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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (2553)	10/20/2006 2:42:47 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

I do agree with you.....I was just posing a big "if"

To: jlallen who wrote (2553)	10/20/2006 2:44:29 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 20106

Somali Islamists 'under al-Qaeda' From correspondents in Nairobi 20oct06 SOMALIA'S interim president appealed today for international help in dealing with a powerful Islamist movement he accused of operating under the "black flag" of al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Speaking to a US-backed panel of diplomats trying to salvage foundering peace talks, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said the world had a "moral obligation" to help protect his weak government from "foreign terrorists". He said the Islamists, who seized Mogadishu in June from warlords and now control nearly all of southern and central Somalia, were falsely portraying themselves as moderates and posed a major regional and international threat. Mr Yusuf, who survived a suicide car bomb assassination attempt last month, said moderates in the movement had been outmanoevered by hardliners bent on toppling the government and creating a "safe haven" for terrorists. "This jihadist wing of the group now controls the (Islamist) militia under the banner of literally the black flag of the Taliban," Mr Yusuf told a meeting of the International Contact Group on Somalia in Kenya's capital, Nairobi. He referred to the Islamists' seizure last month of the key southern port of Kismayo where Muslim gunmen took down the Somali national flag and replaced it with a black banner inscribed with a Koranic verse, prompting protests. "A collection of foreign terrorists from Afghanistan, Chechnya, Arab (nations) and even of European origin make up a considerable number of the jihadist forces," Mr Yusuf said. "The (Islamists) drag massive, material, financial and military support from international terror networks," he said, noting Osama bin Laden himself had mentioned Somalia as a battleground against the west in a July audiotape. This is "a sworn al-Qaeda promise already partially carried out on the ground in Baidoa recently," Mr Yusuf said, referring to the September 18 car bomb attempt to kill him in the government's temporary seat. He said a government probe of the attack, in which at least 11 people were killed, had uncovered Islamist documents "listing a number of (government) leaders condemned as infidels and targets for immediate physical elimination". The Islamists, who missed the Contact Group meeting despite saying they would send a senior representative, have denied any terror ties. But several of their leaders are accused of links to al-Qaeda and the United States believes the movement is harbouring suspects in the 1998 bombings of its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer, who attended the Nairobi meeting, renewed those charges today and said Yusuf's concerns were "credible". "Somalia is a safe haven for terrorists," Mr Frazer said. "We have evidence to back our claim and our concern is there always." Their rise and subsequent enforcement of strict Sharia law in areas they control threatens the government's limited authority and alarms western intelligence agencies, who fear a Taliban-style takeover of Somalia. Mr Yusuf's remarks came as the 11-member US-backed Contact Group met in a bid to salvage peace talks between the Islamists and the government, a third round of which set for later this month is in jeopardy. Both sides have threatened to boycott the Arab League-mediated talks that are supposed to open on October 30 in Khartoum after two previous rounds secured interim truce and mutual recognition accords. privacy terms © The Australian theaustralian.news.com.au