Abdullahi Yusuf Escapes Assasination Attempt

[Shirib]

CNN) - Suspected Islamic insurgents fired mortar rounds at a plane carrying Somalia's transitional president, but no one -- including Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed -- was harmed, a presidential spokesman said.

The attack happened while the plane was about to take off from Mogadishu's airport Sunday around 11 a.m. local time, spokesman Hussien Mohammed Huubsireb said.

"Al-Shaabab has actually tried to harm to president, but thank God nobody was hurt," Huubsireb said.

Al-Shaabab is an Islamic militia that is trying to seize control of Somalia. It is a splinter group of the Islamic Courts Union, which ousted Somalia's transitional government in 2006. The ICU was deposed in December of that year following Ethiopia's military invasion.

Bloody battles between Al-Shaabab and the Ethiopian-backed government forces in Mogadishu have forced residents to flee the capital.

More than 40,000 displaced civilians have taken shelter in dozens of makeshift settlements west of Mogadishu, described by the United Nations as "precarious conditions."

Sunday's mortar attack is the second assassination attempt on Ahmed. The president survived a car bombing in September 2006 outside Somalia's parliament in Baidoa that killed at least eight others.

Somalia's Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi has been more frequently targeted by the Islamic insurgents seeking to destabilize the government.

Somalia has been mired in chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew dictator Mohamed Siad Barre and sparked brutal clan infighting. Somalia's current transitional government is trying to maintain control of the capital, with the help of the better-equipped Ethiopian forces.

But the presence of the Ethiopians has united various Islamic militant groups in Somalia, including Al-Shaabab, who are trying to oust the Ethiopian forces and gain control of Mogadishu.

The United States classified Al-Shaabab as a terrorist organization in March, partly because of what Washington says is the group's close ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda militant group.

Source: CNN, June 01, 2008

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[Shirib]

I actually have a feeling it wasn't Al Shabaab but rather General Gabre and his forces.

[hanad_mn]

Someone got to take this cold blooded killer out. He has cilian blood in his hands both in garoowe, mogadishu, and Sultan Hurre. It doesn't matter who should take him out Whether alshabaab, alqaacida, almaxkamah or almafiya but the fact remains one thing. His Days are numbered. long live Alshabaab.

[Alluring]

A.Yusuf has survived so many things, and believe me those "youths" will die far before him.At least what he is doing he believes in whether we think it is right or wrong. But the "youths" are putting ALLAH (SWT) and Islam into this, and when you do that, good things do not come out.

[SahanGalbeed]

The faster that bastard dies the better off everybody will be.

[The_Emperior5]

war hee dhe why is it so hard for dem to kill yeey cabdilahi yusuf guurii hawiye buuu jooga may diilaan ma waxay garranwayeen halkay ku taallo villa somalia aniga uu sheegaya anaga jooogii jiirnay eeh

[ModerateMuslim]

A.Yusuf has survived so many things, and believe me those "youths" will die far before him.At least what he is doing he believes in whether we think it is right or wrong. But the "youths" are putting ALLAH (SWT) and Islam into this, and when you do that, good things do not come out.

i thought you had to do everything with allah in mind, right?

whatever they may be doing, they believe in it, too

[Alluring]

war hee dhe why is it so hard for dem to kill yeey cabdilahi yusuf guurii hawiye buuu jooga may diilaan ma waxay garranwayeen halkay ku taallo villa somalia aniga uu sheegaya anaga jooogii jiirnay eeh

How is the "President" of Issaqland doing? Still opening his legs wide enough that the people in outerspace can see?

[Xamud.]

"Stick and stones may broke my bones but words wont even hurt".....think about it people! I dont like the guy! but wanting him death is abit harsh dont ya think

[SahanGalbeed]

He's cancer , just like you would remove a tumor the faster he's surgically removed the better

[Sakhraan]

Fukking Hutubans.........they can't do anything right,how many times they tried to assasinate Beerlaawe ,and failed.

HUtuban militia=the worst militia in history

[The_Emperior5]

A.Yusuf has survived so many things, and believe me those "youths" will die far before him.At least what he is doing he believes in whether we think it is right or wrong. But the "youths" are putting ALLAH (SWT) and Islam into this, and when you do that, good things do not come out.

ma


ma tigray ba nabbii soo daahiiray ah

kan kitaabka weyn akahriya ayad ka dooratay mumunintii

[Solna__]

I have alot of respect for Abdulaahi

what a man who fires daily and kills Hawiyes daily
May ALaah be with him

[QansaGabeyle]

I don't know man. I don't Abdullahi Yusuf but when the likes of the Djiboutian nurse want him dead, I kind of want to see him live for a very long time.

[Goljano Lion]

long live Abdallhi yusuf,
The enemy of my enemy is my friend