Background – descended from Al-Ittihad Al-Islami, a Somali terrorist team whose leaders fought in Afghanistan while in the 1990s and fashioned circa 2003; has operated like a core al-Qa'ida affiliate because 2012; was the militant wing of the previous Somali Islamic Courts Council that took more than areas of Somalia https://tuckerl269gqy6.wikienlightenment.com/user