The fall of Libya and the rise of the African Union.

This is the first bit of information I have came across where it discusses the AU and Libya.

The African Union said on Thursday it had lifted its suspension of Libya's membership and has authorised the current authorities in Libya to occupy the seat of Libya in the AU and its organs.

Libya's National Transitional Council is currently the de facto governing body.

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NAIROBI Oct 20 (Reuters) - The African Union said on Thursday it had lifted its suspension of Libya's membership.

The AU said in a statement it had decided to "authorise the current authorities in Libya to occupy the seat of Libya in the AU and its organs".

The AU meeting was held before news that Muammar Gaddafi had been killed and his last bastion, the city of Sirte, had fallen to National Transitional Council fighters.

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Your "source" link isn't working for me.

Try this one.

AU says lifts suspension of Libya member...

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Thanks I'll fix that..

Obama: Libyans, 'You Have Won Your Revolution.'

U.N. Council Calls For Power Transfer in Yemen.

Posted Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 5:05 pm

The United Nations Security Council has condemned the Yemeni government for its crackdown on dissent and urged President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down.

The resolution, unanimously passed Friday by the council's 15 members, is the body's first resolution on Yemen since widespread protests began there in the spring.

The measure calls Yemen's use of force against protestors excessive and says “those responsible for violence, human rights violations and abuses should be held accountable.”

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African Union Largely Silent About Gadhafi's Death.

The African Union has remained largely silent about the death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhadfi, who once led the alliance and served as its largest benefactor.

AU commission chairman Jean Ping released a statement on Friday simply noting Gadhafi's death.

Mr. Ping then focused on the African Union's concern for the Libyan people, their aspirations and the need for national reconciliation.He stated the alliance is committed to working with Libya's new leaders and an inclusive transitional authority that will help form a new, democratic Libya.

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It's unbelievable that NATO and it's allies are getting away with this.The video below is from September 25th 2011,it is graphic so please be advised.
The video is from Sirte.

China makes large grain donation to Africa.

BEIJING- China has delivered food donations worth 443.2 million yuan ($ 69.58 million) to the Horn of Africa which is suffering from severe drought and famine, a Chinese official said Sunday.

This is the single largest grain donation to foreign countries ever delivered by Chinese government since the founding of the People's Republic of China (in 1949)," said Lu Shaye, head of the Department of African Affairs of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

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Al Shabaab Leader Welcomes the Killing of Gaddafi.

Mogadishu — The leader of Al shabaab movement Sheikh Mukhtar Abdurrahman Abu Zubeyr has warmly welcomed the killing of Muammar Al Gaddafi and talked about the latest battles Al shabaab have had with Somali and AMISOM forces in Mogadishu

In audio recorded message, Abu Zubeyr indicated that what Libya's rebels made a good thing when got rid off the long-term dictator who was vindictive.

He called on the Libyan people not allow another such leader to come to power after murdering their leader.

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US warning of "imminent threat" posed by Al-Shabaab in Kenya.

American citizens in Kenya were warned Saturday of an "imminent threat of terrorist attacks" after Kenya sent troops into Somalia to pursue Al-Shabaab Islamic militants.

American citizens in Kenya were warned Saturday of an "imminent threat of terrorist attacks" after Nairobi sent troops across the border into Somalia to pursue the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab Islamic militants.

American officials have branded Islamist militants in Somalia a serious threat to the United States, however the offensive by Kenya, one of the closest American allies in Africa, apparently took the U.S. by surprise.

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What I find most interesting is that the Al-Shabaab are supposedly linked to Al-Qaeda,and the NTC in Libya is Al-Qaeda.

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Yemen's capital rocked with violence day after UN resolution 2014.

The clashes between Yemen security forces and rival fighters occurred in several districts of the capital Sanaa. Once again the conflict stemmed from government forces faced with a group loyal to military defector Gen. Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar and another group loyal to Hashid tribal leader Sheikh Sadeq Al-Ahmar, CNN reports.

Rocket propelled grenades, mortars and automatic weapons were used in the al-Hasaba, Soufan and al-Nahda neighborhoods in the north of the city, Reuters reports. According to Yemeni officials, government forces retook the upper house of parliament building in northern Sanaa, which was occupied by opposition troops, Reuters reports.

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US to assist Kenya’s fight against al-Shabaab.

The US is discussing how to assist Kenya militarily and financially in its fight against al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia,as Kenyan troops close in on southern rebel strongholds in its neighbour, a failed state prey to terrorism and piracy.

“We are talking with the Kenyans right now to figure out where they need help,”US ambassador Scott Gration told the Financial Times in an interview at his residence in Nairobi.

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Thousands of Somalis flee camp fearing clash between al-Qaida-linked militants, AU forces.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Thousands of people fled a camp for the displaced near Somalia’s capital on Sunday, fearing an imminent clash between African Union peacekeepers and the al-Qaida-linked militants who are trying to demonstrate their strength amid an assault on two fronts.

African Union forces already have pushed the militants from their last base in the capital of Mogadishu, and those staying on the outskirts said they worried the battles were approaching. The African Union Mission to Somalia force, also known as AMISOM, said in a statement Sunday they had advanced to Mogadishu’s outskirts.

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During the holy month of Ramadan, the al Shabaab Islamists launched another assault against the government in Mogadishu. Currently under siege, the Somalian capital is the scene of violent confrontations between Islamist rebels and African Union soldiers. Caught between the two sides, the local population is paying a heavy price in this war without end.

Lawmaker says Libya success supports decision to send US troops to aid Africa anti-insurgency.

WASHINGTON — A senator said Thursday that Moammar Gadhafi’s death and the promise of a new Libyan regime are arguments for the measured U.S. military response in central Africa where the U.S. has sent roughly 100 troops as advisers in the battle against a guerrilla group accused of widespread atrocities.

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., chairman of the Foreign Relations subcommittee that oversees African affairs, told reporters that he backs President Barack Obama’s decision to dispatch U.S. forces against the Lord’s Resistance Army and help to hunt down its leader, Joseph Kony.

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From what I've observed, the African Union does a lot of talking but not much doing. Remember when the Ivory Coast went through it's presidential election fiasco ? The African Union was powerless to do anything about it.

Somali terrorist suspect "Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame" was in contact with"Anwar Al-Awlaki," and was "indicted" for providing material support to Al-Shabaab and Al-Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula ("AQAP"), two designated terrorist organizations.

He was captured by U.S. forces in April 2011 and held aboard a U.S. warship for two months while being interrogated.


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Accused Somali terrorist suspect Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame had been in direct contact with the radical American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and they may have been in the same place for a period of time, a U.S. official said Thursday.

That information came two days after an indictment unsealed in New York provided further evidence of links between al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, a growing concern to counter-terrorism officials.

The indictment charged Warsame, who was captured by U.S. forces in April, with providing material support to the extremist group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in Yemen. He is also charged with conspiring to teach and demonstrate the making of explosives.

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Trying to follow the trail of "Al-Shabaab" and it's ties to "Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula" which is operating inside Yemen,Saudi Arabia and Somalia.Below is a map of controlled and contested areas controlled by Al-Shabaab in Somalia.



It would seem that after the U.S. interrogated Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame,they obtained key info as to the where abouts of Anwar al-Awlaki and deployed the drones which supposedly killed him.

Another interesting article below highlights the rise of Al-Shabaab in the Al-Qaeda network.The full article can bee seen at the link below.

Somalia’s militant Islamist group al Shabaab provides a safe haven to senior al Qaeda operatives and is establishing operational ties to al Qaeda’s most active affiliate in Yemen. The group’s rise, its ambitions beyond Somalia, and recent signs that it is garnering greater attention from al Qaeda Central leaders suggest that al Shabaab is an increasingly key player in the al Qaeda Network (AQN).

l Shabaab controls most of southern and central Somalia. It has established local administrations in the areas under its control and operates terrorist training camps. Al Shabaab seeks to erect an Islamist government in Somalia and is conducting an insurgency against the weak, UN-backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The group’s stated goals are global in scope and indicate a clear desire to participate in global jihad.[1] Al Shabaab’s anti-Western rhetoric and expressed support for newly appointed al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri underscore the group’s alignment with the AQN.[2] It has provided refuge to known al Qaeda operatives and actively recruits foreign fighters. The failure to contest and eliminate al Shabaab’s control over territory in Somalia has provided a safe haven from which it wages an insurgency and interacts with the broader AQN.

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Now the imperialist are aboard chasing terrorists so the game will surely change.

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Supporting evidence:

New Terror War Tactic? Alleged Al Qaeda-Linked Operative Secretly Held 2 Months on US Navy Vessel...

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After secretly holding and interrogating a Somali man captured off the coast of Africa for two months, the United States indicted him, claiming he was a liaison between terrorist groups.

The Somali man, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, believed to be in his mid-20s, is a top leader in the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab terrorist group in Somalia who has been acting as a go-between with al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the U.S. Justice Department alleged in an indictment Tuesday.

Israeli Intelligence Sources: NATO Killed Qaddafi:

You know with all the recent assassinations taking place recently it seems as if the U.S. and NATO have a heavy hand in it.Al-Qaeda has transformed it's self on the coast of Somalia and Yemen,the Horn Of Africa.

Al-Shabaab.

Anways this is just another ugly face bearing it's self.

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An article released by the Israeli intelligence news service DEBKAfile reveals NATO allies are competing “over who will take credit for his termination and therefore for ending the alliance's military role in Libya”. (DEBKAfile, US and NATO allies vie over "kudos" for Qaddafi's termination, October 24, 2011.)

According to DEBKA,

"American sources are willing to admit that US drones operated by pilots from Las Vegas pinpointed the fugitive ruler's hideout in Sirte and kept the building under surveillance for two weeks, surrounded by US and British forces.

Both therefore had boots on the ground in breach of the UN mandate which limited NATO military intervention in Libya to air strikes." (DEBKAfile, op.,cit.)

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Somalia: Al Shabaab Massacres AMISOM Soldiers on October 20th in Northern Mogadishu.

The gentlemen near the end of the video holding the cross is "Sheikh Mukhtar Rabow," a/k/a Abu Mansur,an Al-Shabaab terrorist group official.

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The massacre of more than 150 Burundian troops in the battle of Dayniile, Northern Mogadishu, on 20th October marked the success of the Mujahideen's enhanced military strategy and stands as a true testament to the diversified military operations raging in Mogadishu.