Al-Shabaab: Difference between revisions
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|agents = [[Mukhtar Robow]]<br>[[Fuad Mohammed Khalaf]]<br>[[Hassan Dahir Aweys]]<br>[[Mohamed Said Atom]] | |agents = [[Mukhtar Robow]]<br>[[Fuad Mohammed Khalaf]]<br>[[Hassan Dahir Aweys]]<br>[[Mohamed Said Atom]] | ||
|skills = Military training | |skills = Military training | ||
|goals = Turn Somalia into a | |goals = Turn Somalia into a jihadist state (ongoing) | ||
|crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Sectarianism]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Human rights violations | |crimes = [[Terrorism]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass [[murder]]<br>[[Sectarianism]]<br>[[Crimes against humanity]]<br>Human rights violations | ||
|type of villains = Terrorists}}{{Quote|We will talk about jihad, we will believe in jihad. Jihad is part of our religion. They will kill us all, we will die, but we will never leave jihad. God is the greatest!|Unidentified Al-Shabaab militant at a rally in the mid-2010's.}} | |type of villains = Terrorists}}{{Quote|We will talk about jihad, we will believe in jihad. Jihad is part of our religion. They will kill us all, we will die, but we will never leave jihad. God is the greatest!|Unidentified Al-Shabaab militant at a rally in the mid-2010's.}} | ||
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Al-Shabaab has been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. It's reported that members of the International Bounty Hunter Union are actively hunting several of the groups leaders including an American Jehad Serwan Mostafa. As of June 2012, the US State Department has open bounties on several of the group's senior commanders. | Al-Shabaab has been designated as a terrorist organization by Australia, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States. It's reported that members of the International Bounty Hunter Union are actively hunting several of the groups leaders including an American Jehad Serwan Mostafa. As of June 2012, the US State Department has open bounties on several of the group's senior commanders. | ||
==Background== | ==Background== | ||
The group is an off-shoot of the [[Islamic Courts Union]], which splintered into several smaller groups after its removal from power by Ethiopian forces in 2006. The group describes itself as waging jihad against "enemies of Islam" and is engaged in combat against the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). It has reportedly "declared war on the U.N. and on Western non-governmental organizations" that distribute food aid in Somalia, killing 42 relief workers in the past two years of 2008 and 2009. It has been designated a terrorist organization by several western governments and security services. The current leader is named [[Ahmad Umar]] . | The group is an off-shoot of the [[Islamic Courts Union]], which splintered into several smaller groups after its removal from power by Ethiopian forces in 2006. The group describes itself as waging jihad against "enemies of Islam" and is engaged in combat against the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM). It has reportedly "declared war on the U.N. and on Western non-governmental organizations" that distribute food aid in Somalia, killing 42 relief workers in the past two years of 2008 and 2009. It has been designated a terrorist organization by several western governments and security services. The current leader is named [[Ahmad Umar]] . | ||