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Terror twins: Somali militant group hooks up with Al Qaeda
Published: 10 February, 2012, 06:39
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri (AFP Photo / IntelCenter)
The Somali militant Islamist group Al Shabab has formally joined forces with Al Qaeda, the latter’s leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has announced.
Al-Zawahiri, the longtime deputy of Osama bin Laden who replaced him after his death last year, has welcomed Al Shabab’s move in a video address released on Thursday.
“Today, I have glad tidings for the Muslim Ummah that will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, which is Somalia’s Shabaab al-Mujahideen movement’s becoming part of Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zionist-Crusader campaign and their collaborators amongst the treacherous agent rulers,” reported the Associated Press quoting the video posted by Site Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist activity.
The new video also features an audio recording allegedly of Al Shabab chairman Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr pledging allegiance to al-Zawahri, saying that his followers “will march with you as loyal soldiers.”
“On behalf of the soldiers and the commanders in al-Shabaab, we pledge allegiance to you. So lead us to the path of jihad and martyrdom that was drawn by our imam, the martyr Osama."
Al Shabab controls much of southern Somalia and is fighting the weak UN-backed interim government and African Union peacekeepers.
According to Somali media, the group had some 14,426 fighters across the country in 2011.
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Since Al Shababa is being funded via Qatar and Saudi Arabia, if indeed this is true- the go ahead coming together of Al Qaida and Al Shabab, this decision came from the source which has been funding both the Al Shabab in Somalia and Al Qaida. Al Shabab was brought to power in Somalia after the 2006 U.S backed regime change in Somalia. We can see the same pattern being repeated in Libya, Egypt and they are trying to do the same in Syria.
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The one and only such group of people are Jews. Jews live around the world and they speak all languages and have all colours of skin. Jews are interesting in world power and in totality. Karl Marx was Jew and lived in Germany and created communist ideology. Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917 year was managed from Germany and 90% of Bolsheviks were Jews. Adolf Hitler was half Jew and lived in Germany and in Germany created Nazi ideology. In recent days Jews are breaching basic human rights for freedom of speech and right for express of opinion in Germany and in the Czech Republic and are restricting expressing opinions on holocaust – it is discreet and slow beginning of new Jewish totality in Europe. And new totality is beginning in Germany again. And the Germans for nearly 200 years of Jewish supremacy still failed to comprehend. Both monotheistic religions (Christianity and Islam) were created by Jews according the Old Testament because Jews were interested in world power and in people’s obedience. Terrorists as Osama bin Laden, Ayman Al-Zawahiri and others are priceless strange faces managed by Jews. Jews are head of international terrorist organisation. And at the same time they are the heads of organised sale of drugs. History is repeating. But history is not repeating for historical patterns. History is repeating because Jews are using the same schemes all the times. In Old and Middle Ages it had not been bomb attacks but arsons. In old demographic maps had been drawn that Jews lived in soil of the current Czech Republic. But Jews in the Czech Republic keep their nationality secret and have declared themselves false as Czechs and Slavs. When it has been discovered who does it, things go easy.