The History of Al-Shabaab
… their objectives whilst avoiding any regular combat.Now unconstrained by the need to appease more moderate voices … Endnotes [i] StigJarle Hansen, Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 … ↵ [v] Ibid, p.4. ↵ [vi] Hansen, Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012, …