Al Shabab Terror Group Picks New Leader

Publisher:
Wochit
Publication Date:
6 September 2014
Tags:
Somalia, United States, Canada and Africa, Conflict, Peace and Security, International Terrorism

The Somali-based terror group whose head was killed by a U.S. airstrike this week has chosen a new leader and vowed retaliatory attacks in Mogadishu that include assassinations and suicide bombings. Al Shabab, the same group that carried out the deadly attack on a Kenya mall last year, said the radical Islamist militant group has chosen Abu Ubeyda Ahmed Omar to replace Ahmed Abdi Godane. The reclusive leader was killed when U.S.

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