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                  Somalia Al-Qaeda force women whose husbands seen as enemy to
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               "Four months ago, I have been told
               that Abu-Salma martyred. I saw his
               face  only  one  time  he  showed me
        1389 دی 24 هعمج  -  1117 هرامش  / هیجدهی لاس  "I now fear of that  Shabaab should
               himself. He used to come at home in
               the nights only and goes before the
               Morning Prayer." Sadia said adding

               again bring me another foreign
               fighter under the law of their family
               planning."

                               says
                                      Al-Shabaab
               The
                      report
               administration  ruled that all the
               women whose husbands are seen as
               enemy and fled the country for safety
               should  be  married  to  its  fighters
               regardless of nationality.

               "I have three children; two daughters
               and  one  son.  Their  father  is away
               from the country because of the
               ongoing war. It happened  that  one
               day, after the Maqrib prayer around  this.  But  with  shocked,  I answered,  not to be mentioned said.   after he witnessed his daughter being
               7.00 o’clock local time, masked men  sorry I am  married  to the  father  of                              dragged by Al-Shabaab men by force.
               of  Al-Shabaab came  to my house  these children, but they replied to me  The woman tried to escape but
               and told me that I was loved by one  that man has already became out of  couldn’t afford because of heavy  In  an   interview  with   Radio
               of  their  foreign  fighters  who  came  Islamic religion and we are aware of  presence  of  Al-Shabaab  fighters  Mogadishu run by the  current
               here for Jihad from thousands miles  that he fled Kenya six months before  around the house.              embattled government, the son of the
               away. They said we will marry you  so get ready tomorrow night for offer                                  dead father said his sister was later
               to our brother and you should accept  of  marriage." A  woman  who  asked  "they came  to me  on the promised  killed  Al-Shabaab  militiaman  after
      In touch with Iranian diversity                                                 night and told that either of my father  she tried to escape.
                                                                                      or my brother are not needed to be
                                                                                      present  at  the  wedding  occasion.  The  Al-Shabaab  administration
                                                                                      They said we have here the Sheikh  banned all the women in their areas
                                                                                      that supposed to make the marriage.  from wearing bra and let the breasts
                                                                                      But after I and the man forcefully  remain on its nature as nearly daily,
                              www.northshorelaw.com                                   given to me used to talk  and  their militias stop around 150 girls
                                                                                      understand each other through body  walking alongside  the roads and
                                                                                      language as deaf people because his  search through their breasts to ensure
                 Lawyers                   ICBC                                       different  language.  And always  he  order. The bra is supposed to back up
                                                                                      was masked and I never seen his face  the leaning breasts.
                604 - 982 - 4051           Claims                 -   -               yet. He was a man from East Africa
                                                                                      especially a Tanzanian and he could  "This is all about to make selection
                                                                                      speak  a broken  Arabic  language."  to younger women," a journalist  in
                                                                                      The woman told Waagacusub.com      condition of anonymity said.
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	        Bakol and Lower Juba and partly  searching through our chest to make
                                                                                      The report also estimates  that  Al-
                                                                                                                         "We were four girls and stopped by
                                                                                      Shabaab  militias  in  regions  of Bay,  Al-Shabaab militias.  They started

                                                                                      Mogadishu live  with  4,560  women  sure that we have bra on our breasts
                                                                                      by force as 55% of that women aged  and let us free. The next day a group
                                                                                                                         of  Al-Shabaab  men  came  to  me
                                                                                      14 – 25 years.

                                                                                                                         willing to marry me to a foreign man.
                                                                                      From 3 February 2009 to July 2010,  They did not go to the other three
                                                                                      up to 13 women were hanged to  girls because they did survey on their
                                                                                      death in southern Somalia following  breast and came to know that they
                                                                                      their refusal over the illegal  forced  weren’t  as hard as mine."  Simoon
                                                                                      marriage with the foreign Al-Qaeda  Saadaq  who  fled  Mogadishu  to
                                                                                      operatives  fighting  alongside  Al-  Hargeysa, Somaliland for her safety
                         Kamil Lotfali, lawyer                                        Shabaab militants as their bodies were  said.
                                                                                      thrown on the streets to intimidate the
                                                                                      other girls not to disobey the order.  Al-Shabaab’s  department   of
                                 ﻰﻗﻮﻘﺣ ﻪﺑﺮﺠﺗ ﻝﺎﺳ ٣٠ ﺯﺍ ﺶﻴﺑ ﺎﺑ  "  ﻻ ﺭﻮﺷ ﺕﺭﻮﻧ "  ﻰﻗﻮﻘﺣ ﻪﺴﺳﺆﻣ -
                                                                                                                         recording   the   Al-Qaeda   men
                                                                                      9 of the fathers were shot dead and  fighting in Somalia was quoted that
                   ﺩﺮﻛ ﻢﻴﻫﺍﻮﺨﻧ ﺖﻓﺎﻳﺭﺩ یﺩﺰﻤﺘﺳﺩ ، ﻢﻴﺋﺎﻤﻨﻧ ﺖﻓﺎﻳﺭﺩ ICBC ﺯﺍ  ﺍﺭ ﺎﻤﺷ ﺕﺭﺎﺴﺧ ﺎﺗ -
                                                                                      the 10th was slaughtered  by  Al-  the number of foreign Jihadists in
                                                                                      Shabaab militias  after they rejected  southern Somalia  reaches  1,861
                                       ICBC ﺯﺍ ﻰﻟﺎﻣ ﻭ ﻰﻧﺎﺟ ﺕﺭﺎﺴﺧ ﻪﻧﻮﮔﺮﻫ ﺖﻓﺎﻳﺭﺩ -      that their daughters to be forcefully  fighters. Some of them do have two
                                                                                      sleep with the foreign fighters.   or their Somali  wives like Fazul
       47                      NORTH SHORE LAW LLP                                                                       Abdallah, Al-Qaeda’s horn of Africa
                   6th Floor, 171 West Esplanade, North Vancouver, B.C.               The  father  of Ikraan,  18, studying  representative who has been living in
                                                                                      in  Imamu-Shafici  Islamic  school  Somalia for many years.
                                 klotfali@northshorelaw.com                           in  Mogadishu, died  of heart  attack  sunatimes.com
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