Alshabaab in Australia ..............

[Jacaylbaro]

Aug 4 (Reuters) - Four men linked to a Somali militant group were arrested in Melbourne on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a commando-style suicide attack with automatic weapons on an Australian military base, police said.

 

Australian police said the four -- Australian citizens of Somali or Lebanese origin -- had links to al Shabaab, a militant Islamist group fighting for control of lawless Somalia.

 

Here are five facts about the group:

 

* Al Shabaab is an al Qaeda-inspired militant group that has taken control of much of southern and central Somalia; which has been mired in anarchy since warlords toppled military dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. The interim government's attempts to restore central rule have largely been paralysed by infighting and the Islamist-led insurgency.

 

* Al Shabaab's hardline militia is waging war against the government and Ethiopian allies, which ousted the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) movement they were initially part of. SICC ran widely despised warlords, who enjoyed U.S. backing, out of Mogadishu in June 2006 and ruled for six months before allied Somali-Ethiopian forces ousted it. Many Somalis credited the SICC with bringing a semblance of order to the capital.

 

* Al Shabaab is led by Muktar Ali Robow, also known as "Abu Mansoor". Robow was the Islamic Courts' deputy defence secretary. Since their ouster, he has spearheaded an Iraq-style insurgency, waging regular roadside bombings, grenade attacks and ambushes.

 

* In February 2008 the group was blamed for the shelling of Somali President's Abdullahi Yusuf's presidential compound in the capital Mogadishu. Rights workers say fighting in the capital killed 6,500 people in 2007.

 

* The group has not been linked to international attacks, but overseas Somalis have been accused of financing the group. In March 2008 Norwegian police in Oslo detained and later released three men accused of financing al Shabaab's insurgent activities.

[nuune]

Australian police said the four -- Australian citizens

of Somali or Lebanese origin

-- had links to al Shabaab

Tanaa beentii ugu weyneyd ah, isn't their passports stating where they were born, like place of birth!

 

 

Dad masaakiinaa la iska qabsanaa la leeyahay waa Alshabaab, Kenyan police do that all the time to get money from the local people in Nairobi and Garrisa

[Jacaylbaro]

Anigu waan yaabanaa oo waxaan lahaa nimanku maxay dheeraynayaan ,,, tolow ma diyaarad gaar ah bay wateen ,,,

[nuune]

AlshabaabJet is already there sxb, how do u think they get the latest hub iyo saanado and everythin that comes with.

 

though their plane is marked with AJet for transit reasons so dat it won't be identified, it also carries the Somali registeration numbers like SO-2006

[Jacaylbaro]

I heard thay also have some submarines that are able to transfer the quick backup they need.

[nuune]

don't forget motorcycles, that is their mean machine

[Jacaylbaro]

Fying motorcycles u mean ??,, seen one last week

[Complicated]

Been intaa gaadha, oo waliba saas laysu camiro. idinka in lasku kiin qarxiyaad rabtaan baan filayaa

[Allamagan]

First I dont believe a word of this sh1t this auis cop is spewing out of his mouth (the press relase guy), most of times scarymongering tactics, however, today's somalis anything possible and how easy brainwashable they are. If they wanna fight agaisnt kufars then they really need to go to the land of jihadz and fight and not in the land they live in and sought asylum (been welcomed in) and of course not putting in risk their fellow peaceful muslims.

[Peacenow]

The shame of these people who kill innocents in lands that give them refuge and benefit. The shame of these people.