Somalia: On Ground Updates - September 16, 2009

Somalia: On Ground Updates
Senior Commander Of Radical Islamist Group al-Shabab Issues Public Call For Foreign Fighters To Join Them In Somalia Fight
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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* VOANews.com brings us the following round of news out of Somalia this Wednesday afternoon and it starts off like this... A Senior Commander of radical Islamist militant group al-Shabab in Somalia has issued a public call for foreign fighters from around the world to come to Somalia and join its fight against the Western-backed Mogadishu government... The leader of al-Shabab forces in the Bay and Bakol regions, Sheikh Mahad Abdikarim, is asking for foreign Islamic militants to join al-Shabab in Somalia... He says that all Muslim religious warriors should come and participate in their war...
Read the full report at link below...
Al-Shabab Asks Foreign Fighters to Come to Somalia
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* REUTERS has the following take on today’s Somalia news and it starts off like this... Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents called on Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region's most wanted al Qaeda suspects... The U.S. commando operation that killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern Somalia on Monday has triggered an angry response from Islamist rebels fighting the nation's U.N.-backed government... The raid likely gained Washington valuable counter-terrorism intelligence, but it risked further inflaming anti-Western opinion in a country of growing concern to the West...
Read the rest at link below...
Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements

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Read more, from my Tuesday’s post, at link below...
Somalia Strike Kills Top Al Qaeda Suspect Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan
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POST UPDATE:
Thursday, September 17, 2009
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At Least Nine Peacekeepers Killed In Attack UN File Photo - AMISOM Peacekeepers in Somalia
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Nine Peacekeepers Killed In Suicide Bombers Attack, Including General Juvenile Niyoyunguriza, AMISOM’s Deputy Force Commander - 30 Others Wounded, Including Force Commander, General Nathan Mugisha
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* CBC.ca brings us the following report this Thursday afternoon and it starts off like this... At least nine peacekeepers are dead after suicide bombers attacked their base in Somalia, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said... Earlier reports from a witness indicated that 11 people were killed in the explosion at the African Union peacekeepers' base in Mogadishu, but the secretary general only confirmed nine deaths at a news conference Thursday in New York...
Read the full report HERE
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* UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon deplores killing of nine African Union peacekeepers in Somalia
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Suicide bombers kill 11 people in Somalia

About this News Video: Suicide Bombers struck in the troubled Somali Capital of Mogadishu killing at least 11 people including African Union peace keeping troops. The terror group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
This news video posted on YouTube by NTVKenya
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