Zawahiri says Somalia's Shebab Joined al-Qaida
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Somalia's extremist Shebab fighters have joined ranks with al-Qaida, the terror network's chief Ayman al-Zawahiri announced in a video message posted on jihadist forums on Thursday.
"I will break the good news to our Islamic nation, which will... annoy the crusaders, and it is that the Shebab movement in Somalia has joined al-Qaida," Zawahiri said.
In the first part of the video, Shebab's leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, addressed Zawahiri, saying: "We will move along with you as faithful soldiers."
"In the name of my mujahideen brothers, leaders and soldiers... I pledge obedience," Zubair said.
"Lead us on the road of jihad and martyrdom, in the footsteps that our martyr Osama bin Laden had drawn for us," he added, referring to al-Qaida's former leader who was killed last year in a covert U.S. raid on his hide-out in Pakistan.
The Shebab group proclaimed its allegiance to bin Laden in a video documentary distributed in 2009.
The hardline Somali Islamists are fighting to overthrow a fragile western-backed transitional government in the war-torn Horn of Africa country.
09 February 2012, 21:29
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The groups of murderers in the name of religion are rallying together. They are more and more isolated from the main stream and sooner or later they will not find any place to call home except the grave or the prison.
09 February 2012, 22:44
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They join Al Qaeda when they are losing the war in Somalia and are being wiped out from the air and the ground by the US and its allies.
10 February 2012, 00:25
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Put Hassan Nasrallah next to Zawahiri in white like that and you'll have a turbaned version of MAD magazine's Spy vs. Spy and hours of fun.
10 February 2012, 03:33
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I lost track, so is this supposed to be the good Hassan Nastallah or the bad Hassan Nastallah?
10 February 2012, 07:06
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Why i want to know is this scumbag worried about the Crusaders and condeming christians everywhere. Yet Syrian regime is killing his own sunni sect and this coward have not said one bad word against bashar al assad. Go figures.. if the US or the west were his muslims he would declare jihad on them. He is already without even a valid execuse. so why not fight the syrian regime you cowards and your group are bunch of stupid idiots who know nothing but jihad. well lets see you declaring Jihad on Syria regime and their thugs damn it.
10 February 2012, 13:00
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Why all the commotion around Zawahiri? His Muslim Brothers in Egypt are back in power and in full force thanks to the great nations of the US, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. So once again, why all the commotion?
10 February 2012, 13:43
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Michael please dont talk when you have no clue, if you search more and read there is answers for all your question..
10 February 2012, 14:05
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Michael who do you think the free syrian army is ? do u really belive the media ? ...the free syrian army are zawahiris men !
