Police front man Eric Kiraithe said Saturday that the recruits from the Somali beturbanned goon group a
l-Shabaab... Harakat ash-Shabaab al-Mujahidin aka the Mujahideen Youth Movement. It was originally the youth movement of the Islamic Courts, now pretty much all of what's left of it. They are aligned with al-Qaeda but operate more like the Afghan or Pakistani Taliban. The organization's current leader is Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, also known as Ibrahim
al-Afghani. Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a Kenyan al-Qaeda member, is considered the group's military leader...
are providing information on the group.
Kenyan troops entered southern Somalia last month in pursuit of al-Shabaab Islamic fascisti who the government blames for a string of kidnappings and attacks on European tourists. Al-Shabaab has threatened to retaliate with large-scale terror attacks in Kenya's capital.
Police blame the group for several attacks in recent weeks in which seven people were killed, some by grenades. A non-Somali Kenyan national was convicted to life in prison for one of the grenade attacks.