{"id":41365,"date":"2014-09-08T09:43:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T16:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41365"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:01:31","slug":"us-drone-campaign-in-somalia-creates-more-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/09\/08\/us-drone-campaign-in-somalia-creates-more-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"US Drone Campaign In Somalia Creates More Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140908Uprising\/2014_09_08_somalia.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Sadia Ali Aden <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140908Uprising\/2014_09_08_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/somalia_drone_strike.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Ahmed Abdi Godane, one of the State Department&#8217;s most wanted men was killed by US drone strikes outside Mogadishu last week. Godane, who was also known as Abu Zubeyr was the leader of al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. He had a $7 million bounty placed on his head by the US government after he pledged formal allegiance to al-Qaeda in 2012. Eleven other men were also killed in the traveling convoy which was attacked by up to 10 Hellfire missiles. <\/p>\n<p>Godane, a native of Somalia, had gained control of the group in 2008, when a U.S. missile strike killed his predecessor. He had signed off on last year&#8217;s brazen al-Shabab mass shooting at a Kenyan shopping mall which killed over 67 people. Godane had justified the massacre as \u201crevenge\u201d for Kenyan and Western presence in Somalia. Al-Shabab has also been linked to a suicide bombing in Djibouti, as well as two identical suicide bombings in Uganda. <\/p>\n<p>The group has chosen Ahmed Omar Abu Ubaidah as its new leader, and has vowed to take revenge for Godane&#8217;s death. Meanwhile, the Somali Government has offered al-Shabab members 45 days to surrender and apply for amnesty or face the full penalty of the law.  <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Sadia Ali Aden, Somali American writer and human rights activist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Abdi Godane, one of the State Department&#8217;s most wanted men was killed by US drone strikes outside Mogadishu last week. Godane, who was also known as Abu Zubeyr was the leader of al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. He had a $7 million bounty placed on his head by the US government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41378,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41365\/revisions\/41378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}