H/T to Bill Roggio at LongWarJournal
Apparently Bin Laden’s feeling a tad neglected… and perhaps looking for new, friendlier digs to park his jihad movement.
News of the all-but-forgotten pond scum rises with a just released tape of a supposed Bin Laden, titled “Fight on, champions of Somalia,” , urging them to overthrow the newly elected moderate Islamic president, Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed.
OBL’s beef? “He is like the (Arab) presidents who are in the pay of our enemies.”
Ahmed’s election, bin Laden claimed, was “induced by the American envoy in Kenya,” a reference to the U.S. ambassador in Nairobi.
Ahmed “changed and turned back on his heels … to partner up with the infidel” in a national unity government, bin Laden said. “How can intelligent people believe that yesterday’s enemies on the basis of religion can become today’s friends? This can only happen if one of the two parties abandons his religion.”
In the recording, bin Laden also tells Islamic fighters in Somalia that Ahmed “must be dethroned and fought” and says the militants’ are obliged to “continue fighting the apostate government.”
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Bin Laden’s message was likely an backing of the extremist Somali Islamic al-Shabab group which is opposed to an African Union peacekeeping force that guards key government installations.In Feb. 2008, the U.S. State Department added al-Shabab, which means “the Youth,” to its list of foreign terrorist organizations because it is believed affiliated with al Qaeda.
But OBL’s got an uphill battle here. Ahmed is all for Shariah law in Somalia and enjoys the backing of many Somali Islamic groups, pleased as punch with his agenda. So why would OBL be objecting to the new Prez? It’s important to remember, the jihad groups view elections as unIslamic.
Another good reason may be that Obama Osama (oops… freudian slip….) could be shopping for new real estate digs for his renegade jihad family. Counterterrorism experts have been worried that Obama Osama (dang… another one! LOL) has been turning his eye to the impoverished nation as a new central safe haven. Somali jihad members have successfuly recruited some Americans to join the battle, most notably Shirwa Ahmed – who killed himself in a suicide bombing in Northern Somalia last November.
Bin Laden is, of course, no stranger to Somalia. It was his al Qaeda operatives that trained the Somalis who attacked at mutilated our US troops in 1993 (aka “Blackhawk Down) under Clinton.
Coincidently at the same time Saddam Saddam Hussein personally ordered the formation of an Iraqi terrorist group to join the battle there.
Also, coincidently, at the same time Saddam was actively supporting Zawahiri.. then the head of EIJ.
Consider that OBL has worn out his welcome in the Sudan and Afghanistan so far… and that Pakistan may be quite weary of his presence as well… al Qaeda is likely trying to create a new centralized cockroach nest. And how convenient to be amidst all the effective Somali pirates of late as well….
Note: No official intel confirmation that the voice on the tape is, indeed, Bin Laden.
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I think you swapped a few “osamas” for “obamas” in this post. Haha, pretty funny if it was intentional.
LOL! Thanks, tricky Dick…. obviously some freudian slips there.
Maybe, just maybe,, UBL was using double-speak and cueing up the 17 missing young Somalian men from Minnesota, ( who the FBI suspects have been training in Somalia with the pirates), and telling them to go after BOH, as he is an apostate, turncoat, etc.
Every once in a while OBL gets sick of his diet of camel jizz and comes out with some half-baked audio tape like this.
This must be the jihadi equivalent of the western self-made home porno video.