Somali Islamic militants threat to kill leading Somali journalist .
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Monday July 05, 2010 - 01:53:59 in English News by Super Admin
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The Young Islamic Movement known as ‘Al-Shabab’ in Somalia recently threatened to kill the editor of Waagacusub.com, one of the Somali widely read websites after they accused him of ‘setting flame among the Mujahidsts’.
In a
statement posted on their website on 9 November, the Al-Shabab said Dahir
Abdulle Alasow is a great spy and sought to bring the Islamists against one
another publishing fabricated news stories.
The website, www.almujaahid.com which also posted the photo of
Dahir Alasow said the journalist spread a news over that the Al-Shabab’s
spokesman Sheik Mukhtar Robow Abu-Mansur was fired from the post.
http://www.almujaahid.com/Jaasuus%20Daahir%20yare.html
The Associated
Somali Journalist (ASOJ) condemned the death threat by the Al-Shabab on Dahir
Alasow as in violation of human rights.
“Abu-Mansur emailed and
telephoned me many times and threatened that he will kill me and I answered to
him ‘you are not closer to Allah than me and you are not the life taker,” said
Dahir Alasow, the chairman of ASOJ and editor of Waagacusub.com
Abu
Mansur was among the six Somali men who the US government put the list of
terrorists. http://www.state.gov/p/af/rls/fs/2007/79383.htm
Mr.Alasow who is now in Nairobi, Kenya in exile left Mogadishu mid this
May after the transitional federal government and Al-Shabab Islamic movement
threatened to kill him and had been in Hargeisa, Somaliland for a while.
Similarly, the TFG issued a death warning against Dahir on 13 October
this year after he was accused of publishing report on the conflict between
Somali’s interim president Abdulahi Yusuf and his Prime Minister Ali Gedi and
the president wanted to sack the premier.
On 1st December 2005, two
years ago, the Al-Furqan Islamic Courts under the control Islamic Courts Union
issued arrest sentence on Dahir Alasow over baseless charges. http://www.qarannews.com/show/7359.html
Dahir is
known to publish sensitive and untold news stories which made the Waagacusub
site more popular among the readers.
Eight journalists were killed and
dozens more were wounded in Somalia this year alone while many others fled their
country.
Sunni Sa'eed Saleh
[email protected]
Somali Islamic militants threat to kill leading Somali journalist .
The Young Islamic Movement known as ‘Al-Shabab’ in Somalia recently threatened to kill the editor of Waagacusub.com, one of the Somali widely read websites after they accused him of ‘setting flame among the Mujahidsts’.