Posted on 07/10/2015 7:00:05 AM PDT by C19fan
Somali terror group Al-Shabaab could soon scrap its allegiance to Al-Qaeda and pledge loyalty to rivals ISIS instead, MailOnline has learned. Islamic State invited the east-African jihadi group to join forces with them through a propaganda video released in March - urging it to wage jihad on neighbouring Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania. Now Al-Shabaab members and sources within the Somali army suggest the invitation will be accepted and the group - which commands around 9,000 fighters - will soon extend ISIS's self-proclaimed caliphate to east-Africa. The decision comes at a time when many of Al-Shabaab's local and foreign leaders are being killed by commando raids and drone strikes, the group is rapidly losing territory and its money is running out as a result.
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wooooooooo...... I’m SO terrified.
These people are militarily ignorant and use expired Soviet Small arms. Really?
There are Coast Guard units that would roll them up and decimate them in a week. Stop being ridiculous. Just because they kill unarmed women and children doesn’t make them spooky!
It does for the unarmed woman and children who know that we don’t have any men in power who will stand up to them.
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