Pictures of al Qaeda leader Fazul Mohammed’s corpse, SUV, and weapon
On June 8, Radio Mogadishu claimed the man pictured was “Abdurrahman Canadian,” but a Somali official told The Long War Journal that the photograph is of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed.
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Al Qaeda’s East Africa chief Fazul Mohammed killed in Somalia
Somali officials have confirmed that Fazul was killed at a checkpoint near Mogadishu.
Shabaab suicide bomber kills Somali interior minister
A female, thought to be the niece of the interior minister, may have carried out the attack.
Canadian Shabaab commander reported killed in Mogadishu
Somali forces claimed to have killed a man named Muhan Jeans who was carrying a Canadian passport.
Shabaab
Somalia: 20 years of anarchy
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Vital for Pakistan to do more against terrorists: US
Shabaab claims American carried out suicide attack
Shabaab said that Abdullahi Ahmed was from Minneapolis. He would be the eighth American to carry out a suicide attack in Somalia.
Burundi
Burundi peacekeepers in Somalia ‘unpaid’
Somalia
Somalis are told to stop bickering or lose financing
African Union
Somali and African Union forces advance in Mogadishu
Al Qaeda
Al-Qaida considered oil tankers as terror targets
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Eulogies and fury: Jihadists eager to avenge bin Laden’s death
Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American who is also known as Abu Mansoor al Amriki, spoke at a public rally in Afgoye for Osama bin Laden. Hammami vowed to avenge bin Laden and said the establishment of a global caliphate would come soon.
American Shabaab commander speaks at rally for Osama bin Laden in Somalia
Omar Hammami appeared in public with other top Shabaab leaders and vowed to avenge the al Qaeda leader’s death. Hammami said that “the caliphate shall soon be reborn.”
Shabaab mourns bin Laden’s death, vows to wage global jihad
“We shall never divert from the path of Sheikh Osama…” the Somali terror group’s spokesman said.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
Spies piece together al Qaeda playbook
Al Qaeda
Somalia’s al Shabaab vows to avenge bin Laden
Bin Laden ‘giving strategic direction’ to affiliates in Yemen, Somalia
The slain al Qaeda terror chief provided direction to “affiliates in Somalia and Yemen.”
Shabaab
Protection fees, stolen ammo extend Somalia’s war
Al Qaeda
FBI on war footing after Osama bin Laden’s death
Somali human smuggler guilty in Texas
A Justice Department memo stated that authorities believed Dhakane facilitated the entry of “violent jihadists” into America.
Somalia
Somalia, wobbly on ground, seeks control of its airspace
Shabaab
Omar Hammami, the American Shabaab military commander, released a nasheed glorifying death, and said he hoped to die as other senior al Qaeda leaders have died. Hammami’s tape refutes reports of his death from Somalia’s defense minister.
American Shabaab commander Omar Hammami releases tape that mocks reports of his death
In Hammami’s latest rap-nasheed, he asks to die in a Predator strike, special operations raid, air strike, or cruise missile attack, like other top al Qaeda commanders.
Shabaab
Somalia: Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a – We are ready to fight off al Shabaab
Is the US launching airstrikes against Shabaab in Somalia?
Aircraft were spotted during an offensive against Shabaab in Dhobley in southern Somalia.
Al Qaeda in Iraq
US sees few good options if Yemen government falls
Aweys: Shabaab recruits ‘underage children to fight for us’
It isn’t every day that you get a terrorist leader to freely admit what an awful human he really is. Late last week, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a Shabaab commander and Specially Designated Global Terrorist with links to al Qaeda, proudly told how his organization recruits children to wage jihad. From Garowe: “We recruit underage […]
Shabaab
Somali Islamists could grab tankers for attacks
American Shabaab commander alive, says US intel
US officials told The Long War Journal that Omar Hammami is believed to be alive. Somalia’s defense minister said last week that Hammami had been killed.