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Islamic Pirates & Jihad - Terror Connection

By Maria from New York, NY - Apr 12th, 2009 at 3:49 am EDT

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Islamic Pirates & Jihad - Terror ConnectionSomalia Standoff Generates US Policy Debate
Voice of America - ‎Apr 10, 2009‎
US officials said the group, which controls parts of Somalia, poses a dilemma. They point to its rapid expansion, ties between its leaders and the al-Qaida ...
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-11-voa12.cfmThe Pirates Challenge Obama's Pre-9/11 Mentality
Wall Street Journal - ‎Apr 10, 2009‎
As the eminent military historian Sir Michael Howard argued shortly after 9/11, the status of al Qaeda terrorists is to be found in a distinction first made ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123940383654409651.htmlSomali Pirates Tied to Jihad
Intellectual Conservative - ‎Apr 8, 2009‎
Since 2003, Somalia has witnessed the growth of a brutal network of Jihad with strong ties to Al-Qaeda. In fact, when the US forces faced a bloody battle in ...
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2009/04/08/somali-pirates-tied-to-jihad/---Commentary: Take fight to the pirates
CNN - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
It is time to change strategy and take the fight to the pirates, as our military predecessors did with great success more than 200 years ago.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/09/wilkerson.pirates/Harper's Magazine - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
Unconventional warfare, against an unconventional enemy. What a novel idea. We handled things better 200 years ago!
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90004751Lessons From the Barbary Pirate Wars
New York Times - ‎April 10, 2009‎
We’re talking about the Barbary Wars, about 200 years ago, when pirates from the Barbary Coast (today’s Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya) hijacked ...http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12gettleman.html?ref=africaSomalia: Direct connections about Somali pirates and Islamic extremists
Djibouti (HAN) April 10th, 2009 - Unied states regional based military officials and the Somalia Minister for Fisheries Professor Abdulrahman Ibbi, have found no direct ties between the Somalia Coast pirates and the International Islamic terrorist groups, such as Al-qa'ida or Al-Shabab, but continue to search for signs of links between the two factions in the wake of the Indian Ocean hostage incident; that is close of the Somali city of Kismayo, run by Al-Shabab and Al-Itihad groups. It was not clear whether officials were specifically scrutinizing the Somali pirates who boarded the Maersk Alabama on Tuesday and fled in a lifeboat after taking hostage the cargo ship's captain.
http://www.geeskaafrika.com/somalia_10apr09.htmSOMALIA: Why The Pirates Are Immune From Attack
Strategy Page - ‎Apr 9, 2009‎
There are over a thousand gunmen attached to pirate gangs in the north, although the group operating off the east coast pay "taxes" to al Shabaab for the ...
http://www.strategypage.com/qnd/somalia/articles/20090409.aspx---October 02, 2008
al Qaida + Pirates = Jihad on the High Seas
Al Qaida has claimed responsibility for the increased pirate attacks off the coast of Somalia this year. So far this year there have been around 60 attacks against cargo ships in the Gulf of Aden, in 2007 there was 13. The islamic pirates are currently holding up to 300 crewmen hostage and 14 cargo ships for ransom.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194284.phpSomali pirates: Islamist insurgents demand weapons from hijacked ...Oct 6, 2008 ... The Islamist gunmen from the al Shabaab group opposing Somalia's weak ... British tourists narrowly avoid being captured by Somali pirates ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/3140884/Somali-pirates-Islamist-insurgents-demand-weapons-from-hijacked-ship.html

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ALQAEDA IS EVERYWHERE.. | Report to Admin

By SUE DUVALL SMITH from IndianaV.O.B. Apr 12th 2009 at 5:10 am EDT (Updated Apr 12th 2009 at 5:10 am EDT)

THEY SEEK FINANCES AND EQUIPMENT TO FURTHER THEIR CAUSE. WHILE EVERYONE THINKS THEY LIVE IN CAVES AND EAT MONKEY GRASS FOR DINNER...THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO THINK. THEY ARE MORE SOPHISTICATED THAN THAT! WHILE THEY HAVE THEIR OWN IDEALOGICAL CAUSE, THEY CAN EASILY BE PURCHASED BY OTHER COUNTRIES WHO ALSO WISH TO HARM THE UNITED STATES! OBVIOUSLY, THEY WOULD ALSO SEEK A WAY TO CONTROL THE HIGH SEAS! WAKE UP AMERICA! THE SLEEPING GIANT HAS MANY TENTACLES!

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