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Somali rebels call for foreign reinforcements

Source: Reuters
Mogadishu : Somalia | 2 months ago  
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Somalia's al Shabaab insurgents called Wednesday for more foreign militants to join them in the failed Horn of Africa state after U.S. forces killed one of the region's most wanted al Qaeda suspects. The U.S. special forces operation that killed Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 28, in remote southern...
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  • News Source: Disinfo.com | 2 months ago
    American commandos killed Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, one of the most wanted Islamic militants in Africa, in a daylight raid in southern Somalia on 15 September 2009. This attack is a good "indication of the Obama administration’s willingness to use...
  • News Source: News 24 | 2 months ago
    The mother of a top al-Qaeda fugitive who was killed in a US raid in Somalia is demanding to see her son's body. Aisha Abdallah spoke to The Associated Press from her apartment in Mombasa, Kenya. She said she has not received any official...
  • News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader | 2 months ago
    The mother of a top al-Qaida fugitive who was killed in a U.S. raid in Somalia demanded Wednesday to see her son's body while a Somalia-based group claimed him as their leader and confirmed his death. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, a 30-year-old Kenyan, was...
  • News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 2 months ago
    The call came as more details on the raid emerged from US sources, even as the US government has declined to publicly confirm the attack. Those sources describe a patient wait to launch a targeted, lightning strike against Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, in...
  • News Source: National Public Radio | 2 months ago
    But he also had a connection to the U.S. that has not been reported: He was a senior instructor for new al-Shabab recruits, including a handful of young Somali-Americans from Minneapolis. When FBI agents capture a terrorism suspect, one of the first...
  • News Source: Press TV | 2 months ago
    Somalia's most powerful militant group, al-Shabaab, has vowed to take revenge from the government over the killing of al-Qaeda's point man in the country. Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Raghe expressed outrage over the murder of Saleh Ali...
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