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Ahmed Abdi Godane, al-Shabab, al-Shabab in Tanzania, Bronwyn Bruton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Clint Watts, Jihadi Moustapha, Kenya, Mogadishu, Omar Hammami, Somalia, Stig Hansen, Westgate attack
From L to R: Watts, Hansen, the Moderator, and Bruton
Continuing my focus on African security issues this week, I ducked in for the better half of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event yesterday on ‘The al-Shabab Threat After Westgate.’ The depth of the analysis was light-years beyond what I heard at the Brookings Institution on Monday (many names that resonated with me only vaguely, if at all, were thrown about). Two of the speakers indicated that al-Shabab was a spent force, the lone dissenter (and the only non-American on the panel) opined that while al-Shabab is in decline, ‘they still have a potential to be a major threat.’ Continue reading
