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Somali Rebels Vow to Send Forces to Yemen
Top al-Shabaab Official Announces Plan at North Mogadishu Rally

Source: http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/01/soma ... -to-yemen/
by Jason Ditz, January 01, 2010


Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour, a top official in the Somali al-Shabaab militia, today announced plans for the organization to send fighters across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen to take part in jihad there.

The al-Shabaab faction is one of the more hardline of various factions vying for control of Somalia, was presenting hundreds of new recruits at a rally in northern Mogadishu, and said that Yemeni factions should “be ready for our welcome.”

The US has made clear their intentions to dramatically escalate their ongoing but heretofore covert war in Yemen, and as the nation has made enemies with its years of on-again off-again meddling in Somalia, al-Shabaab seems eager to cash in on anti-American sentiment by focusing on Yemen. This is an unusual move for the group, however, which generally does not operate outside of Somalia.

The Canadian government was the first to react to the announcement, saying that their anti-piracy warship in the Gulf of Aden would stand ready to stop any Shabaab crossings to Yemen. Since Yemen is a popular destination for refugees from the various nations along the Horn of Africa, it may not be easy to determine who is a militant and who is merely a refugee.

I don't see what's wrong with brothers helping their brothers.

The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska is still waiting for Al-Shabaab.

Good! This is VERY good news for the Good guys, as this will put Al ShaQaida right where we want them. They're NOT very smart, are they?

For the sake of the Somali race, i think its time we gas these niqaab wearing clowns or steralize them. Can you imagine them having their own multiple number of children? Very scary thought indeed.

LMFAO AS IF ARABS WOULD WANT NIGGERS OR ABEED OR WHATEVER THEY CALL THEM IN THEIR LAND HELL THEY CAN'T STAND THE REFUGEES THAT ARE THERE, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THEY WILL FIGHTERS IF THIS IS TRUE THESE PEOPLE ARE ONLY MAKING IT WORSE THE SITUATION THE SOMALI REFUGEES ARE IN.

I hope they drown like all those other hawyie in the red sea.

Now there trying to destabilize another country.

these guys are only big in their strongholds,i dont think they would last a minute outside mogadishu or these little villages that they occupy.i mean just look at their mightor shouldi say their rusty weapons, they are a joke walaahi.

That man is Al Shaydaan personified.