Somalia al-Shabab resistance fighters inside the country where a US-backed regime is attempting to dominate the Horn of Africa state. A notice about potential attacks in Kenya was discredited as a fake claim., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Somalia:Al-qaeda affiliate in somalia and its proven success at recruiting Canadians
03/04/2013
Mareeg.com-Canada’s top spy says he’s concerned about home grown terrorism as a key risk to Canadian security.
“The radicalization of Canadians continues to be of concern to the service,” reported CSIS director, Richard Fadden to the Senate on February 11th of this year.
“CSIS is currently aware of dozens of Canadians – many in their early 20s who have travelled or who have attempted to travel overseas to engage in terrorism- related activities.”
One terrorist organization that has been notably successful at recruiting young Canadians is called “Al-Shabaab”. It’s an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, mainly comprised of young men.
“Shabaab were a minority, they were just raising up. But they used that nationalism to gather support from the young,” says Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a Canadian man who says he once fought alongside Al-Shabaab.
Mohamed was working for Somalia’s government in 2006. He joined Al-Shabaab on the battlefield after the government was toppled and he found himself in a war against the Ethiopian army.
“I could care less if it was Osama or the devil himself who came fought alongside me, anyone who will kill the same enemy as mine is my brother,” says Mohamed.
Mohamed says he returned to Toronto after the war, but soon noticed that other Somali Canadians were disappearing, believed to be headed to Somalia to fight for Al-Shabaab.
source GlobalNews.ca
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