Pajamas Media, citing a confidential United Nations report [PDF], breaks the story that Iran is actively seeking uranium in Somalia.
The article goes on to say that the report affirms Al Qaeda's presence in Somalia, albeit without naming the group.
[F]oreign volunteers also provide training in guerrilla warfare and special topics or techniques consisting of bomb making and the use of bombs against different targets such as a variety of different types of transport and buildings. Other techniques include kidnapping and the conduct of assassination by ambush and sniping… . [T]he ICU is fully capable of turning Somalia into what is currently an Iraq-type scenario, replete with roadside and suicide bombers, assassinations and other forms of terrorist and insurgent-type activities.
