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April 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
– Rejecting Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed’s claim to have quashed the
insurgency, the militants said the retreat was only tactical, and in October
2011 they struck the capital with their deadliest attack since their
insurgency started in 2007. A truck laden with drums of fuel rammed a
checkpoint outside government ministries in Mogadishu, killing more than 70
people.
– The rebels’ retreat from Mogadishu did, however, signal an acceptance that
they could not militarily defeat a government propped up by foreign
firepower. The group appears to have been weakened as Ethiopian and Kenyan
troops advanced on rebel strongholds in southern Somalia, seizing back the
central town of Baidoa, the former seat of the Somali parliament in
February, as well the town of Yurkud 110km (70 miles) northwest of Baidoa.–
Security analysts have said the militants must be routed from the port city
of Kismayu, their main outpost, for any hope of a military victory however.–
Al Qaeda announced in February that al Shabaab had joined its ranks in an
apparent effort to boost morale diminished by months of setbacks including
the loss of founder Osama bin Laden.
– The Somali government has said hundreds of foreign fighters have joined the
insurgency from countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Gulf region,
and Western nations such as the United States and Britain. Some of the
jihadists have taken up leadership positions in groups, including al Shabaab.
MAJOR AL SHABAAB ATTACKS:
– A suicide bombing in June 2009 killed Somalia’s security minister and at
least 30 other people in a hotel in Baladwayne.
– A suicide bomber killed three government ministers and 19 others on Dec. 3,
2009 in an attack on the graduation ceremony at Mogadishu’s Shamo Hotel. The
sports minister died from wounds sustained in the attack two months later.
– In July 2010, al Shabaab staged a bomb attack in Kampala that killed 79
people who were watching the soccer World Cup final. The strike, its first
on foreign soil, was in revenge for Uganda’s participation in the AU
peacekeeping force.
– Al Shabaab rebels said they were behind the killing of Somali Interior
Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan on June 10, 2011.
– Two attacks on a Nairobi bus station and a bar killed one person and wounded
more than 20 in late October 2011. Earlier that month, Kenya had sent the
military into Somalia to crush militants that Nairobi blamed for attacks on
Kenyan soil. Al Shabaab threatened reprisals if Kenyan troops did not leave.
– Police blamed al Shabaab rebels for grenade attacks that killed at least six
people and wounded scores at the Machakos bus station in Nairobi on March 10.
– Days later Al Shabaab said one of its suicide bombers was responsible for an
explosion inside the heavily protected presidential palace compound in
Mogadishu. It said more bombings would follow.
– The head of Somalia’s soccer federation and Olympic committee were among at
least six killed on Wednesday when an al Shabaab suicide bomber struck
Mogadishu’s newly-reopened national theatre.
Source: Reuters
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