Somalia Militant's Advance Worries Counterterror Experts

[musika man]

this guy Ayro was found guilty for the murder of the elderly british couple teachers in somaliland. he was sentenced in absentia. "He has been linked by U.N. officials to the murders of 16 people, including BBC journalist Kate Peyton." capture him and let him rot in guantanamo bay.


Somalia Militant's Advance Worries Counterterror Experts


By Anthony Mitchell, Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NAIROBI (AP)--The shadowy military commander of the Islamic movement that is advancing across southern Somalia has begun to go public and is arousing concern among diplomats and counterterrorism experts who allege he is an extremist with links to al-Qaida.

As the rebels seize town after town, Aden Hashi Ayro is increasingly taking a public role, and it may be a signal that radicals within the country's Islamic movement are gaining the strength to put their anti-Western, anti-modern stamp on Somalia.

Ayro, who is in his mid-30s, is said to have received al-Qaida training in Afghanistan. He has been linked by U.N. officials to the murders of 16 people, including BBC journalist Kate Peyton. Counterterrorism officials also believe he was involved in a plot - never carried out - to bring down an Ethiopian airliner.

He has never been photographed and only last month did he step from the shadows in Kismayo, Somalia, to address hundreds of his gunmen who had just seized the strategic seaport without firing a shot. An Associated Press reporter who was in the crowd of spectators described him as goateed and turbaned, with two Belgian-made pistols stuffed into his waistband.

In Kismayo, Ayro became the first official in the movement to acknowledge a long-rumored connection with foreign fighters, saying: "Among our militia will be Somalis and foreigners." Journalists covering his speech said he had bodyguards who looked Arab and were told others were from different African countries and from Central Asia.

Since June, Islamic forces have captured almost all of southern Somalia's strategic and economic centers, making them the de facto authority in the shattered African nation.

The fighters are under a loose alliance of Islamic courts, some more radical in their interpretation of Quranic law than others. With the courts has come not only a semblance of order after 15 years of chaos and civil war but also a strict and often severe interpretation of Islam. They have brought public floggings and executions of criminals to Mogadishu, the capital.

Western governments say it is too early to tell who will emerge on top - moderates within the Islamic council or hard-liners like Ayro.

U.S.-based counterterrorism expert Peter Pham said moderates cannot compete because the hard-liners control the guns. "What we have here is a dangerously radical movement," he says, and accuses the West of being in "an ostrich-like sense of denial."

Ayro is the courts' link man to al-Qaida, according to Pham, diplomats in the region, and U.N. investigators.

Ayro's boss, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, nicknamed the Old Fox, also is of concern. The U.S. government accuses him of also having links to al-Qaida. But analysts and diplomats say he's the only one with enough military might to make radicals like Ayro share power with Somalia's cornered government.

Mogadishu residents, afraid to give their names for fear of reprisal, have said al-Qaida suspects operate from a camp established in an old Italian cemetery in the capital. The camp, along with a mosque and a clinic, went up after Ayro's men in January 2005 dug up more than 700 bodies that had been buried there between 1908 and 1941, when Somalia was an Italian colony. They dumped the bones at the airport.

At a London inquest in 2005 into the murder of a U.K. couple in Somaliland, a breakaway part of Somalia, U.K. police detective Jill Bailey testified Ayro was likely linked to al-Qaida. She said a plan to blow up an Ethiopian airliner and bomb-making manuals were found at a property owned by Ayro. Ayro owned the house where his brother-in-law, Mohammed Ali Essa, was captured, the inquest was told. Essa was one of 15 convicted by a Somaliland court of killing the couple. Essa was among eight - four tried in absentia - sentenced to death; seven were given life sentences. The death sentences haven't yet been carried out and Essa is jailed.

Ayro underwent military training in Afghanistan before the U.S. invasion in 2001, according to a report on Somali extremists by the International Crisis Group, an independent think tank that monitors conflicts. The December report said Ayro's "militia has links to al-Qaida operatives in Mogadishu...to whom it provides protection."

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[musika man]

Let the mooryaans starve to death. who is safe from that terrorist Ayro who was let loose to murder humans who want to help starving mooryaans.

UN pulls staff out of Somalia

Thursday 12 October 2006, 19:33 Makka Time, 16:33 GMT

The United Nations has pulled out its international staff from parts of Somalia controlled by Islamic fighters, after receiving what it described as "direct written threats".

The threats were issued shortly after an Italian nun and her bodyguard were gunned down in the capital, Mogadishu on September 17.

The president of Somalia's weak interim administration, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, narrowly escaped a suicide car bombing a day later.

Although no-one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, suspicion has fallen on the Islamic militias currently controlling wide swathes of the south and centre of the country, which deny involvement.

"Given the insecure environment and the subsequent direct written threats against UN staff, a decision was taken to temporarily relocate all UN international staff members from southern and central Somalia until further notice," the organisation said in a statement.

The UN said it had also pulled its global staff out of the autonomous state of Puntland, while all UN missions in Mogadishu had been suspended until further notice.

Stability risk

No details were given of the nature of the threats, nor the numbers of staff or when they were withdrawn.

The organisation said it is assessing the security situation in the country to see when its international staff can return.

Operations using Somali staff, meanwhile, are continuing, it said.

The UN also warned that the growing power of the Islamic militias, who have seized control of large swathes of the country from US-backed secular warlords in recent months, was posing a risk to the country's stability.

"The rapid expansion of the influence of the Islamic courts ... has posed a serious challenge to the status quo, the consequences of which could have serious access and security implications if responded to militarily," the UN report said.

It added that it was making contingency plans with other relief agencies to carry on humanitarian work in Somalia "given the possibility of wider conflict, which could pull in neighbouring countries".

The Islamic militia group has recently declared a holy war on Ethiopia, after Ethiopian forces reportedly helped Somali soldiers to seize control of a town in southern central Somalia.

Meanwhile, a group of clerics in the breakaway republic of Somaliland urged its government on Thursday to apply Islamic sharia law and to stop promoting itself as a secular state, Somaliland's Awdalnews agency reported.

Agencies

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[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Why is it that the Islamic world simply can not get it through it's collective head that religion has no place in government? You would think they would have learned from the European experience, but nooooo, they have to relearn the lesson the hard way.

[Pablo Escobar]

Adan Hashi Ayro is a champion and a winner. A very young guy in his late 20's or very early 30's. Most credited for the UIC's current swooping victories on the battlefields. Macalin Ayro as he's best known, is a disciplined and god-fearing religious kid. A man who truly belives in his creator and the QURAN.

This living legend is the man who kicked all the warlords out of almost all of KOONFUR. He is the main reason why people in MUQDISHO and most of the SOUTH are free from the fuc-kin' warlords today. He has the most well trained and lethal forces in SOMALIA under his command. His forces, THE AL-SHABAAB as they are known, consist of young wadaado from every qabiil.

The kid has the heart of a lion and that is why sheikh TURKI just recently said "MEEL LIBAAX SOO GALAY CID SII JOOGEYSO MALEH"....referring him and his AL-SHABAAB forces to LIBAAX. His forces looked invincible in all the battles they took part. Each and every town his army had liberated they did so without even firing a single bullet. Warlord after Warlord war seen fleeing before he even reached BALCAD, JOWHAR and KISMAYO. Adan is someone who is free from this qabiil bullshit and that is why he asked SEERAAR and GOBANLE to disarm after the UIC reached in KISMAYO or share the same fate as the likes of QANYARE and Co. even after they chose to welcome the UIC into KISMAAYO. If you are a true believer he will regard you as his brother regardless of your qabiil and if not prepare to be fuc-ked.

Macalin Adan is not someone who wants to become a leader himself and the only thing he wants is KITAABKA ILAAHEEY to prevail in every street, village and town in Somalia. He's not fighting for recognition or anything like that. He only wants Somalis to be left alone and solve their problems without any outside interference and SHARIA LAW to be implemented. It is an ideal for which MACALIN AYRO hopes to live and see it realised but if needs be i'm sure it is an ideal for which he's prepared to die for. That's AYROW.

musika-b!tch, RESPECT!!!

God bless the kid

[Demolisher]

[quote]Adan is someone who is free from this qabiil bullshit [/quote]

How come he carries his sub clan's name?

[Intruder]

[AL-SHABAAB]
This is got the Arabic marks all over it. I am sure the Somali language is colorful enough to come up with something better.


[His forces looked invincible in all the battles they took part. Each and every town his army had liberated they did so without even firing a single bullet.]

This is so telling, they can LOOK so invincible, and they have never fired a single shot. So true, I wonder how hard they will fall when they are truly tested with a foe who is not a roadrunner. The ICU is hitting a dead end.

But if you are concerned about the well being of your Somali people then you should know that SHARIA LAW and rule by KITAABKA ILAAHEEY is NOT what they need. Public slaughters, stabbing and firing squads, slipping in dark ages backwardness is not what Somalia needs.