Al Qaeda affiliate mining uranium to send to Iran, Somali official warns US ambassador

[TomSea]

Al Qaeda affiliate mining uranium to send to Iran, Somali official warns US ambassador
Catherine Herridge
By Catherine Herridge, Jake Gibson
Published August 31, 2017
Fox News

An Al Qaeda affiliate has seized control of uranium mines in Africa with the intent of supplying the material to Iran, according to a diplomatic letter from a top Somali official appealing to the U.S. for "immediate military assistance."

The letter, reviewed by Fox News, was addressed to U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Stephen Schwartz. Somalia's Ambassador to the U.S. Ahmed Awad confirmed to Fox News on Thursday that the letter "has indeed been issued" by Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Garaad Omar, whose signature is on the document.

Continued: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/al-qaeda-affiliate-mining-uranium-to-send-to-iran-somali-official-warns-us-ambassador.html

[Smokin Joe]

https://www.africaportal.org/publications/uranium-mining-in-africa-a-continent-at-the-centre-of-a-global-nuclear-renaissance/

I believe these are the droids they are looking for: http://galmudugstate.blogspot.com/2010/06/galmudug-state-nature-resource.html

Mentioned in this 1968 article in the Spokesman Review: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hbVWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gOkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7276,235261&dq=somalia&hl=en

Near surface ore.