Monday, April 20, 2009

US threatened Eritria over support for al Shabaab

After President Obama's inauguration, which al Shabaab threatened to attack with suicide bombers, the US quietly threatened to attack Eriteria over its support for al Shabaab. I understand that Eritrea supports al Shabaab but why not attack the terror groups main base of operation, Somalia.

I don't think we're getting the whole story here.
(H/T: SH) Telegraph

The Red Sea dictatorship has drawn the wrath of America by backing extremist Islamic groups in Somalia as part of a proxy war with Ethiopia, its former ruler.

It champions al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda-linked group that American intelligence believes has trained a dozen of its own citizens to carry out attacks in the US.

President Obama's January inauguration was hit by FBI warnings about a potential suicide threat from 12 American citizens that had left Africa to infiltrate the US and disappeared.

Subsequently Washington quietly warned Eritrea, a former Italian colony which was occupied by Britain during the Second World War, it could suffer the same fate as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11 attacks, if the plot was carried out.

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