Somalia: Understanding Al-Shabaab. By Paula Cristina Roque. Institute for Security Studies. June 3, 2009.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab extreme Islamist group is well organized, financed, and armed. However, it is no monolithic group and features many internal variations in leadership, tactics, and ideology. Its relative strength is attributable more to the weakness of alternative sources of authority in a chaotic failed state.
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