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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.

    News from TheMediaLine.org. 2010

  • 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

  • The Islamic Courts Union was destroyed but regrouped under its far more radical, violent arm, Al-Shabab, which is now on the rise.

    The Real Failed-State Risk 2010

  • 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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2009 2009

  • Al-Shabab, which is spearheading the insurgency and holds the most territory, is on the U.S. list of terror groups.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, denies involvement in the kidnappings.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.

    Spero News 2010

  • Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • Al-Shabab, which is opposed to the Transitional Federal Government, controls large areas of southern and central Somalia.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

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