Al Qaeda Offshoot Offers Camels for Obama's Head, Hens for Hillary Clinton's
By MOHAMED IBRAHIM
June 9, 2012—
abcnews.go.com
Somalia's Al Shabaab Mocks $33 Million US Bounty on Its Leaders
The al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia has mocked the new $33 million bounty on its top leaders heads by offering its own bounty for President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – 10 camels for Obama and 20 chickens for Clinton.
"Anyone who helps the Mujahideen find the whereabouts of Obama and Hillary Clinton will be rewarded with 10 camels for the information leading to Obama and 10 hens and 10 cocks for Hillary," said senior Shabaab commander Fuad Mohamed Khalaf in a statement reported on numerous websites.
Earlier this week, the U.S. offered a total of $33 million through the State Department's Rewards for Justice program for information leading to the capture of seven different Shabaab leaders, including Khalaf.
The U.S. offered $7 million for founder and commander Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed, AKA Godane or Mukhtar Abu Zubeir, five million for Khalaf and three other men, and $3 million apiece for two other leaders.
The announcement of the U.S. bounties came as Somali and other African military forces have begun to squeeze Shabaab into a smaller and smaller section of Somalia. In a statement, the Somali government said the rewards would help crush the al Qaeda affiliate.
"The announcement from the U.S. government . . . will certainly help the Somali government's efforts to end al Qaeda's reign of terror in Somalia," said Somalia's transitional government in a statement Thursday. "This is an important juncture in Somali history, where the possibility of full recovery from years of chaos is within reach."
In his response to the U.S. rewards, Khalaf said that "infidels" offering bounties for Muslims was "nothing new."
"There is nothing new in the fact that infidels pay to have Muslim leaders killed," said Khalaf. "They already did that by offering camels for the head of Prophet Mohammed, and $5 million is equivalent to 200 camels today."
Khalaf was referencing a passage in the Koran in which camels were offered for the Prophet Mohammed as he fled Mecca for Medina.
"I can assure you that these kind of things will never dissuade us from continuing the holy war against them," said Khalaf.
Mohamed Ibrahim, a veteran Somali journalist, is the first recipient of the Galloway Family Foundation Fellowship for International Investigative Reporting at the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit. Prior to coming to the U.S., Ibrahim contributed reporting from Somalia to the New York Times and worked closely with Pulitzer prize-winning Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman.
Agence France Presse contributed to this report.
Seems they have a good sense of humor in Somalia when they aren't sending suicide bombers to attack random markets.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Reminds me of the Punic war, when the Romans auctioned land occupied by Hannibal. The implication being that they believe they will get the land back as the war progressed. Hannibal retaliated by having his own auction.
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Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, USA.
Always on the lookout for more nice places to visit.
I have it on good authority that both the people you seek are in Washington DC, information that is cleverly concealed by the zionist infidels in newspapers, television programs, and internet articles all available to the public free of charge. Please deliver my camels and chickens promptly, you can route them through my friend, the prince of Nigeria, who lives nearby.
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Simon_Jester wrote:Eh, I think you're missing the joke.
I think you did too.
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Darth Fanboy wrote:my friend, the prince of Nigeria
played rugby against him once. he got dump tackled by another friend who actually lived in Nigeria, but we still lost the match.
My other friend also had his pet hippo blown up because it was eating people. true story.
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Ah. My Nigerian friend was only the son of some artillery colonel.
I even met the colonel later, and his deafness suggested that the story was at least plausible; he sure sounded like someone who'd spent his youth firing cannons at Biafran rebels whenever the supply train hadn't sold off the shells to make up for lost wages.
Well, "sound" is kind of the wrong word. Basically, the man had a military bearing and bad hearing. Could have been coincidence of course, but he was definitely Shola's father and he acted about like I'd expect an artillery colonel/general to act.
