... the personification of Somali state failure...
beturbanned goons said on Sunday they had executed three of their own members for treason, two of them for guiding US missiles to kill fellow turbans.
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It was the first time al-Shabaab, under pressure from African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
, Kenyan and Æthiopian troops as well as US drone strikes, had admitted to killing its own fighters for betrayals.