So can a Jihad addict.

Exclusive video footage on the Westgate attack 23rd September 2013 – YouTube 9/23/2013

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An al-Shabaab leader says his group considers Kenya a “war zone” and that the group will continue to attack the country until Nairobi withdraws its troops from southern Somalia.

“We will hit them anywhere we can,” the unnamed leader said in an interview aired on Britain’s Channel 4 on Sunday.

Al-Shabaab leader says Kenya a ‘war zone’ | SBS News 9/23/2013

Related: Kenya Westgate atrocity is al-Shabaab’s way of escalating Somali conflict | World news | theguardian.com 9/23/2013

Although Simon Tisdall makes fine drama of a split in the Al Shabaab ranks and the resulting fallout, which includes the attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, the truth is The Youth have been unconstrained insincere idiots from the day they launched an RPG into the living room of a old man who didn’t like them much and was watching soccer on his television.

In addition to such origin stories — call it a myth, for I doubt I can find this evening the two-inch column on that stunt in the vicinity of 2007 — there is just the fact that a similar processes attended the development and diminishment of the Islamic Courts Union way back in the mid-2000s.

Evil does as evil is.

After a stand at the Battle of Jilib, the ICU abandoned the city of Kismayo on January 1, 2007. Stripped of almost all their territory, it was speculated the ICU would pursue guerrilla-style warfare against the government.[4]

Instead, hardline Islamists broke ranks from the ICU and formed other militant groups, such as Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, to continue the war against the government.

Islamic Courts Union – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Drunk on spirits or spirituality, full of themselves, armed, and murderous, they are the kind of people who kill innocents, who exceed limits, who expect to bend the world to their will, and who cannot be talked out of glorifying themselves with their pokey little stories attached to wanton slaughter.

West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center has provided regular glimpses into Al Shabaab’s development.

Related: Militants hold out as Kenya forces try to crush cross-border jihad | Reuters 9/23/2013

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