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• Terror finance termagant finally sentenced

  
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  Local Somali activist says financier “deserves the Nobel Prize” Amina Farah Ali was convicted in 2011 of supporting terrorism by collecting donations and transferring them to al-Shabaab for jihad in Somalia.  Her sentencing took place last week.  Ali could have been sent to prison for 195 years, but the ...
  5 days ago

• There is Insecurity in Northeastern Kenya – Who should take the blame?

  
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  GARISSA-NAIROBI,  - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years.  But securing northern ...
  5 days ago

• Kenya: Restive northern Kenya sees shifting power, risks

  
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  Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN. Keeping vigil: Residents in the north have taken up arms to protect themselvesSource: IRIN GARISSA-NAIROBI, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a ...
  1 week ago

• Somali bank resumes semi-annual, half-million dollar payments to al-Shabaab

  
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  An international Somali-based financial institution is reported to have resumed its recurring transfers of $500,000 twice a year to the al-Shabaab terrorist organization.  The longstanding transfers of money from Dahabshiil to al-Shabaab had allegedly stopped temporarily during a dispute between the bank and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two Dead, Dozens Wouded by Bombing at Inaugural Mass in Tanzania

  
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  By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries ARUSHA, TANZANIA   (ANS)  –  Fear and grief rocked a predominantly Christian area of northern Tanzania on Sunday, May 5, 2013, after an unidentified man reportedly hurled an explosive device at the inaugural Mass of a new church building, killing two worshipers. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Somalia: Persecution News Update

  
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  The link below is to an article reporting on persecution news from Somalia. For more visit: http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=7ec6d7eb2533a90581f839110&id=52e3efdbcf Filed under: al Shabaab , Christianity , Islam , Somalia
  3 weeks ago

• @abumamerican

  
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  allAfrica.com: Somalia: Al-Amriki and Foreign Fighters in Showdown With Al-Shabaab Leader "In a desperate series of tweets Monday evening, al-Amriki, using the Twitter handle @abumamerican, bid farewell to the world as al-Shabaab fighters loyal to Godane allegedly stood poised to kill him and his followers."
  3 weeks ago

• Terror budgets illustrated

  
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  The Taliban, Hezbollah, FARC, al-Shabaab, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Hamas are the best funded terrorist groups worldwide.  Published estimates of their budgets vary by source.  The dots in the graph below reflect the highest and lowest estimates reflected in millions of U.S. dollars for each group: This chart is an ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Motivated the Boston Bomber’s Trip to Russia?

  
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  FBI/AFP/Getty Images/Newscom As details emerge regarding Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s 2012 trip to Dagestan and Chechnya , which his family has insisted was merely to visit with relatives, fresh questions arise as to how that trip may have influenced either his motivation or preparation for the Boston Marathon bombings. ...
  4 weeks ago

• GOP lawmakers demand Boston bombing suspect be designated an “enemy combatant”

  
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  Several prominent GOP lawmakers have called for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, to be designated an “enemy combatant”, implying that the law of war...
  4 weeks ago

• Terror bankrollers bombed for stiffing al-Shabaab

  
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  The Somali-based Dahabshiil money transfer company normally pays the terrorist group al-Shabaab half a million dollars annually, according to a new report from the Dutch-Somali Suna Times .  This year, however, due to sagging business, Dahabshiil could only afford to offer al-Shabaab $100,000.  Al-Shabaab ...
  4 weeks ago

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