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| Somalia Islamist split fears |
| 2010-10-28 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Just as the Islamist al-Shabaab militia in Somalia seemed on the verge of driving the Western-backed Transitional Federal Government out of the capital Mogadishu, the bad boys' offensive looks like being crippled by a split between rival factions. The schism has clearly undermined the offensive, although it had been faltering in recent days because of mounting bad boy corpse counts. At the same time, fighting in central Somalia between al-Shabaab and more moderate Ahlu Sunna wa'l Jamma militia also stalemated. The failure of al-Shabaab's Ramadan offensive, intended to rout Somalia's TFG from Mogadishu, appears to have led to a major rift between the group's emir, Sheik Ahmad Abdi Godane, 'Abu Zubair,' and his deputy, Sheik Mukhtar Robow, 'Abu Mansour'," according to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington think tank that monitors global security. |
| Posted by:Fred |