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...
fighters in Somalia, Press TV reports.
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In response to the request, Israeli President Shimon Peres has vowed to aid Kenya with whatever it needs in its fight against Al-Shabaab fighters.
Meanwhile Al-Shabaab says its fighters have killed 27 Kenyan troops and destroyed a military vehicle carrying ammunition.
Kenyan troops invaded Somalia last month in a bid to fight off the local fighters. Kenya blames the fighters for a spate of abductions of foreign nationals in northern Kenya, near the Somali border. The hard boyz deny the allegations.