Western Security Services: Shebaab is a Somali Proxy for Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda Network

Western security services say Shebaab is a Somali proxy for Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. That view was echoed by a former rebel hardliner who defected a few weeks ago and took his fighters over the government side.

“Osama bin Laden wants to make his biggest base in Somalia,” Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad, known as “Inda’ade” or “white eyes”, had said recently.

He said Al Qaeda’s plan was to dominate the seas. “Al Qaeda plans to cut off the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden which is a main route connecting all continents together. And if they achieve that, it is big threat to global security ... If Al Qaeda gets a base here, it will be a disaster. This issue needs an international solution, and the world and Somalia must fight on one front.”

Source:Ecoterra, June 13, 2009

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