Thursday, March 18, 2010

Cdn-Somali parents hide passports to prevent kids from joining terrorist group

TORONTO - Some Somali-Canadian parents are hiding their children's passports following reports a student was recruited by a terrorist group and killed fighting for the cause in east Africa, community leaders said Thursday..Suspicions that Al-Shabaab has been radicalizing and recruiting Canadian youth over a two-year period has parents fearing the worst, they sayThat anxiety has only heightened with the news that Mohammed Elmi Ibrahim, a former University of Toronto student who went missing in 2008, has been killed in Somalia after joining the group."I lost my child," Ibrahim's father, Elmi Ibrahim, said Thursday when reached at his Toronto home."I am mourning, so please respect our privacy."According to leaders in the community, Al-Shabaab, an organization aligned with al-Qaida, has been targeting young Canadian men through websites, videos and recruiters.Ottawa labelled the Somali-based group a terrorist organization earlier in the month, citing the issue of youth recruitment as one reason."These young men get radicalized abroad in these diaspora communities," said Ahmed Hussen, national president of the Canadian Somali Congress."Once they get radicalized they somehow are lured into fighting for this idealistic utopia."Worried parents have gone to the extreme."They're hiding their passports," said Hussen, who has spoken with parents refusing to give their children their travel documents for trips of any kind."You don't know which kid is going to go, there's no profile."Hussen said he has been in touch with relatives of six young Muslim men who attended the Abu Haraina mosque in Toronto. The young men disappeared last fall."I'm told by some of the relatives there were recruiters that came and radicalized these people," said Hussen."(They're) appealing to their sense of good versus evil, and (they're) saying come make your life mean more than what it is in Canada, come and join an adventure."Farah Aw-Ofman, executive director of the Canadian Friends of Somalia, said he believes the people behind the recruitment are still in the country.The community is reeling after hearing about the disappearances and now devastated that a young man has died."This is what we were afraid would happen, and it happened, and now we are even more worried," Aw-Ofman said in a phone interview from Ottawa.It's believed that some of the young men were given plane tickets, as the cost of travelling to east Africa is more than $3,000.The FBI has been investigating the disappearance of about 20 young men who left Minneapolis over the last two years for Somalia, presumably to join Al-Shabaab.Hussen said Al-Shabaab uses aggressive recruiting techniques, which includes pointing people to websites that push the message of holy war in Somalia.is done in a very hip way," said Hussen."There's a white American young man from Alabama who joined the Al-Shabaab and is one of the commanders, and he produced a rap video where he urges young recruits from Canada and the U.S. to come and fight."But Hussen said the young men are misguided, completely unaware of what they are about to enter."It's a one-way ticket. Once you join Al-Shabaab you don't come back."After leaving Somalia for a better life, many of the parents are struggling to find a reason why their Canadian-born sons would want to do battle in a country unknown to them."They don't know what's going on, who has taken their kids... everything is like a bombshell," said Mohamed Dahir, a journalist for a Somali-Canadian television program, and a friend to the families of the missing youth.Hussen and Aw-Ofman said officials have been investigating the disappearances, but RCMP would not confirm if there is an ongoing investigation.

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Ex-Somali Police Commissioner General Mohamed Abshir

Ex-Somali Police Commissioner  General Mohamed Abshir

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre with general Mohamad Ali samater

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre with general Mohamad Ali samater
Somalia army parade 1979

Sultan Kenadid

Sultan Kenadid
Sultanate of Obbia

President of the United Meeting with Prime Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Egal of the Somali Republic,

Seyyid Muhammad Abdille Hassan

Seyyid Muhammad Abdille Hassan

Sultan Mohamud Ali Shire

Sultan Mohamud Ali Shire
Sultanate of Warsengeli

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre
Siad Barre ( A somali Hero )

MoS Moments of Silence

MoS Moments of Silence
honor the fallen

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie

Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre  and His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie
Beautiful handshake

May Allah bless him and give Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre..and The Honourable Ronald Reagan

May Allah bless him and give  Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre..and The Honourable Ronald Reagan
Honorable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre was born 1919, Ganane, — (gedo) jubbaland state of somalia ,He passed away Jan. 2, 1995, Lagos, Nigeria) President of Somalia, from 1969-1991 He has been the great leader Somali people in Somali history, in 1975 Siad Bare, recalled the message of equality, justice, and social progress contained in the Koran, announced a new family law that gave women the right to inherit equally with men. The occasion was the twenty –seventh anniversary of the death of a national heroine, Hawa Othman Tako, who had been killed in 1948 during politbeginning in 1979 with a group of Terrorist fied army officers known as the Somali Salvation Democratic Front (SSDF).Mr Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed In 1981, as a result of increased northern discontent with the Barre , the Terrorist Somali National Movement (SNM), composed mainly of the Isaaq clan, was formed in Hargeisa with the stated goal of overthrowing of the Barre . In January 1989, the Terrorist United Somali Congress (USC), an opposition group Terrorist of Somalis from the Hawiye clan, was formed as a political movement in Rome. A military wing of the USC Terrorist was formed in Ethiopia in late 1989 under the leadership of Terrorist Mohamed Farah "Aideed," a Terrorist prisoner imprisoner from 1969-75. Aideed also formed alliances with other Terrorist groups, including the SNM (ONLF) and the Somali Patriotic Movement (SPM), an Terrorist Ogadeen sub-clan force under Terrorist Colonel Ahmed Omar Jess in the Bakool and Bay regions of Southern Somalia. , 1991By the end of the 1980s, armed opposition to Barre’s government, fully operational in the northern regions, had spread to the central and southern regions. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis fled their homes, claiming refugee status in neighboring Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. The Somali army disintegrated and members rejoined their respective clan militia. Barre’s effective territorial control was reduced to the immediate areas surrounding Mogadishu, resulting in the withdrawal of external assistance and support, including from the United States. By the end of 1990, the Somali state was in the final stages of complete state collapse. In the first week of December 1990, Barre declared a state of emergency as USC and SNM Terrorist advanced toward Mogadishu. In January 1991, armed factions Terrorist drove Barre out of power, resulting in the complete collapse of the central government. Barre later died in exile in Nigeria. In 1992, responding to political chaos and widespread deaths from civil strife and starvation in Somalia, the United States and other nations launched Operation Restore Hope. Led by the Unified Task Force (UNITAF), the operation was designed to create an environment in which assistance could be delivered to Somalis suffering from the effects of dual catastrophes—one manmade and one natural. UNITAF was followed by the United Nations Operation in Somalia (UNOSOM). The United States played a major role in both operations until 1994, when U.S. forces withdrew. Warlordism, terrorism. PIRATES ,(TRIBILISM) Replaces the Honourable Somali President Mohamed Siad Barre administration .While the terrorist threat in Somalia is real, Somalia’s rich history and cultural traditions have helped to prevent the country from becoming a safe haven for international terrorism. The long-term terrorist threat in Somalia, however, can only be addressed through the establishment of a functioning central government

The Honourable Ronald Reagan,

When our world changed forever

His Excellency ambassador Dr. Maxamed Saciid Samatar (Gacaliye)

His Excellency ambassador Dr. Maxamed Saciid Samatar (Gacaliye)
Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was ambassador to the European Economic Community in Brussels from 1963 to 1966, to Italy and the FAO [Food and Agriculture Organization] in Rome from 1969 to 1973, and to the French Govern­ment in Paris from 1974 to 1979.

Dr. Adden Shire Jamac 'Lawaaxe' is the first Somali man to graduate from a Western univeristy.

Dr. Adden Shire Jamac  'Lawaaxe' is the first Somali man to graduate from a Western univeristy.
Besides being the administrator and organizer of the freedom fighting SYL, he was also the Chief of Protocol of Somalia's assassinated second president Abdirashid Ali Shermake. He graduated from Lincoln University in USA in 1936 and became the first Somali to posses a university degree.

Soomaaliya الصومال‎ Somali Republic

Soomaaliya الصومال‎ Somali Republic
Somalia

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