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Qaida leader says Somalia's Shabaab joins group

By REUTERS

FEBRUARY 9, 2012 18:38

DUBAI - Al-Qaida's leader Ayman al-Zawahri said Somalia's militant group al Shabaab had joined the global network, in a video issued on Thursday according to the SITE online monitoring service.

"Today, I have glad tidings for the Muslim ummah (nation) that will please the believers and disturb the disbelievers, which is the joining of the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia to Qaedat al-Jihad, to support the jihadi unity against the Zionist-Crusader campaign and their assistants amongst the treacherous agent rulers," SITE quoted Zawahri as saying.

In June, Al Shabaab pledged allegiance to Zawahri after he was named al-Qaida leader, following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US attack in Pakistan.

Al Shabaab, which controls large areas of Somalia, pulled out of the capital Mogadishu in 2011 but still poses an almost daily threat.

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