Alan Johnson bans Somali 'terrorist' group Al-Shabaab

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[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "The home secretary is to designate the Somalia-based group Al-Shabaab as a terrorist organisation and ban its operation in the UK.

The Home Office says the group is committed to violence, deploys terror tactics and has been implicated in attacks on Somali citizens."

SNIPPET: "In a statement released in February, the group said that the "jihad of Horn of Africa must be combined with the international jihad led by the al-Qaeda network".

Recently, Mr Johnson has also banned Islam4UK, the group run by al-Muhajiroun founder Anjem Choudary, and which had threatened to march through Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire."

[Cindy]

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[Cindy]

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