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Aideed: Al-Qaeda arriving in Somalia
Several members of Al-Qaeda arrived in Somalia last week, via the port of Obio, Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid told reporters in Ethiopia. Aidid's father's forces were involved in heavy fighting with an ill-fated UN operation spearheaded by US troops in Somalia in 1993. Aidid named the arrivals as Sheikh Abdurahman Jhalid Zubeir from Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdellah Al-Mahdi from Yemen, and Sheikh Abdelmejid and Sheikh Zeit Abu Mussa from Egypt. He said members of a local extremist group, Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, also entered Somalia with the al-Qaeda members.
Aidid isn't his father - in fact he's an ex-Marine, who fought in the Gulf War. Bite the bullet, recognize him as the government, and give him the support to clean up the country.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-01-18 |
