I decided to make this thread due to @SOULSEARCHING idiotic comments so I want to clarify why al shabaab was created.
To understand how Al Shabaab formed we must go back to the era of ICU Islamic Court Union which was largely composed of Hawiye especially Habar Gidir & Abgaal with a minority of different clan. Here is the bombshell. Al Shabaab was a faction within ICU it was formed by various Hawiye heavyweight leaders including former presidents Shiekh Sharif & Sheikh Ahmed and Dahir Awyen.
Now here is the juciey part, Godane did not start Al Shabaab, the leader of the AlShabaab prioir to his ascend in 2006 was Ayro Faraah, a Hawiye Habar Gidir senior leader who killed ajnabis in Somaliland in cohort with Ahmed Godane.Also I would like to add that Godane did not start Al Shabaab he simply climbed throught the ranks.
Basically when ICU (which AL Shabaab was minority faction within it) toke control over southern Somalia in early and mid 2000s defeating the worthless warlords and taking over Mogadishu, they sent Al Shabaab to take over Kismayo from JVA (Marehan & Habar Gidir Alliance) The Al Shabaab faction was largely Habar Gidir so they joined up AL shabaab against Marehan ... there was another important faction called Ras Kamboni (Ogaden) stantioning in the very far border with Kenya who got booted from Kismayo, they also joined forces with AlShabaab (HG) to liberate Kismayo because of the percived accupation of Ogaden by Marehan.
When Ras Kamboni (Ogaden) & Al Shabaab (Habar Gidir) captured the town they had disagreement over who should leader the militia of Kismayo, they agreed to let an outsider (Godane Isaaq) led the militia and thus he become a powerful figure who was later become the head of Al Shabaab when Ayro died in 2006.
Guys like @sincity will be hung up on Isaaqs being big part of al shabaab when the reality it’s not the truth.Isaaq leaders of ICU & AL SHABAAB are few andthe vast majority have been Hawiye and some Darod
Turki and the current president of Juba land leader of Ras Kamboni militIA WHO JOINED AL Shabaab for tribal resons to secure Kismmayo
notice how all influntial leaders within ICU faction of Al Shabaab are Hawiye with some Darood joining terrorists for tribal reasons?
So in conclusion,basically Hawiye used ICU/AS as a vehicle to control the entire country swiftly but Darood brought Ethiopians to destroy the ICU when Hawiye got oblirated they joined the poltical discourse within UN government and found out that they can control it so they somehow started supporting their own government but now it has been taken over by Rahanweyn and minorities
To understand how Al Shabaab formed we must go back to the era of ICU Islamic Court Union which was largely composed of Hawiye especially Habar Gidir & Abgaal with a minority of different clan. Here is the bombshell. Al Shabaab was a faction within ICU it was formed by various Hawiye heavyweight leaders including former presidents Shiekh Sharif & Sheikh Ahmed and Dahir Awyen.
Now here is the juciey part, Godane did not start Al Shabaab, the leader of the AlShabaab prioir to his ascend in 2006 was Ayro Faraah, a Hawiye Habar Gidir senior leader who killed ajnabis in Somaliland in cohort with Ahmed Godane.Also I would like to add that Godane did not start Al Shabaab he simply climbed throught the ranks.
Basically when ICU (which AL Shabaab was minority faction within it) toke control over southern Somalia in early and mid 2000s defeating the worthless warlords and taking over Mogadishu, they sent Al Shabaab to take over Kismayo from JVA (Marehan & Habar Gidir Alliance) The Al Shabaab faction was largely Habar Gidir so they joined up AL shabaab against Marehan ... there was another important faction called Ras Kamboni (Ogaden) stantioning in the very far border with Kenya who got booted from Kismayo, they also joined forces with AlShabaab (HG) to liberate Kismayo because of the percived accupation of Ogaden by Marehan.
When Ras Kamboni (Ogaden) & Al Shabaab (Habar Gidir) captured the town they had disagreement over who should leader the militia of Kismayo, they agreed to let an outsider (Godane Isaaq) led the militia and thus he become a powerful figure who was later become the head of Al Shabaab when Ayro died in 2006.
Guys like @sincity will be hung up on Isaaqs being big part of al shabaab when the reality it’s not the truth.Isaaq leaders of ICU & AL SHABAAB are few andthe vast majority have been Hawiye and some Darod
Turki and the current president of Juba land leader of Ras Kamboni militIA WHO JOINED AL Shabaab for tribal resons to secure Kismmayo
notice how all influntial leaders within ICU faction of Al Shabaab are Hawiye with some Darood joining terrorists for tribal reasons?
So in conclusion,basically Hawiye used ICU/AS as a vehicle to control the entire country swiftly but Darood brought Ethiopians to destroy the ICU when Hawiye got oblirated they joined the poltical discourse within UN government and found out that they can control it so they somehow started supporting their own government but now it has been taken over by Rahanweyn and minorities
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