SOMALIA's al-Shabaab terror group threatens to attack America unless Obama embraces Islam

Quick, somebody tell them Obama has never abandoned Islam, he is simply pretending to be a Christian for political purposes.

Washington Examiner–A leader of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency threatened to attack America during a speech broadcast Monday. ”We tell the American President Barack Obama to embrace Islam before we come to his country,” said Fuad Mohamed “Shongole” Qalaf.

Al-Shabab has not yet launched an attack outside Africa but Western intelligence has long been worried because the group targeted young Somali-Americans for recruitment. About 20 have traveled to Somalia for training and at least three were used as suicide bombers inside Somalia.

Al-Shabab holds most of southern and central Somalia and has the support of hundreds of foreign fighters, mostly radicalized East Africans. It seeks to overthrow the weak U.N.-backed government, which is protected by 8,000 Ugandan and Burundian African Union peacekeepers.

The al-Shabab militia launched coordinated suicide attacks in Uganda in July that killed 76 people. It has also announced its allegiance to al-Qaida and is believed to be harboring a mastermind of the twin 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.

The radio message was recorded in the town of Afgoye, near the Somali capital, during a meeting of Shongole and Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, formerly the leader of insurgent group Hizbul Islam. The two insurgent groups had clashed several times previously but announced a merger last week. Aweys said his group will fight under al-Shabab’s command. SEE VIDEOS HERE: two-somali-muslim-terror-groups-join-forces

“We have united for the sake of our ideology and we are going to redouble our efforts to remove the government and the African Union from the country,” said Aweys on Monday.

The arid Horn of Africa nation has not had a functioning government since a socialist dictatorship collapsed in 1991. Its position on the Horn of Africa means pirates can use its long coastline to capture shipping.

Analysts fear that al-Qaida linked insurgents are also gaining ground across the Gulf of Aden in the unstable nation of Yemen. If Yemen fell, that would mean failed states on either side of the shipping route leading into the strategically vital Suez Canal, the route taken by a substantial portion of the world’s oil shipments.

Somali Terrorists behead people for leaving Islam

You can see an actual beheading of this Somali Christian here. (WARNING: Graphic Images)

SOMALI CHRISTIAN BEHEADING

Obama has increased financial aid to Yemen by 1200%

Now we are giving them $300 million conpared to $22 million in 2008, but the Yemen Embassy representative says it’s still not enough, they need MORE.

Al-Qaeda Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is sure to be pleased. One year ago, on Christmas Day, al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen tried unsuccessfully to take down a U.S. airliner with a suicide bomber and planted bombs on U.S. cargo planes this year. I guess all this additional funding will help them do more?