al-Shabaab... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim
al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader...
fighters over the control of a border town in southern Somalia.
"Our fighters tried to seize the border town (Dhobley) and killed more than 35 al-Shabaab Islamic exemplars, mainly foreigners. We will continue our cooperation until we make sure the region is firmly under good hands," said a government official.
Hundreds of heavily armed forces backed by Kenyan troops entered the strategic town on the border between Somalia and Kenya on Sunday while attempts by government forces to beat them back was repulsed by the Islamic exemplar group, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.
Eyewitnesses also said that four civilians were among those killed, in addition to six others that were maimed.
Somalia has been the scene of deadly festivities between rival factions for over two decades, leaving up to one million people killed.
There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Somalia. More than 300,000 IDPs are sheltering in Mogadishu alone.
Most of the displaced live in poor and degrading conditions on makeshift sites in southern and central Somalia, according to the United Nations
... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
High Commissioner for Refugees.