...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group has posted what is thought to be the first video from IS-affiliated fighters in Somalia. The video posted online Monday calls on supporters to "hunt down" what it calls nonbelievers and to attack churches and markets.
The SITE Intelligence Group says the video urges supporters to take advantage of people’s "drunkenness" over the holiday season to attack.
The United States last month launched its first dronezaps against Islamic State group-affiliated fighters in Somalia. The Horn of Africa nation has a small but growing presence of the fighters, many of them defectors from the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab
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Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...krazed killer group.
The fighters are based in northern Somalia’s rural Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
. Experts warn their numbers could grow as IS fighters flee Syria and Iraq.
The Islamic State group claimed its first suicide kaboom in Somalia in May which left at least five people dead.