How big of a threat is Al-Shabaab to the United States?Peter Bergen
end, it may be a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend (at least for today). Regardless, the possibility that pirates could provide information as to the whereabouts of al-Shabaab’s senior leaders might be enough to prevent any future alliance between the two organizations. Share th...
Interestingly, the prosecutors’ claim of the pirates connections withAl-Shabaaband the attack on theMontecristobeing aimed at financing its terrorist activities and foster a campaign of obstruction of the free maritime transit in the Indian Ocean was rejected. Once again, thisconfirmsthe very tenuous...
Al Shabaab is a good example of such an organization. As recently as theWestgate Mall attackin Nairobi last week, AQ affiliateal Shabaab was busy tweetingits exploits as the attack progressed. Another good example is former (he was hunted and killed by Shabaab over varying ideologies) American...
is a potential recruiting ground for al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based terrorist group. Zanzibar, she says, has all the ingredients of militancy, including poverty, unemployment and inequality. “Once the radicalisation genie slips out of the bottle, it is very difficult to put it back in,” she...
But al-Qaeda continues to flourish in Yemen, the Sudan and Somalia un- der the name al Shabaab and, in Iraq, where the Sunni Awakening Councils have been embold- ened by the U.S. pullout. Yemen in particular has become a focus of U.S. anti-terrorist activities since the al-Qaeda ...
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An Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group is using this Trump clip in a recruitment videoJacqui Frank
Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al ShabaabMary Harper. 2019. Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab. London:...Marsai, ViktorCenter for African StudiesAfrican Studies Quarterly
See, for example, Anneli Botha, "Radicalisation in Kenya: Recruitment to al-Shabaab and the Mombasa Republican Council," Institute for Security Studies, ISS Paper No. 265 September 2014, https://issafrica.s3.amazonaws.com/site/uploads/Paper265.pdf;...