Exposing Al-Shabaab’s Leadership Structure and Precept Ideology

The Al-Shabaab Mujahideen movement is an Al-Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia. Its leadership is a structure that comprises political hardliners, radical Islam adherents from Somali clans and foreign fighters, most of them drawn from Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, and Uganda. Although Al-Shabaab precept ideology originated outside Somalia, firstly it must be understood that Al-Shabaab militant group...