AL-QAEDA LINKED TO AL-SHABAAB IN SOMALIA THROUGH IT'S SENIOR LEADERS, AL-SHABAAB HAS A USA HOSTED WEBSITE BY DOTSTER IN VANCOUVER WA.

Al Shabaab, the Islamist militant group active in Somalia, is tied closely to al Qaeda through its senior leaders, (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE) many of whom trained with and carried out operations in the name of al Qaeda prime. Its leaders’ training and experience lend al Shabaab strength. Furthermore, al Shabaab is organized in such a way that if a senior leader is killed, operations suffer minimal long-term disruption. STRATFOR REPORT.

Al-Shabaab has a website (see here) hosted in the USA by the Dotster Web Hosting Co in Vancouver WA, Dotster refuses to shut down the terror site of the Al-Qaeda run Al-Shabaab, some sort of 'Freedom of Speech" issue for a group desiganted by the US Treasury Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and as a and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, what are they thinking?

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SEE VIDEO OF AL-SHABAAB TERRORIST LEADER ADEN AYRO BEFORE US MISSILE ATTACK BLEW HIM INTO LITTLE PIECES, CLICK HERE

The Columbian Newspaper in Vancouver WA, backs the decision of the Dotster Web Hosting Co in not shutting down the terrorist website of the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab, what are they thinking ?

On February 29, 2008, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice designated al-Shabaab (aka al-Shabab, aka Shabaab, aka the Youth, aka Mujahidin al-Shabaab Movement, aka Mujahideen Youth Movement, aka Mujahidin Youth Movement, aka MYM, aka Harakat Shabab al-Mujahidin, aka Hizbul Shabaab, aka Hisb’ul Shabaab, aka al-Shabaab al-Islamiya, aka Youth Wing, aka al Shabaab al-Islaam, aka al-Shabaab al-Jihaad, aka the Unity of Islamic Youth) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (as amended) and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224 (as amended).

The consequences of these designations include a prohibition against the provision of material support or resources to al-Shabaab and blocking of all property and interests in property of the organization that are in the United States, or come within the United States, or the control of U.S. persons. Secretary Rice took this action in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury. Designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to renounce terrorism.

Al-Shabaab is a violent and brutal extremist group with a number of individuals affiliated with al-Qaida. Many of its senior leaders are believed to have trained and fought with al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

The main link between Somalian Islamist militant group al Shabaab and al Qaeda is al Shabaab’s senior leadership. Many of al Shabaab’s senior leaders both trained with and conducted operations in the name of al Qaeda prime:

Aden Hashi Ayro is known to have traveled to Afghanistan sometime before 2001. While he was there, al Qaeda prime trained him in explosives and insurgent tactics. He ultimately returned to Somalia around 2003, where he established his own network and launched a series of operations. He is credited with multiple attacks against foreign aid workers and also is suspected in the murder of a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corp. He has since been described by multiple sources as al Qaeda’s military commander in Somalia. Ayro was killed in a May 1 U.S. airstrike.

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed was involved with al Qaeda prime. He was instrumental in training warlord Mohamed Farah Aidid’s militia in 1993 and helped plan and organize the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as well as the hotel bombing in Mombasa, Kenya, and a surface-to-air attack on an Israeli jetliner in 2002. He went on to become a part of the leadership of the Supreme Islamic Courts Council (SICC) and subsequently a senior operational commander in al Shabaab. U.S. forces have targeted him on numerous occasions.

Abu Taha al-Sudani, also known as Tariq Abdullah, was al Qaeda’s leader in East Africa and received training from al Qaeda prime in explosives. He is thought to have had close ties to Osama bin Laden and other high-level al Qaeda and al Shabaab commanders. The United States has also implicated him as the main financier for various al Qaeda operations in East Africa.
Hassan Turki and SICC leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys are longtime allies and are believed to be orchestrating the Somalian insurgency. Turki also has links to al Shabaab and al Qaeda. He operated a training camp in southern Somalia and was targeted in a March 2007 airstrike but is thought to have survived. His camp was known to have housed al Qaeda-linked militants and trained al Shabaab fighters. In 2004, the U.S. government formally designated Turki as a financier of terrorism.

Gouled Hassan Dourad was part of an al Qaeda cell operated by al-Sudani and has links to al Qaeda prime. The U.S. government implicated him in a mid-2003 plot to bomb Camp Lemonier, a U.S. Special Forces base in Djibouti that hosts the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa contingent. Camp Lemonier has served as a the main U.S. operating base in the region — along with forward operating bases in Ethiopia — for many of the U.S. airstrikes on militant targets in Somalia. Dourad is currently being held at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay.