Striking Terror in the Horn of Africa
The bomb attacks it has carried out in Uganda and the US citizens it has succeeded in recruiting have propelled the Somali Islamist group Al-Shabab into the international headlines. The organisation in fact partly owes its existence to the intervention of Ethiopia and the US. By Alfred Hackensberger We would like to be number one : But Al-Shabab is only number 41 on the US list of terrorist organisations
If the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, had his way, he would send 20,000 soldiers to Somalia to put paid once and for all to the Harakat Al-Shabab al-Mujahedin (The movement of youthful fighters). We should take them on, he said in August during the 15th meeting of the African Union (AU) in Kampala. This reactionary group has carried out aggression against our country. We have the right to self-defence.