Taliban doesn't interfere with other countries and is only interested in governing Afghsanistan. Al Shabab is a major security threat for East Africa. That is the difference. The west would never allow Somalia to fall.What's the difference both are terrorist groups used by the west. Go see the so called feared haqqani being hosted now in Abu Dhabi by MBZ .when are you gonna stop being deluded and acting as if these are organic groups or movements. Shabab will soon be reinforced by the alictisam group led by scholars to legitimise them after the mou between ethiopia and somaliland is finalised and we move to the jihad phase of so called struggle. Stay turned big things about to happen in the region. Brace yourselves