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The US Operations in Somalia
The Shabaab and Somalia have grown into what is one of the better organized, probably most wealthy currently, Islamist groups. The question has always been how much are they focused on attacks outside of their borders? It's really a fascinating kind of laboratory for how all this is kind of playing out in terms of both the counter-terrorism mission but also in terms of the dynamics of intersection in some of the region and beyond.