Al-shabab Somalia ,reiterated earlier its relations with Al-Qaeda network and made commemoration for Sheik Osama Bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda shortly after he was killed by US forces inside Pakistan.

Mogadishu (Sunatimes) Al-shabaab Somalia has greatly welcomed the appointment of Ayman Azawahiri to be the leader Al- Qaeda Network, just a day after Dr. Ayman Azawahiri was inaugurated to be the head of the group to replace Osama Bin Laden.
Sheik Ali Mohamud Raghe (Sheik Ali dhere), the spokesman of Al-shabab has told a radio belonging to al-shabab based in Mogadishu that the group would welcome the announcement of the new Al-Qaeda leader.

“We shall work with Dr. Azawahiri as we used to work with our deceased brother Sheik Usama Bin Laden. There was a promise we had and that promise will be as it was,” said Sheik Ali Mohamud Raghe
The statement of al-shabab for welcoming Azawahiri makes the first group having relations with Al-Qaeda to announce its support and welcome the new leader of Al-Qaeda leader.

Al-shabab Somalia ,reiterated earlier its relations with Al-Qaeda network and made commemoration for Sheik Osama Bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda shortly after he was killed by US forces inside Pakistan.

Al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian surgeon, has for years been al- Qaeda’s public face, with video and audio messages threatening attacks against Western targets and attempting to turn Muslim populations against their governments.
Al-Zawahiri, 59, was wanted in the U.S. even before the 2001 attacks targeting New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon, which killed more than 3,000.
Al-Zawahri's father was a pharmacology professor at Cairo University's medical school and his grandfather was the grand imam of Al-Azhar University, a premier center of religious study.

By Bariga Afrika.