MOGADISHU, (RBC Radio) Intelligence sources in Somalia said that Al Qaeda leader in East Africa “Najeh Fazul Abdullah Mohammed,” which is described as one of the most dangerous Al-Qaeda leaders in the world, is fighting in the ranks of the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen Movement of Southern Somalia, RBC Radio reports.

A source for the Somali “Islamists. website” that Fazul Abdullah existed in Somalia for years, but he was disguised, and it is likely to have “took over command of al Qaeda in East Africa, instead of Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan.”

A Somali sources specialized in the affairs of Islamic groups told RBC Rafio that the new leader of the required U.S. base accused of taking part in bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania 1998, stressing that it has survived several US attacks over the past years.

The “Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan,” one of the key elements of “Al Qaeda” in East Africa, was killed in a U.S. air strike mid-September 2009 near the village of “Robo” south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, and the process carried out by U.S. helicopters called the (Celestial Balance), where Nabhan was killed and the number of of the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen, and was a blow to the base in this region.

Relationship and return to East Africa

Fazul Abdullah returned to East Africa «base» back to 1991 when he created Osama bin Laden’s training camps in Sudan, before moving to Afghanistan, and recently picked up by the international media reports that Al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq started thinking about packing up the Horn of Africa and Yemen, because of the blows received at the hands of American occupation forces there.

Al Shabab Mujahideen rebels of Somalia broadcast video on Islamist Websites after the assassination of Saleh Nabhan, a few days it confirmed its allegiance to Al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden, said the movement’s deployment of its wire in the capital Mogadishu, they will continue fighting against the government of Sheikh Sharif American-backed effort to establish an Islamic state in Somalia.

This was the first reaction to the tape bin Laden’s speech, which aired on March 19 and called on the Shabab Al-Mujahideen to overthrow the Somali President Sheikh Sharif and his government.

Observers say the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen Movement receive the support and backing from Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups and foreign fighters battling the Somali government to the Al Shabab Al-Mujahideen.

Somalia Environment repellent base.

While until they diminish in his speech for the “Islamists. Webiste” the amount of news that inflation of the size and the presence of Al-Qaeda in Somalia, it has become a safe haven for foreign fighters fleeing the battle zones, hot spots in Iraq and Afghanistan; and due to the difficulty of their work in the Somali environment.

Somalia – by until they – are not suitable environment for Al- Qaeda and stability of one ethnic Somalis, and similar colors and speak one language, and foreign fighters in particular Arabs and whites are difficult integration, and disappeared among the population easily, and will constitute a burden on the Al Shabab  Mujahideen Movement and not supporting them, but the guerrillas descent from different African and blacks can be integrated into Somali society and easily hide among the population, and that the presence of Al- Qaeda and its work will be governed by a number of criteria and variables associated with the Somali environment.

And deny until they at the same time that there are organizational links between the Al Shabab group and al-Qaeda, saying that there is no information to confirm this organizational coherence, and that these relationships are on the ideological and emotional only, and that recordings distributed by the young man in Somalia, entitled “Osama”. This view does not deny.

Who is the successful preferred?

The sites said that the Somali intelligence sources confirmed that the Al- Qaeda leader in East Africa “Najeh Fadl,” is fighting in the ranks of the Young Mujahideen Movement of southern Somalia.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation  (FBI) says that Abdullah virtue of Yemeni origin, and a South African passport, is wanted by the United States, and has allocated a reward of five million U.S. dollars reward for information leading to his arrest or conviction, and moving “preferred” under several names, including: (Abu Seif Al Sudani, Abu Aisha, Abu Luqman), and he speaks English, Arabic, French and Swahili.
He has been described as highly skilled in the use of the computer.

According to the information available to him, he was born “Fazul Abdullah in 1972 in the Maronite capital island of Mauritius, the smallest of six brothers, and reminds some of his family that was successful at a young age is characterized by excessive activity, where he played football and likes to review its capabilities in kung — Fu, dance, dancing”walk on the Moon”(Moon Walk) to Michael Jackson, and had studied the Koran at an early age of life, he began to tend towards extremism in the sixteen years of age, since a student of the Sheikh, “my predecessor, my friend Ali Hashim “which was very popular in Mauritius.

In 1990 he traveled “a successful preferred” to Pakistan to study the university, and there he studied medicine, and after graduating, joined the Afghan Mujahideen, also joined the camp of “House” helpers “in the Pakistani city of Peshawar to receive military training, the House of Hospitality was founded by Osama bin Laden and calling for Abdullah Azzam to become in a center for the preparation of Al-Qaeda. And in 1991 sent a “preferred” to his family in Mauritius a letter in which he confirmed to joining al-Qaeda.

Participated in the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

In 1993 participated “preferred”, the first military operation against Al Qaeda forces to restore hope to Somalia of the United Nations.

Then returned to his hometown, but he did not take long to take the place of its headquarters in Kenya, which makes them a springboard to his movements in Sudan and Somalia, the days of planning Al Qaeda in coordinated attacks on U.S. embassies in the Kenyan capital Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August 1998, which was that it had participated therein.  Killed in the Nairobi attack 219 people were killed and more than 5 thousands of others wounded after a truck bomb stormed the building, which houses the U.S. embassy and completely destroyed, and 12 people were killed and 80 injured in the bombing of U.S. embassy in Dar es Salaam.

Sources say that blow himself preferred to perform the Mombasa, Kenya in 2002, with the assistance Saleh Nabhan, who was killed recently, the attack killed 15 people, including Israelis, in conjunction with the failed attack on an Israeli plane departing Mombasa, Kenya in November 2002.

Sources said that the preferred survived of the two operations targeting his militia in the “header Kamboni” Somalia, one carried out by the United States in January 2007, and the other mediated by a Kenyan in a helicopter in August 2008.
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