House Foreign Affairs committee on militant Group Alshabaab and why he feels it could become more of a global threat if the United States wont counter its influence. Alshabaab is this tamalebased group that took credit for last weeks attack at a canyon Shopping Mall. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this hearing will come to order at this time. Today we are going to meet to assess the threat and i would ask all members to take their seats at this time. Today we are going to discuss the threat from alshabaab which is al qaedas franchise in the horn of africa. We are going to discuss the threat that it poses to somalia combat the threat to the horn of africa, to the region and the threat that it can poses to us. Alshabaab translates to the youth and that organization officially swore allegiance if you recall last year in february to al qaeda but the leadership for many years alshabaab had been working closely with
Numbers of alshabaab are larger than the numbers of al qaeda in afghanistan. Dan borelli. Dr. Jones is right. A point on your other statement, we have learned lessons over the course of the years in Law Enforcement that dont jump to conclusions too quickly. We need to not look at the persons last name or where it therefrom but their actions and keep an open mind because recruitment and radicalism and the opportunity to join a terrorist group bent compacts of violence transcends the persons place of birth or religion. Appreciate that, thank you. Mr orr box of california is recognized. I did extensive investigations on the Oklahoma City bombing. And i believe there was some muslim connection to that from Terry Nichols at the same time ramsey youysef was before these Oklahoma City bombing would indicate but that has never been proven. Radicals whether they are anglos for muslims had the same enemies and those are decent people throughout the world and in especially the United States of am
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