[20160119]IN10432_2016年索马里打击青年党的斗争.pdf

CRS INSIGHTThe Fight Against Al Shabaab in Somalia in 2016January 19, 2016 (IN10432) | Related AuthorLauren Ploch Blanchard |Lauren Ploch Blanchard, Specialist in African Affairs (lplochcrs.loc.gov, 7-7640)Al Shabaab, a Somalia-based Al Qaeda affiliate, recently made headlines with a recruitment video featuring footage of the late American jihadist ideologue Anwar al Awlaki, Malcolm X, the Ku Klux Klan, and Donald Trump. It cited purported anti-Muslim sentiment and racism in the United States, calling on black Americans to convert to Islam, and venerated the Minnesotan Martyrs, a group of young, mostly ethnic Somali American men who joined Al Shabaab and died in Somalia. The videos attempt to manipulate grievances in the United States mirrors the approach of a February 2015 Al Shabaab video targeting neighboring Kenyas Muslim minority for recruitment and calling for followers in the West to attack shopping malls in the United States, England, and France. The latest videos release came weeks after the most recent reported U.S. air strikes against the group in Somalia.U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) lists neutralizing Al Shabaab and facilitating an eventual transition from the African