Fri Feb 10, 2012
Al-Qaeda’s chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a video message that the Somali militant group al-Shabab has joined ranks with the global terrorist organization, Press TV reports.
Zawahiri gave "glad tidings" that al-Shabab had formally joined al-Qaeda in a 15-minute video released by Al-Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab on Thursday.
"I will break the good news …, which will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, and it is that al-Shabab movement in Somalia has joined al-Qaeda," Zawahiri said.
In the first part of the video, al-Shabab'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 mujahedeen brothers, leaders and soldiers... I pledge obedience," Zubair said.
Somalia has been without an effective central government and descended into chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew former junta chief Mohamed Siad Barre.
The weak Western-backed transition government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years, and is propped up by a 10,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.
Somalia is one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/225979.html.
Al-Qaeda’s chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has announced in a video message that the Somali militant group al-Shabab has joined ranks with the global terrorist organization, Press TV reports.
Zawahiri gave "glad tidings" that al-Shabab had formally joined al-Qaeda in a 15-minute video released by Al-Qaeda's media arm As-Sahab on Thursday.
"I will break the good news …, which will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, and it is that al-Shabab movement in Somalia has joined al-Qaeda," Zawahiri said.
In the first part of the video, al-Shabab'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 mujahedeen brothers, leaders and soldiers... I pledge obedience," Zubair said.
Somalia has been without an effective central government and descended into chaos since 1991, when warlords overthrew former junta chief Mohamed Siad Barre.
The weak Western-backed transition government in Mogadishu has been battling al-Shabab fighters for the past five years, and is propped up by a 10,000-strong African Union force from Uganda, Burundi and Djibouti.
Somalia is one of the countries generating the highest number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world.
Source: PressTV.
Link: http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/225979.html.
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