Here are things to know about al-Shabab, the Somali Islamic
extremist group that has claimed responsibility for the attack on
Kenya's premier shopping mall that killed dozens of civilians. -- Associated Press
Al-Shabab is an extremist Islamic terrorist force that grew out of
the anarchy that crippled Somalia after warlords ousted a longtime
dictator in 1991. Its name means "The Youth" in Arabic, and it was a
splinter youth wing of a weak Islamic Courts Union government created in
2006 to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the East African
nation. Al-Shabab is estimated to have several thousand fighters,
including a few hundred foreign fighters. Some of the insurgents'
foreign fighters are from the Middle East with experience in the Iraq
and Afghanistan conflicts. Others are young, raw recruits from Somali
communities in the United States and Europe. U.S. officials have
expressed fears that militants fleeing Afghanistan and Pakistan could
seek refuge in Somalia.
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