The warlords of al Shabaab are not the only threat to the region s security.

Furthermore, contrary to claims that securing Kismayo put al Shabaab at a disadvantage, the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea reported in July that the Kenyan Defense Forces have actually gone into business with al Shabaab.

The attackers members of the Somali Islamist extremist group al Shabaab spent weeks reconnoitering the site.

The two Spanish aid workers were released last July, and al Shabaab has attempted only one abduction since.

In a bizarre twist, al Shabaab even called on Kenyans to prosecute their leaders for post election bloodletting in 2007 2008.

At the same time, France has mounted a commando operation to try to save a French hostage held by al Shabaab militants in Somalia, also allied with al Qaeda.

But al Shabaab retains control of the majority of Somalia and remains capable of striking Mogadishu, the capital, as well as Nairobi.

Given this, if the Kenyan government s aim was, as it claimed, to destroy al Shabaab, the intervention has been a spectacular failure.

In this sense, the Jubaland Initiative is a policy of stunning racial profiling and a gift to al Shabaab recruiters in Kenya.

Fighters from Al Qaeda affiliated Al Shabaab. Wikipedia image. As a bridge between Africa and the Middle East, great powers are jostling to get their troops and equipment into Djibouti.

Since Kenya s army invaded its northeastern neighbor two years ago, the government has told Kenyans that they were going to war against al Shabaab.

Instead of working to achieve the diplomatic objective of defeating al Shabaab, Kenya s military, politicians, and well connected businessmen have been lining their own pockets.

Its members reportedly represented the ICU and Al Shabaab (three members each) in addition to a local clan (one member) which had played a part in the military assault.

More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.

The warlords of al Shabaab are not the only threat to the region s security. Today, an arc of crisis stretches from Somalia on the Indian Ocean across the African Sahel to the Atlantic coast.

For the Kenyan authorities, it was the final straw after a series of abductions of Westerners by al Shabaab to stop the incursions, they launched what military leaders believed would be a quick campaign.

NAIROBI The attack that killed more than 70 people at Nairobi s Westgate shopping mall last week was, according to al Shabaab, the Somali Islamist militant group that carried it out, retribution for Kenya s intervention in Somalia.

Since Kenya s army invaded its northeastern neighbor two years ago, the government has told Kenyans that they were going to war against al Shabaab. But, as with most official pronouncements in Kenya, that story was only partly true.

The attackers issued a clear demand Kenya must withdraw the forces that it deployed two years ago as part of an international effort to drive al Shabaab out of Somalia and return the country to government rule and a semblance of normal life.

Similarly, rather than condemning the adoption of terrorist tactics by the Taliban in Afghanistan, Boko Haram in Nigeria, and al Shabaab in Somalia, and the destruction of Sufi shrines in Mali by Ansar Dine, a radical Islamist sect, Muslim leaders have remained largely silent.

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Emir of Kuwait Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah (center) with the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (left) and the King of Bahrain Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

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Al Dustour (also Al Dostour and Al Dostor, meaning The Constitution ) was founded in December 1995.

Following Al Razzouk's abduction, Radio AlKul reported that Basel Aslan of Al Raqqa Revolutionary Media Office was attacked by Al Hai'h Al Sharia (Authority of Sharia) while covering Eid Al Adha festivities.

In 2009, Saleh sacked al Ahmar s key backers, including Central Command Chief General al Thahiri al Shadadi and Lieutenant General Haydar al Sanhani, from power.

On July 28, 2016, Al Nusra's leader Abu Mohammad al'Joulani announced al Nusra's split from al Qaeda.

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The other, Al Umma al Wasat (The Central Nation), is led by Sami al Saadi, the group s former chief ideologist, and Abd al Wahad Qaid, an LIFG military commander and the brother of the deceased Al Qaeda commander Hasan Qaid (Abu Yahya al Libi).