Tag: Al Shabaab
Cartoonist intruder: ‘links to Islamic terrorists’
Robin Henry January 1, 2010.
Print: The Times
An intruder who was shot and wounded by police after breaking into the Denmark home of Muhammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard has links to Islamic terrorists, according to Danish intelligence. The 28-year-old Somali man is connected to the radical Islamist al-Shabaab militia and al-Qaeda leaders in East Africa, claims Denmark’s PET intelligence service.
West warns that Somalia is becoming a haven for international terrorists
Tristan McConnell December 20, 2009.
Print: The Times
Somalia has become a playground for an Islamist group known as al-Shabaab. It has banned bras, football, dancing and musical ringtones in the areas it controls. This weekend al-Shabaab decreed that men must grow beards and shave their moustaches. Its fighters have destroyed Sufi tombs and disinterred colonial-era Italian corpses. Its Sharia courts have ordered public floggings, the chopping off of hands and feet of thieves, the stoning to death of adulterers and beheadings of apostates and spies.
Somali Islamists carry out public double amputation on ‘thieves’
Mike Pflanz June 25, 2009.
Print: Telegraph.co.uk
Hardline Somali Islamists amputated a leg and a hand from each of four alleged thieves in a public punishment held in the middle of Mogadishu.
