Somalia

Hassan Dahir Aweys said Sheikh Sharif Ahmed will be replaced as leader of the Reliberation of Somalia Alliance, the front group for the Islamic Courts. “He sullied the laws of the group,” Aweys said. Somali pirates hijacked two more ships in the Gulf of Aden.

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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