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Al-Shabab is short for Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (the Warrior Youth Movement) and controls large parts of southern Somalia and of Mogadishu.
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Al-Shabab, which is short for Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujaheddin, or Movement of Warrior Youth, is waging an insurgency in Somalia aimed at imposing a harsh form of Islamic law and overthrowing the Somali Transitional Federal Government, which is backed by a peacekeeping force known as the African Union Mission to Somalia, or AMISOM.
Justice Dept.: 14 charged with aiding radical Somali group 2010
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The Islamic Courts Union was destroyed but regrouped under its far more radical, violent arm, Al-Shabab, which is now on the rise.
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Al-Shabab, which is short for Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujaheddin, or Movement of Warrior Youth, is waging an insurgency in Somalia aimed at imposing a harsh form of Islamic law and overthrowing the Somali Transitional Federal Government, which is backed by a peacekeeping force known as the African Union Mission to Somalia, or AMISOM.
Justice Dept.: 14 charged with aiding radical Somali group 2010
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Al-Shabab, which is one of the groups fighting in Somalia right now, which is pretty much a failed state, has ties to al Qaeda, some of its leadership trained in al Qaeda camps.
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Al-Shabab, which is spearheading the insurgency and holds the most territory, is on the U.S. list of terror groups.
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Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, denies involvement in the kidnappings.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.
Spero News 2010
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Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.
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Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.
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