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As UN Debates Pirates, Clock Ticks Down on Indian Hostages

UNITED NATIONS -- Families of six Indian sailors who are being held for ransom by Somali pirates are clinging to hope that they will be released, even though the Indian government has asserted that it will not negotiate with pirates and the deadline to pay the $4 million ransom has passed. "Time is ticking away for us. We...

UN Adviser: Piracy Tribunals Needed ASAP

UNITED NATIONS -- Piracy off Somalia's coast is worsening, according to a U.N. adviser who made an urgent appeal for new tribunals and more prisons to be established for prosecuting and incarcerating pirates. "Pirates are becoming masters of the Indian Ocean," Jack Lang, the former culture minister in France, told the...

Uganda in Bind Over Fighting al-Qaida Group

KAMPALA, Uganda (Nov. 28) -- Four months after an al-Qaida-linked group blew up two night spots here in what is among Africa's safest capital cities, Francis Semwogerere remains in a hospital bed, slipping in and out of consciousness, shrapnel from the blast lodged in his throat and spinal column and leaving him paralyzed...

Lax Security at Ugandan Anthrax Labs Poses US Security Threat

(Nov. 11) -- Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana visited Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries on Wednesday as part of a three-country tour of East Africa assessing the "next generation" of threats to American security, according to The New York Times. The ministry's laboratories and other similar...

Suspect in UK Plots Is Linked to Cargo Bomb Terrorists

LONDON (Nov. 3) -- A member of the terrorist group blamed for last week's failed cargo bomb plot was arrested in England earlier this year on suspicion of planning attacks in Britain, a top official revealed today. Although the arrest of that suspect -- identified by the Daily Mail as a former British Airways computer...

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U.S. Marines Train African Union Troops To Fight Somalia's Al Shabab (PHOTOS)

American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.

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Ayman Al Zawahiri, Al Qaeda Leader, Urges Somali Al Shabab Militants To Fight In Video

Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has released a new video in which he encourages Somali militants to fight on despite the challenges.

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05/31/12 Venezuela bombs airstrips in anti-drug effort Source: Amarillo.com Venezuela's military bombed 36 clandestine airstrips in the South American country's southern plains during May as part of an effort to shut down air routes used by drug smugglers, a top government official said Thursday.
05/31/12 Fighters threaten Kenyan skyscrapers Source: IOL A private intelligence firm says the Somali militant group al-Shabaab has threatened to bring down Kenya's skyscrapers within two weeks - a warning that followed a bomb attack in Nairobi's city centre.
05/31/12 Somalia Forces Capture Key Al-Shabab Town of Afmadow Source: Antiwar.com African Union and Somali government forces have captured the town of Afmadow, a strategic militant base in the south of the country.
05/31/12 Fertilizer bomb suspected in Nairobi IED blast Source: Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas NV Police announced that an improvised explosive device caused a blast that ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi, with one official saying it may have been a fertilizer bomb.
05/31/12 FOUR DADAAB POLICE WOUNDED NEAR BORDER WITH SOMALIA Source: Coast Week Four Kenyan policemen were wounded Tuesday in an ambush by suspected Somali gunmen in the restive frontier region bordering war-ravaged Somalia, authorities said Wednesday.

Background on al shabab

Al Shabab FC () is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Riyadh. It was founded in 1947, and was named at first Shabab AlRiyadh, but later in 1967 was named Al Shabab.

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