Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:29:19 +0100
The Reinvention of Al-Shabaab
* A Strategy of Choice or Necessity?
By Matt Bryden
Feb 27, 2014
Matt Bryden examines the evolution of Al-Shabaab's leadership, ideological
outlook, and military strategy in a new report from the CSIS Africa Program.
With the loss of territory in Somalia and a purge of its more pragmatic and
nationalist leaders, the group has become a more unified and extremist
movement. It will likely seek to expand its links with Al-Qaeda and other
transnational terrorist groups and rely more heavily on complex martyrdom
operations like the September 2013 attack on Nairobi's Westgate Mall.
Matt Bryden is director of Sahan Research, a think tank located in Nairobi,
Kenya. Previously, he served as coordinator of the UN Monitoring Group on
Somalia and Eritrea (2008-2012), as director for the Horn of Africa at the
International Crisis Group (2004-2006), and as coordinator of the Somali
Programme at Interpeace (1996-2002). Mr. Bryden is a graduate of McGill
University. He is the editor of Rebuilding Somaliland: Issues and
Possibilities (Red Sea Press, 2005) and of Rebuilding Somalia: Issues and
Possibilities for Puntland (Haan Publishing, 2001).
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