Somali Terrorists Defiant of US Terror Listing

The terrorist group, al Shabaab, was just recently designated a terrorist group by the US State Department. But the group is defiant of the recent 13224 executive order and says this will cause the terrorist group to unify. They also claim they are not terrorists, sure if you don't consider chopping people's heads off as terrorism. Reuters

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist insurgents in Somalia say their inclusion on a U.S. terrorism list will help recruiting and has spurred them to strengthen ties with other groups blacklisted by Washington.

"We were not terrorists," rebel commander Mukhtar Ali Robow told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"But now we've been designated ... we have been forced to seek out and unite with any Muslims on the list against the United States," he said late on Thursday.

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U.S. officials say Robow's al Shabaab, the militant wing of a sharia courts group that ruled most of southern Somalia for the second half of 2006, is closely affiliated with al Qaeda.

This week, the U.S. government designated it a terrorist organization alongside groups like Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

Somalia's Western-backed interim government and its Ethiopian military allies have faced an Iraq-style insurgency of assassinations, grenade attacks and roadside bombings since they routed the Islamic courts group from the capital in December 2006.

Incidently this terrorist group has a website hosted in the US which is illegal under the IEEPA. Under the IEEPA any US company found to provide goods/services, even free ones, can be fined $250 000. Send your complaints to:

kataaib.net = 66.11.225.50
DOTSTER INC
Vancouver, Washington, USA
Abuse: abuse@dotster.com
legal@dotster.com (thanks StarCMC)
1-360-449-5985
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