No al Qaeda have been found in the aftermath of US airstrikes. Ayro is believed to have survived, and Aweys and Turki are believed to be operating along the Kenyan border. Yemen has granted Sharif Ahmed asylum. Government forces were ambushed in central Somalia. A reconciliation meeting was held in Mogadishu.
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The insurgency is taking shape, Sharif Ahmed is released, a new Islamic Courts video, and financing in Saudi Arabia established ICU fighters in propaganda video. Click photo to view. The Ethiopian and Somalia government’s rout of the Islamic Courts last December has been quickly countered by the Islamists with a deadly insurgency. In the latest […]
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the ICU leader, has been released from Kenyan custody and is heading to Yemen. The Islamic Courts are believed to be regrouping in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and Yemen. Islamists mortared the Mogadishu seaport. Three battalions of peacekeepers from Uganda and Nigeria will deploy shortly.
Stateless in Mogadishu
Somali Islamists threaten AU peacekeepers
Will the African Union help Somalia?
Somali police convoy attacked
Somali govt jails suspected al Qaeda operatives™ wives
One soldier and 8 civilians were killed in fighting in Mogadishu. A police station was also attacked. The government is blaming the Islamic Courts for the violence. Foreign terrorists from Yemen, Jordan, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Syria, Comoros, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Morocco and Somalia were arrested in Kenya. Yemen has detained 240 suspected Islamists fleeing Somalia.
Five were killed and 4 wounded during skirmishes in Mogadishu. Five Islamists, including an American and French national, were detained at the Kenyan border. Alsharq Alawsat reports American soldiers may be missing in the southern tip of Somalia. South African will not send troops.
US Won’t Rule out a Last-ditch Strike in Somalia
US ready to fund fast AU force for Somalia
Ethiopian troops have begun to withdraw, and the TFG says the first AU peacekeepers will arrive by Friday. The US would like to talk to ICU leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. A US Air Force AC-130 gunship has launched a second air strike against suspected al Qaeda operatives in southern Somalia.
Ethiopian Troops to begin leaving Mogadishu
Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the former leader of the ICU, has surrendered to the Kenyan government. Ethiopian troops captured two Islamic Courts backers in a targeted raid. The commander of Ethiopian forces in central Somalia survived an ambush.
Americans captured in Somalia fighting for the ICU
Blackhawk Up: America’s return to Somalia
The African Union approved a plan to send nine battalions of African peacekeeping troops to Somalia. Gunmen in Mogadishu attacked a convoy of Ethiopian troops. The president’s palace was unsuccessfully assaulted.
Muhammad Hanif, in Afghan custody Senior Taliban, Abu Sayyaf detained, killed in Afghanistan and the Philippines; Islamic Courts leader possibly captured in Kenya, another killed in an airstrike; Pakistan on the hunt for al Qaeda leader Coalition forces have made some strides in degrading the leadership of the global Islamist movement. Two senior Taliban commanders […]
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Kenya: Country Sends Ministers to Seek Troops for Somalia
Reports indicate Sheikh Ahmed Sharif, the leader of the Islamic Courts, has been captured in Kenyan (unconfirmed). Ras Kamboni, the Islamic Courts and al Qaeda base in the south, has fallen. Anti-government protests are occurring in northern Somaliland.
Satellite map of southern Somalia. Click image to view. An unnamed senior Islamic Courts leader is captured in Kenya after Ras Kamboni is taken following five days of heavy fighting The al Qaeda and Islamic Courts base in Ras Kamboni, which sits on the southernmost tip of Somalia, has fallen to the joint Ethiopian and […]
Somalia War Widens — Eritrea Sides with Al Qaeda
Somalia’s defense minister said Ras Kabomi has been taken, and the Islamists have fled into the woods west of the base. Parliament has approved a 3 month state of emergency, but the Speaker, who has ties to the Islamic Courts, opposes it. Warlords have agreed to merge their forces with the military.
Warlords join forces with Somalia’s army in quest for peace
Pentagon Sees Move in Somalia as Blueprint
Somali leader asks for US boots on the ground
US ground forces entered Somalia after an airstrike killed 8 to 10 terrorists. A Marine Special Operations Company is deploying the CENTCOM theater. Warlords in Mogadishu agreed to lay down their weapons after fighting with government forces in Mogadishu killed 8 and wounded 9.