Somali al-Qaida leader dies in air
strike
Source: United
Press International
01 /May/2008
Waagacusub.com
Air strike
in Somalia Thursday killed an al-Qaida leader in East
Africa who also was a leader in the Islamist revival in
Somalia, Somali officials said.
 The
air strike targeted Aden Hashi Ayro, a leader of al-Shabab,
an Islamist militia the United States considers a
terrorist organization, CNN reported.
U.S. military officials said the Somali government
permitted them to attack terrorist suspects on Somali
soil, The New York Times reported.
U.S. officials accused Ayro of protecting wanted al-Qaida
members, including some thought to have planned the 1998
bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Ayro, believed to be in his 30s, was blamed for a number
of atrocities, including desecrating an Italian
graveyard in Mogadishu, killing a female BBC journalist
and planning suicide attacks all across Somalia.
The strike was at a house in the central Somalia town of
Dhusamareb.
"This will definitely weaken the Shabab," said Mohamed
Aden, consul at the Somali embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
"This will help with reconciliation.
You can't imagine how many Somalis are saying yes, this
is the one. The reaction is so good."
Source: United Press
International
Somalia:
The Flip-Flop Policy of Sharif Hassan
Sheikh Aden.
 Sharif
Hassan Sheikh Aden the former Speaker of
Parliament of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG)
has a nickname, ‘Razor’, because of his attributes of
being cunning and sharp in his political moves. He first emerged
into the spotlight of Somali politics in September
2004 after being elected as the Speaker of Parliament during the
formation of the TFG in Mbagathi, Nairobi. According to
information he submitted at that time the highest education
level he achieved was Intermediate School, and claimed to have
been a merchant who traded in Hides and Skins and also the semi
narcotic drug leaf Khat. He unanimously defeated
his nearest rival for the election of the Speaker, Sheikh Aden
Madobe who was supported by Colonel Abdullahi Yusuf - while he
Sharif Hassan had the support from most of the
other warlords, namely Mohamed Qanyare, Osman Atto, Muse Sudi,
etc. .
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