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Is Hezbollah in Nigeria?

This isn't good news:

Is the Islamic revolution, propelled by Lebanon's Hezbollah and backed and financed by Iran's mullah's picking up in Africa where the Soviet Union and the Cubans left off decades ago? Substitute the communists with militant Shiism and you have history repeating itself. Well, almost.

When the Lebanese Shiite militant organization, Hezbollah, went on the offensive against pro-government forces in Beirut earlier this month, the clashes were said to have been part of the ongoing internal Lebanese political struggle. And that justification despite the blatant backing Hezbollah receives from Syria and Iran.

But evidence is emerging that the Shiite organization could be connected with Islamist forces in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, which an issue that deserves close scrutiny by the international community.

Questions need to be asked: Who are those groups? What exactly is Hezbollah's role in supporting them? And, to what extent is Hezbollah acting on orders from the mullahs in Tehran?

What brought this new development to light is a set of photographs made available to the Middle East Times by a reliable source who asked not to be identified.

The photographs were reportedly taken in the West African nation of Nigeria, although there is no independent way of confirming it. It is clear, however, that the images were taken somewhere in Africa.

More pictures at Middle East Times

Somolian pirates have taken over a French luxury yacht

It is astonishing, but it appears none of the news media identified correctly the pirates who took over a ship today off the coast of Somalia.  Not mentioning that they are Islamic pirates is relevant today, don't you think? 

Meanwhile, today a British sea captain and his crew are recovering after being held hostage for 47 days by Islamic Somali pirates who hijacked their vessel off the Horn of Africa. After weeks of talks, a ransom in the region of $700,000 is believed to have been paid, reports the Timesonline. 

How ironic because for decades during the birth of our nation, our forefathers was forced to pay millions in ransom to Islamic pirates who reported to Thomas Jefferson they did it because it was their Islamic duty!

Pirates have taken over a French luxury yacht with 30 crew on board off the coast of Somalia, the boat's owner said on Friday.

Luxury sailboat the Ponant was heading from the Seychelles to the Mediterranean Sea when pirates stormed it in the Gulf of Aden, which lies between Somalia and Yemen, said a spokesman for the boat's owner, the Compagnie des Iles du Ponant.

There were no customers on board, a spokesman for the tour company said, adding that most of the crew are French.

"We have been informed that pirates are on board. We are in close contact with the Foreign Ministry," said Guillaume Foucault, of the Compagnie des Iles du Ponant, which is part of the CMA-CGM shipping group.

France Info radio said the French Navy had lost contact with the yacht, adding that surveillance aircraft had been diverted to the area and a ship from the U.S.-led Operation Enduring Freedom was heading towards the site of the attack.

...Pirate attacks regularly disrupt shipping off the Somali coast, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which reported some 31 cases of piracy in the area in 2007.

Reuters

Yahoo News has put together a slideshow of Somolia unrest from various news sources

View a pdf map of pirate attacks off the coast of Somolia made by UNOSAT: 

UNOSAT is the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme, implemented in co-operation with the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the European Organisation of High Energy Physics (CERN).

Islamic fighters seize 8th town in Somalia

Islamists are taking control of towns in Somalia.  Eight so far.

Islamist fighters Thursday seized a central Somali town from Ethiopian-backed government forces in a fierce fight that left at least 17 people dead, a local journalist said.

The fighters are members of al-Shaabab, which the United States recently designated as a terrorist group, saying it has ties to al Qaeda.

The fighting between al-Shaabab forces and the Ethiopian-backed Somali forces broke out at 6 a.m. in the town of Adaado and continued for six hours, according to reporter Mohamed Moallin Appullahi, who spoke to CNN from Adaado.

The Islamist fighters destroyed two military tanks and captured eight other military vehicles from government forces stationed in Adaado, before forcing them to withdraw to a nearby town and across the Ethiopian border, Appullahi said.

...The Associated Press reported Thursday that Adaado is the eighth town seized by the Islamist fighters in recent weeks.

...Asked about reports that Islamist fighters seized control of a town outside Mogadishu earlier this week, State Department spokesman Tom Casey did not seem too concerned.

"What we've seen recently is patterns where extremists will, in fact, go into an individual village or location temporarily, conduct activities there, but not sustain that or hold it in any meaningful way," he said during a briefing Monday.

CNN

Tanzanian Muslims protest and curse President Bush's visit

Not exactly a warm welcome for President Bush, the first American president to officially visit Tanzania.  Clinton signed the Burundi Peace accord there but it wasn't an official visit:

(Xinhua Photo/Yi Gaochao)

About 2,000 Muslims marched through Tanzania's capital on Friday and burned U.S. flags in protest against a visit by President George W. Bush.

Chanting "Bush is an oil thief" and "evil is not a foreign policy", the demonstrators, some wearing traditional Muslim dress including the Islamic women's black bui-bui, tried to march from the city's centre to the U.S. embassy on its northern outskirts.

They were diverted to open ground by a small force of police but tore down U.S. flags erected for Bush's visit this weekend and burned them. The police did not intervene and there was no violence.

The protesters chanted "Who is a terrorist? Bush."

The demonstration, which began after Friday prayers, caused a major traffic jam across the narrow Selander bridge leading out of Dar es Salaam.

One of the march organisers, Sheikh Mussa Kundecha, told Reuters: "We will be the first to receive Bush by protesting against him and cursing his visit."

...But Muslims are angered by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by U.S. backing of an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to help defeat Islamists -- and the subsequent rendition of Muslim suspects -- and by Tanzanian anti-terrorism laws which they say discriminates against them.

The fortified U.S. embassy was moved to its current location after the previous building was badly damaged in a 1998 bomb blast linked to al Qaeda and coordinated with a devastating attack on the American mission in neighbouring Kenya.

Source

Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa

More news about Islamists in Africa.

An al-Qaida affiliate purportedly claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania's capital, saying it had carried out the assault in response to Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip, an Arab television station reported Saturday.

At least one gunman opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania early Friday, setting off a gunbattle with guards that wounded three bystanders, including three French citizens who had apparently been visiting a disco and restaurant adjacent to the embassy compound. Guards at the embassy returned fire, but no embassy staff were wounded.

Israel has been restricting deliveries of gas and other supplies to Gaza in response to rocket attacks targeting Israeli towns. The Israeli clampdown has prompted protests in Mauritania, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation.

The Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera said that Al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, an affiliate of Osama bin Laden's global terror network, issued a statement saying it had carried out the attack Friday morning as a reprisal against Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip.

Source

al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa

We all need to learn more about the depth and breath of Islamism or Islamic Fascism's march by Islamists for control in Africa and other parts of the world.  Today, I created a new category called "Islam in Africa", which joins my other categories; Islam in Europe and Islam in America which tracks the growth of Islam and Islamism. 

It is insane and worrisome how most people do not understand the seriousness of Islamism's quest for world domination.  I strongly suspect that the billions received yearly in the Middle East from oil revenues help fuel the threat. 

In an article today, there is a report of a new attack in Algiers which killed 4 people.  The article stated, "The Algerian insurgency erupted in 1992 after the army canceled legislative elections to thwart a victory by a now-banned Muslim fundamentalist party. Algerian media estimate up to 200,000 people have been killed."

Legend:  Yellow Islamic conquests inception-750 A.D., Orange:  750-1500 A.D., Red: 1500 A. D. -Present

The Interior Ministry said the bomb attack killed at least four people and injured 20 others, including eight police officers. The ministry provided no details other than saying that the bombing was close to the police station in Naciria, about 70 kilometers (45 miles) east of the capital, Algiers.

A local journalist and another resident described the car speeding toward the police station and exploding. The two refused to be named, citing safety concerns.

Algeria is jittery after the double Dec. 11 suicide bombings that killed at least 37 and tore apart two U.N. buildings in Algiers and blew the facade off a government building. It was the first time an international organization had been targeted in Algeria.

That attack and suicide bombings in Algiers in April were claimed by al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, which emerged out of an alliance between Osama bin Laden's international terror network and a local Islamic insurgency movement known as the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

For more maps about the growth of Islam in the world go here.

American diplomat killed in Sudan

It is unclear at this time, if the diplomat killed was the victim of an Islamic attack:

John Granville, 33, an official for the U.S. Agency for International Development, was being driven home at about 4 a.m. Tuesday when another vehicle cut off his car and opened fire before fleeing the scene, the Sudanese Interior Ministry said.

The diplomat's driver, Abdel-Rahman Abbas, was killed. Granville initially survived the attack with five gunshot wounds to the hand, shoulder and stomach. He died after surgery, said Walter Braunohler, the public affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum.

Sudanese police said they have questioned a number of witnesses from the scene of the attack "and investigations are continuing based on their statements," the state news agency SUNA reported Wednesday.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, and U.S. and Sudanese officials investigating the shooting have not specified any suspects.

The Sudanese government often drums up anti-Western sentiment in the media. But attacks on foreigners are rare in Khartoum, where an American diplomat was last killed in 1973.Granville was working to implement a 2005 peace agreement between Sudan's north and south that ended more than two decades of civil war, USAID said.