Letters that sparked US Somalia alert fake-Islamists (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Letters that sparked US Somalia alert fake-Islamists
27 Nov 2006 13:50:03 GMT
Source: Reuters

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By Sahal Abdulle

MOGADISHU, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Somali Islamists on Monday dismissed
as fake two letters purportedly signed by their most influential leader
and which led to a U.S. warning of possible suicide attacks in Kenya
and Ethiopia.

Washington issued its warning to U.S. citizens on Nov 2 in response
to what it said were "terrorist threats emanating from extremist
elements within Somalia".

The Kenyan Sunday Nation newspaper reported it had obtained two
letters said to be signed by Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys,
who appears on U.S. and U.N. terrorism lists, but could not establish
their authenticity.

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"An assassin will not write a letter and say I will carry out a plan.
Even in the copy we saw, they could not get the letterhead right,"
Ibrahim Hassan Addow, in charge of foreign affairs for the Islamists,
told Reuters.

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Full article: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L27298381.htm

[Demeter]

1. The Only Question Is: Why Somalia?

Because it would be hard to debunk immediately any TERRA alerts from that forsaken place?