Open letter to "Dotster Co. and The Columbian Newspaper, Vancouver WA " May 11, 2008 Please see following article in the London Sunday Times (today) concerning the Al-Shabaab terror group that runs the website http://abushabaab.wordpress.com/ also see original un-translated version at www.kataaib.netThe Columbian Newspapers accuses me, Bill Warner, of trying to become an Internet Censor due to my insistence that the al-Qaeda linked terrorist website of the Al-shabaab at www.kataaib.net be removed from the internet via the Vancouver Web Hosting co, "Dotster", this was not done.
Today the al-Shabaab via their website www.kataaib.net are calling for their followers to target (kill) all white people in Somalia, see Sunday Times report. In 2005 the al-Shabaab killed a female reporter for the BBC News.
Visitors...Estimated number of visits for http://www.kataaib.net/ 5,037 visits per day. .SEE VIDEO OF AL-SHABAAB TERRORIST LEADER ADEN AYRO BEFORE US MISSILE ATTACK BLEW HIM INTO LITTLE PIECES, CLICK HERE
The Al-Shabaab, now an autonomous rebel group which has added an explosive element to the combustible mix of Mogadishu’s militias, enforces strict sharia (Islamic law) and uses tactics imported from the global jihadi movement. As in Afghanistan, those who work or trade with the government risk being branded as spies or collaborators and beheaded as a warning to others. Members of Al-Shabaab deliver “night letters” to businessmen and others they wish to intimidate. See the al-Shabaab youtube video here
Article from the Columbian Newspaper......A Florida man’s heart might be in the right place, but he is misguided in his bid to get a Vancouver Internet service company to drop a Somali-language Web site. Bill Warner, a Sarasota private investigator (www.wbipi.com), wants Dotster Inc. of Vancouver to refuse service to www.kataaib.net.
Warner, who has launched similar purge efforts in other cities with other Internet companies, says kataaib.net supports an al-Qaida organization (Al-Shabaab) in Somalia, where war and genocide are tragic facts of daily life. Certainly a Web page that is intended to inspire terrorism should be probed and be a candidate for closure.
But the FBI or other experts should make that decision, with a judge if that’s required by law. It’s not Warner’s call".
From The Sunday Times May 11, 2008, Islamists target white aid workers Alex Strick van Linschoten in Mogadishu; When Ibrahim Saeed Abdullah saw a neighbour’s cinema burnt down by a barrage of grenades, he realised that he had no choice but to heed the death threats he had received from the big men with guns in their hands and hatred in their hearts. Last week he closed the doors of his own cinema for the last time.
It was two years since Abdullah had opened for business in Mogadishu, the largely ruined capital of war-torn Somalia. The location may have been inauspicious but the timing seemed right: the Islamic Courts Union, an Islamist coalition that briefly took over much of the country in 2006, had just been driven out by an American-backed Ethiopian invasion.
In recent months, however, Al-Shabaab, the military wing of the Islamic Courts Union, has spread renewed fear through Mogadishu, a city of up to 3m people that has been convulsed by fighting for 17 years. Like the Taliban in Afghanistan, Al-Shabaab does not approve of the showing of films. Soon Abdullah’s cinema was the last one standing in Mogadishu and he was threatened repeatedly.
“They came with weapons, surrounded my cinema and told me, ‘We will kill you if you don’t close’,” he said. Al-Shabaab, now an autonomous rebel group which has added an explosive element to the combustible mix of Mogadishu’s militias, enforces strict sharia (Islamic law) and uses tactics imported from the global jihadi movement.
As in Afghanistan, those who work or trade with the government risk being branded as spies or collaborators and beheaded as a warning to others. Members of Al-Shabaab deliver “night letters” to businessmen and others they wish to intimidate. One such letter listed “traitors assisting the occupiers who attacked the country” and warned of action if they did not make amends in 48 hours.
The group has overrun at least eight towns this year and taken control of large swathes of Mogadishu. It is behind a spate of roadside bombings directed at convoys of Ethiopian troops. Journalists are routinely harassed. Editors and broadcasters received a letter from Al-Shabaab last week instructing them to stop referring to the government and to say “puppets” instead. They were told to call dead insurgents “martyrs”.
The government’s writ does not run far and the Ethiopian forces propping it up are widely loathed. They come under attack as soon as they leave their heavily fortified bases. Meanwhile, some militias regarded as pro-government have received no wages for months and are switching their loyalties to whoever pays them.
Two Somali-born Britons who had returned to build a school in the town of Baladwayne were shot dead by rebels with links to Al-Shabaab. Last week the group announced that it would target all white people in Somalia. Meanwhile, the country is witnessing what United Nations officials have called “Africa’s worst humanitarian crisis”. Some aid workers estimate the number displaced at well over 1m.
But they fear that Somalia could become a terrorist hub in east Africa and are concerned by links between Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda. Most of Al-Shabab’s senior members were bodyguards to foreign Al-Qaeda operatives in Somalia during the 1990s and display a powerful streak of anti-Americanism.
Aden Hashi Ayro, one of its leaders, was killed with 24 others in a predawn US airstrike on his home in Dhusa Mareb, several hundred miles north of the capital earlier this month. Ayro, Al-Shabaab’s military commander who was trained in Afghanistan, had been blamed for the deaths of at least 10 foreigners, including Kate Peyton, a BBC news producer, who was killed outside her hotel in Mogadishu in 2005.
Ayro’s assassination provoked a furious response from Al-Shabaab, which called for revenge against all foreigners. “This incident will cause a lot of problems to US interests in the region,” said Mukhtar Robow Adumansur, an Al-Shabab spokesman.
Last week Al-Shabaab fighters seized a police headquarters and attacked two Ethiopian military convoys. Ahmad Abdisalam, Somalia’s deputy prime minister, said he believed the only hope of a solution to the country’s problems was through local dialogue. “We need to reduce the internationalisation of the conflict,” he said.
However, at the Americans’ insistence, Al-Shabaab has been excluded from the peace talks, which are being held in Djibouti between the government and the Islamic Courts Union. Talk of peace means little to most Somalis. At a government checkpoint, a young boy stood guard last weekend. He said he was 17, but looked closer to 12 or 13, and had been working there for a year. Paid about £25 a month, he said he had signed up to support his mother, father and three brothers. I asked what he saw himself doing in a few years’ time but he did not grasp the question. He replied that he had been in many battles and expected to die soon: “Everyone who does this job dies.”
Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-9) released her “Wake Up America” agenda. Rep. Myrick’s goal in releasing her agenda is to alert, and educate, Americans to terrorist threats here at home posed by radical Islamic extremists. This is her agenda, this is not the agenda of the Congressional Anti-Terrorism Caucus.This agenda is the start of Rep. Myrick’s work on these issues. As she moves forward on these points, she will update the public on her findings.
Her ten point agenda is below.
1). Will call for a government investigation of all U.S. military chaplains who were approved by Abdurahman Alamoudi.
2). Will call for a government investigation of all U.S. prison chaplains who were approved by Abdurahman Alamoudi.
4). Will call for the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (CAIR) 501(c)(3) non-profit status which restricts “lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.”
6). Will call on the Government Accountability Office to conduct an audit to verify the total sovereign wealth fund investment in the United States.
7). Will attempt to cancel scholarship student visa program with Saudi Arabia until they reform their textbooks
8). Will introduce a bill to restrict R-1/R-2 religious visas for imams who come from countries that do not allow reciprocal visits by non-Muslim clergy.
10). Will introduce or sponsor a bill to block the sale of sensitive military munitions, especially Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), to Saudi Arabia.
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
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