Kenya declares war on Al Shabaab!

Suspected al Shabaab rebels raid Kenya police post

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki (L), walks with the Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi (R) on arrival at the 16th Extra Ordinary Summit of IGAD Heads of state meeting on Somalia, in Addis Ababa November 25, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Kumerra Gemechu

By Noor Ali. GARISSA, Kenya | Sat Nov 26, 2011

GARISSA, Kenya (Reuters) - Suspected Somali al Shabaab rebel fighters raided a police post near Mandera in northern Kenya Saturday, seizing weapons and burning a mobile phone transmission mast, security officials said.

The group of fighters attacked Arabiya, a trading centre 60 kilometres from Mandera, and engaged police in a firefight before overpowering them and taking all the guns and bullets from the local police post.

"Arabiya was attacked. We believe it's al Shabaab. They destroyed, burnt a communication booster and took ammunition at the police post," North Eastern Provincial police commander Leo Nyongesa told Reuters by phone.

There were no injuries or deaths reported.

ARRESTS
The latest incident comes days after grenade attacks in the frontier town of Garissa killed six, and a roadside bomb killed a soldier in Mandera town.

Full article (Reuters)
 
It is not my intention to piss on the party, but this kind of attack and even worse have been par for the course in North Eastern Kenya for over 20 years. It should be clear how patient Kenya has been with Somalia. Just providing context, lest it be mistaken for something new related to Kenya's decision to solve the Somalia problem using the last resort.
 
Very interesting analysis of the probable effects of the war on the forthcoming elections in Kenya, by Makau Mutua.

Could Al-Shabaab War Postpone Elections?

Makau Mutua. 26 November 2011

Even though I strongly support the war against Al-Shabaab - Somalia's Taliban - I am nervous. Why?

Because war usually invites unintended consequences. It doesn't matter whether the war is necessary, or even just. The fact is that war is an ugly and costly business.

First, you don't know when a war is going to end. Nor do you know how it may change a country. Look at how America's war on terror has transformed the US. It has cannibalised America's treasure and curtailed basic liberties.

My fear is that the Al-Shabaab war could be used to postpone the 2012 elections. I can think of scenarios that could upend the constitutional edict to hold the next elections as by law required. The Constitution is largely a "process" and "governance" document. It was a response to dictatorship.
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The gist of the article lies in these paragraphs

I believe that heavy civilian casualties in Kenya would grip the country with fear and panic.

It would be the obligation of the government to "suspend" various provisions of the Constitution through the declaration of a state of emergency. Mind you - I am not advocating an "illegal" suspension of parts of the Constitution. It would be done "legally" by the President in concert with the legislature and a nod from the Judiciary.

I am sure some litigious citizens would go to court, but they'd lose their challenges. Context would be everything - Kenya under attack at home.

I know this isn't something most Kenyans have thought about, but I urge you to prepare in case matters come to this. A democratic election requires a certain level of civil peace, security and stability.

Candidates and the general public must be able to move freely and associate without fear of attacks from Al-Shabaab.

We all remember, for example, the fear that gripped the country when a grenade was launched at a "No Camp" rally during the referendum campaigns last year. Imagine that scenario repeated many times over throughout the country. I don't believe even the presence of Kenyan police and security forces would be enough to restore sufficient confidence in the public.

There would be a fever over the land and a free and fair election would be impossible. That's why a postponement of the elections isn't fantasy.

Makau Mutua is Dean and SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School and Chair of the KHRC

Full article
 
Phew! The mighty super power of EA can't finish this small war .... .. what next?
 

You got it wrong!damn Reuters!about 40 militants attacked a the police post on friday night and the six policemen there at the time tried to engage them in a firefight till they realized they were outnumbered leaving for their lives while the alshabab burnt a communication booster their and stole one G-3 rifle
 
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Phew! The mighty super power of EA can't finish this small war .... .. what next?
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You think this is a small war?brother just style up and back off!do you know the meaning of terrorist!you sound like uneducated little fellor
 

I predicted this long time ago just go back in my previous posts within this thread....
 
Al Shabaab wawahimiza wasomali kuungana dhidi ya vita vya msalaba (crusade)!

A Call for Unity against Occupation of Somalia by the Crusaders


For Immediate Release A Call for Unity against Occupation of Somalia by the Crusaders

Mogadishu (26/11/2011) – The meeting held by the so-called Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Addis Ababa on Friday 25th November underlines the malicious intent of the neighbouring countries to destroy Somalia and colonise its people.

IGAD's unanimous decision to deploy thousands of Ethiopian troops to Somalia comes after the Kenyan army, a non-combat-tested yet highly bumptious force who've entered Somalia more than a month ago, failed in their attempts to invade regions of Somalia as a result of the fierce resistance from the Mujahideen forces and local population. The concentration and build-up of Ethiopian troops along the border and some regions of Somalia at this particular phase in the conflict, not only demonstrates the vindictive nature of the Ethiopian army and their aspirations for military reprisals against the Somali population but also clearly illustrates the widespread impotence surrounding the thousands of Kenyan, Burundian and Ugandan forces already waging a brutal war against the people of Somalia.

Ethiopia, an arch-enemy, has been fighting a long and vicious battle to destabilise Somalia for decades. In December 2006, the Ethiopian army invaded Somalia under enormous media publicity in an attempt to control the country and subjugate its people. In their counteroffensive, however, the Somali population responded with quick and intensive surgical strikes as well as a concentrated guerrilla campaign that soon drained the invaders' ability and defeated the Ethiopian army. Since their defeat in early 2009, the Ethiopian troops have been conducting a series of vengeful attacks against the people of Somalia , before engaging in the conscription and training of local militia to advance the Ethiopian agenda in the destabilisation of the country.

Somalia is going through a historic moment in time and it is the combination of the efforts of its people that will determine the outcome of its future. We therefore urge the Muslims of Somalia to set their differences aside and unite against their common enemy as they have done in the past in order to defend their country as well as their religion from the aggressive invasion of the allied African crusaders. You are facing a barbaric enemy that has no appreciation for the sanctity of human life; be firm and steadfast against them and fight them with all your might.

We also warn the invading Ethiopian forces that you have struggled long and hard to settle in Somalia during your brief occupation in 2006. Know that you are entering Somalia while the corpses of your comrades are still fresh in their graves; and the path that you tread upon today is reminiscent of the path trodden upon by your fellow soldiers yesterday. It is a path that lures you to taste nothing but the bitter depredations of war; for in front of you lies the agony of death, the torment of captivity, the deprivation of comforts, the departure of loved ones and the piercing bullets of strong-willed men with a determination of steel and uncompromising belief. The very men who've subjected the might of your army to the ignominious defeat of yesterday are today grinding their swords once again. The people of Somalia shall never accept or live under the humiliation of occupation and the spirit of resistance shall not fade as long as a single invader remains alive on Somali soil.

Press Office
HSM.press@yahoo.com
Harakat Al-Shabaab Al Mujahideen
 
Bantugbro said:
I predicted this long time ago just go back in my previous posts within this thread....
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thats pressing your luck too far buddy, elections come wat may must run within the 2012 calendar, alot is at stake plus african regimes have a way of replicating wat other states have done esp to the negative. No way KENYA wants to open the 'jinx box again', we had our lesson. The journalist is only seeking audience, in any case i can describe his arguement as being purely simplistic. if elections fail lotsa things will go wrong n the state machinery cant risk dat.
 
Wakenya hii vita hawaiwezi peke yao - Evarist Kagaruki

Hard Talk:Kenya alone can't win war against Al Shabaab
Saturday, 26 November 2011 16:02
By Evarist Kagaruki

I have written elsewhere supporting Kenya's military offensive against the Somali militant group, Al-Shabaab. My support for the operation, code-named Operation Linda Nchi (Kiswahili for operation defend the country), hinges on the fact that the country has the right to defend her territorial integrity and protect her citizens as well as her economic and security interests. The primary duty of any government is to protect its citizens against any threat, whether exogenous or endogenous.

In that piece I emphasised three crucial points: First, that in order for Kenya's military response to the militias' incursions into the country to succeed, the whole international community, and particularly the African countries, must support it.

Kenya alone, I said, may not be able to win the fight and could find itself entangled in a long war with no prospects of a military victory, which would be disastrous.

Its long military presence in Somalia could lead to the heightening of anti-foreigner sentiment among Somalis who, in the face of any foreign, especially non-Muslim, intervention in their conflict tend to put their differences aside and unite to fight their common enemy.

Many Somalis may not like Al Shabaab, but they certainly abhor the presence of foreigners on their motherland.

Secondly, that the Somali conflict is Africa's problem whose solution lies in the continent; and that the AU member countries should stop paying lip service to the issue and show responsibility by supporting Kenya in terms of troop surge both to the AMISOM (Africa Mission in Somalia) to enable them keep peace in the liberated areas, and toward the on-going war against the insurgents.

And lastly, that the AU should urgently hold an extra-ordinary summit of the Heads of State and Government to deliberate a military strategy on how to confront Al-Shabaab and deal with the political dimension of the Somali conflict once the militants have been crashed.

The last point is most crucial since it forms the basis for finding a lasting solution to the conflict which is essentially political and, therefore, requires a political, not military, approach.

Regrettably, there are no signs yet to show that support for Kenya was forthcoming. The whole burden has been left to the Kenyan army and AMISOM (comprising Ugandan and Burundian troops). The only country that is said to have come to Kenya's help is Ethiopia.

It has been reported that Ethiopian troops were already in Somalia to join the campaign against Al-Shabaab.

Although Addis Ababa has denied the reports, Somali witnesses say Ethiopian military trucks and armoured cars have been seen crossing into Somalia.

But, if it is true that Ethiopian forces are in Somalia, you can bet the Kenyan war is going to be protracted and difficult.

This is because Ethiopia is not the right "partner" in the adventure! Why? First of all, Ethiopia invaded Somalia in 2006 to fight the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) whom it defeated, but lost the war against Al-Shabaab; and, bogged down, Addis Ababa, had to withdraw its troops in humiliation three years later.

This time round, the militants would be fighting the enemy they know very well.

Secondly, all Somalis, irrespective of their differences, see Ethiopia as their enemy number one. The hostilities between Somalis and Ethiopians go back more than a century and the anti-Ethiopian sentiment among many Somalis runs deep. So, Kenya may spoil its own fight by teaming up with Ethiopia.

And, lastly, the involvement of Ethiopian troops in the Kenyan war evokes memories of the two wars Ethiopia and Somalia had fought over the Ogaden in 1964 and 1977, and unites all Somalis against the traditional enemy. (When the Ethiopian-backed government forces captured Mogadishu, forcing the UIC fighters to flee the city, nearly the entire Somali community rallied behind Al-Shabaab, which, then, had emerged as a consequence of the UIC's defeat).

So, with Ethiopian forces in Somalia, there was a danger that Kenya might lose the support it may be getting from those Somalis opposed to Al-Shabaab, who, because of the Ethiopian factor, would now withdraw their support, applying the principle: My enemy's friend is also my enemy.

The Citizen
 
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by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya and Julien TeilA repeat of the disorder and pandemonium generated inside Afghanistan is in the works for the continent of Africa. The United States, with the help of Britain, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, created the brutal Taliban and then eventually waged war on its Taliban allies. Similarly, across Africa, the United States and its allies are creating a new series of future enemies to fight, but after initially working with them or using them to sow the seeds of chaos in Africa.
Washington has literally been helping fund insurgencies and regime change projects in Africa. "Human rights" and "democratization" are also being used as a smokescreen for colonialism and war. So-called human rights and humanitarian organizations are now partners in this imperialist project against Africa.
France and Israel: Is Washington Outsourcing its Dirty Work in Africa?

Africa is just one international front for an expanding system of empire. The mechanisms of a real global system of empire are at work in this regard. Washington is acting through NATO and its allies in Africa. Each one of Washington's allies and satellites has a specific role to play in the global system of empire.
Tel Aviv has played a very active role on the African continent. Israel was a major unapologetic supporter of South Africa under the racist apartheid system. Tel Avivalso helped smuggle arms into Sudan and East Africa to balkanize that sizeable African nation and destabilize its region.The Israelis have been very active in Kenya and Uganda, for example. The Israeli presence has also existed wherever blood diamonds and conflicts have been present in Africa. Israel is also now working with Washington to establish total hegemony over the African continent. It isactively involved through its business ties and intelligence operations in establishing the contacts and agreements that Washington needs for expansion in Africa and to disrupt the rise of Chinese influence.
France, as a former colonial master and a declining power, on the other hand has traditionally been a rival and competitor of Washington on the African continent. With the rise of the influence of non-traditional powers in Africa, such as the People's Republic of China, both Washington and Paris began to look at ways of cooperating. On the broader global stage this is also evident. Both the U.S. and several of the major powers in the European Union considered China and other emerging global powers as great enough threats to end their rivalries and work together. Thus, a consensus leading to integration emerged, which was greatly boosted by the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007.
President Sarkozy also wasted no time in pushing for reintegration of the French military command structure with NATO, which has subordinated the French military to the Pentagon. In 1966, President Charles de Gaulle pulled French forces out of NATO and removed France from the military command structure of NATO as a means of maintaining French independence. Nicolas Sarkozy has reversed all of this. In 2009, Sarkozy ordered that France rejoin the integrated military command structure of NATO. In 2010, he also signed an accord to start amalgamating the British and French militaries.
On the African continent, Paris has a special place or niche in the U.S. system of global empire– as a regional gendarme in North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, and all the countries that were its former colonies. France's special role, in other words, is due to history and the existing, albeit declining, position of France in Africa, specifically through the "Françafrique." The Union of the Mediterranean, which Sarkozy officially launched, is one example of these French interests in North Africa.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has also been working through France's International Federation of Human Rights (Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'Homme, FIDH). The FIDH is much more established in Africa. The NED has essentially outsourced its work to manipulate and control African governments, movements, societies, and states to the FIDH. It was the FIDH and the affiliated Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR) that helped orchestrate the grounds for the NATO war against Libya via the United Nations through unsubstantiated and false claims.
The NED and FIDH

Following the 2007 election of Nicolas Sarkozy as the leader of the French Republic, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) started to develop a real partnership with the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Both organizations are also partners within the World Movement for Democracy. Carl Gershman, the president of NED, even went to France in December 2009 to meet with the FIDH to deepen collaboration between the two organizations and to discuss Africa. [1] Most of the partnerships between the FIDH and the NED are based in Africa and the intersecting Arab World. These partnerships operate in a zone that covers countries like Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Niger, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.North Africa, which includes Libya and Algeria, has been a specific area of focus for the FIDH, where Washington, Paris, and NATO clearly have major ambitions.
The FIDH, which is directly implicated in launching the war on Libya, has also received direct funding, in the form of grants, from the National Endowment for Democracy for its programs in Africa. A NED grant of $140, 186 (U.S.) has been the latest amount given to the FIDH for its work in Africa. [2] The NED was also one of the first signatories, along with the Libyan League for Human Rights (LLHR) and U.N. Watch, demanding international intervention against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. [3]
AFRICOM and the Post-9/11 Road Towards Conquering Africa

In 2002, the Pentagon started its first major operations aimed at controlling Africa militarily. This was in the form of the Pan-Sahel Initiative, which was launched by United States European Command (EUCOM) and United States Central Command (CENTCOM). Under the project, the U.S. military would trains troops from Mali, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger. The plans to establish the Pan-Sahel Initiative, however, date back to 2001, when the initiative for Africa was actually launched after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 (9/11). Washington was clearly planning military action in Africa, which already included at least three countries (Libya, Somalia, and Sudan) identified as targets by the Pentagon and the White House according to General Wesley Clark.
Jacques Chirac, the President of France at the time, tried to offer resistance to the U.S. push into Africa by reinvigorating Germany's role in Africa as a means of supporting France. In 2007, the Franco-African summit even opened its doors to German participation for the first time. [4] Yet, Angela Merkel had different ideas about the direction and position that the Franco-German partnership should take in regards to Washington.
Since 2001, the momentum towards creating AFRICOM had started. AFRICOM was officially authorized in December 2006 and the decision to create it was announced several short months later in February 2007. It would be in 2007 that AFRICOM would actually be established. This momentum also received Israeli encouragement. The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), for example, was one of the Israeli organizations supporting the creation of AFRICOM.
On the basis of the Pan-Sahel Initiative, the Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative (TSCTI) was launched by the Pentagon in 2005 under the command of CENTCOM.Mali, Chad, Mauritania, and Niger were now joined by Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, Senegal, Nigeria, and Tunisia in the ring of military cooperation with the Pentagon. The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative would be transferred to the command of AFRICOM on October 1, 2008, which is when AFRICOM would be activated.
The Sahel and Sahara: The U.S.Clearly Adopts France's Old Colonial Projects in Africa

"Fighting terrorism" and executing "humanitarian missions" are just façades or smokescreens. While the stated goals of the Pentagon are to fight terrorism in Africa, the real aims of Washington are to restructure Africa and to establish a neo-colonial order.In this regard, Washington has actually adopted the old colonial projects of France in Africa. This includes the old U.S., British, Italian, and French initiative to divide Libya after 1943 and the unilateral French initiative to redraw North Africa.
The map used by Washington for combating terrorism under the Pan-Sahel Initiative says a lot. The range or area of activity for the terrorists,within the borders of Algeria, Libya, Niger, Chad, Mali, and Mauritania according to Washington's designation, is very similar to the boundaries or borders of a colonial entity that France tried to create in Africa in 1957. Paris had planned to propup this African entity in the western central Saharaas a French department (province) directly tied to France, along with coastal Algeria.
This desired entitywas referred to as the Common Organization of the Saharan Regions (Organisation commune des regions sahariennes, OCRS). It comprised the inner boundaries of the Sahel and Saharan countries of Mali, Niger, Chad, and Algeria. The French goal was to collect and bind all the resource-rich areas into this one central entity for French control and extraction. The resources in this area include oil, gas, and uranium. Yet, the resistance movements in Africa, and specifically the Algerian struggle for independence, dealt Paris a hard blow. France had to give up its quest and finally dissolve the OCRS in 1962, because of Algerian independence and the anti-colonial stance in Africa, which also cut France off from the inland area in the Sahara and created opposition towards France in Africa.
Washington clearly had this energy- and resource-rich area in mind when it drew out the areas of Africa that need to be cleansed of alleged terrorist cells and gangs. The French Institute of Foreign Relations (Institut français des relations internationals, IFRI) has even openly discussed this in March 2011. [5] It is also in this context that the amalgamation of Franco-German and Anglo-American interests is allowing France to become an integrated part of the U.S. system of global empire with shared interests.
Regime Change in Libya and the NED: A Nexus of Terrorism and Human Rights

Since 2001, the U.S. has falsely presented itself as a champion against terrorism. The Trans-Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative (TSCTI), which opened the doors for AFRICOM in Africa, was justified as necessary by Washington to fight organizations like the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in Algeria and the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) in Libya. Yet, Washington is cooperating and using these very same groups in Libya, along with the National Front for the Salvation of Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood, as foot soldiers and proxies in Libya and Africa. Moreover, many of the key Libyan individuals that are members of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) are members of these groups and have also been part of conferences and longstanding plans pushing for regime change in Libya.
One of the key meetings for establishing what would become the current Transitional Council in Libya took place in 1994 when the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) organized a conference with Ashur Shamis and Aly (Ali) Abuzakuuk. The 1994 conference's title was "Post-Qaddafi Libya: The Prospect and the Promise." In 2005 another conference with Shamis Ashur would be held in the British capital of London that would build on the idea of regime change in Libya. [6]
Ashur Shamis is one of the founding members of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya, which was founded in 1981. He was also wanted by Interpol and the Libyan police. [7] Ahsur was also a director in the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and in the Human and Political Development Forum (and the editor of the Akhbar webpage, which was registered under Akhbar Cultural Limited and was essentially a NED project). He has also participated in key conferences, including the one in London held by Chatham House in 2011, which discussed NATO plans for the invasion of Tripoli. [8]
Like Ashur, Aly Abuzaakouk is also a member of the National Front for the Salvation of Libya and tied to the National Endowment for Democracy. He was one of the key participants and attendees at the roundtable held for the 2011 Democracy Awards by NED. [9] Like Ashur, he is also wanted by Interpol and serves as a director at the Libyan Human and Political Development Forum. [10]
There is also Noman Benotman, a former leader and founder of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and a wanted terrorist. He conveniently left the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group due to the attacks of September 11, 2011 in the United States. Benotman is not only a National Endowment for Democracy (NED) director in the Libyan Human and Political Development Forum, but he is also tied to the news network Al Jazeera.
Not only have these three men lived in Britain without any problems while they were wanted by Interpol and sought because of their ties to terrorism or, in the case of Benotman, drug-related crimes and forgery, but they also received grants from the United States. They received U.S. grants that formalized their NED organizations, which have been integral to the regime change agenda against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. This regime change agenda was done with the help of MI6 and the CIA. The legal documents that have been filed for their NED organizations have been deliberately and illegally tampered with. One key individual's identity has been hidden in the list of NED directors. Thus, legal documents have been fraudulently filled out to hide a certain individual's identity under the alias of "Beata Wozniak." Even Wozniak's birthday is invalid, appearing as January 1, 1 (01/01/0001). She is listed as a director and secretary of Akbar, Transparency Libya Limited, and several British companies.
The Gate into Africa has been Opened
The fanning of terrorism in Africa is part of a deliberate strategy used by the U.S. and its allies, including NATO, for opening the door into the African continent by expanding the so-called "Global War on Terror." This will give purpose to the U.S. objective of expanding its military presence in the African continent and it will also justify the creation of the Pentagon's AFRICOM, which is meant to manage Africa by creating an African version of NATO as a means for establishing Washington's control. In this regard, the U.S. and its allies have already put budgets aside to fight the very terrorist organizations that they have cooperated with, encouraged, nurtured, armed, and proliferated across the map of Africa from Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Mali to Mauritania, Niger, Algeria, and Nigeria.
The terrorists not only fight for Washington on the ground, but they also interact with Washington through so-called human rights organizations that promote democracy. These individuals not only destabilize their countries, but they also actively work for regime change and military intervention. Libya is a clear case of this.
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We Moyo huu upuuzi wote umeutoa wapi, tangu lini nawewe umeanza kuvuta majani ya tembo?:shock:
 
By Fred Oluoch
November 27 2011

MUSEVENI DISCUSSES SOMALI FEARS WITH KIBAKI

New details have emerged that show that despite the display of diplomatic niceties and pledges of co-operation between Kenya and the Transitional Federal Government in Somalia, deep misgivings remain in Mogadishu that Kenya's engagement is likely to shift the power balance in Somalia in favour of the populous Ogaden clan.


Apparently, the inner circle in Mogadishu is uncomfortable with the visibility and prominence in the Kenyan military operation of Kenyan ethnic Somalis - a good number of whom are members of the Ogaden clan.


A top Kenya government official involved in the negotiations told The EastAfrican last week that the elite of the TFG were also still not agreed on the appropriate level and extent of Kenya's engagement in the crisis. (READ: 'A coalition should take over next phase of mission')


It is understood that when Somalia's President, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed visited Kampala early this month to hold discussions with Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, the lead item on the agenda was the Ogaden factor and Mogadishu's worry that the Kenyan operation had the potential of stoking parochial nationalism, leading to agitation for a breakaway province bordering Kenya.


It was after the meeting in Kampala that Museveni agreed to organise a meeting between Sheikh Sharif and President Mwai Kibaki. Earlier, Museveni had also raised the issue with Prime Minister Raila Odinga when they met in Tel Aviv where both were on an official visit. (READ: How war boosts Kenya's regional, global clout)

READ more Source: Museveni discusses Somali fears with Kibaki  - News |theeastafrican.co.ke
 
By ABDULKADIR KHALIF khalifos@hotmail.com and GALGALO BOCHA gbocha@ke.nationmedia.com

Posted Sunday, November 27 2011 at 22:30


'AL SHABAAB beheads two spies'
Two youth were on Sunday beheaded in Afmadow town, Southern Somalia, by Al-Shaabab militia for allegedly spying for the Transitional Federal Government and Kenya Defence Forces.


This comes as the Kenya security agencies arrested four more suspected members of the Islamist militia group in Lamu.


The heads of the two young men, who were seized by the militants a few days ago, were displayed in the town streets, according to area residents.


"The incident has caused fear in the general public," a resident who did not want to be named (for security reasons) told a Mogadishu-based radio.


The youth were reportedly accused of having links with the Government of Kenya and the TFG. They were also accused of directing Kenyan planes that carried out air raids in Jubaland.

Read more from Source: Al-Shabaab beheads two men - News |nation.co.ke
 
By Daniel Wesangula dwesangula@ke.nationmedia.com

Posted Saturday, November 26 2011 at 18:00


How Al Shabaab war is changing life in Nairobi's suburb of Eastleigh
Kassim Abbas Rahim started living in Eastleigh about 40 years ago. He arrived there as a 25-year-old named Marcus Ouma, and met and fell in love with a Kenyan Somali woman. He converted to Islam and married her. They have three children.


But he is now in a quandary. The war against the militant Islamist group Al-Shabaab is bothering him. Not that he is against it but he fears for his in-laws.


Even though relations between the Kenyan Somalis and other tribes living there are still cordial, the war against the Shabaab by the Kenya Defence Forces and the Somalia Transitional Federal Government forces has opened up new realities.

The media, he says, unfairly suggested that Somalis were unfairly pushing other Kenyans out of the property market using money from piracy.

Then there was the Grogan land dispute, which he says almost turned into an "us-versus-them" confrontation.


According to the preacher, the majority of the recruits came from the Eastleigh area, were taken to Somalia after being brainwashed and convinced they were going to fight a holy war.

Read the full article from source: How Shabaab war is changing life in Eastleigh  - Lifestyle |nation.co.ke
 
bagamoyo said:
...The media, he says, unfairly suggested that Somalis were unfairly pushing other Kenyans out of the property market using money from piracy...
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Na huu ndio mwanzo. Kama vyombo vya habari vya Kenya havitajichunga basi vinaweza kusababisha mfarakano mkubwa kwenye jamii kati ya "wazawa" na wasomali kwenye kipindi hiki kigumu cha vita.

Given its propensity to propagate malicious inter-tribal hatred the Kenyan media should really try to exercise restraint this time, otherwise we are bound to witness a cataclysm of such a magnitude that is unrivaled in the country's history. Waache huu mchezo wa kuzidi kuwakandamiza wasomali wa Eastleigh, la sivyo kitaripukia sebuleni!
 
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