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While the White House was busy drafting proposals to ban assault rifles, the last of the regulations imposed on Saudi travel to the United States after September 11 were being taken apart. While some government officials were busy planning how … read more »
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Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has privately pledged to “fight to his last bullet” in his ancestral hometown of Qardaha, vowing, “If I go, none of Syria remains.” The daily pools of blood spilled by his madmen cause hearts to be … read more »
By: Ivan Eland For weeks and months, the foreign policy debate in the United States has focused on the non-issue of whether the Obama administration played politics with the attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Although the more … read more »
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, AlQaeda, Benghazi, IndepthAfrica, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pakistan Air Force, Somalia, Taliban, United States, Yemen
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Kenyan police officers continued their anti-terrorism operations on Sunday when they killed or arrested suspected members of a Somalia-based Islamist group, one of whom lived in the same western Kenya location as some family members of President Barack Obama who … read more »
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Tagged Al Shabaab terrorists, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, kenyan news, Kismayo, Mombasa, Nairobi, Obama family, Somalia
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By: Jim Kouri With Friday’s release of State Department documents regarding diplomats at the Benghazi, Libya, consulate telling officials in Washington, D.C., about the dangers of a growing Islamist population in that city and the need for more security personnel, … read more »
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By: Jim Kouri Police and security forces in President Barack Obama’s ancestral home in Kenya said Sunday on a Fox News Channel broadcast that they are disappointed that they’ve not yet arrested suspects who perpetrated two bombings at a Nairobi … read more »
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Tagged Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, Fox New Channel, IndepthAfrica, Kenya, Kenya Police, Nairobi, Somalia
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By: Jim Kouri Close to three weeks after the deadly and destructive terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, a team of FBI investigators finally had boots of the ground in order to examine the crime scene, a … read more »
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Tagged AlQaeda, Benghazi, FBI, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Libya, Libyan, obama, Obama Administration, United States
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By: Jim Kouri On Tuesday during an appearance on Fox News Channel, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Pete King again urged United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to resign over her comments on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, talk shows regarding the … read more »
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Tagged AlQaeda, Barack Obama, Benghazi, Fox New Channel, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfricaMagazine, obama, Susan Rice, United States, Youtube
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By: Jim Kouri U.S. intelligence officials knew less than a day after the bloody attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that the perpetrators were terrorists who are alleged members of an al-Qaeda offshoot, but President Barack Obama and … read more »
By: B. Raman Al Qaeda in North Waziristan, Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP), the NeoTaliban of Afghanistan and the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been closely following the presidential election campaign in the US. While they have kept up … read more »
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Alemayehu G. Mariam Disappointed but… Did I enthusiastically support presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008? Absolutely! Do I agree with everything he has done over the past four years as president? No! Has he carried out all of the promises … read more »
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Tagged Abu Ayyub al-Masri, AlQaeda, Barack Obama, IndepthAfrica, obama, Osama bin Laden, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, United States, Younis al-Mauritani
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Somalia’s Al Shabaab is sending fighters to aid Al Qaeda in Yemen. They are returning as trained terrorists. Yemen, a stone’s throw from Somalia, has for years been the destination of choice for impoverished Somalis fleeing their troubled state. Now, … read more »
The death toll from a suspected al-Qaida suicide bombing in southern Yemen rose to 45 Sunday, officials said, in the latest attack against militias allied with the army. The bomber struck a funeral late Saturday, attended by civilian militia fighters … read more »
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Michael Brenner America’s “war on terror” now has brought us deep into tropical Africa and the Sahel. We learned last week that Washington is engaged in an expansive project to hunt down an array of local “terrorists”, could-be “terrorists” and … read more »
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NAIROBI — A Kenyan court charged two Iranian nationals with illegal possession of explosives Monday, a day after a grenade attack on a bar in the southern city of Mombasa that killed three people. The Iranians, whom police said they … read more »
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NAIROBI — The US embassy in Kenya on Saturday warned of the threat of an imminent attack on Mombasa and urged nationals to shun the country’s second city. “This is to alert all US citizens in Kenya, or planning to … read more »
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One People, One Country! For the past two decades, Ethiopia has been the scene of crimes against humanity and crimes against nature. Now Ethiopian religious leaders say Ethiopia is the scene of crimes against divinity. Christian and Muslim leaders and … read more »
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An Eritrean man pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to illegally giving funds and receiving military training from the al Qaeda-linked militant group al Shabaab. Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, 38, was arrested in Nigeria in November 2009 and brought to … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, News, Somali
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Ahmed, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, IndepthAfrica, Somalia, United States, United States Department of State, Wednesday
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A man suspected of involvement in an attack last month on a shopping centre in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, has been arrested in neighbouring Tanzania. Kenyan police say Emrah Erdogan is a German national of Turkish origin. They allege he … read more »
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Tagged African Union, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, bbc, Kenya, Nairobi, Reuters, Somalia
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Nairobi – Somalia’s al-Qaeda allied Shabaab insurgents dismissed a United States offer of up to $33m for tip-offs for the arrest of top leaders, vowing to continue their extremist fight. “The non-believers know who are the good Muslim leaders – … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, African Union, African Union Mission in Sudan, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, IndepthAfrica, Moktar Ali Zubeyr, Somalia, United States, United States Department of State
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An Ethiopian court ruled on Thursday that eleven people, including a Kenyan, would be tried over charges they plotted to carry out a series of bombings in the Horn of Africa country. The pre-trial hearing came weeks after Prime Minister … read more »
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DAKAR – An extremist group in West Africa is reportedly threatening to kill a Spanish hostage seized in western Algeria last October. The group is believed to have split from al-Qaida’s North Africa branch last year with the aim of … read more »
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Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants. Nairobi has said … read more »
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Julius Okoth In Kenya today, due to the economic reforms packages of the 1990s which emphasised the deregulation of the state, privatisation and the liberalisation of the economy, the impact has been unemployment, poverty and the adoption of multiple survival … read more »
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Samuel Abonyo We Kenyans have acquired another instrument for perpetuating ethnic groups, ethnic accounting. In its latest ethnic accounting figures, published in February this year, the National Cohesion And Integration Commission (NCIC), claims that, with over 80 per cent, ‘the … read more »
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Nairobi – Hundreds of Kenyan youth who have trained with al-Qaeda-linked militants in neighboring Somalia have returned home and now pose a major security threat to this East African nation, a top police official said Friday. Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere … read more »
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Nairobi – Kenyan security forces have abused ethnic Somalis in the country’s northeastern region in retaliation for attacks by suspected Somali Islamist rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight … read more »
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Addis Ababa – Ethiopia’s prime minister says Ethiopian troops fighting al-Qaeda-linked militants in neighbouring Somalia will soon return home. Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday that regions of Somalia currently controlled by Ethiopian forces will be handed over to … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African news, African Union, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, Ethiopia, Ethiopian National Defense Force, IndepthAfrica, Meles Zenawi, Rwanda, Somalia
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By Abdi Aynte If a split within the rank and file of Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants was a mere speculation, it has now become a reality, thanks to a lacerating Friday sermon by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, Somalia’s best known holy … read more »
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The moment when a female suicide bomber blew herself up at a VIP event at the country’s National Theatre during a speech by the prime minister has been captured on video. The explosion happened as Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the Prime … read more »
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Tagged Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Africa news, African news, Al-Shabaab, AlQaeda, female suicide bombers, IndepthAfrica, Mogadishu, Prime minister, Royal National Theatre, Somalia
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