Crusader Corner: Boko Haram Training in Somalia

I see a “Two Birds with One Stone” Type Scenario here. By Hitting these camps with coordinated air and ground attacks we have the opportunity to both kill a large number of combatants from both terror groups and possibly wipe out a large portion of Al-Shabaabs infrastructure. Anybody up for a other trip into Bakarra Market? -SF

Boko Haram militants are allegedly traveling across the continent to Somalia for training before they head back home to West Africa to fight, according to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

After decades of conflict and instability in the East African country, the leader argued that a stable Somalia would not only have implications regionally, but across Africa.

Mohamud made the Boko Haram comments at a security conference in Germany on Sunday while discussing minor progress the country has made recently towards creating a functioning political system.

“Without a stable Somalia, the whole region of the Horn of Africa will remain unstable and by and large, the African continent. There are proofs and evidence that (for) some time Boko Haram has been trained in Somalia and they went back to Nigeria,” he said.

“The terrorists are so linked together, they are associated and so organized, (that) we the world we need to be so organized,” he said, speaking in English.

t was not clear whether or not he believes the Nigerian Islamist group was still receiving training from the Somali al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab. Last year, Boko Haram switched its allegiance to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. While some factions of al Shabaab have claimed ties to IS, the group’s leadership has rejected these efforts.

Somalia’s al Shabaab, which sprouted up in the country a decade ago with the aim of overthrowing the Somali government and imposing a harsh version of Islamic law, claimed responsibility for a blast this month that punched a hole in the fuselage of a plane. Earlier this year, the militants waged a violent attack at a beach in the capital city Mogadishu that left nearly 20 people dead.

In an attack on Monday, al Shabaab killed Somalia’s former defense minister with a car bomb in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, officials said.

Al Shabaab told Reuters it planted the car bomb that killed Muhayadin Mohamed, who was also an adviser to the speaker of Somalia’s parliament. Images from the scene show the passenger seat took the brunt of the damage, with the passenger-side doors blown out.

“We are behind his killing,” said Sheikh Anbdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab’s military operations spokesman.

A police official confirmed Mohamed was killed. The official said a second person in the car survived the blast without any serious injuries.

Mohamed served briefly as the defense minister in 2008 during Somalia’s transitional federal government, which was backed by United Nations. Government troops fought alongside African Union peacekeepers to push al Shabaab out of Mogadishu and other major cities.

Al Shabaab fighters left the capital in 2011 and a permanent Somali government was established in 2012, but the government has struggled to end chronic insecurity. The militants have frequently targeted government officials and lawmakers and vowed to attack Western targets at home and abroad.

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Crusader Corner: Boko Haram aka ISWA Murders 30 People in Nigeria

The Nigerian Army vowed to end Boko Haram’s terrorism by December 2015.

Boko Haram renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa last April. “30 dead in fresh Boko Haram raids on Borno villages,” AFP, February 14, 2016 (thanks to Goodness):

At least 30 people have been killed in fresh Boko Haram raids on two villages in northeast Nigeria, vigilantes told AFP Saturday, again calling into question President Muhammadu Buhari’s claim that Nigeria had largely defeated the jihadist group.

Gun and knife-toting assailants on bikes and in vans stormed the remote villages of Yakshari and Kachifa on Friday and Saturday, said Mustapha Karimbe, a local vigilante assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram Islamists.

“The attackers killed 30 people in two separate attacks on the two villages last night (Friday) and this morning (Saturday),” Karimbe told AFP adding that they also looted and stole cattle.

The village of Yakshari was attacked at around 9:30 am on Saturday, with the assailants slaughtering 22 residents “by slitting their throats before emptying food stores and taking away all the cattle”, Karimbe said, speaking from the town of Biu approximately 120 kilometres (75 miles) from the village.

Late Friday evening, meanwhile, Boko Haram Islamists also raided nearby Kachifa village, killing eight people.

“We believe the same gunmen carried out both attacks on the two villages,” Karimbe said.

Dozens of people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks in recent weeks near Maiduguri, capital of northeast Borno state, despite Buhari’s December boast that the jihadist group had been more or less defeated.

Since then the militants have killed dozens in raids and suicide attacks, including across the border in Cameroon.

On January 30, at least 85 people died when insurgents stormed and torched one village, while on Thursday two female suicide bombers killed at least 58 at a camp for people made homeless by the insurgency….

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Crusader Corner: Boko Haram Female Suicide Bomber Kills 58 in Nigerian “Safe Haven”

 

A camp that was supposed to be a shelter from terrorism and violence instead became an instant death zone for dozens in Nigeria this week.

At least 58 people were killed and another 78 injured when two female bombers detonated their suicide vests, according to emergency relief officials. The victims were in a camp for people who had been displaced by Boko Haram violence in Nigeria’s Borno State.

As horrendous as the attack was, it could have been worse. One of the bombers backed out at the last minute.

“There were three female bombers who entered the camp around 6:30 a.m. (local time) disguised as displaced persons. Two of them set off their explosives in the camp while the third refused after realizing her parents and siblings were in the camp,” said Satomi Alhaji Ahmed, head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency.

The bombers struck Tuesday at the camp in the town of Dikwa, Ahmed said. Dikwa is in northeastern Nigeria, near the border with Cameroon.

More than 53,000 people fleeing Boko Haram attacks from six districts are sheltering under military protection.

Warnings of more bombers on the way

The suspect confessed she and the two bombers were sent by Boko Haram to attack the camp, warning more bombers were on their way, Ahmed said.

“She told the military officers who interrogated her that they were among several women detailed by Boko Haram to attack the camp. She warned more attacks were underway as the female bombers would sneak into the camp in different guises,” Ahmed said.

The attacks are believed to be reprisals for the recent military offensive against Boko Haram in strongholds along the border with Cameroon, a military source said.

Last week, troops raided the three Boko Haram strongholds, killing more than 100 fighters and freeing more than 1,000 people — including more than 100 women kidnapped and used as sex slaves by the insurgents, said the military source on anonymity.

The source said the freed women were brought to the Dikwa camp and that Boko Haram terrorists “are pained by that, and hence their decision to send in suicide bombers in revenge.

A growing legacy of terror and death

Boko Haram is a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria and in the border areas of Chad and Cameroon; its purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic, law. Boko Haram militants mainly inhabit areas in the northern states of Nigeria, including Borno.

The group has received international condemnation and notoriety for its brutality and mass kidnappings of women and girls.

On Saturday, motorcycle-riding militants from Boko Haram riding at night killed 65 people in a raid.

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Jihad Alert: The Laptop Bomber?

These damn goat humping, pederast, raping jihadist..I am getting sick and tired of them ruining everything associated with air travel. First because of the underwear bomber it was all these restrictions on liquids. And now because of this screw-up who can’t even detonate a bomb right it will be no laptops!? WTF!! Enough is Enough. I say in addition to NO MUSLIMS ALLOWED IN AMERICA WE ADD NO MUSLIMS ALLOWED TO FLY ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD TOO.-SF

Muslim bomber sucked out of plane may have hid explosives in laptop

 

If this is confirmed, that will be the end of laptops on airplanes, as the TSA continues to play catch-up with jihad terrorists, protecting us from the last jihad mass murder attempt while the jihadis are already preparing for the next one.

“Bomber sucked out of plane may have hid explosive in laptop,” by Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, February 5, 2016:

The suicide bomber who was sucked to his death from an airliner over Somalia may have hidden a bomb inside a laptop computer, according to a report.

The explosive contained military-grade TNT, CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the investigation.

Meanwhile, Somali and international investigators have confirmed that the man ejected from the Daallo Airlines Airbus A321 was the suicide bomber, an official briefed on the probe told The Wall Street Journal.

Authorities have identified the man as Abdullahi Abdisalam Borle, 55, from the breakaway region of Somaliland in northern Somalia.

He used a wheelchair to circumvent security measures at the Mogadishu airport, the Journal reported.

A security officer at the airport said the wheelchair-bound man did not appear suspicious, just sick.

“He seemed like someone ill, and as officers we usually help elderly people with those wheelchairs when they come to get to flights,” Saida Bare said. “He was a quiet man and nothing seemed wrong there until the flight took off.”

The explosion blew a hole in the fuselage of the ­Djibouti-bound plane and forced the pilot to return to the Somali capital for an emergency landing. Two people were injured.

On Friday, an official told the Journal that TNT residue had been found on the man’s remains, which landed near the town of Balad, 20 miles from Mogadishu….

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Defeating Al-Qaeda’s Nodes

Al Qaeda and the Islamic State thrive in lawless and ungoverned spaces where there is no rule of law to keep them in check.  Al Qaeda’s home base in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) is the epitome of such a place, but the tide there has been turning against them over the last decade, as Pakistan slowly improves its reach into these historically ungoverned lands.  Terrorist organizations cannot thrive where there is a functioning government, rule of law, courts, effective policing, etc.  Yes, they can exist and function in first world countries, but they really don’t thrive.

On one of my early forays to Pakistan in 2003, we were encouraging the Pakistan military to go into the then notorious Shakai Valley, a remote place in the FATA that had become ground zero for al Qaeda senior leadership and other miscreants.  For us in the intelligence community, the Shakai Valley was the root of all evil.  After some coaxing, in May 2004, the Pakistan military went into the Shakai Valley for the first time to confront al Qaeda in an attack led from the air, quickly followed by boots on the ground.

The evening of the attack, I was sitting with senior Pakistan military leaders drinking tea and congratulating them on the success of their foray into the FATA.  They were glowing over their success, and there was almost a sense of disbelief in the room.  Pakistan had taken the offensive, gone into the FATA, removed the terrorist threat, and then held its position overnight (and for a few subsequent days, or weeks).  Talking about the day’s events, one Pakistani General, shaking his head in complete disbelief, told me that if I had asked him six months ago when he thought the Pakistan military would go into the FATA and take and hold land, he would have answered, “It won’t happen in my lifetime…”

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