supporting and what we’re giving them support to do,” he added. Britain has called an international meeting on combating extremism in Yemen for London on January 28.
Brown said the Yemen sessions of the conference would help Sanaa “develop the means and will” to tackle extremism.
“Yemen has been recognised, like Somalia, to be one of the areas where we’ve got to not only keep an eye on but we’ve got to do more,” Brown said. afp
Source:dailytimes.com.pk/
Arrest at Somalia airport probed
MOGADISHU, Somalia - U.S. officials are investigating a Somalian man's alleged attempt to board a flight last month carrying chemicals, liquid, and a syringe in a case bearing chilling echoes of the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound jet on Christmas Day.
Terrorism analysts said the arrest in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, could prove highly valuable for the Detroit investigation if the incidents turn out to be linked.
The Somali was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops Nov. 13 before boarding the Daallo Airlines plane bound for the northern Somalian city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai.
"We don't know whether he's linked with al-Qaeda or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him redhanded," said a Somalian police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise.
A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident had similarities to the attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, in that the Somali was said to have a syringe, liquid, and powdered chemicals - tools similar to those used by the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on the Detroit-bound plane. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified.
Barigye Bahoku, spokesman for the African Union military force in Mogadishu, said the materials could have caused an explosion that would have resulted in cabin decompression.
For the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, Abdulmutallab allegedly hid explosive PETN in a condom or condom-like bag below his torso. In the Somalian case, the powdered material smelled of ammonia, and samples were sent to London for testing, Bahoku said.
The case drew little attention before the Christmas incident, but yesterday U.S. officials began to investigate any possible links between them. None would speak on the record.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said U.S. investigators were working with Somalian authorities. He said linking the case to Friday's "would be speculative at this point."
Thomas Sanderson, a security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the Somalian suspect was extremely valuable for U.S. investigators, who will compare his statements with Abdulmutallab
The suspect is in Somalian custody, said Barise, the police spokesman.
There is no certainty the two men were trained by the same group, Sanderson said, but he said he thought the similarities were "probably an indicator that more than just two people have been trained and prepared and ordered or convinced to carry out individual acts of terrorism."
U.S. investigators say Abdulmutallab told them he received training and instructions from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen, which Western officials say is a jumping-off point for foreign fighters slipping into Somalia. Large swaths of Somalia are controlled by an al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Abdulmutallab is charged with trying to destroy an aircraft. If the Somalian suspect was planning anything similar, it wasn't known what his specific target might have been. Most passengers on Daallo's Mogadishu route are Somali. The carrier's Web site calls it the national airline of Somalia's neighbor Djibouti.
About 1,800 U.S. troops are stationed in Djibouti. Dubai would offer the greatest range of westbound flights along the route in question.
A Somalian security official involved in the Mogadishu arrest said the suspect had a 2.2-pound package of chemical powder and a container of liquid chemicals, and was the last passenger in line to try to board.
His name was not released, but the security official gave it as Abdi Hassan Abdi and said he was middle-aged. Stock said the name he got was Abdi Hassan Abdullah.
Once the chemicals and syringe were detected, the suspect tried to bribe the team that detained him, the security official said.
Source:philly.com/
Terrorism analysts said the arrest in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital, could prove highly valuable for the Detroit investigation if the incidents turn out to be linked.
The Somali was arrested by African Union peacekeeping troops Nov. 13 before boarding the Daallo Airlines plane bound for the northern Somalian city of Hargeisa, then to Djibouti and Dubai.
"We don't know whether he's linked with al-Qaeda or other foreign organizations, but his actions were the acts of a terrorist. We caught him redhanded," said a Somalian police spokesman, Abdulahi Hassan Barise.
A Nairobi-based diplomat said the incident had similarities to the attempted attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253, in that the Somali was said to have a syringe, liquid, and powdered chemicals - tools similar to those used by the Nigerian suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, on the Detroit-bound plane. The diplomat spoke on condition he not be identified.
Barigye Bahoku, spokesman for the African Union military force in Mogadishu, said the materials could have caused an explosion that would have resulted in cabin decompression.
For the Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight, Abdulmutallab allegedly hid explosive PETN in a condom or condom-like bag below his torso. In the Somalian case, the powdered material smelled of ammonia, and samples were sent to London for testing, Bahoku said.
The case drew little attention before the Christmas incident, but yesterday U.S. officials began to investigate any possible links between them. None would speak on the record.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said U.S. investigators were working with Somalian authorities. He said linking the case to Friday's "would be speculative at this point."
Thomas Sanderson, a security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the Somalian suspect was extremely valuable for U.S. investigators, who will compare his statements with Abdulmutallab
The suspect is in Somalian custody, said Barise, the police spokesman.
There is no certainty the two men were trained by the same group, Sanderson said, but he said he thought the similarities were "probably an indicator that more than just two people have been trained and prepared and ordered or convinced to carry out individual acts of terrorism."
U.S. investigators say Abdulmutallab told them he received training and instructions from al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen, which Western officials say is a jumping-off point for foreign fighters slipping into Somalia. Large swaths of Somalia are controlled by an al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group, al-Shabab.
Abdulmutallab is charged with trying to destroy an aircraft. If the Somalian suspect was planning anything similar, it wasn't known what his specific target might have been. Most passengers on Daallo's Mogadishu route are Somali. The carrier's Web site calls it the national airline of Somalia's neighbor Djibouti.
About 1,800 U.S. troops are stationed in Djibouti. Dubai would offer the greatest range of westbound flights along the route in question.
A Somalian security official involved in the Mogadishu arrest said the suspect had a 2.2-pound package of chemical powder and a container of liquid chemicals, and was the last passenger in line to try to board.
His name was not released, but the security official gave it as Abdi Hassan Abdi and said he was middle-aged. Stock said the name he got was Abdi Hassan Abdullah.
Once the chemicals and syringe were detected, the suspect tried to bribe the team that detained him, the security official said.
Source:philly.com/
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