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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/60/0 en http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/11/us-sows-seeds-of-wider-war-in-east.html <p>Somali refugees and ethnic Somali citizens of Kenya are being recruited and trained by the thousands for a U.S.-backed offensive in Somalia, to begin next month. The Associated Press, citing numerous sources among refugees, young men who have deserted from the new militia and their families, local Kenyan officials and foreign diplomats, reports that the offensive against Islamist forces in Somalia is planned for late December, the end of the Somali rainy season. That’s the same seasonal window the Americans took advantage of three years ago, when the U.S. instigated an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia that plunged the country into what the United Nations described as the “worst humanitarian crisis in Africa.” That crisis continues, complicated by a severe drought and a U.S.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-sows-seeds-wider-war-east-africa" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-sows-seeds-wider-war-east-africa#comments AFRICA Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:23:02 +0000 Mike Rivero 46614 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://mineweb.co.za/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=93062&sn=Detail <p>The apparent bottom line in a paper published in the South African Journal of Science is that South Africa's gold industry is on final deathwatch, despite claims of massive existing below-ground reserves. Chris Hartnady, research and technical director of Cape Town earth sciences consultancy Umvoto Africa, has found that South Africa's Witwatersrand goldfields are around 95% exhausted, and anticipates that production rates should fall permanently below 100 tonnes a year within the coming decade.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sa-gold-miners-final-deathwatch-scientist-finds-gold-reserves-more-90-less-claimed" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/sa-gold-miners-final-deathwatch-scientist-finds-gold-reserves-more-90-less-claimed#comments AFRICA ECONOMY Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:21:01 +0000 Mike Rivero 46399 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/gertlers-bling-bang-torah-gang/ <p>Maurice Tempelsman is one of the top funders of the Democratic Party who has funded Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Templesman was the unofficial ambassador to the Congo (Zaire) for years, but a new Israeli-American tycoon has replaced him. In the world of bling bling and bling bang, some things change, some stay the same. The CIA, the MOSSAD, the big mining companies, the offshore accounts and weapons deals—all hidden by the Western media. The holocaust in Central Africa has claimed some six to ten million people in Congo since 1996, with 1500 people dying daily.1 But while the Africans are the victims of perpetual Holocaust, the persecutors hide behind history, complaining that they are the persecuted, or pretending they are the saviors. Who is responsible?</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gertler%E2%80%99s-bling-bang-torah-gang" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gertler%E2%80%99s-bling-bang-torah-gang#comments AFRICA Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:34:18 +0000 Mike Rivero 44493 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-renews-sanctions-against-sudan.html <p>US President says Sudan 'hostile' to US 'interests', poses 'extraordinary threat' to Washington.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obama-renews-sanctions-against-sudan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/obama-renews-sanctions-against-sudan#comments AFRICA Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:28:05 +0000 Mike Rivero 44373 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/africa/the+aposbenefitapos+of+somaliaaposs+pirates/3399027 <p>The increasing levels of piracy off the coast of Somalia have caused an unexpected spin-off, raising the levels of fish in the sea. </p> <p>Fisherman in Kenya have reported bumper catches of shark and shellfish because commercial fishing boats from China and Japan have been scared away.</p> <p>Now the fishermen are able to catch up to £200 worth of fish per day in an area where the average daily earnings are less than £5.</p> <p>The massive factory trawlers which used to drain their fish stocks have been scared away and that means there is a huge bounty for local fishermen as well as helping to restore the health of the marine eco-system.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/benefit-somalias-pirates" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/benefit-somalias-pirates#comments AFRICA Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:41 +0000 malterwitty 44070 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6415216/Rapists-hunger-and-hyenas-attack-Somalias-displaced-women.html <p>There is no shortage of dangers for women in the grim refugee camps of northern Somalia.</p> <p>But it is still better than the horrors they fled: civil war battles in Mogadishu, drought in neighbouring Ethiopia, inter-clan warfare and what they say was state-sponsored ethnic persecution and killings.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/rapists-hunger-and-hyenas-attack-somalias-displaced-women" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/rapists-hunger-and-hyenas-attack-somalias-displaced-women#comments AFRICA Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:54:16 +0000 malterwitty 43956 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://english.aljazeera.net//news/africa/2009/10/2009102393640290921.html <p>Somalia's al-Shabab fighters have said they will attack the capitals of Burundi and Uganda in revenge for rocket attacks by peacekeepers from the two countries.</p> <p>The threat follows the killing on Thursday of at least 30 people in Mogadishu, the capital, by Amisom, the African Union's peacekeeping force to which Uganda and Burundi contribute troops.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/shabab-threatens-uganda-and-burundi" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/shabab-threatens-uganda-and-burundi#comments AFRICA Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:02:19 +0000 ladylove 43763 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15720 <p>The grounds have reportedly been established for armed American presence on Somali soil with a US security firm winning a contract in the war-ravaged country.</p> <p>The contractor's operations team was composed of former military and law enforcement personnel, including Special Forces, Michigan Live added.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-make-blackwater-style-entry-somalia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-make-blackwater-style-entry-somalia#comments AFRICA Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:34:20 +0000 ladylove 43189 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.antiwar.com/2009/10/11/ethiopian-troops-pour-into-central-somalia/ <p>Ethiopia appears to have launched yet another incursion into Somalia, with hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers pouring across the border into Central Somalia and rounding up villagers suspected of having ties to the insurgency.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ethiopian-troops-pour-central-somalia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/ethiopian-troops-pour-central-somalia#comments AFRICA Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:29:14 +0000 Mike Rivero 42628 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/29/AR2009092903840.html?sub=AR <p>The government of Sudan, eager to curry favor with a U.S. government that accused it of genocide, sought help last fall from an unlikely source: a former Reagan administration official known for his role in the Iran-contra scandal. </p> <p>The approach by Sudanese officials led to a $1.3 million contract for former national security adviser Robert "Bud" McFarlane, who went on to meet with two of the Obama administration's top policymakers on Sudan and its strife-torn Darfur region, according to documents and interviews.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cold-war-man-hot-war-and-legal-gray-area" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cold-war-man-hot-war-and-legal-gray-area#comments AFRICA Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:28:37 +0000 ladylove 41483 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/somalia-rebels-vow-allegi_n_293598.html <p>An Islamic insurgent group that controls much of this lawless nation has released a video showing its members vowing allegiance to Osama bin Laden, training in dusty camps and slamming Somalia's U.S.-backed president as a traitor.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-rebels-vow-allegiance-osama-bin-laden-video" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-rebels-vow-allegiance-osama-bin-laden-video#comments AFRICA Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:20:37 +0000 ladylove 40564 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/index.php?p=m58148&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>The primary destabilising force in the Horn of Africa in general and Somalia in particular is the US. The explosive spread of militarism is rooted in the deepening crisis of US capitalism. As the economic foundations of the United States claim to global hegemony weaken, Washington is driven to ever greater reliance on its residual military superiority. Somalia provides a case study in the immense destruction and human suffering produced by this policy.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-assassination-somalia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-assassination-somalia#comments AFRICA Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:17:47 +0000 ladylove 40473 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/in-somalia-us-weapons-end-up-in-al-qaeda-hands/article1293764/ <p>As the Somalia conflict spirals into a new proxy war between Al-Qaeda and the United States, there is mounting evidence that U.S. weapons and Somali soldiers are ending up under the control of Islamic terrorists, Somali politicians say.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-us-weapons-end-al-qaeda-hands" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-us-weapons-end-al-qaeda-hands#comments AFRICA Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:13:53 +0000 ladylove 40367 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.antiwar.com/2009/09/18/us-attack-in-somalia-leads-to-more-calls-for-intervention/ <p>It didn’t take long to see the fallout from Monday’s US incursion into Southern Somalia. Just days later insurgents launched a deadly car bombing against an African Union (AU) base, killing at least 16 people.</p> <p>It has underscored just how fragile the AU force in the nation is, but the attack has also led to yet more calls for international intervention by both the AU and the self-proclaimed Somali government.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-attack-somalia-leads-more-calls-intervention" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-attack-somalia-leads-more-calls-intervention#comments AFRICA Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:14:42 +0000 ladylove 40290 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=59661& <p>Private security firms which protect Spanish fishing boats from Somalian pirates in the Indian Ocean will be allowed to use long-range weapons, Spain's junior defence minister said on Tuesday.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-spanish-trawlers-armed-against-pirates" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-spanish-trawlers-armed-against-pirates#comments AFRICA Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:34:36 +0000 Mike Rivero 40023 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/16/trafigura-african-pollution-disaster <p>The Guardian can reveal evidence today of a massive cover-up by the British oil trader Trafigura, in one of the worst pollution disasters in recent history.</p> <p>Internal emails show that Trafigura, which yesterday suddenly announced an offer to pay compensation to 31,000 west African victims, was fully aware that its waste dumped in Ivory Coast was so toxic that it was banned in Europe.</p> <p>Thousands of west Africans besieged local hospitals in 2006, and a number died, after the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic oil waste around the country's capital, Abidjan. Official local autopsy reports on 12 alleged victims appeared to show fatal levels of the poisonous gas hydrogen sulphide, one of the waste's lethal byproducts.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/how-uk-oil-company-trafigura-tried-cover-african-pollution-disaster" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/how-uk-oil-company-trafigura-tried-cover-african-pollution-disaster#comments AFRICA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA GREAT BRITAIN Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:41:13 +0000 malterwitty 39977 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.examiner.com/x-22717-Charlotte-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m9d14-United-States-invades-Somalia <p>It is official now. According to the Associated Press, witnesses have spotted U.S. troops invading the town of Barawe, Somalia, near Mogadishu. Spelled out, the war on terror has found a new home front.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/united-states-invades-somalia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/united-states-invades-somalia#comments AFRICA Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:09:30 +0000 Mike Rivero 39908 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7OaI4_kjeHA-o4UhlmP7vlWmrrwD9ANARF80 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-raid-somali-town-controlled-fighters-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-raid-somali-town-controlled-fighters-0#comments AFRICA Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:53:10 +0000 Mike Rivero 39823 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-forces-somalia-kill-saleh-ali-nabhan-commando/story?id=8569619 <p>The dead terrorist, Saleh Ali Nabhan, is believed to have taken part in the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. He is also believed to have orchestrated the 2002 bombing of a resort hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, and a failed missile attack on an Israeli airliner leaving Mombasa airport.<br /> Several sources tell ABC News at least one U.S. helicopter fired on a convoy carrying suspected al Qaeda targets in southern Somalia. An American official says a U.S. Navy ship was also nearby to monitor the situation and provide assistance if needed.<br /> Ali Nabhan's death has not yet been officially confirmed, but sources tell ABC News that his body is now in U.S. custody.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-launches-military-strike-somalia-against-al-qaeda-target" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-launches-military-strike-somalia-against-al-qaeda-target#comments AFRICA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:08:23 +0000 Old_Logan 39742 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g7OaI4_kjeHA-o4UhlmP7vlWmrrwD9ANARF80 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-raid-somali-town-controlled-fighters" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-troops-raid-somali-town-controlled-fighters#comments AFRICA Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:30:47 +0000 Mike Rivero 39715 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://judicial-inc.biz/810chad_sarkozy_rescues_zionist_kidnappers.htm <p>It was first written off as a sex ring, but that didn't make any sense. Who is going to pay $2,000 to have sex with a 12 year-old black boy, when you have hundreds of 10 year-old white Ukrainian girls all over Tel Aviv. But someone is paying $3,000 a kid wholesale, and the reason is black market organs.</p> <p> It's just economics in organ trading. You bring in a 12 year-old into Tel Aviv, and you don't just grab one $5,000 kidney, and then spend $200,000 raising the kid through college. That kid hits the operating table and he has kidneys, liver, cornea, heart, lung, marrow, etc., and everything is removed. That kid is murdered for his organs. It happens in Israel because of the security needed to cover the operation.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/kids-being-grabbed-out-refugee-camps" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/kids-being-grabbed-out-refugee-camps#comments AFRICA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA ISRAEL SCIENCE/HEALTH/CLIMATE/NATURE Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:44:19 +0000 poorrichard 39306 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8234583.stm <p>What is the human cost of a mobile phone?</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/human-cost-mining-dr-congo" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/human-cost-mining-dr-congo#comments AFRICA Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:13:52 +0000 malterwitty 38462 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104947&sectionid=351020506 <p>The president of the African Union (AU) holds Israel responsible for all the woes facing Africa, calling on member-states to cut diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv.</p> <p>Israel is "behind all of Africa's conflicts," Muammar Gaddafi said on Monday and demanded the closure of all Israeli embassies across Africa.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/au-holds-israel-responsible-africa-woes" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/au-holds-israel-responsible-africa-woes#comments AFRICA ISRAEL Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:46:35 +0000 Mike Rivero 38324 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://atheonews.blogspot.com/2009/08/flashback-israel-helped-idi-amin-take.html <p>But why was Israel so interested in a landlocked country in Central Africa? The reason is spelt out by Slater in a later telegram. Israel was backing rebellion in southern Sudan to punish Sudan for supporting the Arab cause in the Six-Day War. "They do not want the rebels to win. They want to keep them fighting."<br /> The Israelis had helped train the new Uganda army in the 1960s. Shortly after independence Amin was sent to Israel on a training course. When he became chief of staff of the new army Amin also ran a sideline operation for the Israelis, supplying arms and ammunition to the rebels in southern Sudan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-israel-helped-idi-amin-take-power" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/flashback-israel-helped-idi-amin-take-power#comments AFRICA ISRAEL Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:02:19 +0000 trudy 38210 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/?p=m57324&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>The U.S. has intensified military involvement in Africa over the past seven years with such projects as the Pan Sahel Initiative (PSI), launched by the State Department but which deployed US Army Special Forces with the Special Operations Command Europe to Mali and Mauritania among other locations. U.S. military personnel are still engaged in the counterinsurgency wars in Mali and Niger against Tuareg rebels.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africom-pentagons-first-direct-military-intervention-africa" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africom-pentagons-first-direct-military-intervention-africa#comments AFRICA Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:29:19 +0000 Mike Rivero 37796 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/?p=m57237&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>America’s establishment of the so-called African Command(AFRICOM), should be seen for what it is: America’s self-interested armada of protection for America, and her allies and not for Africa’s security. Africa has steadily and increasingly become more important by playing the role for Westerners as repository of energy resources which powers the engine-rooms of Western economies.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africom-western-self-serving-interests-or-african-security" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africom-western-self-serving-interests-or-african-security#comments AFRICA Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:38:33 +0000 ladylove 37529 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/?p=m56992&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>President Obama has decided instead to expand the operations of Africom throughout the continent. He has proposed a budget for financial year 2010 that will provide increased security assistance to repressive and undemocratic governments in resource-rich countries like Nigeria, Niger, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to countries that are key military allies of the United States like Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Rwanda and Uganda.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-us-military-holds-war-games-nigeria-somalia-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-us-military-holds-war-games-nigeria-somalia-0#comments AFRICA Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:10:09 +0000 ladylove 36870 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m56992&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>August 15, 2009</p> <p>Stop NATO</p> <p>-In addition to U.S. military officers and intelligence officers, "Unified Quest 2008" brought together participants from the State Department and other U.S. government agencies, academics, journalists, and foreign military officers (including military representatives from several NATO countries, Australia, and Israel), along with the private military contractors who helped run the war games: the Rand Corporation and Booz-Allen.</p> <p>-The list of options for the Nigeria scenario ranged from diplomatic pressure to military action, with or without the aid of European and African nations. One participant, U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel Mark Stanovich, drew up a plan that called for the deployment of thousands of U.S. troops within 60 days....</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-us-military-holds-war-games-nigeria-somalia" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/africa-us-military-holds-war-games-nigeria-somalia#comments AFRICA Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:50:29 +0000 LizzieTish 36789 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://uruknet.com/?p=m56777&hd=&size=1&l=e <p>The 21st Century scramble for Africa is taking us to some very strange and ugly departures. The US estimates that in six years, a quarter of its oil will come from Africa, but the trouble is that - as the establishment Committee on Foreign Relations complained some years back - China is doing a good job of getting its foot in the door. So, America responded by forming Africom, initially as a subdivision of Eucom and then, by October last year, as an independent command. Just on the off chance that anyone doesn't get this, Africom is specifically charged with running military operations in 53 African states. That is it's job. It's formation consolidated a conscious drive to increase military intervention into the continent.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-and-africom" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-and-africom#comments AFRICA Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:49:14 +0000 ladylove 36171 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6788623.ece <p>The slick video showing the last moments of a suicide bomber, entitled “Message to those who stay behind”, is part of the latest recruitment propaganda to emerge on English-language websites directed at young wannabe jihadis. </p> <p>Its origins were not, however, in Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan, the usual bases of jihadi recruiters, but Somalia, the war-torn east African state.</p> <p>The site has been traced to Al-Shabaab, a radicalised Islamist militia group led by Somalis trained in Afghanistan and aligned with Al-Qaeda. The group is fighting against Somalia’s fragile transitional government, which is backed by the West and the United Nations.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-new-afghanistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/somalia-new-afghanistan#comments AFRICA Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:10:27 +0000 ladylove 36139 at http://whatreallyhappened.com