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Somalias Shabab pledges to help Yemen's Qaeda
2010-01-02
[Al Arabiya Latest] Somalia's hard-line Shabab insurgents Friday said they will send fighters to Yemen to help al-Qaeda there in its fight against government forces, as the Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh appealed for reason from those who joined the terror network.

Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Abu Mansour, a senior official of the Shabab militia that pledges allegiance to al-Qaeda, announced the plan as he presented hundreds of newly-trained fighters in the north of Mogadishu.

"We tell our Muslim brothers in Yemen that we will cross the water between us and reach your place to assist you fight the enemy of Allah," said Robow, to chants of "Allahu Akbar", or Allah is great, by the young fighters.

"Today you see what is happening in Yemen, the enemy of Allah is destroying your Muslim brothers," he added.

"I call upon the young men in Arab lands to join the fight there."
Because Somalia is an Arab country, rather than North African.
/sarc
But I do think sending all those rabid young men off to die by Saudi bullets and Saudi missiles and Saudi white phosphorus is a brilliant idea, if they absolutely refuse to become sensible.
Yemeni forces have been battling al-Qaeda militants in the country and last month launched raids on suspected targets in the central and the Sanaa regions, killing more than 60 of them.
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