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Somali Troublemakers Need Resolutions!
Many people fear the Somali movement called al-Shabaab. The movement terrorizes people and conducts crimes against humanity as the international media says, evidently daily. Many Somali refugees in the refugees' camps in Kenya have fearful stories about this group and the crimes they committed against them. One of the survivors, a 35 years Somali pastoralist told IRIN that some militiamen from al-Shabaab came over to him demanding a tithe. He was herding some cattle on the outskirts of Hagar town in Juba valley southern Somalia. When he told them that the cattle he owns do not reach the amount for a tithe to pay, they took 20 of his cows. When he approached them to speak with their leader, they beat him, tied him to a tree by his hands, and left him hanging there until he could not feel his arms. Lucky his family found him, brought him home, and then took him to hospital where, there is no doctor, medicine or any treatment. Then when they heard that the militia is after him to kill him before he spread the word about his sufferance, his relatives helped him to get out of Somalia to Kenya. Who are the Somali Troublemakers, Al-Shabaab?The Somali movement called al-Shabaab (HSM) or the Party of Youth is an Islamic armed faction of the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia. The group is born when the Ethiopian forces backed the Somali transitional government in 2006 and removed the Islamic Courts Union of Somalia (ICU).This is the original faction of the Somali Troublemakers. The ICU divided into many small groups in 2006 and since that time al-Shabaab formed to carry on hard Islamic schemes. They call for wars against the enemies of Islam and they combated both the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). They declared war against the United Nations and the Western Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) that distribute food aid in the country. They killed about 42 relief workers between 2008 and 2009. The leaders of the group denied ties with al-Qaeda until February 1, 2010 when they confirmed for the first time in one of their statements "jihad of Horn of Africa must be combined with the international jihad led by al-Qaeda network", aligning themselves with al-Qaeda. Axmed Cabdi Goodane known as Moktar Ali Zubeyr leads the Party of Youth. Aden Hashi Farah (Ayro) led the group first. He was appointed by Hassan Dahir Aweys one of the leaders of ICU at the time when they organized that group. After the death of Ayro, Sheikh Mukhtar Robow known as Abu Mansur became leader until Ali Zubeyr succeeded him. In its report on 2006, the UN accused Libya, Egypt, Iran and other lands in the Gulf of backing the Youth Party of Somalia. It said that Egyptian and Arab jihadists train Somalis in sophisticated weaponry and the techniques of the suicide bombing. In September 2009, a Somali American from Seattle drove a truck bomb into an AMISOM base in Mogadishu killing 21 peacekeepers and himself. Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen recruited about 20 Somali American from Minneapolis and Saint Paul (the Twin Cities) in Minnesota to fight in Somalia. When the AU peacekeepers arrested some Eritrean soldiers, the AU, the UN and the US accused Eritrea of arming and financing Harakat al-Shabaab an accusation Eritrea denies. Washington keeps saying from the beginning of this movement, Al Shabaab is al Qaeda's proxy in the area. Nowadays, Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen is in control of southern and central parts of the country including parts of the capital Mogadishu. They implement their Sharia law in those areas. No source until now is able to provide an answer about the numbers of members in the movement. However, some sources estimate the number of members in Harakat al-Shabaab Mujahideen between 4.000 to 8.000 members. Are You a Top Gun in the Media? 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