Instead of making life easier for the people of poor Somalia, the eternal devil of this Al-Qaeda, Osama-bin Laden, has appealed, that too in the name of Allah, that his band of criminals should mount terror attacks there. He has not seen the poverty faced by the people over there and he can never think of a way out of this poverty for the Somlian people. So, very naturally, he has given a war cry - limited wits like laden can do no more. His message has been pre-empted by journalistsof NEFA Foundation and made public recently on counter-terrorism blog. In this post, the blog quotes Laden as saying “Fight On, Champions of Somalia.”

During the recording, produced by Al-Qaida’s As-Sahab Media Foundation, Bin Laden condemned the decision of former Somali Islamic Courts Union (ICU) president Shaykh Shareef to join in a peace initiative with the interim Somali government. According to Bin Laden, “as a result of inducements and offers from the American envoy in Kenya”, Shaykh Shareef “changed and turned back on his heels [as an apostate], and agreed to partner infidel positive law with Islamic Shari’ah to set up a government of national unity, and this partnering is greater polytheism which expels one from Islam. How can intelligent people believe that yesterday’s enemies on the basis of religion can become today’s friends? This can only happen if one of the two parties abandons his religion. So look and see which one of them is the one who has abandoned it: Shaykh Shareef or America? ...These sorts of presidents are the surrogates of our enemies and their authority is null and void in the first place, and as Shaykh Shareef is one of them, he must be dethroned and fought.”

However, it is a great relief that Allah is no don of criminals as Laden believes and so, there is every chance that instead os terror, the better civilised world will trounce the trouble makers. Of course, the poverty stricken Somalia needs to be taken care of by the international community in a very special and caring way because its affairs are in shambles and the country holds the threat of becoming a melting pot for many criminals like Laden.