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Somalia: Islamist Groups Merge to Fight Sheikh Sharif
 
Yusuf M. Hassan
 
4 February 2009   
 
Mogadishu — Opposition to Somalia’s newest leader, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, gained disturbing momentum Wednesday after four factions announced plans to merge and declare war on the new government.
 
Sheikh Hassan Mahdi, a senior member of ARS-Eritrea faction, told reporters that all the groups merged to fight new President Sheikh Sharif and the anticipated ‘unity government.’
 

He said the new group’s name is Hisbi Islam ("Islamic Party") and described the four group as: Islamic Courts-Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys faction; Jabhatul Islamiya ("Islamic Front"); Mu’askar Ras Kamboni; and Anole.
 

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Obama was unconvinced by Bibi’s desire for peace

Robert Fisk

Barack Obama, they say, did not get on well with Bibi Netanyahu when he met him in Jerusalem before the American elections.

Mr Obama, who figured out the Middle East pretty quickly, apparently found Bibi arrogant and unconvincing in his professed desire for peace with the Palestinians. What Mr Netanyahu thought of Mr Obama is not known, but he could scarcely have tried to hide his election line: security for Israel, but no Palestinian state.

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Thai army’s brutalities against Rohingya Muslims

by Abdar Rahman Koya

 "Of the great religions of history I prefer Buddhism, especially in its earliest forms because it has had the smallest element of persecution."
 
— Bertrand Russell
 
When it comes to treating human beings like cattle, or worse, the Thai military does it best. Last December, thousands of Rohingya Muslims from Bangladesh and Myanmar, desperate to flee their squalid and miserable conditions, decided to jump into boats and migrate to neighboring lands. The Indian navy eventually found them near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
 
While in Andaman, some of these poor people fell victim to rogue agents, who collected money from them promising to take them to Malaysia. On the way, the Thai navy intercepted their boats; they were arrested and then pushed into the sea on engineless boats. 
 

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UK MP given Palestinian passport

UK member of parliament George Galloway has received a Palestinian passport from a Hamas leader in Gaza.

Ismail Haniyeh appeared in public for the first time since the Gaza war

The passport was given in "deep appreciation" for his support for the Palestinians and their cause.

The UK MP was part of a convoy which delivered financial and material assistance to Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt on Wednesday.

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