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Hey Aggo....
Do we have an immigration committee or relief
committee? I am interested in said area. I have been
meeting with some folks in the Madison area in the
Hispanic community who are helping their people. Most
of our African brothers and sisters are struggling in
this vain and are hiding under the radar screen. We
need to do something Mr. President.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Settro
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> Militant leader emerges in Somalia
>
> By Marc Lacey
> The New York Times
> MONDAY, JUNE 26, 2006
>
> NAIROBI: The jockeying for power inside Somalia
> took a potentially ominous turn for the United
> States over the weekend as a hard-line Muslim sheik
> whom the Bush administration has linked with
> terrorism emerged as the leader of the militants who
> seized control of Mogadishu this month.
>
> Hassan Dahir Aweys was named head of the Council
> of the Islamic Courts, a newly formed Parliament for
> the Sharia courts that defeated Mogadishu's secular
> warlords on June 5. Previously, the public face of
> the Islamists had been Sharif Ahmed, a more moderate
> sheik who had spoken of his desire to work with the
> West.
>
> Aweys is a former Somali Army colonel who was vice
> chairman of Al Itihad, a Islamic group that
> Washington labeled a terrorist group in the weeks
> after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Aweys, 71, who
> sports a bushy beard that he dyes bright red with
> henna in the traditional Somali way, was similarly
> cited for links to terrorism and banned from
> visiting the United States. No evidence to back up
> the claim was given at the time.
>
> Although a reclusive man, Aweys has spoken to
> reporters in recent months, disavowing links with
> terrorism and accusing the West of being too quick
> to label Islamist leaders as extremists. Still,
> Aweys, who comes from the powerful Ayr clan, has
> told his followers that God would forgive them for
> spilling the blood of any foreign peacekeepers who
> set foot on Somali soil. He has also accused Somalis
> who hand over their countrymen to American officials
> in exchange for cash of "selling us to the Jews."
>
> The appointment of Aweys to head an 88-member
> council took place Saturday night at a meeting of
> Islamic leaders in Mogadishu. The gathering came
> just days after a delegation of Islamists had agreed
> to recognize, and work with, the secular government
> that was formed in 2004 after long negotiations
> involving all of the country's clans. That United
> Nations-backed government, now based outside the
> capital in the town of Baidoa, is struggling to gain
> a foothold.
>
> Aweys is an avowed critic of the secular
> government and a long-time foe of its president,
> Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Aweys has repeatedly declared
> that an Islamic state is the only answer for
> Somalia. Aweys and Yusef fought each other in the
> 1990s and those who know them said the enmity
> remained.
>
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