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June 12, 2012 11:17
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Obama worth 10 camels to al-Shabab

Al-Shabab, the Somali Al Qaeda affiliate, offered 10 camels for the location of President Obama's "hideout" and 20 chickens for Secretary of State Clinton.
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The Somali militant group al-Shabab, affiliated with Al Qaeda, offered a reward of 10 camels for the location of President Obama's "hideout" and 20 chickens for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
Al-Shabab, the Somali Al Qaeda affiliate, offered 10 camels for the location of President Obama's "hideout" and 20 chickens for Secretary of State Clinton.
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Mogadishu gets its first dry cleaners in over two decades

June 8, 2012 11:22
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"My dad, friends and people in the government were taking their clothes to be dry cleaned in Kenya."

US offers $30 million reward for top Somali militants

June 7, 2012 09:48
Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda cemented their already-strong ties in February when they announced that they were formally merging.

Somalia: Al Shabaab rebels ambush presidential convoy

May 29, 2012 11:05
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Al Shabaab, which affiliated itself with Al Qaeda earlier this year, lost Afgoye to African Union, Somali, Kenyan and Ethiopian forces and has been steadily losing ground in southern and central Somalia.
May 20, 2012 19:52
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Yemen bomb: Somalia's rebels congratulate suicide bomber

What are the links between Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula and Somalia's Al Shabaab?
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A Yemeni soldier is treated at a hospital in Sanaa after he was injured when a soldier packing powerful explosives under his uniform blew himself up in the middle of an army battalion in Sanaa on May 21, 2012, killing 96 troops and wounding around 300, a military official and medics said. The suicide attack was the deadliest in the country's capital since newly-elected President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi pledged to oust Al Qaeda militants from Yemen's mostly lawless and restive southern and eastern provinces. (Mohammed Huwais /AFP/Getty Images)
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NAIROBI, Kenya — In the aftermath of a suicide bombing of a military parade earlier today in the Yemen capital Sanaa that killed at least 96 people the official Twitter feed of Somalia's Al Qaeda aligned Al Shabaab insurgents offered its congratulations to Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula (AQAP) and its thanks to God.

"The Mujahideen in the Arabian Peninsula have just carried out a Martyrdom operation targeting a Military parade in San'a" wrote @HSMPress at 11.27 a.m. on 21 May.

"May Allah Grant victory to our brothers in the Arabian Peninsula in their war against the Kuffar and Murtadin," read a second tweet a minute later.

Clearly AQAP and Al Shabaab have a shared ideology, but what of their other links?

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Twin bombings in Mogadishu kill Somali soldiers

May 20, 2012 04:46
No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the radical Islamist militia Al Shabaab has launched similar acts of violence in Mogadishu since pulling out of the capital last year in a bid to consolidate its control over other parts of Somalia.

Somaliland military court sentences 17 civilians to death

May 17, 2012 12:34
An attack on Somaliland’s military carries a mandatory death sentence for adults.

EU naval forces raid Somali pirate bases

May 15, 2012 12:58
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A helicopter flew low along the beach with machine gun troops firing on targets below. At least five small attack boats were "rendered inoperable" and the strikes also hit diesel and weapons stores.

Pirates hijack oil tanker off Oman coast

May 11, 2012 05:58
No communications have been received from the ship since it was boarded on Thursday.

UK national Jermaine Grant on trial in Kenya over 'bomb plot'

May 10, 2012 12:06
Prosecutors accuse Grant of working with the fugitive widow of a British suicide bomber who struck on the London Underground transport system in July 2005.
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