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Somalia: the next front in Bush’s ‘war on terror’?
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| 04 January 2002 |
By A Venter
The word in Mogadishu is that some of Al-Qaeda’s Somali fighters involved in the war in Afghanistan have returned home.
A source in Nairobi told JIAA that most had escaped through Pakistan and were routed back to Africa on flights out of the Gulf states. The source also said a group of over a dozen Somalis shipped out of Mombasa for Mogadishu in an Omani-owned dhow.
Enquiries in Somalia have yielded nothing, although the Somali police announced on 20 December that four Iraqi Kurds and a Palestinian thought to have links to Osama bin Laden had been arrested.
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