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In his speech to the Somali Parliament, the President of the Republic, His Excellency Ismail Omar Guelleh, emphasized that the Somali Parliament has a leading role to play in the fight against Al Shabab terrorists. #Somalia #AlShabab #terrorism 
The President emphasized that the legislative and oversight power of the Parliament can contribute to the fight against terrorism by passing forward-thinking laws to combat the settlement of foreigners promoting terrorism. #Somalia #counterterrorism #legislation
In recent days, #Somalia has been all over international headlines -- why?
#AlShabab killed 120+ in a double car bomb attack outside the Education Ministry in #Mogadishu.
That's to be expected, of course. It was a massive attack & the deadliest there for 5yrs.
#AlShabab killed 120+ in a double car bomb attack outside the Education Ministry in #Mogadishu.
That's to be expected, of course. It was a massive attack & the deadliest there for 5yrs.
Reflection #NineEleven20
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Extremism...is the biggest problem facing the world.
Extremism has its stereotypical and its professionally sanitized version. It has the likes of #AlQaeda and #AlShabab on one hand and the Neocons and Right Wing Extremists on the other.
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Extremism...is the biggest problem facing the world.
Extremism has its stereotypical and its professionally sanitized version. It has the likes of #AlQaeda and #AlShabab on one hand and the Neocons and Right Wing Extremists on the other.
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It has the militant religious fanatics as well as material and power-driven secular humanists and in between who consider violence as the first or the only option to problem-solving.
It has the militant religious fanatics as well as material and power-driven secular humanists and in between who consider violence as the first or the only option to problem-solving.
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While the stereotypical one's intention, anger, hate, and tools of war are often explicit and are belligerently overt in their claim to culpability, the professionally sanitized ones' are more clever, covert, and stealthy in their operations.
While the stereotypical one's intention, anger, hate, and tools of war are often explicit and are belligerently overt in their claim to culpability, the professionally sanitized ones' are more clever, covert, and stealthy in their operations.
Leadership Deficiency & Greed Keep Somalia Volatil💲
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1/12
Gov't security officials & so-called counter-terrorism experts who credit all terrorist attacks in Somalia to #alshabab (ISIS boogieman) are either too naive, too incompetent, or too Machiavellian.
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1/12
Gov't security officials & so-called counter-terrorism experts who credit all terrorist attacks in Somalia to #alshabab (ISIS boogieman) are either too naive, too incompetent, or too Machiavellian.
2/12
Dilemma:
How does one reveal unpleasant realities& tell a traumatized nation what appeared like a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ was in fact a runaway train coming at them?
How does one tell such nation: Any leader claiming " I will eradicate #Shabab" is *wrong leader*?
Dilemma:
How does one reveal unpleasant realities& tell a traumatized nation what appeared like a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ was in fact a runaway train coming at them?
How does one tell such nation: Any leader claiming " I will eradicate #Shabab" is *wrong leader*?
3/12
(so here I ago) Somalia is in an existential race agst time. Much like all other critical issues facing the nation.... Somali gov't does not control its intelligence or security. Worse, the gov't does lacks political will to address the real causes & effects.
(so here I ago) Somalia is in an existential race agst time. Much like all other critical issues facing the nation.... Somali gov't does not control its intelligence or security. Worse, the gov't does lacks political will to address the real causes & effects.
#ISIS #alQaida - "#Africa is providing them that venue, that safe haven where they can establish themselves" @USSOCOM #Africa Commander MajGen Dagvin Anderson tells @AEI
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"We see Islamic State core really needing these affiliates" in #Africa, per @USSOCOM #Africa's MajGen Anderson, adding #alQaida in Africa is even more dangerous, learning from the mistakes #ISIS made in #Iraq #Syria
"They stay below that threshold"
"They stay below that threshold"
#alShabaab "has become more aligned w/#alQaida...more responsive" per @USSOCOM #Africa's MajGen Anderson
(1/10) This is a report card on #Eritrea Prez Isaias Afwerki considered by himself & NNNN as a political architect of the Horn of Africa. From #Somalia, #Sudan, #SouthSudan, #Djibouti, to #Ethiopia, he has wasted #Eritrean treasury grooming satellite orgs. All for nothing.
(2/10) #SouthSudan: The #SPLA had members who were for secession & members for reforming Sudan and remaining part of it. Despite Isaias Afwerki's cries, the secessionist won and they proved it in a referendum where 99% voted for independence. Isaias didn't attend the ceremony.
1/ In het @NOS Journaal wordt voortdurend uitgebreid stil gestaan bij geweld en discriminatie tegen moslimminderheden in niet-islamitische landen. Er is daarentegen nauwelijks aandacht voor geweld en discriminatie tegen christelijke minderheden in moslimlanden. Een draadje...
Alleged #AlShabaab attack on airstrip near Camp Simba (used by US & Kenyan forces) hours ago. Location of airstrip is here: goo.gl/maps/7WqtDTSiY…. Smoke seen emerging from the #Lamu base in open source imagery. This thread is to verify imagery.
This image of smoke rising from alleged attack area was taken south east of the air strip. The multicoloured building seen is located here: goo.gl/maps/jJvhjWUqL…. The light in the foreground of the image is on the barrier of the Lapset Compound.
This footage, originally uploaded to FB today, was filmed from this exact location not far from the image above: goo.gl/maps/HZnoxJexc…. Credit to @TerraServer for updated imagery as @googleearth does not have completed construction of Lapset Compound. #Kenya #Lamu
By @PressTV
U.S. military campaign in #Somalia could take seven more years to complete: Report ptv.io/2ioM
U.S. military campaign in #Somalia could take seven more years to complete: Report ptv.io/2ioM
By @telesurenglish
#CubanDoctors assigned to the 3 #Kenyan counties bordering Somalia have been temporarily brought to Nairobi. The driver who drove the doctors on the day of the kidnapping will be detained for investigations.
Via @oskarteleSUR
#CubanDoctors assigned to the 3 #Kenyan counties bordering Somalia have been temporarily brought to Nairobi. The driver who drove the doctors on the day of the kidnapping will be detained for investigations.
Via @oskarteleSUR
By @telesurenglish
#Kenyan officials reported all Cuban doctors deployed along the border with #Somalia are being evacuated following the kidnapping last week of two #CubanDoctors.
#AlShabab
bit.ly/2KDv5Kl
#Kenyan officials reported all Cuban doctors deployed along the border with #Somalia are being evacuated following the kidnapping last week of two #CubanDoctors.
#AlShabab
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BREAKING Ethiopian forces in Baidoa arrest former #Alshabab deputy leader Mukhtar Robow and presidential candidate of south west regional state in raid #Somalia
Update Chief campaigner of Robow told Dalsan that Ethiopian troops tortured the candidate during the raid #Somalia
