Somalia

Kenya has detained the wives and families of al Qaeda operatives Fazul Abdullah Mohammed and Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan while they ncrossed the Kenyan border at Ras Kamboni. Ethiopian and Somali troops are said to be heavily engaged with ICU forces outside Ras Kamboni. Al-Sudani, Mohammed and Nabhan are still alive. The Somali Deputy PM said a large part of the Islamic Courts funding comes from Britain.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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