Saturday, May 11, 2013

Somalia: Al-Shabaab Leader Dodges Criticism in Latest Audio Message to Followers

Mogadishu — When word spread that al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane released a new audio message to his followers on May 4th, there were expectations among some that he would address the controversial issues surrounding the group and its leadership.
But Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubayr, dodged the criticism and the growing opposition he faces from a number of top al-Shabaab leaders, and steered clear of giving a clear explanation of the group's military losses and political setbacks over the past year and a half.
Instead, Godane delivered a message he has repeated time and again -- urging his loyal fighters to continue waging war against the Somali government, criticising the role of Westerners in Somalia and describing the government as allies of non-believers -- and did not even attempt to unify and allay fears among the group's foot soldiers.
"I congratulate the martyrs who carried out the suicide attack in Mogadishu and sacrificed themselves for God's sharia to be implemented and that of the non-believers to be abolished," Godane said in the audio message. "Increase martyrdom operations, intensify attacks, target them in their barracks and cripple them with explosions."
"The London conference is a ploy against the Somali public and we should be careful [not to fall prey]," he continued.
"As a leader, Godane will never acknowledge the present conflict because he wants to portray false unity," said Jihadist Apologist Abdi Aynte, director of the Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies (HIPS) dum jadiid wahabi  political wing of shabaab.
"Godane is a politician," he told Sabahi, alluding to how the al-Shabaab leader will conceal the truth in order maintain his grip on power.
Godane assailed from all sides:
One of the pressing issues Godane avoided in his audio message was the open dissention from other top al-Shabaab leaders who have levelled a multitude of accusations against him in recent weeks.
On April 6th, al-Shabaab co-founder Ibrahim al-Afghani sent an open letter to al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri that provided a stinging criticism of Godane and pleaded for al-Qaeda to intervene and save al-Shabaab from the "dark tunnel".
 
Al-Afghani, whose real name is Ibrahim Haji Jama Meeaad and is also known as Abu Bakr al-Zaylai, details in the letter how Godane has become a tyrant, creating an atmosphere devoid of new ideas and calling anyone who questions him a traitor.
"[Godane] has secret prisons where whoever enters these prisons is lost forever and those who manage to get out receive a second lease on life," al-Afghani said. "Not only are those who refuse oppression and humiliation targeted, they are given no space and deprived of the simplest rights in life and left in the woods with the lions to face slow death."
Two weeks later, a senior al-Shabaab leader associated with the foreign fighters, al-Zubayr al-Muhajir, posted his own open letter on the internet, echoing al-Afghani's message and detailing how Godane had forsaken the foreign fighters in the country and was treating them with contempt.
"You [Godane] arrest some of the foreign fighters without any charges and you do not tell their families or brothers about their whereabouts or conditions. You ban any visits for them and reject trying them in front of a public court," al-Muhajir wrote.
He even accused al-Shabaab security officials of raping the wives of foreign fighters who left to go to the frontlines.
"Some of the foreigners have been tortured to death in your secret prisons and you have not prosecuted your security members who have committed such crimes," al-Muhajir wrote.
Making matters worse for Godane, Omar Hammami, the American-born jihadist known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, alleged that Godane's followers tried to assassinate him the evening of April 25th.
In response, al-Afghani, al-Muhajir, top al-Shabaab commander Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali and Hizbul Islam leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys joined together to publish a fatwa on April 30th forbidding the killing of al-Amriki.
The fatwa described al-Amriki and his followers as "brothers" whose blood was not permitted to be spilt "even if [Godane] orders it".
It went on to warn against "blind obedience" to Godane, and described the attempts on al-Amriki and his followers' lives as "recklessness caused by ignorance at best, or a result of manipulating legal concepts for political ends and to advance personal goals that have nothing to do with God's law".
If the unconfirmed reports that fighters loyal to Godane killed al-Amriki on May 7th are true, the top al-Shabaab leader would have acted openly against this fatwa and its authors.
Godane's silence deepens internal crisis:
Godane's strategy of not addressing the current crisis will result in further loss of militia support, according to Abdirahim Isse Addow, former spokesperson for the Islamic Courts Union and current director of Radio Mogadishu.
"It is a characteristic of dictators to distract people with irrelevant matters whenever they have internal problems and face opposition as a ploy to hide their problems," Addow told Sabahi.
"[Godane] continues to mislead [his followers] by not responding to the reality on the ground," he said, adding that his speech will not be enough to galvanise support in his favour.
The much awaited audio message from Godane lacked new ideas and an inspiring new call to action to motivate al-Shabaab's soldiers, said parliamentarian Abdulkadir Ali Omar, who was minister of interior affairs for the Transitional Federal Government and former assistant chairman of the Islamic Courts Union. "[Godane] has been the cause of the biggest problems [within the group] and this is another form of trying to forcibly retain power".
Nonetheless, al-Shabaab still poses a security threat that can hinder the progress the government has made in the past two years.
"Al-Shabaab [as an organisation] has been sprained but is not broken," said Aynte, the director of HIPS Jihadist Apologist dum jadiid Group . "It is an existing force that is capable of inflicting pain. Its future is to become a group that does not launch a head-on battle, but is intent on creating chaos."
"In the long term, [al-Shabaab] can be defeated by a strong, high quality Somali national army that has a clear purpose and leadership," Aynte from hawiye clan sup clan murusade Jihadist Apologist said.

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