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* EN RESPUESTA: el je que Hassan Dahir Aweys, líder islámico somalí, declaró la "guerra santa" a Etiopía por haber enviado soldados a su territorio.
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Members of the radical Islamist group al-Shabab were said to have been at his welcoming rally and reliable sources said [Hassan Dahir Aweys] is talking to its leadership and other Islamist groups, including the newly formed umbrella organisation Hisbul Islam or Islamic Party.
Members of the radical Islamist group al-Shabab were said to have been at his welcoming rally and reliable sources said Aweys is talking to its leadership and other Islamist groups, including the newly formed umbrella organisation Hisbul Islam or Islamic Party.
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Two of the world's most beautiful Black women have made it onto this year's list of the world's top earning models. Forbes magazine listed Liya Kebede, a 30-year-old Ethiopian beauty, and Selita Ebanks, a 25-year-old from the Caribbean, among the 15 highest paid models.
SOMALIA - A top Somali Islamic rebel leader has rejected a UN-brokered three-month ceasefire deal signed by Somali's government and several opposition leaders. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys promised to continue fighting until all foreign troops leave the country. The deal was signed by another top Islamic rebel leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Prime Minister Nw Adde. Aimed at ending years of conflict, it provides for Ethiopian troops to leave Somalia within 120 days.
NORTH CAROLINA - Black activists from around the co...
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Two of the world's most beautiful Black women have made it onto this year's list of the world's top earning models. Forbes magazine listed Liya Kebede, a 30-year-old Ethiopian beauty, and Selita Ebanks, a 25-year-old from the Caribbean, among the 15 highest paid models.
SOMALIA - A top Somali Islamic rebel leader has rejected a UN-brokered three-month ceasefire deal signed by Somali's government and several opposition leaders. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys promised to continue fighting until all foreign troops leave the country. The deal was signed by another top Islamic rebel leader, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, and Prime Minister Nur Adde. Aimed at ending years of conflict, it provides for Ethiopian troops to leave Somalia within 120 days.
NORTH CAROLINA - Black activists from around the c...
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MOGADISHU, Somalia -- A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital.
The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, said in a statement it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration has said Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The radical cleric named to lead the Muslim militia controlling most of Somalia's south said Monday that he envisions an Islamic state, a stand likely to reinforce U.S. fears the nation could become a haven for extremists.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who already was on the U.S. terrorist watch list as a suspected collaborator with al-Qaida, made the comment while discussing efforts to form a central government in Somalia for the first time in 15 years.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A fundamentalist Muslim who the U.S. suspects of collaborating with al-Qaida terrorists was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital.
The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, said in a statement it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration has said Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia The Islamic militia that controls Somalia's capital and just named a suspected al-Qaida associate as its leader said Sunday that it is still willing to negotiate with the weak interim government that has been sitting in the unstable country's west.
The militia's new leader, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, condemned the interim government in the past and said he opposed Western- style democracy for Somalia. He could not be reached for comment Sunday; several officials said he was not in Mogadishu.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia Ethiopian jets bombed Somalia's two main airports Monday while ground troops captured three villages and a strategic border town, lending Somalia's internationally backed government crucial military aid in its struggle against a powerful Islamic militia.
Russian-made jets swept low over the capital at midmorning, dropping two bombs on Mogadishu International Airport, part of a major escalation in the week-old fighting. The leader of the Islamic militia, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, flew into the airport shortly after the attack; it was not clear if he was an intended target.